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Isaiah 8:11

For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and he turned me away [so as] not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Alliances;   Armies;   Company;   Example;   Prophets;   Thompson Chain Reference - Instruction;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Rezin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Pre-Eminence ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Siloah;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aquila (Βλώμβσ);  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
For thus Yahweh spoke to me with a strong hand and disciplined me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For thus the LORD spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the Lorde spake thus to me in a mightie prophesie, and warned me that I should not walke in the way of this people, saying:
Darby Translation
For Jehovah spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and he instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
New King James Version
For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:
Literal Translation
For so Jehovah spoke to me with a strong hand, and taught me against walking in the way of this people, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord spoke to me with his great power and warned me not to be like these people. He said,
World English Bible
For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
King James Version (1611)
For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walke in the way of this people, saying,
King James Version
For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the LORDE chastised me, and toke me by ye honde, and warned me, sayenge vnto me: that I shulde not walcke in the waye of this people. He sayde morouer:
THE MESSAGE
God spoke strongly to me, grabbed me with both hands and warned me not to go along with this people. He said: "Don't be like this people, always afraid somebody is plotting against them. Don't fear what they fear. Don't take on their worries. If you're going to worry, worry about The Holy. Fear God -of-the-Angel-Armies. The Holy can be either a Hiding Place or a Boulder blocking your way, The Rock standing in the willful way of both houses of Israel, A barbed-wire Fence preventing trespass to the citizens of Jerusalem. Many of them are going to run into that Rock and get their bones broken, Get tangled up in that barbed wire and not get free of it."
Amplified Bible
For in this way the LORD spoke to me with His strong hand [upon me] and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people [behaving as they do], saying,
American Standard Version
For Jehovah spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
Bible in Basic English
For the Lord, controlling me with a strong hand, gave me orders not to go in the way of this people, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
New English Translation
Indeed this is what the Lord told me. He took hold of me firmly and warned me not to act like these people:
Contemporary English Version
The Lord took hold of me with his powerful hand and said: I'm warning you! Don't act like these people.
Complete Jewish Bible
For this is what Adonai said to me, speaking with a strong hand, warning me not to live the way this people does:
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the Lorde spake thus to me in taking of mine hand, and taught me, that I should not walke in the way of this people, saying,
George Lamsa Translation
For the LORD spoke thus to me, as he held me and led me aside that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
Hebrew Names Version
For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, admonishing me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:
New Living Translation
The Lord has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. He said,
New Life Bible
For the Lord said this to me with great power, and told me not to walk in the way of these people. He said,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thus saith the Lord, With a strong hand they revolt from the course of the way of this people, saying,
English Revised Version
For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
For this is what the LORD spoke to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:
New Revised Standard
For the Lord spoke thus to me while his hand was strong upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, thus, spake Yahweh unto me like a firm grasp of the hand, - when he admonished me, not to walk in the way of this people, saying:
Douay-Rheims Bible
For thus saith the Lord to me: As he hath taught me, with a strong arm, that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:
Lexham English Bible
For Yahweh said this to me while his hand weighed heavily on me, and he warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
English Standard Version
For the Lord spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying:
New American Standard Bible
For so the LORD spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
New Century Version
The Lord spoke to me with his great power and warned me not to follow the lead of the rest of the people. He said,
Good News Translation
With his great power the Lord warned me not to follow the road which the people were following. He said,
Christian Standard Bible®
For this is what the Lord said to me with great power, to keep me from going the way of this people:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi the Lord seith these thingis to me, as he tauyte me in a stronge hond, that Y schulde not go in to the weie of this puple,
Revised Standard Version
For the LORD spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying:
Young's Literal Translation
For thus hath Jehovah spoken unto me with strength of hand, and instructeth me against walking in the way of this people, saying,

Contextual Overview

9 Make an uproar, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. 10 Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. 11 For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and he turned me away [so as] not to walk in the way of this people, saying, 12 Don't say, A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither be afraid of their fear, nor be in dread [thereof]. 13 Yahweh of hosts, you shall sanctify him; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

with a strong hand: Heb. in strength of hand, Jeremiah 20:7, Jeremiah 20:9, Ezekiel 3:14, Acts 4:20

instructed: Psalms 32:8, Proverbs 1:15, Jeremiah 15:19, Ezekiel 2:6-8

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:46 - the hand Job 27:11 - teach Isaiah 7:4 - fear not Philippians 3:18 - many Philippians 4:12 - I am

Cross-References

Genesis 8:12
And he stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return again to him anymore.
Genesis 8:14
And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.
Nehemiah 8:15
and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth to the mount, and fetch olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
Romans 10:15
and how shall they preach, except they be sent? according to as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those that bring glad tidings of good things!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand,.... In the strength of prophecy, as the Targum explains it; and so all the Jews' interpreters understand it of prophecy, as in Ezekiel 1:3: or, "the Lord spake thus to me, when he took (me) by the hand" t; as parents or masters take hold of the hands of children, while they are advising and instructing them, as expressive of their great affection for them; and when they would retain them with them, or restrain them from doing amiss:

and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people: or join with them in desiring and seeking for the help of the king of Assyria, against Rezin and Remaliah's son; or in being willing to surrender up into their hands:

saying; as follows:

t בחזקת היד "apprehensione manus", Piscator; "cum manu me apprehenderit", Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the Lord spake thus - Spake that which immediately follows in the next verse. Warned him not to Unite in the alliance with foreign kingdoms which the nation was about forming.

With a strong hand - Margin, ‘With strength of hand.’ That is, when the hand of God urged me. A strong prophetic impulse is often represented as being produced by God’s laying his hand on the prophet; or by his being thus, as it were, urged or impelled to it; Ezekiel 3:14 : ‘The hand of Jehovah was strong upon me;’ 2 Kings 3:15 : ‘And it came to pass, that when the minstrel played, the hand of the Lord came upon him;’ Jeremiah 20:7 : ‘O Lord, thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed;’ see also Ecclesiastes 2:24; 1 Kings 18:46; 2 Kings 3:15; Ezekiel 33:22; Ezekiel 40:1; compare the Introduction, section 7. 11. (3.) The meaning is, that the prophet was strongly, and almost irresistibly, urged by the divine influence, to say what he was about to say.

That I should not walk ... - That I should not approve, and fall in with the design of Ahaz, and of the nation, in calling in the aid of the Assyrian armies.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 8:11. With a strong hand - "As taking me by the hand"] Eleven MSS., (two ancient,) of Kennicott's, thirty-four of De Rossi's, and seven editions, read כחזקת kechezkath; and so Symmachus, the Syriac, and Vulgate. Or rather with a strong hand, that is, with a strong and powerful influence of the prophetic Spirit.


 
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