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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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)The men of the city will be killed with the sword, and her warriors will die in battle.
Context of Isaiah 3:25
23and mirrors, and the linen garments and tiaras and shawls. 24Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-dressed hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding. Your men will fall by the sword, your warriors in battle. 26The gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, 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 29:9This is why our fathers have fallen by the sword and why our sons and daughters and our wives are in captivity.
- Jeremiah 11:22therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.
- Jeremiah 14:18If I go into the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I go into the city, I see the ravages of famine. Both prophet and priest have gone to a land they know not.’ ”
- Jeremiah 18:21So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives be made childless and widows; let their men be put to death, their young men slain by the sword in battle.
- Jeremiah 19:7“ ‘In this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds and the wild animals.
- Jeremiah 21:9Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague. But whoever goes out and surrenders to the Babylonians who are besieging you will live; they will escape with their lives.
- Lamentations 2:21“Young and old lie together in the dust of the streets; my young men and young women have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered them without pity.
- Amos 9:10All the sinners among my people will die by the sword, all those who say, ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’
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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