Isaiah 8:9
Be friends, O nations, and be broken, || And give ear, all you far-off ones of earth, || Gird yourselves, and be broken, || Gird yourselves, and be broken.
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In Context
10Take counsel, and it is broken, || Speak a word, and it does not stand, || Because of Immanuel!”
Cross References
1 Kings 20:11And the king of Israel answers and says, “Speak: Do not let him who is girding on boast himself as him who is loosing [his armor].”
Proverbs 11:21Hand to hand, the wicked is not acquitted, || And the seed of the righteous has escaped.
Isaiah 14:5The golden one has ceased. YHWH has broken the staff of the wicked, || The scepter of rulers.
Isaiah 28:13And to whom a word of YHWH has been, || Rule on rule, rule on rule, || Line on line, line on line, || A little here, a little there, || So that they go and have stumbled backward, || And been broken, and snared, and captured.
Isaiah 54:15Behold, he diligently assembles without My desire, || Whoever has assembled near you falls by you!
Jeremiah 46:4Gird the horses, and go up, you horsemen, || And station yourselves with helmets, || Polish the javelins, put on the 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 →