Isaiah 31:6
4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
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, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
Read in contextJeremiah 3:14
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
Read in contextJeremiah 3:10
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
Read in contextIsaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Read in contextHosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:4–5
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Read in contextActs 26:20
But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judæa, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Read in contextJoel 2:12–13
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
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