Isaiah Chapter 9 verse 14 Holy Bible
Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.
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For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.
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And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day:
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Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
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Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.
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And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed -- the same day,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - Head and tail, branch and rush; i.e. the whole nation, from the highest to the lowest. The "branch" intended is the "palm branch," at once lofty in position and the most glorious form of vegetable life (Psalm 92:12; Song of Solomon 7:7, 8, etc.); the "rush" is the simple "sedge" that grows, not only low on the ground, but in the "mire" (Job 8:11). The same expression occurs again in Isaiah 19:15.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) Head and tail, branch and rush . . .--The "branch" is strictly that of the palm-tree, which in its stately height answered to the nobles of the land, while the "rush," the emblem of a real or affected lowliness (Isaiah 58:5) represented the "mean man" of Isaiah 2:9. The same proverbial formula meets us in Isaiah 19:15.