Isaiah 17:9
In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
Context
This verse from Isaiah Chapter 17 connects to 10 cross-references. The oracle against Damascus announces it will cease to be a city and become a heap of ruins. Israel's glory will waste away in the same judgment. Yet a remnant will look to its Maker and not to altars. Nations …
תרגומים נוספים
In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.
In that day are the cities of his strength As the forsaken thing of the forest, And the branch that they have left, Because of the sons of Israel, It also hath been a desolation.
In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.
הפניות צולבות
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In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, …
And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness …
The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger …
And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the …
And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it …
Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the …
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.