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Isaiah 1:20

But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Condescension of God;   Fear of God;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Reward;   Will;   Thompson Chain Reference - War;   War-Peace;   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Obedience;   Rebellion;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Obedience to God;   Rebellion against God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Church;   Ethics;   Forgiveness;   God;   Israel;   John the baptist;   Prophecy, prophet;   Race;   Sacrifice;   Type, typology;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Legalism;   Will;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Arms;   Sacrifice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Expiation, Propitiation;   Isaiah;   Mouth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Anger (Wrath) of God;   Gift, Giving;   Isaiah;   Isaiah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Self-Examination;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Isaiah;   Semites;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alliteration and Kindred Figures;   God;   Saint-John's-Bread;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
But if you refuse and rebel,You will be eaten by the sword."For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But if you refuse and rebel, You will be devoured by the sword." Truly, the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But yf ye be obstinate and rebellious, ye shalbe deuoured with the sworde: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken [it.]
Darby Translation
but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.
New King James Version
But if you refuse and rebel, You shall be devoured by the sword"; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
Literal Translation
But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.
Easy-to-Read Version
But if you refuse to listen and rebel against me, your enemies will destroy you." The Lord himself said this.
King James Version (1611)
But if yee refuse and rebell, yee shalbe deuoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
King James Version
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf ye be obstinate and rebellious, ye shalbe deuoured with the swerde: for thus the LORDE hath promised with his owne mouth.
Amplified Bible
But if you refuse and rebel, You shall be devoured by the sword." For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
American Standard Version
but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.
Bible in Basic English
But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.
Update Bible Version
but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.
Webster's Bible Translation
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].
New English Translation
But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword." Know for certain that the Lord has spoken.
Contemporary English Version
But if you turn against me, your enemies will kill you. I, the Lord , have spoken.
Complete Jewish Bible
but if you refuse and rebel, you will be eaten by the sword"; for the mouth of Adonai has spoken.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But if ye refuse and be rebellious, ye shalbe deuoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
George Lamsa Translation
But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
Hebrew Names Version
But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken it."
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken.
New Living Translation
But if you turn away and refuse to listen, you will be devoured by the sword of your enemies. I, the Lord , have spoken!"
New Life Bible
But if you are not willing and turn against Me, you will be destroyed by the sword." For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
but if ye be not willing, nor hearken to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.
English Revised Version
but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Berean Standard Bible
But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword." For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
New Revised Standard
but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, if ye refuse and rebel, With the sword, shall ye be devoured, For, the mouth of Yahweh, hath spoken it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Lexham English Bible
But if you refuse and you rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword. For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken."
English Standard Version
but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken."
New American Standard Bible
But if you refuse and rebel, You will be devoured by the sword." For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
New Century Version
But if you refuse to obey and if you turn against me, you will be destroyed by your enemies' swords." The Lord himself said these things.
Good News Translation
But if you defy me, you are doomed to die. I, the Lord , have spoken."
Christian Standard Bible®
But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword." For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
That if ye nylen, and ye terren me to wrathfulnesse, swerd schal deuoure you; for whi the mouth of the Lord spak.
Revised Standard Version
But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."
Young's Literal Translation
And if ye refuse, and have rebelled, [By] the sword ye are consumed, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.

Contextual Overview

16 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; Cease to do evil. 17 Learn to do well. Seek justice, Relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, Plead for the widow." 18 "Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land; 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

if ye refuse: Isaiah 3:11, 1 Samuel 12:25, 2 Chronicles 36:14-16, Hebrews 2:1-3

for the mouth: Isaiah 40:5, Isaiah 58:14, Leviticus 26:33, Numbers 23:19, 1 Samuel 15:29, Titus 1:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:14 - he refuseth Exodus 9:2 - General Deuteronomy 11:28 - General Deuteronomy 15:5 - General Deuteronomy 28:45 - Moreover 1 Samuel 12:15 - But if ye 2 Samuel 2:26 - sword 1 Kings 8:15 - which spake 2 Chronicles 33:8 - so that they Job 34:37 - rebellion Job 36:12 - if Psalms 5:10 - they Isaiah 21:17 - for Jeremiah 4:17 - because Jeremiah 6:25 - the sword Jeremiah 7:19 - they provoke Jeremiah 8:5 - they refuse Jeremiah 17:27 - ye will Jeremiah 21:8 - I set Jeremiah 22:5 - if Jeremiah 26:4 - If Jeremiah 38:21 - if thou Jeremiah 46:14 - the sword Ezekiel 39:24 - General Micah 4:4 - for Zechariah 7:11 - they refused

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse, and it was so.
Genesis 1:14
God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
Genesis 1:22
God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
Genesis 1:24
God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind," and it was so.
Genesis 1:25
God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:30
To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food." And it was so.
Genesis 2:19
Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
Genesis 8:17
Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."
1 Kings 4:33
He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.
Psalms 148:10
Wild animals and all cattle; Small creatures and flying birds;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if ye refuse and rebel,.... The Targum is, "and do not receive my Word"; the Messiah, when come, neither his person, nor his doctrines and ordinances:

ye shall be devoured with the sword; of the Roman armies, as they were under Titus Vespasian; see Matthew 22:7

for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken [it]; now, by Isaiah, as well as in former times, Leviticus 26:25.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But if ye refuse, ye shall be devoured with the sword - Your enemies shall come in, and lay waste the land. This prediction was fulfilled, in consequence of their continuing to rebel, when the land was desolated by Nebuchadnezzar, and the nation was carried captive to Babylon. It illustrates a general principle of the divine government, that if people persevere in rebelling against God, they shall be destroyed. The word devour is applied to the sword, as if it were insatiable for destruction. Whatever destroys may be figuratively said to devour; see the notes at Isaiah 34:5-6; compare Isaiah 5:24; Lamentations 2:3; Ezekiel 15:4; Joel 2:3; Revelation 11:5 - where fire is said to devour.

The mouth of the Lord - Yahweh Himself. This had been spoken by the mouth of the Lord, and recorded, Leviticus 26:33 :

And I will scatter you among the heathen,

And will draw out a sword after you;

And your land shall be desolate

And your cities waste.

On these points God proposed to reason; or rather, perhaps, these principles are regarded as reasonable, or as commending themselves to men. They are the great principles of the divine administration, that if people obey God they shall prosper; if not, they shall be punished. They commend themselves to people as just and true; and they are seen and illustrated every where.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 1:20. Ye shall be devoured with the sword - "Ye shall be food for the sword"] The Septuagint and Vulgate read תאכלכם tochalchem, "the sword shall devour you;" which is of much more easy construction than the present reading of the text.

The Chaldee seems to read בחרב אויב תאכלו bechereb oyeb teachelu, "ye shall be consumed by the sword of the enemy." The Syriac also reads בחרב bechereb and renders the verb passively. And the rhythmus seems to require this addition. - Dr. JUBB.


 
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