Isaiah 9:14 “So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and…”

Isaiah 9:14

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

World English Bible

Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.

American Standard Version

Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head and taile, branche and rush in one day.

Darby Translation

And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day:

Young's Literal Translation

And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed — the same day,

Bible in Basic English

For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.

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Cross references

“will cut”

Isaiah 19:15 2 Kings 17:6–20 Hosea 1:4 Hosea 1:6 Hosea 1:9 Hosea 4:5

Isaiah 19:15 · BSB

There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm or reed.

2 Kings 17:6–20 · BSB

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

Hosea 1:4 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

Hosea 1:6 · BSB

Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them.

Hosea 1:9 · BSB

And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.

Hosea 4:5 · BSB

You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—

“in one day”

Revelation 18:8 Isaiah 30:13 Hosea 10:15 Revelation 18:10 Revelation 18:17 Isaiah 10:17

Revelation 18:8 · BSB

Therefore her plagues will come in one day— death and grief and famine— and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

Isaiah 30:13 · BSB

this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!

Hosea 10:15 · BSB

Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.

Revelation 18:10 · BSB

In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”

Revelation 18:17 · BSB

For in a single hour such fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand at a distance

Isaiah 10:17 · BSB

And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

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

In context

13But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.

15The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.

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