Isaiah 1:31
Isaiah 1:24-31 The Message (MSG)
This Decree, therefore, of the Master, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, the Strong One of Israel: “This is it! I’ll get my oppressors off my back. I’ll get back at my enemies. I’ll give you the back of my hand, purge the junk from your life, clean you up. I’ll set honest judges and wise counselors among you just like it was back in the beginning. Then you’ll be renamed City-That-Treats-People-Right, the True-Blue City.” GOD’s right ways will put Zion right again. GOD’s right actions will restore her prodigals. But it’s curtains for rebels and GOD-traitors, a dead end for those who walk out on GOD. “Your dalliances in those oak grove shrines will leave you looking mighty foolish, All that fooling around in god and goddess gardens that you thought was the latest thing. You’ll end up like an oak tree with all its leaves falling off, Like an unwatered garden, withered and brown. ‘The Strong Man’ will turn out to be dead bark and twigs, and his ‘work,’ the spark that starts the fire That exposes man and work both as nothing but cinders and smoke.”
Isaiah 1:31 King James Version (KJV)
And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
Isaiah 1:31 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
The strong man will become tinder, His work also a spark. Thus they shall both burn together And there will be none to quench them.
Isaiah 1:31 New Century Version (NCV)
Powerful people will be like small, dry pieces of wood, and their works will be like sparks. They will burn together, and no one will be able to put out that fire.”
Isaiah 1:31 American Standard Version (ASV)
And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
Isaiah 1:31 New International Version (NIV)
The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.”
Isaiah 1:31 New King James Version (NKJV)
The strong shall be as tinder, And the work of it as a spark; Both will burn together, And no one shall quench them.
Isaiah 1:31 Amplified Bible (AMP)
The strong man will become tinder, And his work a spark. So both will burn together And there will be none to quench them.
Isaiah 1:31 New Living Translation (NLT)
The strongest among you will disappear like straw; their evil deeds will be the spark that sets it on fire. They and their evil works will burn up together, and no one will be able to put out the fire.