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New King James Version

Isaiah 7:7

thus says the Lord GOD: "It shall not stand, Nor shall it come to pass.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Isaiah;   Pekah;   Rezin;   Scofield Reference Index - Christ;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ephraim, Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ahaz;   Pekah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ahaz;   Assyria;   Isaiah;   Syria;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Rezin;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pekah;   Remaliah;   Rezin;   Shear Jashub;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Shearjashub;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Alliance;   Aram, Aramaeans;   Damascus;   Immanuel;   Isaiah;   Isaiah, Book of;   Rezin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Damascus;   Rezin ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Immanuel;   Pekah;   Rezin;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Remali'ah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - God, Names of;   Immanuel;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Assyria;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Damascus;   Pekah;   Rezin;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is what the Lord God says:
Hebrew Names Version
thus says the Lord GOD, "It shall not stand, neither shall it happen."
King James Version
Thus saith the Lord God , It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
English Standard Version
thus says the Lord God : "‘It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.
New American Standard Bible
this is what the Lord GOD says: "It shall not stand nor shall it come to pass.
New Century Version
But I, the Lord God , say, "‘Their plan will not succeed; it will not happen,
Amplified Bible
for this is what the Lord GOD says, "It shall not stand nor shall it happen.
World English Bible
thus says the Lord Yahweh, "It shall not stand, neither shall it happen."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus sayth the Lorde God, It shall not stand, neither shall it be.
Legacy Standard Bible
thus says Lord Yahweh: "It shall not stand, nor shall it happen.
Berean Standard Bible
But this is what the Lord GOD says: "It will not arise; it will not happen.
Contemporary English Version
I, the Lord , promise that this will never happen.
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘This is what Adonai Elohim says: "It won't occur, it won't happen.
Darby Translation
thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall not stand, nor come to pass;
Easy-to-Read Version
But the Lord God says, "Their plan will not succeed. It will not happen
George Lamsa Translation
Thus says the LORD God: It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
Good News Translation
"But I, the Lord , declare that this will never happen.
Lexham English Bible
Thus says the Lord Yahweh, "It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.
Literal Translation
So says the Lord Jehovah, It shall not rise, nor shall it happen.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For thus saieth the LORDE God ther to, It shall not so go forth, nether come so to passe:
American Standard Version
thus saith the Lord Jehovah, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
Bible in Basic English
This is the word of the Lord God: This design will not come about or be effected.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
thus saith the Lord GOD: It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
King James Version (1611)
Thus saith the Lord God; It shall not stand, neither shall it come to passe.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus saith the Lorde God thereto, It shal not so go foorth, neither so come to passe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
thus saith the Lord of hosts, This counsel shall not abide, nor come to pass.
English Revised Version
thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord God seith these thingis, This schal not be, and it schal not stonde;
Update Bible Version
thus says the Lord Yahweh, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
New English Translation
For this reason the sovereign master, the Lord , says: "It will not take place; it will not happen.
New Living Translation
But this is what the Sovereign Lord says: "This invasion will never happen; it will never take place;
New Life Bible
But the Lord God says, "This plan will not work. It will not happen.
New Revised Standard
therefore thus says the Lord God : It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, - It shall not stand Neither shall it come to pass!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this shall not be.
Revised Standard Version
thus says the Lord GOD: It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.
Young's Literal Translation
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: It doth not stand, nor shall it be!
THE MESSAGE
But God , the Master, says, "It won't happen. Nothing will come of it Because the capital of Aram is Damascus and the king of Damascus is a mere man, Rezin. As for Ephraim, in sixty-five years it will be rubble, nothing left of it. The capital of Ephraim is Samaria, and the king of Samaria is the mere son of Remaliah. If you don't take your stand in faith, you won't have a leg to stand on."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
thus says the Lord GOD: "It shall not stand nor shall it come to pass.

Contextual Overview

1 2 Kings 16:5; 2 Chronicles 28:5-15">[xr] Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but could not prevail against it. 2 And it was told to the house of David, saying, "Syria's forces are deployed in Ephraim." So his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind. 3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub [fn] your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller's Field, 4 and say to him: "Take heed, and be quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying, 6 "Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel"-- 7 thus says the Lord GOD: "It shall not stand, Nor shall it come to pass. 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, And the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken, So that it will not be a people. 9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria, And the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, Surely you shall not be established.""'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 8:10, Isaiah 10:6-12, Isaiah 37:29, Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 46:11, Psalms 2:4-6, Psalms 33:11, Psalms 76:10, Proverbs 21:30, Lamentations 3:37, Daniel 4:35, Acts 4:25-28

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 12:16 - now see 2 Kings 11:2 - they hid him 2 Kings 17:3 - king of Assyria 2 Chronicles 13:8 - the kingdom 2 Chronicles 21:7 - Howbeit Psalms 21:11 - are not Psalms 83:3 - They Proverbs 19:21 - many Isaiah 9:8 - sent a word Isaiah 28:18 - your covenant

Cross-References

Genesis 6:18
But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark--you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
Genesis 7:1
Luke 17:26,27">[xr] Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.
Genesis 7:13
On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark--
Genesis 7:15
And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple pass on and are punished.
Matthew 24:38
For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
Luke 17:27
They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Hebrews 6:18
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might [fn] have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
1 Peter 3:20
who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited [fn] in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord GOD, it shall not stand,.... That is, the counsel they had taken against Judah to vex it, make a breach in it, and set a king of their own liking over it; so the Septuagint and Arabic versions render the words, "that counsel shall not stand"; the counsel of God shall stand, but not the counsel of men, when it is against him, Proverbs 19:21:

neither shall it come to pass; or "shall not be"; so far from standing, succeeding, and going forward, till it is brought to a final accomplishment, it should not take footing, or have a being.


 
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