Isaiah 8:21 Cross References - Rotherham

²¹ Therefore shall they pass through it, hard pressed and hungry,––And it shall be, when they hunger, then will they rage and revile their king and their god, and turn their faces upwards;

²⁸ God, shalt thou not revile,––and, a prince among thy people, shalt thou not curse.

³³ The fruit of thy soil, and all thy toilsome produce, shall a people whom thou knowest not, eat up,––and, thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed, all the days; ³⁴ so that thou shalt be mad,––for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

⁵³ And thou wilt eat the fruit of thy body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom Yahweh thy God, hath given unto thee––in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy will straiten thee. ⁵⁴ The man that is tender among you, and exceedingly delicate, his eye will be jealous of his brother, and of the wife of his bosom, and of the remnant of his sons, whom be might leave behind; ⁵⁵ so that he will not give to any one of them, of the flesh of his sons which he will eat, because he hath nothing at all left him,––in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy, will straiten thee, within all thy gates. ⁵⁶ The tender and delicate woman among you, who hath never adventured the sole of her foot, to set it upon the ground, through delicateness and through tenderness, her eye shall be jealous of the husband of her bosom, and of her own son, and of her own daughter; ⁵⁷ both as to her afterbirth that cometh forth from between her feet, and as to her children which she shall bear, for she will eat them for want of all things, secretly,––in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy, will straiten thee, within thine own gates.

³³ While yet he was speaking with them, lo! the messenger, coming down unto him,––and he said,––Lo! this, is a calamity from Yahweh, why should I wait for Yahweh, any longer?

³ On the ninth of the month, when the famine had become severe in the city,––and there had come to be no bread for the people of the land,

¹¹ But, in very deed, put forth, I pray thee, thy hand, and smite all that he hath,––verily, unto thy face, will he curse thee.

⁵ In very deed, put forth, I pray thee thy hand, and smite unto his bone, and unto his flesh,––verily, unto thy face, will he curse thee.

⁹ Then said his wife unto him, Art thou still holding fast thine integrity? Curse God, and die!

³ The folly of a man, subverteth his way, and, against Yahweh, his heart is angry.

⁷ now therefore, lo! the Lord is about to bring up against them, the waters, strong and many, of the River[=Euphrates], even the king of Assyria, and all his glory,––and he shall rise over all his channels, and flow over all his banks; ⁸ and roll on throughout Judah––overflow and pass along, till, unto the neck, he shall reach,––and it shall be, that, the stretching out of his wings, shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel!

²⁰ And he hath slain on the right, and yet is hungry, And hath eaten on the left, yet are they not satisfied,––Every one, the flesh of his own, arm, will they eat:

¹⁸ If I have gone out into the field, Then lo! the slain of the sword! And, if I have entered the city, Then lo! the diseases of famine! For, both prophet and priest, have trafficked against the land, unnoticed.

⁶ In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, when the famine had become severe, in the city,––and there had come to be no bread for the people of the land,

⁴ The tongue of the suckling, cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst,––Young children, have asked bread, there was none, to break, it to them. ⁵ They who used to eat delicacies, are deserted in the streets,––They who used to be carried on crimson, have embraced heaps of refuse.

⁹ Better are the slain of the sword, than the slain of the famine,––for, these, pine away, stricken through, wanting the produce of the field. ¹⁰ The hands of compassionate women, have cooked their own children,––they have served as nourishment to them, in the grievous injury of the daughter of my people.

²⁰ And, the rest of mankind who were not slain by these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands,––that they should not do homage unto the demons, nor unto the idols of gold and of silver and of copper and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; ²¹ Neither repented they of their murders, or of their sorceries, or of their lewdnesses, or of their thefts.

⁹ and mankind were scorched with a great scorching heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who had authority over these plagues, and repented not to give him glory. ¹⁰ And, the fifth, poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom became darkened, and they began to gnaw their tongues by reason of the pain,–– ¹¹ and they blasphemed the God of heaven, by reason of their pain, and by reason of their ulcers, and repented not of their works.