New Living Translation
Isaiah 51:20
20For your children have fainted and lie in the streets, helpless as antelopes caught in a net. The Lord has poured out his fury; God has rebuked them.
Isaiah 51:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.
- New International Version (NIV)Your children have fainted; they lie at every street corner, like antelope caught in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the Lord, with the rebuke of your God.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Your sons have fainted, They lie at the head of all the streets, Like an antelope in a net; They are full of the fury of the Lord, The rebuke of your God.
Context of Isaiah 51:20
18Not one of your children is left alive to take your hand and guide you. 19These two calamities have fallen on you: desolation and destruction, famine and war. And who is left to sympathize with you? Who is left to comfort you? For your children have fainted and lie in the streets, helpless as antelopes caught in a net. The Lord has poured out his fury; God has rebuked them. 21But now listen to this, you afflicted ones who sit in a drunken stupor, though not from drinking wine. 22This is what the Sovereign Lord, your God and Defender, says: “See, I have taken the terrible cup from your hands. You will drink no more of my fury.
Read all of Isaiah 51Isaiah 51:20 word by word
בָּנַ֜יִךְ עֻלְּפ֥וּ שָׁכְב֛וּ בְּרֹ֥אשׁ כָּל־חוּצ֖וֹת כְּת֣וֹא מִכְמָ֑ר הַֽמְלֵאִ֥ים חֲמַת־יְהוָ֖ה גַּעֲרַ֥ת אֱלֹהָֽיִךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Thy sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
- have faintedעָלַף‛âlaph · to enwrapH5968
- they lieשָׁכַבshâkab · to lie down: lay downH7901
- at the headרֹאשׁrô'sh · head: topH7218
- of all the streetsחוּץchûts chûts · outsideH2351
- as a wild bullתְּאוֹte'ô tô' · antelopeH8377
- in a netמִכְמָרmakmâr mikmôr · netH4364
- they are fullמָלֵאmâlê' · fullH4392
- of the furyחֵמָהchêmâh chêmâ' · rageH2534
- of the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
- the rebukeגְּעָרָהge‛ârâh · rebukeH1606
- of thy Godאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430
Cross-references for Isaiah 51:20
- Isaiah 40:30Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion.
- Jeremiah 14:18If I go out into the fields, I see the bodies of people slaughtered by the enemy. If I walk the city streets, I see people who have died of starvation. The prophets and priests continue with their work, but they don’t know what they’re doing.”
- Lamentations 1:15“The Lord has treated my mighty men with contempt. At his command a great army has come to crush my young warriors. The Lord has trampled his beloved city like grapes are trampled in a winepress.
- Lamentations 2:11I have cried until the tears no longer come; my heart is broken. My spirit is poured out in agony as I see the desperate plight of my people. Little children and tiny babies are fainting and dying in the streets.
- Lamentations 4:2See how the precious children of Jerusalem, worth their weight in fine gold, are now treated like pots of clay made by a common potter.
- Lamentations 5:13Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.
- Isaiah 8:21They will go from one place to another, weary and hungry. And because they are hungry, they will rage and curse their king and their God. They will look up to heaven
- Ezekiel 12:13Then I will throw my net over him and capture him in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Babylonians, though he will never see it, and he will die there.
- Ezekiel 17:20I will throw my net over him and capture him in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon and put him on trial for this treason against me.
- Revelation 16:9Everyone was burned by this blast of heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had control over all these plagues. They did not repent of their sins and turn to God and give him glory.
- Isaiah 51:17Wake up, wake up, O Jerusalem! You have drunk the cup of the Lord’s fury. You have drunk the cup of terror, tipping out its last drops.
- Isaiah 9:19The land will be blackened by the fury of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. The people will be fuel for the fire, and no one will spare even his own brother.
- Psalms 88:15I have been sick and close to death since my youth. I stand helpless and desperate before your terrors.
- Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.
- Revelation 14:10must drink the wine of God’s anger. It has been poured full strength into God’s cup of wrath. And they will be tormented with fire and burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb.
- Isaiah 29:9Are you amazed and incredulous? Don’t you believe it? Then go ahead and be blind. You are stupid, but not from wine! You stagger, but not from liquor!
Commentaries on Isaiah 51:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20As a wild bull in a net: they are full, etc. "Like the oryx taken in the toils; drenched to the full" - "Perhaps מלאים מכמרה michmerah meleim ." Secker. The demonstrative ה he, prefixed to מלאים meleim, full, seems improper in this place.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20Thy sons - Jerusalem is here represented as a mother. Her sons, that is, her inhabitants, had become weak and prostrate everywhere, and were unable to afford consolation. They lie at the head of all the streets - The head‘ of the streets is the same which in Lamentations 2:19; Lamentations 4:1, is denominated the top of the streets.‘ The head or top of the streets denotes, doubtless, the beginning of a way or street; the corner from which other streets…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-23Verses 17-23 God calls upon his people to mind the things that belong to their everlasting peace. Jerusalem had provoked God, and was made to taste the bitter fruits. Those who should have been her comforters, were their own tormentors. They have no patience by which to keep possesion of their own souls, nor any confidence in God's promise, by which to keep possession of its comfort. Thou art drunken, not as formerly, with the intoxicating cup of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20Your sons have fainted: This phrase shows how terrible Jerusalem’s destruction was. Even children became weak and collapsed from hunger and suffering. The book of Lamentations also describes this deep sorrow and pain (Lamentations 1:13, 22; 2:11–12, 19).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. head of all ... streets--(La 2:19; 4:1). wild bull--rather, "oryx" [Jerome], or gazelle [Gesenius], or wild goat [Bochart]; commonly in the East taken in a net, of a wide sweep, into which the beasts were hunted together. The streets of cities in the East often have gates, which are closed at night; a person wishing to escape would be stopped by them and caught, as a wild animal in a net.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 51
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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