Isaiah 7:20 “On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates…”

Isaiah 7:20

On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates —the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

World English Bible

In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

American Standard Version

In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

Geneva Bible 1599

In that day shall the Lord shaue with a rasor that is hired, euen by them beyond the Riuer, by the King of Asshur, the head and the heare of the feete, and it shall consume the beard.

Darby Translation

In that day will the Lord, with a razor which is hired beyond the river, with the king of Assyria, shave the head and the hair of the feet, yea, the beard also will it take away.

Young's Literal Translation

In that day doth the Lord shave, By a razor that is hired beyond the river, By the king of Asshur, The head, and the hair of the feet, Yea, also the beard it consumeth.

Bible in Basic English

In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria.

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Cross references

“shave”

Ezekiel 5:1–4 Ezekiel 29:18 Ezekiel 29:20 Isaiah 10:6 2 Kings 16:7 2 Kings 16:8

Ezekiel 5:1–4 · BSB

“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.

Ezekiel 29:18 · BSB

“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expe…

Ezekiel 29:20 · BSB

I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his labor, because it was done for Me, declares the Lord GOD.

Isaiah 10:6 · BSB

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

2 Kings 16:7 · BSB

So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hands of the kings of Aram and Israel, who are rising up against me.”

2 Kings 16:8 · BSB

Ahaz also took the silver and gold found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s palace, and he sent it as a gift to the king of Assyria.

“head”

Isaiah 1:5 Isaiah 9:14–17 Isaiah 24:2

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 9:14–17 · BSB

So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.

Isaiah 24:2 · BSB

people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

Also

Isaiah 8:7 Isaiah 10:15 Isaiah 10:5–6 Isaiah 24:1–2 2 Kings 18:13–16 Isaiah 11:15

Isaiah 8:7 · BSB

the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates — the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.

Isaiah 10:15 · BSB

Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

Isaiah 10:5–6 · BSB

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

Isaiah 24:1–2 · BSB

Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—

2 Kings 18:13–16 · BSB

In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

Isaiah 11:15 · BSB

The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.

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

In context

19And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes and watering holes.

21On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,

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