Lexicon :: Strong's H3478 - yiśrā'ēl

“The ox knows its owner,

and the donkey its master’s feeding trough,

but Israel does not know;

my people do not understand.”

Therefore the Lord GOD of Armies,

the Mighty One of Israel, declares:

“Ah, I will get even with my foes;

I will take revenge against my enemies.

On that day the Branch[fn] of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.

For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies

is the house of Israel,

and the men[fn] of Judah,

the plant he delighted in.

He expected justice

but saw injustice;

he expected righteousness

but heard cries of despair.

to those who say,

“Let him hurry up and do his work quickly

so that we can see it!

Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take place

so that we can know it! ”

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw

and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,

so their roots will become like something rotten

and their blossoms will blow away like dust,

for they have rejected

the instruction of the LORD of Armies,

and they have despised

the word of the Holy One of Israel.

This took place during the reign of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah king of Judah: Aram’s King Rezin and Israel’s King Pekah son of Remaliah went to fight against Jerusalem, but they were not able to conquer it.

He will be a sanctuary;

but for the two houses of Israel,

he will be a stone to stumble over

and a rock to trip over,

and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Here I am with the children the LORD has given me to be signs and wonders in Israel from the LORD of Armies who dwells on Mount Zion.

The Lord sent a message against Jacob;

it came against Israel.

Aram from the east and Philistia from the west

have consumed Israel with open mouths.

In all this, his anger has not turned away,

and his hand is still raised to strike.

So the LORD cut off Israel’s head and tail,

palm branch and reed in a single day.

Israel’s Light will become a fire,

and its Holy One, a flame.

In one day it will burn and consume Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on the one who struck them, but they will faithfully depend on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

Israel, even if your people were as numerous

as the sand of the sea,

only a remnant of them will return.

Destruction has been decreed;

justice overflows.

He will lift up a banner for the nations

and gather the dispersed of Israel;

he will collect the scattered of Judah

from the four corners of the earth.

There will be a highway for the remnant of his people

who will survive from Assyria,

as there was for Israel

when they came up from the land of Egypt.

“Cry out and sing, citizen of Zion,

for the Holy One of Israel is among you

in his greatness.”

For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and will choose Israel again. He will settle them on their own land. The resident alien will join them and be united with the house of Jacob.

The fortress disappears from Ephraim,

and a kingdom from Damascus.

The remnant of Aram will be

like the splendor of the Israelites.

This is the declaration of the LORD of Armies.

Only gleanings will be left in Israel,

as if an olive tree had been beaten —

two or three olives at the very top of the tree,

four or five on its fruitful branches.

This is the declaration of the LORD,

the God of Israel.

On that day their strong cities will be

like the abandoned woods and mountaintops

that were abandoned because of the Israelites;

there will be desolation.

On that day Israel will form a triple alliance with Egypt and Assyria ​— ​a blessing within the land.

My people who have been crushed

on the threshing floor,

I have declared to you

what I have heard from the LORD of Armies,

the God of Israel.

“The remaining Kedarite archers will be few in number.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.

Therefore, in the east honor the LORD!

In the coasts and islands of the west

honor the name of the LORD,

the God of Israel.

In days to come, Jacob will take root.

Israel will blossom and bloom

and fill the whole world with fruit.

On that day

the LORD will thresh grain from the Euphrates River

as far as the Wadi of Egypt,

and you Israelites will be gathered one by one.

The humble will have joy

after joy in the LORD,

and the poor people will rejoice

in the Holy One of Israel.

For when he sees his children,

the work of my hands within his nation,

they will honor my name,

they will honor the Holy One of Jacob

and stand in awe of the God of Israel.

“Get out of the way!

Leave the pathway.

Rid us of the Holy One of Israel.”

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

“You will be delivered by returning and resting;

your strength will lie in quiet confidence.

But you are not willing.”

Your singing will be like that

on the night of a holy festival,

and your heart will rejoice

like one who walks to the music of a flute,

going up to the mountain of the LORD,

to the Rock of Israel.

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help

and who depend on horses!

They trust in the abundance of chariots

and in the large number of horsemen.

They do not look to the Holy One of Israel,

and they do not seek the LORD.

Return to the one the Israelites have greatly rebelled against.

LORD of Armies, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you are God ​— ​you alone ​— ​of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘Because you prayed to me about King Sennacherib of Assyria,

“Who is it you have mocked and blasphemed?

Against whom have you raised your voice

and lifted your eyes in pride?

Against the Holy One of Israel!

Jacob, why do you say,

and Israel, why do you assert,

“My way is hidden from the LORD,

and my claim is ignored by my God”?

But you, Israel, my servant,

Jacob, whom I have chosen,

descendant of Abraham, my friend —

“Do not fear, you worm Jacob,

you men[fn] of Israel.

I will help you” —

this is the LORD’s declaration.

Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

You will winnow them

and a wind will carry them away,

a whirlwind will scatter them.

But you will rejoice in the LORD;

you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

so that all may see and know,

consider and understand,

that the hand of the LORD has done this,

the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Who gave Jacob to the robber,[fn]

and Israel to the plunderers?

Was it not the LORD?

Have we not sinned against him?

They were not willing to walk in his ways,

and they would not listen to his instruction.