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New King James Version

Isaiah 37:23

"Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice, And lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blasphemy;   Libnah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Assyria;   Reviling and Reproaching;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Sennacherib;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Boasting;   Nation;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mediator, Mediation;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hezekiah;   King;   Nahum (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Blasphemy;   Hezekiah;   Lift;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Holy One;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hezekiah;   Sennacherib;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ararat;   Assyria;   Hezekiah;   Interesting facts about the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Blasphemy;   Hezekiah (2);   Isaiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Who is it you have mocked and blasphemed?Against whom have you raised your voiceand lifted your eyes in pride?Against the Holy One of Israel!
Hebrew Names Version
Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Yisra'el.
King James Version
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
English Standard Version
"‘Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!
New American Standard Bible
"Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice And haughtily raised your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
New Century Version
You have insulted me and spoken against me; you have raised your voice against me. You have a proud look on your face, which is against me, the Holy One of Israel!
Amplified Bible
"Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice And haughtily lifted up your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
World English Bible
Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Whome hast thou railed on and blasphemed? and against whome hast thou exalted thy voyce, & lifted vp thine eyes on hie? euen against the holy one of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?And against whom have you heightened your voiceAnd haughtily lifted up your eyes?Against the Holy One of Israel!
Berean Standard Bible
Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Contemporary English Version
Sennacherib, you cursed, shouted, and sneered at me, the holy God of Israel.
Complete Jewish Bible
Whom have you taunted and insulted? Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes? The Holy One of Isra'el!
Darby Translation
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted the voice? Against the Holy One of Israel hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high.
Easy-to-Read Version
But who was it that you insulted and made fun of? Who was it that you spoke against? You were speaking against the Holy One of Israel. You acted like you were great and he was nothing.
George Lamsa Translation
Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Good News Translation
Whom do you think you have been insulting and ridiculing? You have been disrespectful to me, the holy God of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
Whom have you taunted and blasphemed, and against whom have you raised up your voice and lifted your eyes upward? To the holy one of Israel!
Literal Translation
Whom have you mocked and reviled? And against whom have you lifted your voice, and lifted your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But thou Sennacherib, whom hast thou defied or blaspemed? And agaynst who hast thou lifted vp thy voyce, & exalted thy proude lokes? euen agaynst the holy one of Israel.
American Standard Version
Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
Bible in Basic English
Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Whom hast thou taunted and blasphemed? And against whom hast thou exalted thy voice? Yea, thou hast lifted up thine eyes on high, even against the Holy One of Israel!
King James Version (1611)
Whom hast thou reproched and blasphemed? and against whome hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted vp thine eyes on high? euen against the Holy One of Israel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But thou Sennacherib, whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? Agaynst whom hast thou lifted vp thy voyce, and exalted thy proude lokes? euen agaynst the holy one of Israel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Whom hast thou reproached and provoked? and against whom hast thou lifted up thy voice? and hast thou not lifted up thine eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel?
English Revised Version
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whom despisist thou, and whom blasfemedist thou? and on whom reisidist thou thi vois, and reisidist the hiynesse of thin iyen?
Update Bible Version
Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed; and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted thy eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
New English Translation
Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted and looked so arrogantly? At the Holy One of Israel!
New Living Translation
"Whom have you been defying and ridiculing? Against whom did you raise your voice? At whom did you look with such haughty eyes? It was the Holy One of Israel!
New Life Bible
Whom have you put to shame and spoken against? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted up your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
New Revised Standard
"Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Whom, hast thou reproached and insulted? And, against whom, hast thou lifted high thy voice? Yea thou hast proudly raised thine eyes, against the Holy One of Israel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed, and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
Revised Standard Version
'Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Young's Literal Translation
Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up the voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes Against the Holy One of Israel.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice And haughtily lifted up your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Contextual Overview

21 2 Kings 19:20-34">[xr] Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him: "The virgin, the daughter of Zion, Has despised you, laughed you to scorn; The daughter of Jerusalem Has shaken her head behind your back! 23 "Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice, And lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel. 24 By your servants you have reproached the Lord, And said, "By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, To the limits of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars And its choice cypress trees; I will enter its farthest height, To its fruitful forest. 25 I have dug and drunk water, And with the soles of my feet I have dried up All the brooks of defense.' 26 "Did you not hear long ago How I made it, From ancient times that I formed it? Now I have brought it to pass, That you should be For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins. 27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power; They were dismayed and confounded; They were as the grass of the field And the green herb, As the grass on the housetops And grain blighted before it is grown. 28 "But I know your dwelling place, Your going out and your coming in, And your rage against Me. 29 Because your rage against Me and your tumult Have come up to My ears, Therefore I will put My hook in your nose And My bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back By the way which you came."' 30 "This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself, And the second year what springs from the same; Also in the third year sow and reap, Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Whom hast: Isaiah 37:10-13, Exodus 5:2, 2 Kings 19:4, 2 Kings 19:22, 2 Chronicles 32:17, Psalms 44:16, Psalms 73:9, Psalms 74:18, Psalms 74:23, Revelation 13:1-6

against whom: Isaiah 10:13-15, Isaiah 14:13, Isaiah 14:14, Exodus 9:17, Proverbs 30:13, Ezekiel 28:2, Ezekiel 28:9, Daniel 5:20-23, Daniel 7:25, 2 Thessalonians 2:4

the Holy One: Isaiah 10:20, Isaiah 12:6, Isaiah 17:7, Isaiah 30:11, Isaiah 30:12, Isaiah 41:14, Isaiah 41:16, Isaiah 43:3, Isaiah 43:14, Exodus 15:11, Ezekiel 39:7, Habakkuk 1:12, Habakkuk 1:13

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:7 - them that Numbers 15:30 - reproacheth 1 Samuel 2:3 - let not arrogancy 1 Samuel 17:36 - seeing 1 Samuel 17:45 - defied 2 Samuel 3:8 - do show 2 Samuel 22:28 - but thine 2 Kings 18:35 - that the Lord 1 Chronicles 20:7 - defied Psalms 10:3 - boasteth Psalms 22:7 - shake Psalms 80:6 - our enemies Psalms 83:2 - lifted Psalms 94:2 - render Psalms 139:20 - for they speak Isaiah 1:4 - the Holy Isaiah 5:15 - the eyes Isaiah 33:11 - your Isaiah 36:15 - General Isaiah 36:20 - that the Lord Isaiah 37:4 - to reproach Isaiah 57:4 - Against Jeremiah 48:42 - magnified Jeremiah 50:29 - for she hath Lamentations 1:9 - for Ezekiel 35:13 - with Daniel 3:15 - and who Daniel 5:23 - lifted Daniel 8:11 - he magnified Malachi 3:13 - Your Matthew 15:11 - but Acts 12:23 - because

Cross-References

Genesis 37:3
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors.
Genesis 37:31
So they took Joseph's tunic, killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
Genesis 37:33
And he recognized it and said, "It is my son's tunic. A wild beast has devoured him. Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces."
Genesis 42:21
Then they said to one another, "We are truly guilty concerning our brother, for we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us, and we would not hear; therefore this distress has come upon us."
Psalms 22:18
They divide My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots.
Matthew 27:28
And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?.... A creature like thyself? no, but a God, and not one like the gods of the nations, the idols of wood and stone, but the living God:

and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice? alluding to Rabshakeh's crying with a loud voice, Isaiah 36:13:

and lifted up thine eyes on high? as proud and haughty persons do, disdaining to look upon those they treat with contempt:

even against the Holy One of Israel; that is, Israel's God, and will protect him; "a Holy One", and of purer eyes than to behold with pleasure such a proud blaspheming creature, and cannot look upon him but with indignation; for against such he sets himself; these he resists, pulls down, and destroys.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When hast thou reproached? - Not an idol. Not one who has no power to take vengeance, or to defend the city under his protection, but the living God.

Exalted thy voice - That is, by thy messenger. Thou hast spoken in a loud, confident tone; in the language of reproach and threatening.

And lifted up thine eyes on high - To lift up the eyes is an indication of haughtiness and pride. He had evinced arrogance in his manner, and he was yet to learn that it was against the living and true God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 37:23. Against the Holy One of Israel. — For אל el, to, the other copy has על al, against, rather more properly.


 
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