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Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

KJV

Ruit enim Jerusalem, et Judas concidit, quia lingua eorum et adinventiones eorum contra Dominum, ut provocarent oculos majestatis ejus.

Vulgate

ὅτι ἀνεῖται Ἰερουσαλὴμ καὶ ἡ Ἰουδαία συμπέπτωκεν, καὶ αἱ γλῶσσαι αὐτῶν μετὰ ἀνομίας, τὰ πρὸς Κύριον ἀπειθοῦντες· ⸂⸆⸃ διότι νῦν ἐταπεινώθη ἡ δόξα αὐτῶν,

LXX

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

ASV

כִּ֤י כָשְׁלָה֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וִ/יהוּדָ֖ה נָפָ֑ל כִּֽי לְשׁוֹנָ֤/ם וּ/מַֽעַלְלֵי/הֶם֙ אֶל יְהוָ֔ה לַ/מְר֖וֹת עֵנֵ֥י כְבוֹדֽ/וֹ

Hebrew

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In this verse

People JudahJudah

In the original Hebrew

12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
ו
v
noun · 43×
וֹ
v
noun · 198×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יְהוּדָ֔ה
yhvdh
proper_noun · 809×
יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם
yrvshlm
proper_noun · 634×
יִכָּשְׁל֖וּ
ykshlv
verb · 64×
יִּפֹּ֥ל
ypl
verb · 434×
יַּמְרוּ
ymrv
verb · 45×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
ם
m
noun · 116×

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 10:22 — Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
  • Ezek 9:9 — Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth
  • Gen 13:13 — But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
  • Hos 7:16 — They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
  • Isa 29:4 — And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and th
  • Isa 65:3 — A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
  • Jer 23:36 — And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
  • Jer 44:8 — In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be
  • Lam 1:9 — Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
  • Mal 3:13 — Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
  • Mic 6:12 — For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
  • Zech 1:6 — But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according