Devine Scripture

Isaiah 8:15

Isaiah chapter 8 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Context

v.14And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

v.15This passage

v.16Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Matthew 15:14

    Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.

  • Luke 20:17

    But he looked upon them, and said, What then is this that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner?

  • Isaiah 28:13

    Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

  • Romans 9:32

    Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

  • Isaiah 59:10

    We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.

  • 1 Corinthians 1:23

    but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness;