Isaiah 9:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.”
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“So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed--the same day,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 9:14 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
- Isaiah 3:2the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,
- Isaiah 10:17And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
- Isaiah 19:15There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm or reed.
- Isaiah 30:13this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!
- Hosea 1:4Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
- Hosea 1:6Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them.
- Hosea 1:9And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
- Hosea 4:5You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—
- Hosea 5:12So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.
- Hosea 8:8Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
- Hosea 9:11Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
- Hosea 10:15Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.
- Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
- Amos 2:14Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.
- Amos 3:12This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.
- Amos 5:2“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
- Amos 6:11For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”
- Amos 7:8“Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:
- Amos 7:17Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
- Amos 9:1I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.
- Micah 1:6Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a planting area for a vineyard. I will pour her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.
- Revelation 18:8Therefore her plagues will come in one day— death and grief and famine— and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
- Revelation 18:10In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
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