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Isaiah 10:18

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10:18The splendor of his forest and his orchard

will be completely destroyed,37

as when a sick man’s life ebbs away.38

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  1. 37 Heb “from breath to flesh it will destroy.” The expression “from breath to flesh” refers to the two basic components of a person, the immaterial (life’s breath) and the material (flesh). Here the phrase is used idiomatically to indicate totality.
  2. 38 The precise meaning of this line is uncertain. מָסַס (masas), which is used elsewhere of substances dissolving or melting, may here mean “waste away” or “despair.” נָסַס (nasas), which appears only here, may mean “be sick” or “stagger, despair.” See 651 I נָסַס and I נסס I נסס. One might translate the line literally, “like the wasting away of one who is sick” (cf. “as when an invalid wastes away”).

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land

the Lord will destroy, both soul and body,

and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The splendor of his forests and fertile fields

it will completely destroy,

as when a sick person wastes away.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He will completely destroy

the glory of its forests and orchards

as a sickness consumes a person.

NLTNew Living Translation

The Lord will consume Assyria’s glory

like a fire consumes a forest in a fruitful land;

it will waste away like sick people in a plague.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And he will destroy the glory of his forest and orchard completely,

and it will be like the wasting away of one who is sick.

KJV 1900King James Version

And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field,

Both soul and body:

And they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.