Isaiah 10:17

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.”

— WEB

“And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;”

— KJV

“And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.”

— ASV

Cross-references

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Isaiah 27:4 "Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together."
Numbers 16:35 "Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense."
Jeremiah 4:4 "Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath …"
Isaiah 37:23 "Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Is…"
Nahum 1:10 "For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble."
Jeremiah 7:20 "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of …"
Revelation 22:5 "There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever."
Numbers 11:1-3 "The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger burned; and Yahweh’s fire burned among them, and consu…"

Commentary

light of Israel--carrying out the image in the end of Isa 10:16. Jehovah, who is a light to Israel, shall be the "fire" (Deu 4:24; Heb 12:29) that shall ignite the "thorns," (the Assyrians, like dry fuel, a ready prey to flame).

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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