Tree of Life Version
Isaiah 37:29
29Because your raging against Me and your arrogance reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way that you came.”
Isaiah 37:29 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
- New International Version (NIV)Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.'
- New King James Version (NKJV)Because your rage against Me and your tumult Have come up to My ears, Therefore I will put My hook in your nose And My bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back By the way which you came.” ’
Context of Isaiah 37:29
27Their inhabitants are weak handed, shattered and ashamed. They are like the grass of the field and green herb, like grass on roofs, scorched before it is grown up. 28But I know your sitting down, your going out and your coming in, and your raging against Me. Because your raging against Me and your arrogance reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way that you came.” 30So this shall be the sign to you: This year you will eat what grows by itself, in the second year what springs from that. But in the third year, you will sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will take root downward and bear fruit upward.
Read all of Isaiah 37Isaiah 37:29 word by word
יַ֚עַן הִתְרַגֶּזְךָ֣ אֵלַ֔י וְשַׁאֲנַנְךָ֖ עָלָ֣ה בְאָזְנָ֑י וְשַׂמְתִּ֨י חַחִ֜י בְּאַפֶּ֗ךָ וּמִתְגִּי֙ בִּשְׂפָתֶ֔יךָ וַהֲשִׁ֣יבֹתִ֔יךָ בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְ אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֥אתָ בָּֽהּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Because thy rageרָגַזrâgaz · to trembleH7264
- against me, and thy tumultשַׁאֲנָןsha'ănân · secureH7600
- is come upעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
- into mine earsאֹ֫זֶן'ôzen · earH241
- therefore will I putשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: putH7760
- my hookחַחchâch châchîy · hookH2397
- in thy noseאַף'aph · face: noseH639
- and my bridleמֶ֫תֶגmetheg · bridleH4964
- in thy lipsשָׂפָהώâphâh ώepheth · lipsH8193
- and I will turn thee backשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
- by the wayדֶּ֫רֶךְderek · way: roadH1870
- by which thou camestבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
Cross-references for Isaiah 37:29
- Isaiah 37:10“Thus you will say to King Hezekiah of Judah, saying, do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying: ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
- Isaiah 36:4So the Rab-shakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: ‘What is this confidence you’ve relied on?
- 2 Kings 19:27But I know your sitting down, your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against Me.
- Job 15:25for he raises his hand against God and flaunts himself against Shaddai,
- Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in an uproar, and the peoples mutter vanity?
- Psalms 46:6God is in the midst of her, she will not be shaken. God will help her when morning dawns.
- Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, Adonai, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their crashing waves.
- Nahum 1:9What can you scheme against Adonai? He will make a complete destruction. Distress will not arise twice.
- John 15:22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.
- Acts 9:4Falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”
- Psalms 74:4Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place. They have set up their standards as signs.
- Psalms 83:2God, do not keep silent. Do not hold Your peace, O God. Do not be still.
- Matthew 27:24When Pilate saw he was accomplishing nothing, but instead a riot was starting, he took some water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this blood,” he said. “You see to it yourselves!”
- Acts 22:22Up to this statement they listened to him. Then they raised their voices, saying, “Away from the earth with this fellow! For he’s not fit to live!”
- Isaiah 30:28His Ruach like an overflowing torrent rising up to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of the worthless, to put in the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads away.
- Job 41:2Is he not fierce when he is roused? Who then is able to stand before Me?
Commentaries on Isaiah 37:29
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 29Will I put my hook in thy nose - Et fraenum meum: Jonathan vocem מתג metheg, interpretatus est זמם zemam, i.e., annulum, sive uncum, eumque ferreum, quem infigunt naribus camelae: eoque trahitur, quoniam illa feris motibus agitur: et hoc est, quod discimus in Talmude; et camela cum annulo narium: scilicet, egreditur die sabbathi. "And my bridle: Jonathan interprets the word metheg by zemam, a ring, or that iron hook which they put in the nostrils of a…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 29Because thy rage and thy tumult - Or rather, thy pride, thy insolence, thy vain boasting. Therefore will I put my hook in thy nose - This is a most striking expression, denoting the complete control which God had over the haughty monarch, and his ability to direct him as he pleased. The language is taken from the custom of putting a ring or hook in the nose of a wild animal for the purpose of governing and guiding it. The most violent animals may be thus…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 29My hook … My bit: The Assyrians would be taken away like animals, just as they had done to many of their captives.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2929. tumult--insolence. hook in ... nose--Like a wild beast led by a ring through the nose, he shall be forced back to his own country (compare Job 41:1, 2; Eze 19:4; 29:4; 38:4). In a bas-relief of Khorsabad, captives are led before the king by a cord attached to a hook, or ring, passing through the under lip or the upper lip, and nose.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 37
- 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
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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