Isaiah 9:8
New International Version
The Lord has sent a message against Jacob; it will fall on Israel.

New Living Translation
The Lord has spoken out against Jacob; his judgment has fallen upon Israel.

English Standard Version
The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it will fall on Israel;

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

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

New King James Version
The Lord sent a word against Jacob, And it has fallen on Israel.

New American Standard Bible
The Lord sends a message against Jacob, And it falls on Israel.

NASB 1995
The Lord sends a message against Jacob, And it falls on Israel.

NASB 1977
The Lord sends a message against Jacob, And it falls on Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
The Lord sends a message against Jacob, And it falls on Israel.

Amplified Bible
The Lord sends a word (message) against Jacob, And it falls on Israel [the ten northern tribes, the kingdom of Ephraim].

Christian Standard Bible
The Lord sent a message against Jacob; it came against Israel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Lord sent a message against Jacob; it came against Israel.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
LORD JEHOVAH sent his word in Yaqob and it fell on Israel

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The Lord has sent death upon Jacob, and it has come upon Israel.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord had warned the people of Israel,

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD sent a message against Jacob. The message is against Israel.

Good News Translation
The Lord has pronounced judgment on the kingdom of Israel, on the descendants of Jacob.

International Standard Version
"The LORD has sent a plague against Jacob, and it will fall on Israel;

JPS Tanakh 1917
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, And it hath lighted upon Israel.

Literal Standard Version
The Lord has sent a word into Jacob, | And it has fallen in Israel.

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

New American Bible
The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it falls upon Israel;

NET Bible
The sovereign master decreed judgment on Jacob, and it fell on Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
The Lord sent a word against Jacob, and it fell on Israel;

New Heart English Bible
The LORD sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

World English Bible
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
A word hath the Lord sent into Jacob, And it hath fallen in Israel.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Judgment Against Israel's Pride
8The Lord has sent a message against Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel. 9All the people will know it—Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:…

Cross References
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

Isaiah 9:9
All the people will know it--Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:


Treasury of Scripture

The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted on Israel.

sent a word

Isaiah 7:7,8
Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass…

Isaiah 8:4-8
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…

Micah 1:1-9
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…

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(8).The Lord sent a word into Jacob . . .--For "hath lighted" read it lighteth. A new section, though still closely connected with the historical occasion of Isaiah 7, begins. The vision of the glory of the far-off king comes to an end, and the prophet returns to the more immediate surroundings of his time. The "word" which Jehovah sends is the prophetic message that follows. It is a question whether the terms "Jacob" and "Israel" stand in the parallelism of identity or contrast, but the use of the former term in Isaiah 2:3; Isaiah 2:5-6, makes the former use more probable. In this case both names stand practically for the kingdom of Judah as the true representative of Israel, the apostate kingdom of the Ten Tribes being no longer worthy of the name, and therefore described here, as in Isaiah 7:5; Isaiah 7:8; Isaiah 7:17, simply as Ephraim. The occasion of the prophecy is given in Isaiah 9:9. Pekah, the king of Ephraim, was still confident in his strength, and in spite of his partial failure, and the defeat of his ally (2Kings 16:9), derided the prophet's prediction. . . . Verses 8-21. - THE PROPHET RETURNS TO THREATS AND WARNINGS, ADDRESSED CHIEFLY TO THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL. The remainder of this chapter, together with the first four verses of the next, seems to have formed originally a distinct and separate prophecy. The passage is a poem in four stanzas, with the same refrain at the end of each: "For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still." A somewhat early date has been assigned to the prophecy, as; for instance, "some period in the reign of Jotham" (Cheyne); but the internal evidence only proves that it was written before the destruction of Samaria by the Assyrians. Verse 8. - Jacob... Israel. These words do not show that the prophecy is directed against the kingdom of Israel only. "Jacob" designates Judah rather than Israel in Isaiah 2:3, 5, 6; and the expression, "both the houses of Israel," in Isaiah 8:14, shows that the term "Israel" embraces both kingdoms. Tim distinctive names by which Isaiah ordinarily designates the northern kingdom are "Ephraim" and "Samaria."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The Lord
אֲדֹנָ֖י (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

has sent
שָׁלַ֥ח (šā·laḥ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

a message
דָּבָ֛ר (dā·ḇār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

against Jacob,
בְּיַעֲקֹ֑ב (bə·ya·‘ă·qōḇ)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3290: Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc

and it has fallen
וְנָפַ֖ל (wə·nā·p̄al)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5307: To fall, lie

upon Israel.
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (bə·yiś·rā·’êl)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc


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