Isaiah 8:21

They will wander around the country, depressed and hungry. When they are starving they will become furious, and looking up they will curse their king and their God.

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In The King James Version

And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

In Context

20Go and examine God's law and his instructions! If what they say doesn't correspond with God's word, there will be no dawn for them.

22Then they will look towards the earth and see only misery and gloom and agonizing depression, and they will be thrown out into the darkness.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:28You must not despise God or curse your people's leader.

Deuteronomy 28:33A foreign nation you've never heard of will eat all the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will be continually persecuted and downtrodden.

2 Kings 6:33While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger arrived. The king said, “This disaster is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”

Job 1:11But if you reach out and take everything he has, he will definitely curse you to your face.”

Job 2:9His wife said to him, “Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!”

Isaiah 8:7the Lord is going to bring the powerful floodwaters of the Euphrates River against them—the king of Assyria with all his glorious army. It will flood all its channels and overflow all its banks.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 8:17-22

The Importance of the Scriptures. ( b. c. 740.) 16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 17 And I will wait upon the Lord , that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto… Read the whole commentary →

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