And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
Parallel translations
- WEB Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”
- BSB Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”
- NKJV And many among them shall stumble; They shall fall and be broken, Be snared and taken.”
- NASB “Many will stumble over them, Then they will fall and be broken; They will be snared and caught.”
- NLT Many will stumble and fall, never to rise again. They will be snared and captured.”
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Quick answer
Many will stumble over the Lord and fall into judgment because they reject him.
Overview
Those who refuse to trust God will trip over the very stone that could have been their refuge, falling and being captured. The verse describes the ruin that follows persistent unbelief. Read with verse 14, it foreshadows how rejecting Christ, the stumbling-stone, leads to spiritual downfall.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Matt 21:44And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
- Isa 28:13But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
- Luke 20:17–18And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
- Isa 59:10We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
- Rom 9:32Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
- John 6:66From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
- Matt 15:14Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
- 1 Cor 1:23But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
- Matt 11:6And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
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Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).
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