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Isaiah 9:14

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— So the LORD cuts off head and tail from Israel, [Both] palm branch and bulrush in a single day.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day:
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Therefore hath Yahweh cut off from Israel—Head and tail, Palm-top and rush, In one day.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed—the same day,
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the tail, him that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in one day.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head and taile, branche and rush in one day.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and taile, branch and rush in one day.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, tail and head, in one day.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— So the Lord took away from Israel the head and tail, great and small, in one day:
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Yisrael head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Therefore Yähwè יָהוֶה 3068
{3068} Prime
יְהֹוָה
Y@hovah
{yeh-ho-vaw'}
From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.
will cut off 3772
{3772} Prime
כָּרַת
karath
{kaw-rath'}
A primitive root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication to destroy or consume; specifically to covenant (that is, make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces).
z8686
<8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 4046
from Yiŝrä´ël יִשׂרָאֵל 3478
{3478} Prime
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisra'el
{yis-raw-ale'}
From H8280 and H0410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity.
x4480
(4480) Complement
מִן
min
{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
head 7218
{7218} Prime
רֹאשׁ
ro'sh
{roshe}
From an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head (as most easily shaken), whether literally or figuratively (in many applications, of place, time, rank, etc.).
and tail, 2180
{2180} Prime
זָנָב
zanab
{zaw-nawb'}
From H2179 (in the original sense of flapping); the tail (literally or figuratively).
branch 3712
{3712} Prime
כִּפָּה
kippah
{kip-paw'}
Feminine of H3709; a leaf of a palm tree.
and rush, 100
{0100} Prime
אַגְמוֹן
'agmown
{ag-mone'}
From the same as H0098; a marshy pool (others from a different root, a kettle); by implication a rush (as growing there); collectively a rope of rushes.
in one 259
{0259} Prime
אֶחָד
'echad
{ekh-awd'}
A numeral from H0258; properly united, that is, one; or (as an ordinal) first.
day. 3117
{3117} Prime
יוֹם
yowm
{yome}
From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literally (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Isaiah 9:13-17.


Isaiah 9:14

_ _ head and tail — proverbial for the highest and lowest (Deuteronomy 28:13, Deuteronomy 28:44).

_ _ branch and rush — another image for the same thought (Isaiah 19:15). The branch is elevated on the top of the tree: the rush is coarse and low.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Isaiah 9:8-21.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 9:14

Head — High and low. Branch — The goodly branches of tall trees, the mighty and noble. Rush — The bulrush, the weakest and meanest persons. One day — All together, one as well as another.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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will cut:

Isaiah 3:2-3 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, ... The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
Isaiah 19:15 Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
2 Kings 17:6-20 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. ... And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
Hosea 1:4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
Hosea 1:6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And [God] said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
Hosea 1:9 Then said [God], Call his name Loammi: for ye [are] not my people, and I will not be your [God].
Hosea 4:5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
Hosea 5:12-14 Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. ... For I [will be] unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, [even] I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue [him].
Hosea 8:8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure.
Hosea 9:11-17 [As for] Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. ... My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Hosea 13:3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff [that] is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Amos 2:14-16 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: ... And [he that is] courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
Amos 3:12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus [in] a couch.
Amos 5:2-3 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; [there is] none to raise her up. ... For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out [by] a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth [by] an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
Amos 6:11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
Amos 7:8-9 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more: ... And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
Amos 7:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
Amos 9:1-9 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. ... For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Micah 1:6-8 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, [and] as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof. ... Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

in one day:

Isaiah 10:17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
Isaiah 30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
Hosea 10:15 So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
Revelation 18:8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong [is] the Lord God who judgeth her.
Revelation 18:10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
Revelation 18:17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
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2K 17:6. Is 3:2; 10:17; 19:15; 30:13. Ho 1:4, 6, 9; 4:5; 5:12; 8:8; 9:11; 10:15; 13:3. Am 2:14; 3:12; 5:2; 6:11; 7:8, 17; 9:1. Mi 1:6. Rv 18:8, 10, 17.

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