the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Read the Bible
English Standard Version
Isaiah 22:17
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- AmericanEncyclopedias:
- InternationalParallel Translations
"What a big man you are! But the Lord will crush you. He will roll you into a small ball and throw you far away into the open arms of another country, and there you will die. "You are very proud of your chariots. But in that faraway land, your new ruler will have better chariots. And your chariots will not look important in his palace.
For the Lord is about to hurl you away, mighty man. He is going to grab you,
Look, Yahweh will hurl you away violently, O [prominent] man, and he will wrap you up closely.
Look, mighty one! The Lord will throw you away. He will take firm hold of you
Look, the Lord will throw you far away, you mere man! He will wrap you up tightly.
Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
Behold, Yahweh, like a [strong] man, will hurl you away violently; yes, he will wrap you up closely.
'Listen carefully, the LORD is about to hurl you away violently, O man; And He is about to grasp you firmly
Lo! the Lord schal make thee to be borun out, as a kapoun is borun out, and as a cloth, so he shal reise thee.
Behold, the LORD will hurl thee away violently as a strong man; yea, he will wrap thee up closely.
Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you,
You may be powerful, but the Lord is about to snatch you up and throw you away.
Behold, Jehovah, like a strong man, will hurl thee away violently; yea, he will wrap thee up closely.
See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,
Look, strong man! Adonai is about to throw you out! He will grab you,
Behold, Jehovah will hurl thee with the force of a mighty man, and will cover thee entirely.
Behold, the LORD will hurl thee up and down with a man's throw; yea, He will wind thee round and round;
Behold; the Lord will cary thee away with a mightie captiuitie, and will surely couer thee.
See, the Lord will throw you away without pity, O you strong man. He will take a strong hold of you
The Lord is about to hurl you away violently, my fellow. He will seize firm hold on you,
Beholde, the Lord wil carie thee away with a great captiuitie, and will surely couer thee.
Behold, O man, the LORD will surely cast you away, and will surely forsake you.
Lo! Yahweh, is about to hurl thee, with a hurl, O mighty man, - And roll thee with a roll;
Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is carried away, and he will lift thee up as a garment.
Behold, the LORD will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you,
Beholde O thou man, the Lorde shal cary thee away into captiuitie, and shall surely couer thee with confusion.
Behold now, the Lord of hosts casts forth and will utterly destroy such a man, and will take away thy robe and thy glorious crown,
You may be important, but the Lord will pick you up and throw you away.
Look, you strong man! The Lord is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you,
Behold, the LORD, like a [strong] man, will hurl you away violently; yes, he will wrap you up closely.
Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
Look! Yahweh is about to really hurl you, man! And he is about to grasp you firmly;
Behold, Jehovah hurls you with a hurling, O man, and grasps you with a grasping.
Lo, Jehovah is casting thee up and down, A casting up and down, O mighty one,
Beholde the LORDE shal cast the out by violence, he will deck the of another fashion, and put vpon the a straunge clothe.
'Behold, the LORD is about to hurl you violently, you strong man. And He is about to grasp you firmly
Indeed, the LORD will throw you away violently, O mighty man, And will surely seize you.
'Behold, the LORD is about to hurl you headlong, O man. And He is about to grasp you firmly
Behold, Yahweh is about to hurl you headlong, O man.And He is about to grasp you firmly
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
will carry: etc. or, who covered thee with an excellent covering, and clothed thee gorgeously, shall surely violently turn, etc. Isaiah 22:18
a mighty captivity: Heb. the captivity of a man
cover: Esther 7:8, Job 9:24, Jeremiah 14:3
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 22:26 - General Ezekiel 21:24 - ye shall
Cross-References
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."
He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity,.... Or with the captivity of a man; so the Targum, of a mighty man, Sennacherib king of Assyria; who, as the Jews say z, when he went from Jerusalem, upon the rumour of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia coming against him, carried away Shebna and his company, as with an inundation: or as a man is carried captive, whose captivity is harder, and more severe and cruel, than a woman's, as the Rabbins a observe; a woman finding more mercy in captivity usually than a man does. Some of the Jewish writers render the word "geber" a cock, as they do elsewhere; and gloss it, as a cock is carried away, and goes from place to place b; and so the Vulgate Latin version,
"behold, the Lord shall cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is carried away;''
but it seems best, with Aben Ezra and Kimchi, to read the word "man" in the vocative case; the Lord will carry thee away, "O man", O mighty man c; as mighty a man as thou art in office, in power, in riches, God shall carry thee away with the greatest ease imaginable:
and will surely cover thee: or, "in covering cover thee"; with confusion, as the Targum. Jarchi says the word has the signification of flying; and so interprets it, he shall cause thee to fly like a bird into captivity; that is, very speedily and swiftly. The Rabbins gather from hence that Shebna was struck with leprosy, because the leper was obliged to put a covering upon his upper lip; and this sense is embraced by Grotius; but the allusion seems to be to persons in disgrace, or condemned to die, whose faces used to be covered, Esther 7:8.
z Seder Olam Rabba, c. 23. p. 64. a T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 26. 2. b Jarchi in loc. Vajikra Rabba, sect. 5. fol. 150. 2. c גבר "O vir poteus", Grotius; "O tu heros", Tigurine version.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Behold, the Lord will carry thee away - Of the historical fact here referred to we have no other information. To what place he was to be carried, we know not. It is probable, however, that it was to Assyria.
With a mighty captivity - Hebrew, גבר geber - ‘Of a man,’ or perhaps, ‘O man.’ If it means ‘the captivity of a man,’ the sense is, a strong, irresistible, mighty captivity where the word “man” is emphatic, and means such as a mighty man would make. Compare Job 38:3 : ‘Gird up now thy loins like a man.’ The margin reads this, he ‘who covered thee with an excellent covering, and clothed thee gorgeously, shall surely turn and toss thee.’ But the text conveys more nearly the idea of the Hebrew word, which denotes the action of “casting away, or throwing” from one as a man throws a stone. See the same use of the word טול ṭûl in 1Sa 18:2; 1 Samuel 20:33; Jeremiah 17:13; Jeremiah 22:26, Jeremiah 22:28; Jonah 1:5, Jonah 1:12, Jonah 1:16. “And will surely cover thee.” ‘Thy face,’ says Lowth, for this was the condition of mourners. The Chaldee is, ‘Shall cover thee with confusion.’ So Vitringa, who supposes that it means that although Shebna was endeavoring to rear a monument that should perpetuate his name and that of his family, God would cover them with ignominy, and reduce them to their primitive, obscure, and humble condition.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 22:17. Cover thee — That is, thy face. This was the condition of mourners in general, and particularly of condemned persons. See Esther 6:12; Esther 7:8.
