Isaiah 3:25

Thy men shall fall by the cherev, 1 and thy gevurah in milchamah. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

In Context

24And it shall come to pass, 1 that instead of fragrance there shall be stench; 1 and instead of a sash, a rope; 1 and instead of well-set hair, baldness; 1 and instead of a rich cloak, a wrapping of sak (sackcloth); 1 and branding instead of yofi (beauty). 1

26And her gates shall lament and mourn; 1 and she being desolate shall sit upon ha'aretz.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:6For Pekach ben Remalyahu slaughtered in Yehudah 120 elef in yom echad, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken Hashem Elohei Avotam.

Isaiah 1:20But if ye refuse and rebel, 1 ye shall be devoured with the cherev; 1 for the mouth of Hashem hath spoken. 1

Jeremiah 14:18If I go forth into the sadeh, 1 then hinei! The slain with the cherev! 1 And if I enter into the Ir, 1 then hinei them that are ravaged with ra'av (famine)! 1 Indeed, both the navi and the kohen 1 go roaming to a land that they know not. 1

Jeremiah 19:7And I will make void the etzah of Yehudah and Yerushalayim in this makom; and I will cause them to fall by the cherev before their oyevim, and by the hands of them that seek their nefesh; and their nevelah (carcasses) will I give to be food for the oph HaShomayim, and for the behemat ha'aretz.

Lamentations 2:21The na'ar and the zaken lie 1 in the dust of the streets; 1 my betulot and my bochurim 1 are fallen by the cherev; 1 Thou hast slain them in the Day of Thy Wrath; 1 Thou hast slaughtered, and not pitied. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 3:17-26

The Vanity of the Daughters of Zion. ( b. c. 758.) 16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts. 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round… Read the whole commentary →

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