Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded.
- BSB Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed.
- 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 10:5O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
- 1 Th 5:3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
- Jas 4:6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
- Prov 16:18Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
- Prov 14:3In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
- Isa 28:1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
- Ps 89:32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
- Ezek 19:14And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
- Ezek 7:6An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
- Num 17:8And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
- Dan 4:37Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
- Ezek 21:10It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
- Ezek 21:13Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
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