Isaiæ 8:19

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Ecce vox clamoris filiæ populi mei de terra longinqua:
Numquid Dominus non est in Sion?
aut rex ejus non est in ea?
Quare ergo me ad iracundiam concitaverunt in sculptilibus suis,
et in vanitatibus alienis?

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
et cum dixerint ad vos : Qu�rite a pythonibus et a divinis qui strident in incantationibus suis : numquid non populus a Deo suo requiret, pro vivis a mortuis ?

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Ecce vox clamoris filiae populi mei de terra longinqua: "Numquid Dominus non est in Sion? Aut rex eius non est in ea?". "Quare ergo me ad iracundiam concitaverunt in sculptilibus suis et in vanitatibus alienis?".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the voice: Jeremiah 4:16, Jeremiah 4:17, Jeremiah 4:30, Jeremiah 4:31, Isaiah 13:5, Isaiah 39:3

them: etc. Heb. the country of them that are afar off

the Lord: Jeremiah 14:19, Jeremiah 31:6, Psalms 135:21, Isaiah 12:6, Isaiah 52:1, Joel 2:32, Joel 3:21, Obadiah 1:17, Revelation 2:1

her king: Psalms 146:10, Psalms 149:2, Isaiah 33:22

Why: Jeremiah 8:5, Jeremiah 8:6, Deuteronomy 32:16-21, Isaiah 1:4

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:21 - with their vanities 1 Kings 16:26 - their vanities Psalms 78:58 - with Isaiah 15:5 - My heart Jeremiah 4:11 - daughter Jeremiah 6:26 - daughter Jeremiah 10:15 - vanity Jeremiah 30:5 - a voice Lamentations 2:11 - for Hosea 13:10 - I will be thy king Micah 4:9 - why Acts 14:15 - from

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people,.... This was what made his heart faint, such was his sympathy with his countrymen, his people in distress, whom he affectionately calls the daughter of his people, whose cry was loud, and whose voice he heard lamenting their case:

because of them that dwell in a far country; because of the Chaldeans, who came from a far country; see Jeremiah 5:15 who were come into their land, and devoured it; through fear of them, and because of the devastation they made; hence the voice of their cry: or this is to be understood of the Jews in a far country, carried captive into Babylon, and the voice of their cry there, because of their captivity and oppression. So Abarbinel and the Targum,

"lo, the voice of the cry of the congregation of my people from a far country;''

and so read the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions.

Is not the Lord in Zion? is not her King in her? these are the words of the people, complaining of the Lord, calling in question whether he was in Zion, and whether he was King there; and if he was, how came it to pass that he did not protect it; that he suffered the city to be taken, and the inhabitants to be carried captive?

Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with their strange vanities? that is, with their idols, and their idolatrous worship; this is the Lord's answer to them, giving a reason why he suffered the enemy to come in among them, and prevail over them, namely, their idolatry. It may be rendered, "with the vanities of a stranger" n; of a strange people, or of a strange god.

n בהבלי נכר "in vanitatibus alienigenae", Montanus; "[sub.] populi", Vatablus; "dei alieni", Pagninus So Ben Melech.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, “Behold the voice of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from a distant land: Is not Yahweh in Zion? Is not her king there? Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with foreign vanities?” Their complaint, “Is there no Jehovah in Zion?” is met by God demanding of them the reason why instead of worshipping Him they have set up idols.