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Isaiah 37:34

By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assyria;   Libnah;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Sennacherib;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Time;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mediator, Mediation;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hezekiah;   King;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hezekiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   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;   Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Isaiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He will go backthe way he came,and he will not enter this city.
Hebrew Names Version
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says the LORD.
King James Version
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord .
English Standard Version
By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord .
New American Standard Bible
'By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,' declares the LORD.
New Century Version
He will return to his country the same way he came, and he will not enter this city,' says the Lord .
Amplified Bible
'By the way that he came, by the same way he will return, and he will not come into this city,' declares the LORD.
World English Bible
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
By the same way that he came, he shall returne, and not come into this citie, saith the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,' declares Yahweh.
Berean Standard Bible
He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city, declares the LORD.
Contemporary English Version
As surely as I am the Lord , he will return by the way he came and will never enter Jerusalem.
Complete Jewish Bible
" ‘By the way he came he will return; he will not come to this city,' says Adonai .
Darby Translation
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
He will go back the way he came. He will not come into this city. The Lord says this!
George Lamsa Translation
But by the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not enter this city, says the LORD.
Good News Translation
He will go back by the same road he came, without entering this city. I, the Lord , have spoken.
Lexham English Bible
He shall return by the way that he came, and he shall not come to this city,' declares Yahweh.
Literal Translation
He shall return by the same way that he came in, and he shall not come into this city, says Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The same waye that he came, shal he returne, and not come at this citie, saieth the LORDE.
American Standard Version
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
By the way that he came, by the same shall he returne, and shall not come into this citie, saith the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The same way he came he shall returne, and not come at this citie, saith the Lorde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But by the way by which he came, by it shall he return, and shall not enter into this city: thus saith the Lord.
English Revised Version
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In the weie in which he cam, he schal turne ayen bi it; and he schal not entre in to this citee, seith the Lord.
Webster's Bible Translation
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
New English Translation
He will go back the way he came— he will not enter this city,' says the Lord .
New King James Version
By the way that he came, By the same shall he return; And he shall not come into this city,' Says the LORD.
New Living Translation
The king will return to his own country by the same road on which he came. He will not enter this city,' says the Lord .
New Life Bible
He will return by the same way he came, and he will not come to this city,' says the Lord.
New Revised Standard
By the way that he came, by the same he shall return; he shall not come into this city, says the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
By the way that he Came in, By the Same, shall he return, - And into this city, shall he not enter, Declareth Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
By the way that he came, he shall return, and into this city he shall not come, saith the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, says the LORD.
Young's Literal Translation
In the way that he came, in it he turneth back, And unto this city he doth not come in, An affirmation of Jehovah,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,' declares the LORD.

Contextual Overview

21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. 23 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. 24 By your slaves you have defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into its farthest height, its forest park; 25 I have dug and drank water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt. 26 Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, which is blighted before the east wind. 28 But I know your rising up and your sitting down, and your going out and your coming in, and your raging against me. 29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into 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 by which you came. 30 And this shall be the sign to you: you shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 37:29, Proverbs 21:30

Reciprocal: Psalms 20:2 - out Isaiah 22:7 - full

Cross-References

Genesis 37:1
And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 37:3
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.
Genesis 37:5
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers: and they hated him all the more.
Genesis 37:8
And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
Genesis 37:12
And his brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
Genesis 37:13
And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here I am.
Genesis 37:29
And Reuben returned to the pit; and, look, Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
Joshua 7:6
And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.
2 Samuel 1:11
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
2 Samuel 3:31
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David followed the bier.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,.... Without executing his designs on Jerusalem, or other places; he shall lose his labour, and make the best of his way to his own country, without turning to the right or left, in order to disturb other nations, and enlarge his kingdom, being quite dispirited and confounded by what he shall meet with:

and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord; or, unto this city, as before; which is repeated to confirm it, and to show the certainty of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By the way that he came - (Isaiah 37:29; compare Isaiah 37:37).

And shall not come into this city - (Isaiah 37:33; compare Isaiah 29:6-8).


 
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