Isaiah 31:6
4 For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey— and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor— so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.
5 Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”
Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
7 For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.
8 “Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
- KJV
- Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
- WEB
- Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
- ASV
- Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
- DARBY
- Turn unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, ye children of Israel;
- BLB
- Return to the one against whom you have deeply rebelled, O sons of Israel,
- ÅB
- Vend om til ham som dere er falt fra så dypt, dere Israels barn!
- OTB
- Vend tilbake til Ham, dere israelitter, som dere har trosset så sterkt.
- B1930
- Vend om til ham som I er falt fra så dypt, I Israels barn!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 3:22
“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
Read in contextJeremiah 3:14
“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
Read in contextJeremiah 3:10
Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
Read in contextIsaiah 55:7
Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
Read in contextHosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:4–5
Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
Read in contextActs 26:20
First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.
Read in contextJoel 2:12–13
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
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