Isaiah 9:8

The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

In Context

7His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

9And all the people of Ephraim shall know, and the inhabitants of Samaria that say in the pride and haughtiness of their heart:

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Cross References

Isaiah 7:7Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this shall not be.

Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower the glory of his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine.

Micah 1:1The word of the Lord that came to Micheas the Morasthite, in the days of Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda: which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Zechariah 5:1And I turned and lifted up my eyes: and I saw, and behold a volume flying.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 9:2-8

Judgment and Mercy; The Promise of Gospel Grace; The Promise of Messiah; The Titles of Messiah. ( b. c. 740.) 1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light… Read the whole commentary →

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