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Isaiah 27:8 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 27 · verse 8
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.Isaiah 27:8 · King James Version
Isaiah 27:8 in context
6He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
7Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
10Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- measureçaʼçᵉʼâhmeasurementH5432 →
- stayethhâgâhto removeH1898 →
- debaterîybproperly, to tossH7378 →
- forthshâlachto send away, for, or outH7971 →
- roughqâshehsevereH7186 →
- windrûwachwindH7307 →
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Here is the prophet again singing of mercy and judgment, not, as before, judgment to the enemies and mercy to the church, but judgment to the church and mercy mixed with that judgment. I. Here is judgment threatened even to Jacob and Israel. They shall blossom and bud (Isa 27:6), but, 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-13