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Good News Translation

Isaiah 10:16

The Lord Almighty is going to send disease to punish those who are now well-fed. In their bodies there will be a fire that burns and burns.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assyria;   Isaiah;   Pride;   Scofield Reference Index - Armageddon;   Remnant;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Assyria;   Fire;   Providence of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Shalmaneser;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Boasting;   Nation;   Nineveh;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Assyria;   Nineveh;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Assur;   Fat;   Shepherd;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arpad;   Gentiles;   Isaiah;   Lord;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Assyria ;   Nineveh ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Assyria;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Assyr'ia, as'shur,;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Fire;   Fire (kindle);   Lean;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - God;   Isaiah;   Jeremiah (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Fire;   Theology;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore the Lord God of Armieswill inflict an emaciating diseaseon the well-fed of Assyria,and he will kindle a burning fireunder its glory.
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore will the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.
King James Version
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
English Standard Version
Therefore the Lord God of hosts will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.
New American Standard Bible
Therefore the Lord, the GOD of armies, will send a wasting disease among his stout warriors; And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.
New Century Version
So the Lord God All-Powerful will send a terrible disease upon Assyria's soldiers. The strength of Assyria will be burned up like a fire burning until everything is gone.
Amplified Bible
Therefore the Lord, the GOD of hosts, will send a wasting disease among the stout warriors of Assyria; And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.
World English Bible
Therefore will the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore shall the Lorde God of hostes send amog his fat men, leannes, & vnder his glorie he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of fire.
Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send a wasting disease among his stout warriors;And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria's stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.
Contemporary English Version
The mighty Lord All-Powerful will send a terrible disease to strike down your army, and you will burn with fever under your royal robes.
Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore the Lord, Adonai -Tzva'ot, will send leanness to his well-fed ones; and in place of his glory, a fire will be kindled that will burn and burn.
Darby Translation
Therefore shall the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness, and under his glory he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire:
Easy-to-Read Version
But Assyria doesn't understand this. So the Lord God All-Powerful will send a terrible disease against him. He will lose his wealth and power like a sick man losing weight. Then Assyria's glory will be destroyed. It will be like a fire burning until everything is gone.
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore shall the LORD God of hosts send destruction upon his rich ones; and instead of his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
Lexham English Bible
Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send leanness among his sturdy warriors, and a burning like the burning of fire will burn under his glory.
Literal Translation
So the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts shall send leanness among his fat ones. And under His glory will kindle a burning like the burning of fire.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore shal the LORDE of hoostes sende him pouerte in his riches, and burne vp his power, as it were with a fyre.
American Standard Version
Therefore will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.
Bible in Basic English
For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore will the Lord, the LORD of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.
King James Version (1611)
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leannesse, and vnder his glory hee shall kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore shall the Lorde the God of hoastes sende among his fatlinges leanenesse, and burne vp his glory as it were with a fire.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
but the Lord of hosts shall send dishonour upon thine honour, and burning fire shall be kindled upon thy glory.
English Revised Version
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For this thing the lordli gouernour, Lord of oostis, schal sende thinnesse in the fatte men of hym, and his glorie kyndlid vndur schal brenne as `the brenning of fier.
Update Bible Version
Therefore will the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.
Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore will the Lord, the LORD of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he will kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
New English Translation
For this reason the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, will make his healthy ones emaciated. His majestic glory will go up in smoke.
New King James Version
Therefore the Lord, the Lord [fn] of hosts,Will send leanness among his fat ones;And under his gloryHe will kindle a burningLike the burning of a fire.
New Living Translation
Therefore, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven's Armies, will send a plague among Assyria's proud troops, and a flaming fire will consume its glory.
New Life Bible
So the Lord, the Lord of All, will send a wasting disease among the strong Assyrian soldiers. Under the king's greatness a fire will be started that will burn and burn.
New Revised Standard
Therefore the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts, will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore, shall the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, Send, among his fat ones, leanness, And under his glory, shall he kindle a kindling, like the kindling of fire;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones: and under his glory shall be kindled a burning, as it were the burning of a fire.
Revised Standard Version
Therefore the Lord, the LORD of hosts, will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.
Young's Literal Translation
Therefore doth the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Send among his fat ones leanness, And under his honour He kindleth a burning As the burning of a fire.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore the Lord, the GOD of hosts, will send a wasting disease among his stout warriors; And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.

Contextual Overview

5 The Lord said, "Assyria! I use Assyria like a club to punish those with whom I am angry. 6 I sent Assyria to attack a godless nation, people who have made me angry. I sent them to loot and steal and trample the people like dirt in the streets." 7 But the Assyrian emperor has his own violent plans in mind. He is determined to destroy many nations. 8 He boasts, "Every one of my commanders is a king! 9 I conquered the cities of Calno and Carchemish, the cities of Hamath and Arpad. I conquered Samaria and Damascus. 10 I reached out to punish those kingdoms that worship idols, idols more numerous than those of Jerusalem and Samaria. 11 I have destroyed Samaria and all its idols, and I will do the same to Jerusalem and the images that are worshiped there." 12 But the Lord says, "When I finish what I am doing on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the emperor of Assyria for all his boasting and all his pride." 13 The emperor of Assyria boasts, "I have done it all myself. I am strong and wise and clever. I wiped out the boundaries between nations and took the supplies they had stored. Like a bull I have trampled the people who live there. 14 The nations of the world were like a bird's nest, and I gathered their wealth as easily as gathering eggs. Not a wing fluttered to scare me off; no beak opened to scream at me!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Lord of hosts: Isaiah 5:17, Isaiah 14:24-27, Isaiah 29:5-8, Isaiah 37:6, Isaiah 37:7, Isaiah 37:29, Isaiah 37:36, 2 Chronicles 32:21, Psalms 106:15, Acts 12:23

and under: Isaiah 9:5, Isaiah 30:30-33, Isaiah 33:10-14

Reciprocal: Numbers 21:28 - a fire 1 Kings 20:11 - Let not him 2 Kings 19:7 - a blast 2 Kings 19:35 - and smote 2 Chronicles 13:17 - five hundred Job 16:8 - my leanness Job 34:20 - without Psalms 22:29 - that be Psalms 37:36 - General Isaiah 9:18 - it shall Isaiah 10:12 - I will Isaiah 10:26 - stir up Isaiah 10:33 - lop Isaiah 14:25 - I will Isaiah 17:4 - the fatness Isaiah 17:13 - but Isaiah 24:16 - But Isaiah 30:27 - burning Isaiah 31:4 - so shall Isaiah 31:8 - shall the Isaiah 33:18 - where is he Jeremiah 48:14 - We Ezekiel 34:16 - but I Nahum 1:6 - his fury Zephaniah 2:13 - he will Zechariah 7:4 - Lord of hosts Zechariah 12:6 - like an hearth Malachi 1:4 - They shall build

Cross-References

Judges 1:21
But the people of the tribe of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, and the Jebusites have continued to live there with the people of Benjamin ever since.
2 Samuel 24:18
That same day Gad went to David and said to him, "Go up to Araunah's threshing place and build an altar to the Lord ."
Zechariah 9:7
They will no longer eat meat with blood in it, or other forbidden food. All the survivors will become part of my people and be like a clan in the tribe of Judah. Ekron will become part of my people, as the Jebusites did.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts,.... Because of the pride, and arrogance, and vain boasting of the Assyrian monarch, which was resented by the Lord, he is threatened with what follows; and in order to humble him, and to show that God is above him, these titles are used; "the Lord", the Lord of the whole earth, and the King of kings, and Lord of lords; "the Lord of hosts", of armies above and below, of more and greater armies than what the king of Assyria was lord of; and therefore he might be assured that what is hereafter threatened would be fulfilled, namely,

send among his fat ones leanness; the Targum is, among his princes, who abounded in riches and honour; or his army, and the chiefs in it, the mighty and strong; and by "leanness" is meant destruction and death, which came upon his army, and the great men of it, immediately from the hand of God; see Psalms 106:15 compared with Numbers 11:33:

and under his glory he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire; that is, under his army, which was great and glorious, very numerous, and well accoutred with clothes and arms, and made a very splendid and glittering show, and of which the Assyrian monarch gloried; this army the Jews say was destroyed by fire, and that the bodies of the men were burnt, and their clothes untouched; but Jarchi interprets this glory of their garments, which give a man glory, and says these were burnt; the Targum calls them their vessels of glory; perhaps meaning their glittering arms, which were burnt along with them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore shall the Lord - Hebrew, אדון 'ādôn.

The Lord of hosts - In the present Hebrew text, the original word is also אדני 'ădonāy, but fifty-two manuscripts and six editions read Jehovah. On the meaning of the phrase, “the Lord of hosts,” see the note at Isaiah 1:9. This verse contains a threatening of the punishment that would come upon the Assyrian for his insolence and pride, and the remainder of the chapter is mainly occupied with the details of that punishment. The punishment here threatened is, that while he appeared to be a victor, and was boasting of success and of his plunder, God would send leanness - as a body becomes wasted with disease.

His fat ones - That is, those who had fattened on the spoils of victory; his vigorous, prosperous, and flourishing army. The prophet here evidently intends to describe his numerous army glutted with the trophies of victor, and revelling on the spoils.

Leanness - They shall be emaciated and reduced; their vigor and strength shall be diminished. In Psalms 106:15, the word “leanness,” רזון râzôn, is used to denote destruction, disease. In Micah 6:10, it denotes diminution, scantiness - ‘the scant ephah.’ Here it denotes, evidently, that the army which was so large and vigorous, should waste away as with a pestilential disease; compare Isaiah 10:19. The “fact” was, that of that vast host few escaped. The angel of the Lord killed 185,000 men in a single night; 2 Kings 18:35; see the notes at Isa. 38:36.

And under his glory - That is, beneath the boasted honor, might, and magnificence of the proud monarch.

He shall kindle - That is, God shall suddenly and entirely destroy his magnificence and pride, as when a fire is kindled beneath a magnificent temple. A similar passage occurs in Zechariah 12:6 :

In that day I shall make the governors of Judah

Like a hearth of fire among the wood,

And like a torch of fire in a sheaf;

And they shall devour all the people round about.


Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 10:16. The Lord - "JEHOVAH."] For אדני Adonai, fifty-two MSS., eleven editions, and two of my own, ancient, read יהוה, Yehovah, as in other cases.

And under his glory — That is, all that he could boast of as great and strong in his army, (Sal. ben Melec in loc.,) expressed afterwards, Isaiah 10:18, by the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field.


 
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