Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed.
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded.
- KJV Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
- NKJV ‘Behold, the day! Behold, it has come! Doom has gone out; The rod has blossomed, Pride has budded.
- NASB ‘Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed.
- NLT “The day of judgment is here; your destruction awaits! The people’s wickedness and pride have blossomed to full flower.
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Quick answer
The day has come; doom has gone out; the rod has blossomed and pride budded. Israel's arrogance is ripe for judgment.
Overview
The Lord pictures judgment as a budding plant: the rod of discipline and the pride that provoked it have come to full flower. The agricultural image conveys that sin has matured and the time of harvest, here a harvest of judgment, has arrived. Pride that swells against God ripens only into ruin, a warning against the arrogance that precedes a fall.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
- 1 Th 5:3While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
- Jas 4:6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Prov 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
- Prov 14:3The proud speech of a fool brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
- Isa 28:1Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.
- Ps 89:32I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.
- Ezek 19:14Fire has gone out from its main branch and devoured its fruit; on it no strong branch remains fit for a ruler’s scepter.’ This is a lament and shall be used as a lament.”
- Ezek 7:6The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come!
- Num 17:8The next day Moses entered the Tent of the Testimony and saw that Aaron’s staff, representing the house of Levi, had sprouted, put forth buds, blossomed, and produced almonds.
- Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
- Ezek 21:10it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick.
- Ezek 21:13Surely testing will come! And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue?’ declares the Lord GOD.
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