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Isaiah 10:3

And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

KJV

Quid facietis in die visitationis, et calamitatis de longe venientis ? ad cujus confugietis auxilium ? et ubi derelinquetis gloriam vestram,

Vulgate

καὶ τί ποιήσουσιν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς; ἡ γὰρ θλίψις ὑμῖν πόρρωθεν ἥξει· καὶ πρὸς τίνα καταφεύξεσθε τοῦ βοηθηθῆναι; καὶ ποῦ καταλείψετε τὴν δόξαν ὑμῶν

LXX

And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

ASV

וּ/מַֽה תַּעֲשׂוּ֙ לְ/י֣וֹם פְּקֻדָּ֔ה וּ/לְ/שׁוֹאָ֖ה מִ/מֶּרְחָ֣ק תָּב֑וֹא עַל מִי֙ תָּנ֣וּסוּ לְ/עֶזְרָ֔ה וְ/אָ֥נָה תַעַזְב֖וּ כְּבוֹדְ/כֶֽם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אָ֣נָה
'nh
adverb · 43×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
וֹ
v
noun · 198×
י
y
noun · 22×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
ם
m
noun · 32×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
מֶּרְחָ֑ק
mrchq
noun · 17×
נִי
ny
verb · 212×
נָ֖סוּ
nsv
verb · 161×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
שׁוֹאָ֖ה
shv'h
noun · 13×

Intertextual echoes

Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.

  • 1Pet 2:12 · paraphrase
    "Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation."
    Isaiah: the day of visitation — glorify God in the day of visitation

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 2:12 — Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
  • 1Pet 2:12 — Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
  • 2Kgs 6:26 — And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
  • Deut 28:49 — The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
  • Deut 32:29 — O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
  • Hos 9:5 — What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
  • Hos 9:7 — The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
  • Hos 9:7 — The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
  • Isa 2:10 — Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
  • Isa 5:26 — And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
  • Isa 20:6 — And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
  • Isa 26:14 — They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
  • Isa 26:21 — For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
  • Jer 4:30 — And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou
  • Jer 5:31 — The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
  • Jer 13:21 — What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
  • Job 31:14 — What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
  • Judg 10:14 — Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
  • Luke 19:44 — And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
  • Mic 7:4 — The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
  • Prov 11:4 — Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
  • Rev 6:15 — And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the m
  • Zeph 1:18 — Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy ridd