Isaiah 8:9
Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, end be overcome, gird yourselves, and be overcome.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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1 Kings 20:11And the king of Israel answering, said: Tell him: Let not the girded boast himself as the ungirded.
Proverbs 11:21Hand in hand the evil man shall not be innocent: but the seed of the just shall be saved.
Isaiah 14:5The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of the rulers,
Isaiah 28:13And the word of the Lord shall be to them: Command, command again; command, command again: expect, expect again; expect, expect again: a little there, a little there: that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Isaiah 54:15Behold, an inhabitant shall come, who was not with me, he that was a stranger to thee before, shall be joined to thee.
Jeremiah 46:4Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen: stand forth with helmets, furbish the spears, put on coats of mail.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 8:2-9
Judgments Announced. ( b. c. 740.) 1 Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. 3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the Lord to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of… Read the whole commentary →