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Good News Translation

Isaiah 10:19

There will be so few trees left that even a child will be able to count them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assyria;   Isaiah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Assyria;   Trees;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Nation;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Assyria;   Forest;   Nineveh;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Assur;   Cedar;   Shepherd;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arpad;   Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Writing;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Assyria ;   Nineveh ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Assyria;   Cedar;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Assyr'ia, as'shur,;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Trees;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Cedar;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Child;   Education;   Isaiah;   Remnant;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The remaining trees of its forestwill be so few in numberthat a child could count them.
Hebrew Names Version
The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.
King James Version
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
English Standard Version
The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down.
New American Standard Bible
And the rest of the trees of his forest will be so small in number That a child could write them down.
New Century Version
The trees left standing will be so few that even a child could count them.
Amplified Bible
And the remaining trees of Assyria's forest will be so few in number That a child could write them down.
World English Bible
The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the rest of the trees of his forest shalbe fewe, that a childe may tell them.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the rest of the trees of his forest will be so small in numberThat a child could write them down.
Berean Standard Bible
The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.
Contemporary English Version
There will be so few trees that even a young child can count them.
Complete Jewish Bible
So few forest trees will remain that a child could list them.
Darby Translation
And the remainder of the trees of his forest shall be few: yea, a child might write them.
Easy-to-Read Version
There will be a few trees left standing in the forest—so few that even a child could count them.
George Lamsa Translation
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be so few that a child may write them down.
Lexham English Bible
And the rest of the trees of his forest will be a small number, and a boy can write them down.
Literal Translation
And the rest of the trees of the forest shall be few, so that a boy might write them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The trees also of his felde shalbe of soch a nombre, that a childe maye tell them.
American Standard Version
And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.
Bible in Basic English
And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them down.
King James Version (1611)
And the rest of the trees of his forrest shall be few, that a child may write them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The trees also of his wood whiche remayne shalbe of such a number that a chylde may tell them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they that are left of them shall be a small number, and a child shall write them.
English Revised Version
And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the relifs of the tree of his forest schulen be noumbrid for fewnesse, and a child schal write hem.
Update Bible Version
And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
New English Translation
There will be so few trees left in his forest, a child will be able to count them.
New King James Version
Then the rest of the trees of his forest Will be so few in number That a child may write them.
New Living Translation
Of all that glorious forest, only a few trees will survive— so few that a child could count them!
New Life Bible
And the rest of his trees will be so few that a child could write them down.
New Revised Standard
The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the remnant of his forest-trees, few in number, shall become, - yea, a child, might describe them!
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they that remain of the trees of his forest shall be so few, that they shall easily be numbered, and a child shall write them down.
Revised Standard Version
The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down.
Young's Literal Translation
And the rest of the trees of his forest [are] few, And a youth doth write them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And the rest of the trees of his forest will be so small in number That a child could write them down.

Contextual Overview

5 The Lord said, "Assyria! I use Assyria like a club to punish those with whom I am angry. 6 I sent Assyria to attack a godless nation, people who have made me angry. I sent them to loot and steal and trample the people like dirt in the streets." 7 But the Assyrian emperor has his own violent plans in mind. He is determined to destroy many nations. 8 He boasts, "Every one of my commanders is a king! 9 I conquered the cities of Calno and Carchemish, the cities of Hamath and Arpad. I conquered Samaria and Damascus. 10 I reached out to punish those kingdoms that worship idols, idols more numerous than those of Jerusalem and Samaria. 11 I have destroyed Samaria and all its idols, and I will do the same to Jerusalem and the images that are worshiped there." 12 But the Lord says, "When I finish what I am doing on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the emperor of Assyria for all his boasting and all his pride." 13 The emperor of Assyria boasts, "I have done it all myself. I am strong and wise and clever. I wiped out the boundaries between nations and took the supplies they had stored. Like a bull I have trampled the people who live there. 14 The nations of the world were like a bird's nest, and I gathered their wealth as easily as gathering eggs. Not a wing fluttered to scare me off; no beak opened to scream at me!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

few: Heb. number, Isaiah 37:36

Reciprocal: Psalms 29:9 - discovereth Isaiah 21:17 - the mighty Jeremiah 20:2 - the stocks Jeremiah 21:14 - in the Jeremiah 44:28 - a small Ezekiel 12:16 - a few men

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. These three had sons after the flood.
Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth—Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras—were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
Genesis 10:7
The descendants of Cush were the people of Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were the people of Sheba and Dedan.
Genesis 10:8
Cush had a son named Nimrod, who became the world's first great conqueror.
Genesis 10:10
At first his kingdom included Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all three of them in Babylonia.
Genesis 10:15
Canaan's sons—Sidon, the oldest, and Heth—were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
Genesis 10:17
the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
Genesis 10:18
the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. The different tribes of the Canaanites spread out,
Genesis 10:21
Shem, the older brother of Japheth, was the ancestor of all the Hebrews.
Genesis 10:24
Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, who was the father of Eber.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few,.... Which were left unconsumed, that escaped this destruction, those of the Assyrian army that fled with Sennacherib their king; which, the Rabbins say r, were no more than ten, as Jarchi and Kimchi observe; yea, some say there were but five left who escaped, and name them, Sennacherib and his two sons, Nebuchadnezzar and Nebuzaradan:

that a child may write them; count them, and take down their names; and it may be understood of a military muster, and the sense be, that the army should be reduced to so small a number by this stroke upon them, that there would be no need of an able muster master to take the account of them, a child would be equal to such a task. The Targum is,

"and the rest of his warriors shall fail, that the people shall be a small number, and shall be reckoned a weak kingdom.''

r T. Bab. ib. fol. 95. 2. Praefat. Echa Rabbati, fol. 41. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the rest of the trees ... - Keeping up still the image of a large and once dense forest, to which he had likened the Assyrian army. ‘The rest’ here means that which shall be left after the threatened judgment shall come upon them.

That a child may write them - That a child shall be able to number them, or write their names; that is, they shall be very few. A child can number or count but few; yet the number of those who would be left, would be so very small that even a child could count them with ease. It is probable that a few of the army of Sennacherib escaped (see the note at Isaiah 37:37); and compared with the whole army, the remnant might bear a striking resemblance to the few decaying trees of a once magnificent forest of cedars.


 
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