Holy Scripture

Isaiah 7:20

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 20) On that day the Lord will shave with a hired razor, with those beyond the River, with the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard, too. Some people think that this is a prophecy about the Assyrians, who, thirteen hundred years before they destroyed Jerusalem, ru…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

20In that day the Lord shall shave with the hired razor of the king of Assyria beyond the river the head, and the hairs of the feet, and will remove the beard.

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In context

18And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall hiss for the flies, which insect shall rule over a part of the river of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of the Assyrians.

19And they all shall enter into the clefts of the land, and into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves, and into every ravine.

— Isaiah 7:20 —

21And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall rear a heifer, and two sheep.

22And it shall come to pass from their drinking an abundance of milk, that everyone that is left on the land shall eat butter and honey.

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