King James Version
“And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. both: Heb. from the soul, and even to the flesh”
Isaiah 10:18 · KJV
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. both: Heb. from the soul, and even to the flesh
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them. few: Heb. number
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“the glory”
H3519properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
“of his forest”
H3293a copse of bushes; hence, a forest; hence, honey in the comb (as hived in trees)
“and of his fruitful field”
H3759a planted field (garden, orchard, vineyard or park); by implication, garden produce
“both soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“and body”
H1320flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man
“And shall consume”
H3615to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“fainteth”
H4549to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
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