Isaiah 9:8

Amplified Bible

The Lord sends a word (message) against Jacob, And it falls on Israel [the ten northern tribes, the kingdom of Ephraim].

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord sent a message against Jacob;it came against Israel.

Hebrew Names Version
The Lord sent a word into Ya`akov, and it has lighted on Yisra'el.

King James Version
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

English Standard Version
The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it will fall on Israel;

New American Standard Bible
The Lord sends a message against Jacob, And it falls on Israel.

New Century Version
The Lord sent a message against the people of Jacob; it says that God will judge Israel.

World English Bible
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted on Israel.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lord hath sent a worde into Iaakob, and it hath lighted vpon Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
The Lord sends a message against Jacob,And it falls on Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
The Lord has sent a message against Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord had warned the people of Israel,

Complete Jewish Bible
All the people know it, Efrayim and the inhabitants of Shomron. But they say in pride, in the arrogance of their hearts,

Darby Translation
The Lord sent a word unto Jacob, and it lighteth upon Israel.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord gave a command against Jacob and someone in Israel fell.

George Lamsa Translation
The LORD has sent a word to Jacob, and it has lighted upon Israel.

Good News Translation
The Lord has pronounced judgment on the kingdom of Israel, on the descendants of Jacob.

Lexham English Bible
The Lord has sent out a word against Jacob, and it fell on Israel.

Literal Translation
The Lord sent a Word into Jacob, and it has fallen into Israel.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE sent a worde in to Iacob, the same is come in to Israel.

American Standard Version
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

Bible in Basic English
The Lord has sent a word to Jacob, and it has come on Israel;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in pride and in arrogancy of heart:

King James Version (1611)
The Lord sent a word into Iacob, and it hath lighted vpon Israel.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lorde sent a worde into Iacob, the same is come into Israel.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord has sent death upon Jacob, and it has come upon Israel.

English Revised Version
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord sente a word in to Jacob, and it felle in Israel.

Update Bible Version
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it has fallen on Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

New English Translation
The sovereign master decreed judgment on Jacob, and it fell on Israel.

New King James Version
The LORD sent a word against Jacob, And it has fallen on Israel.

New Living Translation
The Lord has spoken out against Jacob; his judgment has fallen upon Israel.

New Life Bible
The Lord sends word against Jacob, and it falls on Israel.

New Revised Standard
The Lord sent a word against Jacob, and it fell on Israel;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A word, hath My Lord, sent unto Jacob, - And it shall alight on Israel;

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

Revised Standard Version
The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it will light upon Israel;

Young's Literal Translation
A word hath the Lord sent into Jacob, And it hath fallen in Israel.

THE MESSAGE
The Master sent a message against Jacob. It landed right on Israel's doorstep. All the people soon heard the message, Ephraim and the citizens of Samaria. But they were a proud and arrogant bunch. They dismissed the message, saying, "Things aren't that bad. We can handle anything that comes. If our buildings are knocked down, we'll rebuild them bigger and finer. If our forests are cut down, we'll replant them with finer trees."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The Lord sends a message against Jacob, And it falls on Israel.

Contextual Overview

⁸The Lord sends a word (message) against Jacob, And it falls on Israel [the ten northern tribes, the kingdom of Ephraim].⁹And all the people know it, That is, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria [its capital], Who say in pride and arrogance of heart: ¹⁰"The bricks have fallen down, But we will rebuild [all the better] with ashlar (hewed stones); The sycamores have been cut down, But we will replace them with [expensive] cedars." ¹¹Therefore the LORD raises against Ephraim adversaries from Rezin [king of Aram] And spurs their enemies on, ¹²The Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west; And they devour Israel with gaping jaws. In spite of all this, God's anger does not turn away But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment]. ¹³Yet the people do not turn back [in repentance] to Him who struck them, Nor do they seek the LORD of hosts [as their most essential need]. ¹⁴Therefore the LORD cuts off head and tail [the highest and the lowest] from Israel, Both [the high] palm branch and [the low] bulrush in one day. ¹⁵The elderly and honorable man, he is the head; And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail. ¹⁶For those who lead this people are causing them to go astray; And those who are led [astray] by them are swallowed up. ¹⁷Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, Nor does He have compassion on their fatherless or their widows; For every one of them is godless and an evildoer, And every mouth is speaking foolishness. In spite of all this, God's anger does not turn away But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sent a word: Isaiah 7:7, Isaiah 7:8, Isaiah 8:4-8, Micah 1:1-9, Zechariah 1:6, Zechariah 5:1-4, Matthew 24:35

Reciprocal: Isaiah 17:4 - the glory Zechariah 9:1 - the rest

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord sent a word unto Jacob,.... The prophet, having comforted Judah with the promise of the Messiah, returns to denounce the judgments of God upon the ten tribes, under the names of Jacob and Israel, which signify the same; for the "word" here is not the word of promise, the comfortable word concerning the Messiah before mentioned; but a word of threatening, ruin, and destruction, to the kingdom of Israel, after enlarged upon, which the Lord sent unto them by his prophets before hand, to warn them of it, and bring them to repentance; by which they would know, when it came to pass, that their destruction was of the Lord, and not a matter of chance: the Septuagint version is, "the Lord sent death upon Jacob"; and so the Arabic version, following it; the same word, differently pointed, being used for the pestilence, but is not the sense here; the Targum, Syriac, and Vulgate Latin versions, render it, "a word", as we do:

and it hath lighted upon Israel, or "hath fallen" x; as an arrow shot out of a bow, as some think; or as seed cast upon the earth; or rather like a thunderbolt: it denotes the sure and full accomplishment of the word of God upon the persons to whom it was sent; for as his word of promise, so of threatening, does not return to him void and empty, Isaiah 55:10. The Targum is,

"the Lord sent a word into the house of Jacob, and it was heard in Israel.''

x נפל "cecidit", Grotius, Cocccius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord sent - Not Yahweh here, but “Adonai.” It is apparent that this verse is the commencement of a new prophecy, that is not connected with that which precedes it. The strain of the preceding prophecy had respect to Judah; this is confined solely to Israel, or Ephraim. Here the division of the chapter should have been made, and should not have been again interrupted until Isaiah 10:4, where the prophecy closes. The prophecy is divided into four parts, and each part is designed to threaten a distinct judgment on some particular, prominent vice.

I. “Crime” - their pride and ostentation, Isaiah 9:8-9. “Punishment” - the land would be invaded by the Syrians and the Philistines, Isaiah 9:11-12.

II. “Crime” - they had apostatized from God, and the leaders had caused them to err, Isaiah 9:13, Isaiah 9:16. “Punishment” - Yahweh would cut off the chief men of the nation, Isaiah 9:14-15, Isaiah 9:17.

III. “Crime” - prevalent wickedness in the nation, Isaiah 9:18. “Punishment” - the anger of Yahweh, consternation, anarchy, discord, and want, Isaiah 9:19-21.

IV. “Crime” - prevalent injustice; Isaiah 10:1-2. “Punishment” - foreign invasion, and captivity; Isaiah 10:3-4.

The poem is remarkably regular in its structure (Lowth), and happy in its illustrations. At what time it was composed is not certain, but it has strong internal evidence that it immediately followed the preceding respecting Judah.

A word - A message, or prediction; Note, Isaiah 2:1.

Into Jacob - Jacob was the ancestor of the nation. But the name came to be appropriated to the ten tribes, as constituting the majority of the people. It was at first used to denote all the Jews Numbers 23:7, Numbers 23:10, Numbers 23:23; Numbers 24:17, Numbers 24:19; Deuteronomy 32:9; 1 Chronicles 16:13; Psalms 14:7; Psalms 20:1; but it came, after the revolt of the ten tribes under Jeroboam, to be used often to denote them alone; Amos 6:8; Micah 1:5; Micah 3:1; Micah 5:8. The word or message which was sent, refers undoubtedly to that which immediately follows.

And it hath lighted upon - Hebrew ‘It fell.’ This is but a varied expression for, he sent it to Israel.

Israel - The same as Jacob the ten tribes - the kingdom of Ephraim.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 9:8. Lord - "JEHOVAH"] For אדני Adonai, thirty MSS. of Kennicott's, and many of De Rossi's, and three editions, read יהוה Yehovah.