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Isaiah 8:21

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8:21They will pass through the land40 destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry,41 and they will curse their king and their God42 as they look upward.

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  1. 40 Heb “he will pass through it.” The subject of the collective singular verb is the nation. (See the preceding note.) The immediately preceding context supplies no antecedent for “it” (a third feminine singular suffix in the Hebrew text); the suffix may refer to the land, which would be a reasonable referent with a verb of motion. Note also that אֶרֶץ (’erets, “land”) does appear at the beginning of the next verse.
  2. 41 The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in .
  3. 42 Or “gods” (, , ).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

NLTNew Living Translation

They will go from one place to another, weary and hungry. And because they are hungry, they will rage and curse their king and their God. They will look up to heaven

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And it will pass through it distressed and hungry, and this shall happen: when it is hungry, it will be enraged, and it will curse its king and its gods, and it will face upward

KJV 1900King James Version

And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry:

And it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves,

And curse their king and their God, and look upward.