Isaiah 9:14
Good News Translation
In a single day the LORD will punish Israel's leaders and its people; he will cut them off, head and tail.

New Revised Standard Version
So the LORD cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day—

Contemporary English Version
In one day he cut off their head and tail, their leaves and branches.

New American Bible
So the LORD cuts off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the tail, him that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in one day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the tail, him that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in one day.

will cut

Isaiah 3:2,3 The strong man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet and the cunning man, and the ancient. . . .

Isaiah 19:15 And there shall be no work for Egypt, to make head or tail, him that bendeth down, or that holdeth back.

2 Kings 17:6-20 And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he placed them in Hala, and Habor, by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes. . . .

Hosea 1:4,6,9 And the Lord said to him: Call his name Jezrahel: for yet a little while, and I will visit the blood of Jezrahel upon the house of Jehu, and I will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. . . .

Hosea 4:5 And thou shalt fall today, and the prophet also shall fall with thee: in the night I have made thy mother to be silent.

Hosea 5:12-14 And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the house of Juda. . . .

Hosea 8:8 Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel.

Hosea 9:11-17 As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. . . .

Hosea 13:3 Therefore they shall be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

Amos 2:14-16 And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life. . . .

Amos 3:12 Thus saith the Lord: As if a shepherd should get out of the lion's mouth two legs, or the tip of the ear: so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria, in a place of a bed, and in the couch of Damascus.

Amos 5:2,3 The virgin of Israel is cast down upon her land, there is none to raise her up. . . .

Amos 6:11 And he shall answer: There is an end. And he shall say to him: Hold thy peace, and mention not the name of the Lord.

Amos 7:8,9,17 These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold the Lord was standing upon a plastered wall, and in his hand a mason's trowel. . . .

Amos 9:1-9 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: Thy God, O Dan, liveth: and the way of Bersabee liveth: and they shall fall, and shall rise no more. . . .

Micah 1:6-8 For the wickedness of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the wickedness of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Juda? are they not Jerusalem? . . .

in one day

Isaiah 10:17 And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One thereof as a flame: and his thorns and his briers shall be set on fire, and shall be devoured in one day.

Isaiah 30:13 Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a breach that falleth, and is found wanting in a high wall, for the destruction thereof shall come on a sudden, when it is not looked for.

Hosea 10:15 So hath Bethel done to you, because of the evil of your iniquities.

Revelation 18:8,10,17 Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine. And she shall be burnt with the fire: because God is strong, who shall judge her. . . .

Context
Judgment Against Israel's Hypocrisy
13And the people are not returned to him who hath struck them, and have not sought after the Lord of hosts. 14And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the tail, him that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in one day.15The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.…
Cross References
Revelation 18:8
Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine. And she shall be burnt with the fire: because God is strong, who shall judge her.

Isaiah 3:2
The strong man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet and the cunning man, and the ancient.

Isaiah 19:15
And there shall be no work for Egypt, to make head or tail, him that bendeth down, or that holdeth back.

Jeremiah 6:21
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring destruction upon this people, by which fathers and sons together shall fall, neighbour and kinsman shall perish.

Jeremiah 8:12
They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not known how to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord.

Lamentations 4:16
Phe. The face of the Lord hath divided them, he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, neither had they pity on the ancient.

Isaiah 9:13
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