Isaiah 31:6

31:5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

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Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

Turn you to him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

31:7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin. his idols of gold: Heb. the idols of his gold

What does Isaiah 31:6 mean?

Isaiah 31:6 is a verse in the book of Isaiah, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include שׁוּב (shûwb), בֵּן (bên), יִשְׂרָאֵל (Yisrâʼêl). It connects to 7 cross-referenced passages elsewhere in Scripture.

Hebrew interlinear

Turnשׁוּבshûwb/shoob/H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again

unto

him

from

whom

the

childrenבֵּןbên/bane/H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)

IsraelיִשְׂרָאֵלYisrâʼêl/yis-raw-ale'/H3478Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

have

deeplyעָמַקʻâmaq/aw-mak'/H6009to be (causatively, make) deep (literally or figuratively)

revolted.סָרָהçârâh/saw-raw'/H5627apostasy, crime; figuratively, remission

Commentary on Isaiah 31:6

HENRY_FULL · Isaiah 31:6

eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall. Mischief is here said to attend, 1. Politic, designing, self-disguising sinners: He that winks with the eye, as if he took no notice of you, when at the same time he is watching an opportunity to do you an ill turn, that makes signs to his accomplices when to come into assist him in executing his wicked projects, which are all carried on by trick and artifice, causes sorrow both to others and to himself. Ingenuity will be no excuse for iniquity, but the sinner must either repent or do worse, either rue it or be ruined by it. 2. Public, silly, self-exposing sinners: A prating fool, whose sins go before unto judgment, shall fall, as was said before, v. 8 . But his case is less dangerous of the two, and, though he destroys himself, he does not create so much sorrow to others as he that winks with his eyes. The dog that bites is not always the dog that barks. 11 The mouth of a righteous

Cross-references

Related passages from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Isaiah 17:9

In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

Isaiah 28:25

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? the principal: or, the wheat in the principal place, and barley in the appointed place rie: or, spelt place: Heb. border?

Isaiah 29:22

Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.

1 Corinthians 13:4

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, vaunteth: or, is not rash

James 4:1

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? fightings: or, brawlings lusts: or, pleasures

James 5:20

Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 4:8

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. shall: or, will

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What does Isaiah 31:6 say?

Isaiah 31:6 (King James Version) reads: "Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted."

Is Isaiah 31:6 in the Old or New Testament?

Isaiah 31:6 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Isaiah.

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