Isaiah 65:12

Isaiah 65:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
• New International Version (NIV)I will destine you for the sword, and all of you will fall in the slaughter; for I called but you did not answer, I spoke but you did not listen. You did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because, when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes and chose what I did not delight in."
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore I will number you for the sword, And you shall all bow down to the slaughter; Because, when I called, you did not answer; When I spoke, you did not hear, But did evil before My eyes, And chose that in which I do not delight.”

Context of Isaiah 65:12

10Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for My people who seek Me. 11But you who forsake Adonai, who forget My holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, who fill cups of mixed wine for Fate, I will fate you to the sword, and all of you will kneel to slaughter. For I called, but you did not answer, I spoke, but you did not hear. So you did what was evil in My sight, and chose what I did not delight in.” 13Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Behold, My servants will eat, while you will go hungry. Behold, My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame. 14Behold, My servants will sing for joy with a happy heart, but you will cry from pain of heart, and wail out of a broken spirit.

Isaiah 65:12 word by word

וּמָנִ֨יתִי אֶתְכֶ֜ם לַחֶ֗רֶב וְכֻלְּכֶם֙ לַטֶּ֣בַח תִּכְרָ֔עוּ יַ֤עַן קָרָ֙אתִי֙ וְלֹ֣א עֲנִיתֶ֔ם דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי וְלֹ֣א שְׁמַעְתֶּ֑ם וַתַּעֲשׂ֤וּ הָרַע֙ בְּעֵינַ֔י וּבַאֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־חָפַ֖צְתִּי בְּחַרְתֶּֽם׃ פRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Therefore will I numberמָנָהmânâh · to countH4487
• you to the swordחֶ֫רֶבchereb · swordH2719
• and ye shall all bow downכָּרַעkâra‛ · to bowH3766
• to the slaughterטֶ֫בַחţebach · slaughterH2874
• because when I calledקָרָאqârâ' · to call: call toH7121
• ye did not answerעָנָה‛ânâh · to answerH6030
• when I spakeדָבַרdâbar · to speak: speakH1696
• ye did not hearשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
• but didעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• evilרַעra‛ râ‛âh · bad: evilH7451
• before mine eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• and did chooseבָּחַרbâchar · to chooseH977
• wherein I delightedחָפֵץchâphêts · to delight inH2654

Cross-references for Isaiah 65:12

• Isaiah 3:25Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.
• Isaiah 10:4One can only crouch among the captives or collapse among the slain. For all this His anger is not turned away, yet His hand is still outstretched.
• Leviticus 26:25I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant, and you will be gathered together inside your cities. I will send the pestilence among you and you will be given into the hand of the enemy.
• Deuteronomy 32:25Outside the sword deals death, and inside terror— to both young men and young women, infants, with men of gray hair.
• Jeremiah 18:21Therefore give their children to famine and pour out the power of the sword. Let their wives be bereaved of children, and widows, and let their men be slain to death, and their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
• Jeremiah 34:17Therefore thus says Adonai: “You have not obeyed Me, to proclaim liberty, everyone to his brother and everyone to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim for you a liberty,” declares Adonai, “to the sword, to plague and to famine! So I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
• Ezekiel 14:17Or if I bring a sword on that land and say: ‘Let the sword go through the land,’ so that I cut off man and beast from it;
• Zephaniah 1:4“I will stretch out my hand upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place —the names of the idolatrous priests along with the kohanim,
• Matthew 22:7Now the king became furious! Sending his troops, he destroyed those murderers and set fire to their city.
• Isaiah 50:2Why was no one there when I came? Why was there no one to answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, I dry up the sea at My rebuke, I make rivers a wilderness— their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.
• Isaiah 66:4So I will choose their punishments and bring on them what they dread. For when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they did not listen. But they did what was evil in My eyes, and chose what I did not delight in.
• 2 Chronicles 36:15Adonai, the God of their fathers, sent word to them through His messengers again and again, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.
• Proverbs 1:24Because you refused when I called, and did not pay attention when I stretched out my hand,
• Jeremiah 7:13While you were doing all these things,” declares Adonai, “I spoke to you early and often, but you did not listen, and I called you but you did not answer.
• Zechariah 7:7Are not these the words that Adonai proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem with its surrounding cities were inhabited and prosperous, when the Negev and the lowland were inhabited?’”
• Matthew 21:34Now when fruit season drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.

Commentaries on Isaiah 65:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Therefore will I number you - Referring to Meni, which signifies number "Rabbi Eliezar said to his disciples, Turn to God one day before you die. His disciples said, How call a man know the day of his death? He answered, Therefore it is necessary that you should turn to God to-day, for possibly ye may die to-morrow."Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Therefore will I number you to the sword - There is undoubtedly an allusion here to the idol Meni mentioned in Isaiah 65:11, and a play upon the name, in accordance with a custom quite common in the sacred Scriptures. The word מניתי mâniytiy I will number,‘ is derived from מנה mânâh the same word from which מני menı̂y is derived. The idea is, since they worshipped a god whose name denoted number - perhaps one who was supposed to number or appoint the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-16Verses 11-16 Here the different states of the godly and wicked, of the Jews who believed, and of those who persisted in unbelief, are set against one another. They prepared a table for that troop of deities which the heathen worship, and poured out drink-offerings to that countless number. Their worshippers spared no cost to honour them, which should shame the worshippers of the true God. See the malignity of sin; it is doing by choice what we know will…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12destine: This verb (Hebrew manithi) is a wordplay on Meni (see study note on Isaiah 65:11). Only God controls human and national destinies.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. number--"doom" you. Alluding to the "number," as Meni (Is 65:11) means. Retribution in kind, the punishment answering to the sin (compare 2Ch 36:14-17). I called, ye ... not answer--"I called," though "none had called" upon Me (Is 64:7); yet even then none "answered" (Pr 1:24). Contrast with this God and His people's mutual fellowship in prayer (Is 65:24).Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 65:12

• Apostasy
• Church
• Condescension of God
• God
• Impenitence
• Reprobacy
• Wicked (People)

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Commentaries on Isaiah 65

• 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