Isaiah 66:16

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the Lord will execute judgmenton all people with his fiery sword,and many will be slain by the Lord.

Hebrew Names Version
For by fire will the LORD execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

King James Version
For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

English Standard Version
For by fire will the Lord enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the Lord shall be many.

New American Standard Bible
For the LORD will execute judgment by fire And by His sword on humanity, And those put to death by the LORD will be many.

New Century Version
The Lord will judge the people with fire, and he will destroy many people with his sword; he will kill many people.

Amplified Bible
For the LORD will execute judgment by fire And by His sword on all mankind, And those slain by the LORD will be many.

World English Bible
For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the Lord will iudge with fire, and with his sworde all flesh, and the slaine of the Lorde shall be many.

Legacy Standard Bible
For Yahweh will execute judgment by fireAnd by His sword on all flesh,And those slain by Yahweh will be many.

Berean Standard Bible
For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord 's fiery sword will bring justice everywhere on this earth and execute many people.

Complete Jewish Bible
For Adonai will judge all humanity with fire and with the sword, and those slain by Adonai will be many.

Darby Translation
For by fire and by his sword will Jehovah enter into judgment with all flesh: and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord will judge the people and will punish them with fire and his sword. There will be many people killed by the Lord .

George Lamsa Translation
For by fire will the LORD judge, and by it will he test all flesh; and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

Good News Translation
By fire and sword he will punish all the people of the world whom he finds guilty—and many will be put to death.

Lexham English Bible
For Yahweh enters into judgment on all flesh with fire and his sword, and those slain by Yahweh shall be many.

Literal Translation
For by fire and by His sword Jehovah will execute judgment with all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For ye LORDE shal iudge all flesh with the fyre and with his swerde, and there shalbe a greate nombre slayne of the LORDE.

American Standard Version
For by fire will Jehovah execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.

Bible in Basic English
For with fire and sword will the Lord come, judging all the earth, and his sword will be on all flesh: and great numbers will be put to death by him.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For by fire will the LORD contend, and by His sword with all flesh; and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

King James Version (1611)
For by fire and by his sword, will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slaine of the Lord shalbe many.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the Lorde shall iudge all fleshe with the fire and with his sworde, and there shalbe a great number slayne of the Lorde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For with the fire of the Lord all the earth shall be judged, and all flesh with his sword: many shall be slain by the Lord.

English Revised Version
For by fire will the LORD plead, and by his sword, with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi the Lord schal deme in fier, and in hys swerd to ech fleisch; and slayn men of the Lord schulen be multiplied,

Update Bible Version
For by fire Yahweh will execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.

Webster's Bible Translation
For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

New English Translation
For the Lord judges all humanity with fire and his sword; the Lord will kill many.

New King James Version
For by fire and by His sword The LORD will judge all flesh; And the slain of the LORD shall be many.

New Living Translation
The Lord will punish the world by fire and by his sword. He will judge the earth, and many will be killed by him.

New Life Bible
The Lord will punish by fire and by His sword on all flesh. And those killed by the Lord will be many.

New Revised Standard
For by fire will the Lord execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and those slain by the Lord shall be many.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, by fire, will Yahweh enter into judgment, And by his sword, with all flesh, - And many shall be the slain of Yahweh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the Lord shall judge by fire, and by his sword unto all flesh, and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

Revised Standard Version
For by fire will the LORD execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many.

Young's Literal Translation
For by fire and by His sword, Doth Jehovah do judgment with all flesh. And many have been Jehovah's pierced ones.'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the LORD will execute judgment by fire And by His sword on all flesh, And those slain by the LORD will be many.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ "All who enter the sacred groves for initiation in those unholy rituals that climaxed in that foul and obscene meal of pigs and mice will eat together and then die together." God 's Decree. ¹⁸"I know everything they've ever done or thought. I'm going to come and then gather everyone—all nations, all languages. They'll come and see my glory. I'll set up a station at the center. I'll send the survivors of judgment all over the world: Spain and Africa, Turkey and Greece, and the far-off islands that have never heard of me, who know nothing of what I've done nor who I am. I'll send them out as missionaries to preach my glory among the nations. They'll return with all your long-lost brothers and sisters from all over the world. They'll bring them back and offer them in living worship to God . They'll bring them on horses and wagons and carts, on mules and camels, straight to my holy mountain Jerusalem," says God . "They'll present them just as Israelites present their offerings in a ceremonial vessel in the Temple of God . I'll even take some of them and make them priests and Levites," says God . ²²"For just as the new heavens and new earth that I am making will stand firm before me" — God 's Decree— "So will your children and your reputation stand firm. Month after month and week by week, everyone will come to worship me," God says. ²⁴ "And then they'll go out and look at what happened to those who rebelled against me. Corpses! Maggots endlessly eating away on them, an endless supply of fuel for fires. Everyone who sees what's happened and smells the stench retches."

Bible Verse Review
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Isaiah 27:1, Isaiah 34:5-10, Ezekiel 38:21, Ezekiel 38:22, Ezekiel 39:2-10, Revelation 19:11-21

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:22 - For a fire Deuteronomy 32:41 - whet 1 Chronicles 21:12 - the sword Psalms 110:6 - fill Psalms 148:8 - Fire Isaiah 9:5 - burning Isaiah 9:18 - wickedness Isaiah 10:17 - for a flame Isaiah 40:5 - all flesh Isaiah 66:24 - and look Jeremiah 12:12 - the sword Jeremiah 15:14 - a fire Jeremiah 23:19 - General Jeremiah 25:31 - plead Jeremiah 25:33 - the slain Jeremiah 45:5 - I will bring Jeremiah 46:15 - thy Jeremiah 50:35 - sword Ezekiel 5:15 - when Ezekiel 21:9 - A sword Ezekiel 36:5 - Surely Ezekiel 38:17 - whom Daniel 7:10 - fiery Joel 3:2 - will plead Amos 7:4 - called Zechariah 14:3 - General Zechariah 14:5 - the Lord Zechariah 14:12 - the plague wherewith Matthew 24:21 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For by fire, and by his sword, will the Lord plead with all flesh,.... With the Mahometans, the Turks, the Ottoman empire, against whom he will call for a sword, and will rain upon them fire and brimstone, signified by Gog and Magog, Ezekiel 38:22 and with the other antichristian powers at the battle of Armageddon; and when the fourth vial will be poured upon the sun, and men will be scorched with fire; see Revelation 16:8:

and the slain of the Lord shall be many; that is, those that will be slain by the Lord, both in the attempt of the Turks to recover the land of Canaan out of the hands of the Jews, possessed of it; whose numbers of slain will be so many, that the burying of them will last seven months, Ezekiel 39:12 and in the battle between the Christian princes, Christ at the head of them, and the antichristian armies, led on by the beast and the kings of the earth; when the fowls of the air will be invited to the great supper of the Lord, to eat the flesh of kings, captains, and mighty men, so great will the slaughter be,

Revelation 19:17, see also Isaiah 11:13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For by fire and by his sword - The sword is an instrument by which punishment is executed (see the notes at Isaiah 34:5; compare Romans 13:4).

Will he plead with all flesh - Or rather, he will judge (נשׁפט nı̂sh^ephaṭ), that is, he will execute his purposes of vengeance on all the human race. Of course, only that part is intended who ought to be subject to punishment; that is, all his foes.

And the slain of the Lord shall be many - The number of those who shall be consigned to woe shall be immense - though in the winding up of the great drama at the close of the world, there is reason to hopethat a large proportion of the race, taken as a whole, will be saved. Of past generations, indeed, there is no just ground of such hope; of the present generation there is no such prospect. But brighter and happier times are to come. The true religion is to spread over all the world, and for a long period is to prevail; and the hope is, that during that long period the multitude of true converts will be so great as to leave the whole number who are lost, compared with those who are saved, much less than is commonly supposed. Still the aggregate of those who are lost, ‘the slain of the Lord,’ will be vast. This description I regard as having reference to the coming of the Lord to judgment (compare 2 Thessalonians 1:8); or if it refer to any other manifestation of Yahweh for judgment, like the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, it has a strong resemblance to the final judgment; and, like the description of that by the Saviour Matthew 24:0, the language is such as naturally to suggest, and to be applicable to, the final judgment of mankind.