Isaiah Chapter 9 verse 10 Holy Bible
The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.
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The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars.
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The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamore trees are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.
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The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
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The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycamores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.
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`Bricks have fallen, and hewn work we build, Sycamores have been cut down, and cedars we renew.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - The bricks are fallen down, etc.; i.e. we have suffered a moderate damage, but we will more than make up for it; all our losses we will replace with something better. Bricks were the ordinary material for the poorer class of houses in Palestine; stone was reserved for the dwellings of the rich and great (Amos 5:11). Sycamore wood was the commonest sort of timber, cedar the scarcest and most precious, having to be imported from Phoenicia (1 Kings 5:6; 2 Chronicles 2:3; Ezra 3:7). (On the contrast between cedar and sycamore wood, comp. 2 Chronicles 1:15.) Cut down. The Israelites probably alluded to damage done by Tiglath-Pileser in his first invasion. The Assyrians were in the habit of actually cutting down trees in foreign countries, in order to injure and weaken them; but the present passage is, perhaps, rather intended to be figurative.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) The bricks are fallen down . . .--Sun-dried bricks and the cheap timber of the sycamore (1Kings 10:27) were the common materials used for the dwellings of the poor, hewn stones and cedar for the palaces of the rich. Whatever injury Samaria had sustained (the words are too proverbially figurative to make literal interpretation probable), through the intervention of Tiglath-pileser, was, its rulers thought, but as the prelude to a great and more lasting victory even than that of 2Chronicles 28:6.
