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Isaiah 9:19

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9:19Because of the anger of the Lord who commands armies, the land was scorched,53

and the people became fuel for the fire.54

People had no compassion on one another.55

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Footnotes

  1. 53 The precise meaning of the verb עְתַּם (’étam), which occurs only here, is uncertain, though the context strongly suggests that it means “burn, scorch.”
  2. 54 The uncontrollable fire of the people’s wickedness (v. 18) is intensified by the fire of the Lord’s judgment (v. 19). God allows (or causes) their wickedness to become self-destructive as civil strife and civil war break out in the land.
  3. 55 Heb “men were not showing compassion to their brothers.” The idiom “men to their brothers” is idiomatic for reciprocity. The prefixed verbal form is either a preterite without vav (ו) consecutive or an imperfect used in a customary sense, describing continual or repeated behavior in past time.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts

the land is scorched,

and the people are like fuel for the fire;

no one spares another.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

By the wrath of the Lord Almighty

the land will be scorched

and the people will be fuel for the fire;

they will not spare one another.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The land is scorched

by the wrath of the Lord of Armies,

and the people are like fuel for the fire.

No one has compassion on his brother.

NLTNew Living Translation

The land will be blackened

by the fury of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

The people will be fuel for the fire,

and no one will spare even his own brother.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

The land was burned through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts,

and the people became like fire fuel.

People had no compassion toward each other.

KJV 1900King James Version

Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened,

And the people shall be as the fuel of the fire:

No man shall spare his brother.