Parallel Verses English Standard Version For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.” King James Bible For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: American Standard Version For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. Douay-Rheims Bible For command, command again; command, command again; expect, expect again; expect, expect again: a little there, a little there. English Revised Version For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. Webster's Bible Translation For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: Isaiah 28:10 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentIn the next three vv. the hoi is expanded. "Behold, the Lord holds a strong and mighty thing like a hailstorm, a pestilent tempest; like a storm of mighty overflowing waters, He casts down to the earth with almighty hand. With feet they tread down the proud crown of the drunken of Ephraim. And it happens to the fading flower of its splendid ornament, which is upon the head of the luxuriant valley, as to an early fig before it is harvest, which whoever sees it looks at, and it is no sooner in his hand than he swallows it." "A strong and mighty thing:" ואמּי חזק we have rendered in the neuter (with the lxx and Targum) rather than in the masculine, as Luther does, although the strong and mighty thing which the Lord holds in readiness is no doubt the Assyrian. He is simply the medium of punishment in the hand of the Lord, which is called yâd absolutely, because it is absolute in power - as it were, the hand of all hands. This hand hurls Samaria to the ground (on the expression itself, compare Isaiah 25:12; Isaiah 26:5), so that they tread the proud crown to pieces with their feet (tērâmasnâh, the more pathetic plural form, instead of the singular tērâmēs; Ges. 47, Anm. 3, and Caspari on Obadiah 1:13). The noun sa‛ar, which is used elsewhere in the sense of shuddering, signifies here, like סערה, an awful tempest; and when connected with קטב, a tempest accompanied with a pestilential blast, spreading miasma. Such destructive power is held by the absolute hand. It is soon all over then with the splendid flower that has already begun to fade נבל ציצת, like הקּטן כּלי in Isaiah 22:24). It happens to it as to a bikkūrâh (according to the Masora, written with mappik here, as distinguished from Hosea 9:10, equivalent to kebhikkūrâthâh; see Job 11:9, "like an early fig of this valley;" according to others, it is simply euphonic). The gathering of figs takes place about August. Now, if any one sees a fig as early as June, he fixes his eyes upon it, and hardly touches it with his hand before he swallows it, and that without waiting to masticate it long. Like such a dainty bit will the luxuriant Samaria vanish. The fact that Shalmanassar, or his successor Sargon, did not conquer Samaria till after the lapse of three years (2 Kings 18:10), does not detract from the truth of the prophecy; it is enough that both the thirst of the conqueror and the utter destruction of Samaria answered to it. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge for precept 2 Timothy 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Hebrews 5:12 For when for the time you ought to be teachers... must be. or, hath been Cross References 2 Chronicles 36:15 The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. Nehemiah 9:30 Many years you bore with them and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. Jump to Previous Line Order Precept RuleJump to Next Line Order Precept RuleLinks Isaiah 28:10 NIVIsaiah 28:10 NLT Isaiah 28:10 ESV Isaiah 28:10 NASB Isaiah 28:10 KJV Isaiah 28:10 Bible Apps Isaiah 28:10 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 28:10 Chinese Bible Isaiah 28:10 French Bible Isaiah 28:10 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |