Isaiah 9:14
And YHWH cuts off head and tail from Israel, || Branch and reed—the same day.
Literal Standard 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
15Elderly and accepted of faces—he [is] the head, || And prophet teaching falsehood—he [is] the tail.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:2Mighty and man of war, judge and prophet, || And diviner and elderly,
Isaiah 19:15And there is no work to Egypt, || That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.
Hosea 1:4and YHWH says to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little, and I have charged the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and have caused the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease;
Hosea 1:9and He says, “Call his name Lo-Ammi [(Not My People)], for you [are] not My people, and I am not for you;
Hosea 5:12And I [am] as a moth to Ephraim, || And as a rotten thing to the house of Judah.
Hosea 9:11Ephraim [is] as a bird, their glory flies away, without birth, and without womb, and without 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 →