“The day of judgment is here; your destruction awaits! The people’s wickedness and pride have blossomed to full flower.
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.
- 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.
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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 10:5Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
- 1 Th 5:3For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
- Jas 4:6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Prov 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
- Prov 14:3The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
- Isa 28:1Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
- Ps 89:32then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
- Ezek 19:14Fire has gone out of the rods of its branches. It has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule.’ This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.”
- Ezek 7:6An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes.
- Num 17:8On the next day, Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.
- Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
- Ezek 21:10It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter. It is polished that it may be as lightning. Shall we then make mirth? The rod of my son condemns every tree.
- Ezek 21:13“For there is a trial. What if even the rod that condemns will be no more?” says the Lord Yahweh.
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