Isaiah 27:8 “By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fie…”

Isaiah 27:8

By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

World English Bible

In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

American Standard Version

In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

Geneva Bible 1599

In measure in the branches thereof wilt thou contende with it, when he bloweth with his rough winde in the day of the East winde.

Darby Translation

In measure, when sending her away, didst thou contend with her: he hath taken [her] away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

Young's Literal Translation

In measure, in sending it forth, thou strivest with it, He hath taken away by His sharp wind, In the day of an east wind,

Bible in Basic English

Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.

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Cross references

“measure”

Jeremiah 10:24 Jeremiah 30:11 Jeremiah 46:28 1 Peter 1:6 Isaiah 57:16 Job 23:6

Jeremiah 10:24 · BSB

Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice— not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

Jeremiah 30:11 · BSB

For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means…

Jeremiah 46:28 · BSB

And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline y…

1 Peter 1:6 · BSB

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials

Isaiah 57:16 · BSB

For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me— the breath of life I have made.

Job 23:6 · BSB

Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.

“thou wilt”

Hosea 4:1 Jeremiah 2:17–37 Isaiah 1:5 Isaiah 1:18–20 Judges 10:10–16 Hosea 11:7–9

Hosea 4:1 · BSB

Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!

Jeremiah 2:17–37 · BSB

Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?

Isaiah 1:5 · BSB

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

Isaiah 1:18–20 · BSB

“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

Judges 10:10–16 · BSB

Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”

Hosea 11:7–9 · BSB

My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.

“his rough”

Jeremiah 4:11 Ezekiel 19:12 Jeremiah 4:27 Hosea 13:15 Isaiah 10:12 Psalm 76:10

Jeremiah 4:11 · BSB

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;

Ezekiel 19:12 · BSB

But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.

Jeremiah 4:27 · BSB

For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.

Hosea 13:15 · BSB

Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come— a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious…

Isaiah 10:12 · BSB

So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.

Psalm 76:10 · BSB

Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.

Also

Isaiah 50:1 Isaiah 54:7

Isaiah 50:1 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your…

Isaiah 54:7 · BSB

“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?

9Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.

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