Christian Standard Bible
Isaiah 3:25
25Your men will fall by the sword, your warriors in battle.
Isaiah 3:25 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
- New International Version (NIV)Your men will fall by the sword, your warriors in battle.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your men shall fall by the sword and your mighty men in battle.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Your men shall fall by the sword, And your mighty in the war.
Context of Isaiah 3:25
23garments, linen clothes, turbans, and shawls. 24Instead of perfume there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of beautifully styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothes, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding. Your men will fall by the sword, your warriors in battle. 26Then her gates will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.
Read all of Isaiah 3Isaiah 3:25 word by word
מְתַ֖יִךְ בַּחֶ֣רֶב יִפֹּ֑לוּ וּגְבוּרָתֵ֖ךְ בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 3:25
- 2 Chronicles 29:9Our fathers fell by the sword, and our sons, our daughters, and our wives are in captivity because of this.
- Jeremiah 11:22Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says: “I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine.
- Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the field, look — those slain by the sword! If I enter the city, look — those ill from famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.
- Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, hand their children over to famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, their husbands slain by deadly disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
- Jeremiah 19:7I will spoil the plans of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hand of those who intend to take their life. I will provide their corpses as food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.
- Jeremiah 21:9Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine, and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live and will retain his life like the spoils of war.
- Lamentations 2:21Both young and old are lying on the ground in the streets. My young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger, slaughtering without compassion.
- Amos 9:10All the sinners among my people who say, “Disaster will never overtake or confront us,” will die by the sword.
Commentaries on Isaiah 3:25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 25Thy mighty men - For גבורתך geburathech an ancient MS. has גבורך gibborech . The true reading, from the Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, and Chaldee, seems to be גבוריך gibborayich .Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 25Thy men - This is an address to Jerusalem itself, by a change not uncommon in the writings of Isaiah. In the calamities coming on them, their strong men should be overcome, and fall in battle.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-26Verses 16-26 The prophet reproves and warns the daughters of Zion of the sufferings coming upon them. Let them know that God notices the folly and vanity of proud women, even of their dress. The punishments threatened answered the sin. Loathsome diseases often are the just punishment of pride. It is not material to ask what sort of ornaments they wore; many of these things, if they had not been in fashion, would have been ridiculed then as now. Their…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 25Your men will fall … in battle: Part of the city’s hopeless destitution (extreme poverty and loss) would be the deaths of the men.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2525. Thy men--of Jerusalem.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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