Lexicon :: Strong's H3478 - yiśrā'ēl

“The ox [instinctively] knows its owner,

And the donkey its master’s feeding trough,

But Israel does not know [Me as LORD],

My people do not understand.”

Therefore the Lord GOD of hosts,

The Mighty One of Israel, declares:

“Ah, I will be freed of My adversaries

And avenge Myself on My enemies.

In that day the Branch of the LORD will be splendid and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be excellent and lovely to those of Israel who have survived.

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house (nation) of Israel

And the men of Judah are His delightful planting [which He loves].

So He looked for justice, but in fact, [He saw] bloodshed and lawlessness;

[He looked] for righteousness, but in fact, [He heard] a cry of distress and oppression.

Who say, “Let Him move speedily, let Him expedite His work [His promised vengeance], so that we may see it;

And let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel approach

And come to pass, so that we may know it!”

Therefore, as the tongue of fire consumes the stubble [from straw]

And the dry grass collapses into the flame,

So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away like fine dust;

Because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts

And despised and discarded the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of [fn]Aram (Syria) and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but they could not conquer it.

“Then He shall be a sanctuary [a sacred, indestructible shelter for those who fear and trust Him];

But to both the houses of Israel [both the northern and southern kingdoms—Israel and Judah, He will be] a stone on which to stumble and a rock on which to trip,

A trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

The Lord sends a word (message) against Jacob,

And it falls on Israel [the ten northern tribes, the kingdom of Ephraim].

The Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west;

And they devour Israel with gaping jaws.

In spite of all this, God’s anger does not turn away

But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

Therefore the LORD cuts off head and tail [the highest and the lowest] from Israel,

Both [the high] palm branch and [the low] bulrush in one day.

And the Light of Israel will become a fire and His Holy One a flame,

And it will [fn]burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and briars in a single day.

Now in that day the remnant of Israel, and those of the house of Jacob who have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

For though your people, O Israel, may be as the sand of the sea,

Only a remnant within them will return;

The destruction is determined [it is decided and destined for completion], overflowing with justice (righteous punishment).

And He will lift up a signal for the nations

And assemble the [fn]outcasts of Israel,

And will gather the dispersed of Judah

From the four corners of the earth.

And there will be a highway from Assyria

For the remnant of His people who will be left,

Just as there was for Israel

In the day when they came up out of the land of Egypt.

Rejoice and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,

For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob (the captives in Babylon) and will again choose Israel, and will settle them in their own land. Foreigners (Gentiles) will join them [as proselytes] and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob (Israel).

“The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,

And the kingdom from Damascus

And the remnant of Aram (Syria);

They will be like the [departed] glory of [her ally] the children of Israel,”

Declares the LORD of hosts.

“Yet gleanings will be left in the land [of Israel] like the shaking of the olive tree,

Two or three olives on the topmost branch,

Four or five on the [outermost] branches of the fruitful tree,”

Declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

In that day the strong cities of Aram and Israel will be like [fn]deserted places in the forest,

Or like branches which they abandoned before the children of Israel;

And the land will be a desolation.

In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and with Assyria [in a Messianic league], a blessing in the midst of the earth,

O my threshed people [Judah, who must be judged and trampled down by Babylon], my afflicted of the threshing floor.

What I have heard from the LORD of hosts,

The God of Israel, I have [joyfully] announced to you [that Babylon is to fall].

Therefore honor and glorify the LORD in the east [in the region of light],

The name of the LORD, the God of Israel [honor His name],

In the coastlands and islands of the [Mediterranean] Sea.

[fn]In the generations to come Jacob will take root;

Israel will blossom and sprout,

And they will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

In that day the LORD will thresh [out His grain] from the flowing stream of the River [Euphrates] to the Brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.

The afflicted also will increase their joy in the LORD,

And the needy of mankind will rejoice and celebrate in the Holy One of Israel.

For when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst,

They will sanctify My Name;

They will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob

And will stand in awe and reverent fear of the God of Israel.

“Get out of the [true] way, turn aside from the path [of God],

Stop bothering us with the Holy One of Israel.”

For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel has said this,

“In returning [to Me] and rest you shall be saved,

In quietness and confident trust is your strength.”

But you were not willing,

You will have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept,

And joy of heart as when one marches [in procession] with a flute,

To go to the [temple on the] mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

Woe (judgment is coming) to those who go down to Egypt for help,

Who rely on horses

And trust in chariots because they are many,

And in horsemen because they are very strong,

But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek and consult the LORD!

Return to Him from whom you have so deeply defected, O sons of Israel.

Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “For the LORD, the God of Israel says this, ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,

“Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?

And against whom have you raised your voice

And haughtily lifted up your eyes?

Against the Holy One of Israel!

Why, O Jacob, do you say, and declare, O Israel,

“My way is hidden from the LORD,

And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?

“But you, Israel, My servant,

Jacob whom I have chosen,

The offspring of Abraham My friend,

“Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel;

I will help you,” declares the LORD, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

“You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away,

And a high wind will scatter them;

But you will rejoice in the LORD,

You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

So that they may see and know,

And consider and understand together,

That the hand of the LORD has done this,

That the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Who gave up Jacob [the kingdom of Judah] for spoil, and [the kingdom of] Israel to the plunderers?

Was it not the LORD, He against whom we [of Judah] have sinned,

And in whose ways they [of Israel] were unwilling to walk,

And whose law and teaching they did not obey?