Isaiah 9:8

¶ The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

The Lord {H136} sent {H7971} a word {H1697} into Jacob {H3290}, and it hath lighted {H5307} upon Israel {H3478}.

Adonai sent a word to Ya'akov, and it has fallen on Isra'el.

The Lord has sent a message against Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel.

The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Zechariah 1:6 (2 votes)

    But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

  • Isaiah 8:4 (2 votes)

    For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

  • Isaiah 8:8 (2 votes)

    And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach [even] to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

  • Micah 1:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

  • Micah 1:9 (2 votes)

    For her wound [is] incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, [even] to Jerusalem.

  • Isaiah 7:7 (2 votes)

    Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

  • Isaiah 7:8 (2 votes)

    For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.