Jesaja 8:11

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling

Want aldus sprak de Heer tot mij, toen Hij mij bij de hand vatte, en onderwees mij, dat ik niet zou wandelen op den weg dezes volks, zeggende:

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Zo toch heeft de Heer tot mij gesproken, toen hij mij bij de hand greep en waarschuwde den weg dezes volks niet te betreden:

Staten Vertaling
Want alzo heeft de HEERE tot mij gezegd, met een sterke hand, en Hij onderwees mij van niet te wandelen op den weg dezes volks, zeggende:

Bible Verse Review
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with a strong hand: Heb. in strength of hand, Jeremiah 20:7, Jeremiah 20:9, Ezekiel 3:14, Acts 4:20

instructed: Psalms 32:8, Proverbs 1:15, Jeremiah 15:19, Ezekiel 2:6-8

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:46 - the hand Job 27:11 - teach Isaiah 7:4 - fear not Philippians 3:18 - many Philippians 4:12 - I am

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand,.... In the strength of prophecy, as the Targum explains it; and so all the Jews' interpreters understand it of prophecy, as in Ezekiel 1:3: or, "the Lord spake thus to me, when he took (me) by the hand" t; as parents or masters take hold of the hands of children, while they are advising and instructing them, as expressive of their great affection for them; and when they would retain them with them, or restrain them from doing amiss:

and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people: or join with them in desiring and seeking for the help of the king of Assyria, against Rezin and Remaliah's son; or in being willing to surrender up into their hands:

saying; as follows:

t בחזקת היד "apprehensione manus", Piscator; "cum manu me apprehenderit", Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the Lord spake thus - Spake that which immediately follows in the next verse. Warned him not to Unite in the alliance with foreign kingdoms which the nation was about forming.

With a strong hand - Margin, ‘With strength of hand.’ That is, when the hand of God urged me. A strong prophetic impulse is often represented as being produced by God’s laying his hand on the prophet; or by his being thus, as it were, urged or impelled to it; Ezekiel 3:14 : ‘The hand of Jehovah was strong upon me;’ 2 Kings 3:15 : ‘And it came to pass, that when the minstrel played, the hand of the Lord came upon him;’ Jeremiah 20:7 : ‘O Lord, thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed;’ see also Ecclesiastes 2:24; 1 Kings 18:46; 2 Kings 3:15; Ezekiel 33:22; Ezekiel 40:1; compare the Introduction, section 7. 11. (3.) The meaning is, that the prophet was strongly, and almost irresistibly, urged by the divine influence, to say what he was about to say.

That I should not walk ... - That I should not approve, and fall in with the design of Ahaz, and of the nation, in calling in the aid of the Assyrian armies.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 8:11. With a strong hand - "As taking me by the hand"] Eleven MSS., (two ancient,) of Kennicott's, thirty-four of De Rossi's, and seven editions, read כחזקת kechezkath; and so Symmachus, the Syriac, and Vulgate. Or rather with a strong hand, that is, with a strong and powerful influence of the prophetic Spirit.