Isaiah 8:13

I, the Commander of the armies of angels, am the one you should consider to be holy. And I am the one you should fear, the one you should revere.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

In Context

12“Do not say that everything that people do is conspiring/rebelling against the government, like other people say, and do not ◄be afraid of/worry about► the things that other people are afraid of.

14I will protect you(sg). But as for the other people [MTY] in Israel and Judah, I will be like [MET] a stone that causes people to stumble, a rock that causes them to fall down. And as for the people of Jerusalem, I will be like [MET] a trap or a snare [DOU].

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Cross References

Genesis 31:53We will ask the God whom your grandfather Abraham and his father Nahor worshiped to punish [MTY] either one of us, if we harm the other one.” So Jacob solemnly promised to do what they said in their peace agreement. And he asked God, the one before whom his father Isaac trembled, to listen to what they promised.

Leviticus 22:32do not dishonor me [MTY] by disobeying them. You Israeli people must acknowledge that I, Yahweh, am holy, and I am the one who causes you to be holy.

Numbers 27:14The reason that you will die and not enter that land is that you both disobeyed my instructions/commands in the Zin Desert. When the Israeli people rebelled against me there at Meribah, near Kadesh, I told you to speak to the rock to cause water to flow out of it. But because you struck the rock instead of speaking to it, you did not show the people my holy power.”

Psalms 76:7But you cause everyone to be afraid. When you are angry and you punish people, no one can [RHQ] endure it.

Isaiah 29:23When they see that I have blessed them by giving them many children and doing many other things for them, they will realize that I am the Holy One of Israel, and they will revere me, the God to whom they, the descendants of Jacob, belong.

Matthew 10:28Do not be afraid of people who are able to kill your body [SYN] but are not able to destroy your soul. Instead, fear God because he is able to destroy both a person’s body and a person’s soul in hell.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 8:10-16

Judah's Encouragement. ( b. c. 740.) 9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. 11 For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, 12 Say ye not, A… Read the whole commentary →

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