Isaiah 8:15 “Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will…”

Isaiah 8:15

Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

World English Bible

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

American Standard Version

And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Geneva Bible 1599

And many among them shall stumble, and shall fall and shalbe broken and shalbe snared and shalbe taken.

Darby Translation

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Young's Literal Translation

And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured.

Bible in Basic English

And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.

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Cross references

“stumble”

Matthew 21:44 Matthew 11:6 Matthew 15:14 John 6:66 1 Corinthians 1:23 Luke 20:17

Matthew 21:44 · BSB

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed. ”

Matthew 11:6 · BSB

Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me. ”

Matthew 15:14 · BSB

Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

John 6:66 · BSB

From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.

1 Corinthians 1:23 · BSB

but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

Luke 20:17 · BSB

But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’ ?

Also

Isaiah 28:13 Romans 9:32 Isaiah 59:10

Isaiah 28:13 · BSB

Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captu…

Romans 9:32 · BSB

Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

Isaiah 59:10 · BSB

Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.

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

In context

14And He will be a sanctuary— but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.

16Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples.

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