Isaiah 9:14
Therefore LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
In Context
13Yet the people have not turned to him who smote them, nor have they sought LORD of hosts.
15The elder and the honorable man, he is the head. And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:2the mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder,
Isaiah 19:15Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.
Hosea 1:4And LORD said to him, Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
Hosea 1:9And [LORD] said, Call his name Lo-ammi, for ye are not my people, and I will not be yours.
Hosea 5:12Therefore I am to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Hosea 9:11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird. There shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 9:9-21
Threatenings against Judah; Threatenings against Israel. ( b. c. 740.) 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, 10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. 11 Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; 12 The Syrians… Read the whole commentary →