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Revised Standard Version

Isaiah 7:7

thus says the Lord GOD: It shall not stand, and it shall not 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 King James Version
thus says the Lord GOD: "It shall not stand, Nor shall it come to pass.
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.
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 In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzzi'ah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remali'ah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but they could not conquer it. 2 When the house of David was told, "Syria is in league with E'phraim," his heart and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind. 3 And the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go forth to meet Ahaz, you and She'ar-jash'ub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller's Field, 4 and say to him, 'Take heed, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remali'ah. 5 Because Syria, with E'phraim and the son of Remali'ah, has devised evil against you, saying, 6 "Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it for ourselves, and set up the son of Ta'be-el as king in the midst of it," 7 thus says the Lord GOD: It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass. 8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. (Within sixty-five years E'phraim will be broken to pieces so that it will no longer be a people.) 9 And the head of E'phraim is Sama'ria, and the head of Sama'ria is the son of Remali'ah. 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 come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
Genesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
Genesis 7:13
On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,
Genesis 7:15
They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.
Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
Matthew 24:38
For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,
Luke 17:27
They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Hebrews 6:18
so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God should prove false, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, took heed and constructed an ark for the saving of his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.
1 Peter 3:20
who formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, 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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