Isaiah 8:13

Updated Bible Version

Yahweh of hosts, you shall sanctify him; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
It is Yahweh of hosts whom you should regard as holy.And He shall be your fear,And He shall be your cause of trembling.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"It is the LORD of hosts whom you should regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, And He shall be your dread.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But sanctifie the Lorde of hoastes, let him be your feare and dread.

Darby Translation
Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

New King James Version
The LORD of hosts, Him you shall hallow; Let Him be your fear, And let Him be your dread.

Literal Translation
Sanctify Jehovah of Hosts Himself, and let Him be your fear; and let Him be your dread.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord All-Powerful is the one you should fear. He is the one you should respect. He is the one who should frighten you.

World English Bible
Yahweh of hosts, him shall you sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

King James Version (1611)
Sanctifie the Lord of hostes himselfe, and let him bee your feare, and let him be your dread.

King James Version
Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but sanctifie the LORDE of hoostes, let him be youre feare and drede.

Amplified Bible
"It is the LORD of hosts whom you are to regard as holy and awesome. He shall be your [source of] fear, He shall be your [source of] dread [not man].

American Standard Version
Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Bible in Basic English
But let the Lord of armies be holy to you, and go in fear of him, giving honour to him.

Webster's Bible Translation
Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and [let] him [be] your fear, and [let] him [be] your dread.

New English Translation
You must recognize the authority of the Lord who commands armies. He is the one you must respect; he is the one you must fear.

Contemporary English Version
I am the one you should fear and respect. I am the holy God, the Lord All-Powerful!

Complete Jewish Bible
but Adonai -Tzva'ot — consecrate him! Let him be the object of your fear and awe!

Geneva Bible (1587)
Sanctifie the Lord of hostes, and let him be your feare, and let him be your dread,

George Lamsa Translation
Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; he is your God and he is your helper.

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD of hosts, him shall you sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The LORD of hosts, Him shall ye sanctify; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread.

New Living Translation
Make the Lord of Heaven's Armies holy in your life. He is the one you should fear. He is the one who should make you tremble.

New Life Bible
It is the Lord of All Whom you should think of as holy. Let Him be the One you fear. He is the One to be afraid of.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Sanctify ye the Lord himself; and he shall be thy fear.

English Revised Version
The LORD of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD of Hosts is the One to regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded,

New Revised Standard
But the Lord of hosts, him you shall regard as holy; let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yahweh of hosts, him, shall ye hallow, - And let, him, be your fear, and let, him inspire you with awe;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself: and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Lexham English Bible
You shall regard Yahweh of hosts as holy, and he is your fear, and he is your dread.

English Standard Version
But the Lord of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

New American Standard Bible
"It is the LORD of armies whom you are to regard as holy. And He shall be your fear, And He shall be your dread.

New Century Version
But remember that the Lord All-Powerful is holy. He is the one you should fear; he is the one you should dread.

Good News Translation
Remember that I, the Lord Almighty, am holy; I am the one you must fear.

Christian Standard Bible®
You are to regard only the Lord of Hosts as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be held in awe.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Halowe ye the Lord hym silf of oostis; and he schal be youre inward drede, and he schal be youre ferdfulnesse, and he schal be to you in to halewyng.

Revised Standard Version
But the LORD of hosts, him you shall regard as holy; let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah of Hosts -- Him ye do sanctify, And He [is] your Fear, and He your Dread,

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

Sanctify: Isaiah 26:3, Isaiah 26:4, Leviticus 10:3, Numbers 20:12, Numbers 20:13, Numbers 27:14, Romans 4:20

and let him: Genesis 31:53, Psalms 76:7, Malachi 2:5, Matthew 10:28, Luke 12:5, Revelation 15:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 28:16 - and I Genesis 31:42 - fear Exodus 14:10 - sore afraid Exodus 20:20 - his fear Deuteronomy 20:3 - be ye terrified Deuteronomy 32:51 - because ye 2 Kings 6:16 - Fear not Job 13:11 - his dread Psalms 34:9 - fear Psalms 119:165 - nothing shall offend them Proverbs 3:25 - Be Isaiah 5:16 - sanctified Isaiah 10:24 - be not afraid Isaiah 29:23 - sanctify Isaiah 37:16 - Lord Isaiah 51:13 - feared Hosea 14:9 - and the Romans 11:9 - their table 2 Thessalonians 2:2 - shaken Hebrews 11:23 - and they 1 Peter 3:14 - and be

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself,.... Christ, Immanuel, God with us, the Lord of the armies above and below, of angels and of men, God over all, the true Jehovah, who is sanctified by his people, when they declare him to be so; as the Targum paraphrases it,

"the Lord of hosts, him shall ye say is holy;''

for they cannot make him so, nor can he receive any holiness from them, nor does he need any; but they celebrate the perfection of his holiness, and ascribe it to him; yea, they sanctify him, by ascribing their holiness to him; by looking to him as their sanctification, and by deriving and expecting every degree and measure of holiness from him, to complete theirs; by exercising faith upon him, and showing a regard to his commands and ordinances:

and [let] him [be] your fear, and [let] him [be] your dread; that is, the object of fear and dread; not of a servile fear and dread, but of a holy reverence and godly fear; such a fear as is the grace of the covenant, which flows from the goodness of God, and has that for its object, and is influenced by it; see Hosea 3:5 where the same Lord, Messiah, David the king, is meant, as here. See 1 Peter 3:15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sanctify ... - Regard Yahweh as holy; that is, worship and honor him with pious fear and reverence. Regard him as the source of safety, and the true defense. Ahaz and his people sought for aid from Assyria against the armies of Syria and Samaria. The direction here is rather to seek aid from God.

Let him be your fear - Do not be alarmed at what man can do Isaiah 8:12, but fear and honor God. Be afraid to provoke his wrath by looking to other sources of help when his aid only should be sought.