Isaiah 9:3

Yahweh, you will cause us people in Israel to rejoice; we will become very happy. We will rejoice about what you have done like [SIM] people rejoice when they harvest their crops, or like soldiers rejoice when they divide up among themselves the things that they have captured in a battle.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

In Context

2Some day, it will be as though [MET] the people who walked in darkness will see a great light. A great light will shine on those who live in a land where they have great troubles/distress.

4You will cause us to no longer be slaves [MET] of those who captured us; you will lift the heavy burdens from our shoulders. It will be as though you will break the rods of those who oppressed us, like you did when you destroyed the army of the Midian people-group.

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Cross References

Judges 5:3Listen, you kings! Pay attention, you leaders! I will sing to Yahweh. With this song I will praise Yahweh, the God we Israelis worship.

Judges 8:12Zebah and Zalmunna fled, but Gideon’s men pursued them and captured them and all their warriors.

2 Chronicles 20:25So Jehoshaphat and his soldiers went to take the possessions of their enemies, and they saw that there was a lot of equipment and clothing and other valuable things; there was more than they could carry away. There were very many things, with the result that it took three days for them to collect it all.

Psalms 4:7You have made me very happy; I am happier than people who have harvested a great amount of grain and grapes.

Psalms 119:162I am happy about ◄your words/what you have promised to do for me►, as happy as someone who has found a great treasure.

Isaiah 10:26The Commander of the armies of angels will whip them. He will do to them like he did when he helped Gideon and his 300 soldiers to defeat the army of the Midian people-group, and like he did when he showed his mighty power [MTY] by causing the army of Egypt to drown in the Red Sea.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 9:2-8

Judgment and Mercy; The Promise of Gospel Grace; The Promise of Messiah; The Titles of Messiah. ( b. c. 740.) 1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light… Read the whole commentary →

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