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God’s Mercies Recalled

Isaiah 63:10

In 11 translations

BSB
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
KJV
¶ But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
WEB
But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.
ASV
But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
LSV
And they have been rebellious and have grieved His Holy Spirit, || And He turns to them for an enemy, || He Himself has fought against them.
YLT
And they have rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit, And He turneth to them for an enemy, He Himself hath fought against them.
DBY
But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them.
DRC
But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
GNV
But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore was hee turned to be their enemie and he fought against them.
JPS
But they rebelled, and grieved His holy spirit; therefore He was turned to be their enemy, Himself fought against them.
LXXE
But they disobeyed, and provoked his Holy Spirit: so he turned to be an enemy, he himself contended against them.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וְהֵ֛מָּה מָר֥וּ וְעִצְּב֖וּ אֶת־ר֣וּחַ קָדְשׁ֑וֹ וַיֵּהָפֵ֥ךְ לָהֶ֛ם לְאוֹיֵ֖ב ה֥וּא נִלְחַם־בָּֽם׃
LXX-Br
Αὐτοὶ δὲ ἠπείθησαν, καὶ παρώξυναν τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐστράφη αὐτοῖς εἰς ἔχθραν, αὐτὸς ἐπολέμησεν αὐτούς.

Who and where

◆ Prophecies of Isaiah

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How traditions read it

Identified with the Holy Spirit in Christian tradition · Holy Spirit

The Hebrew speaks of the spirit (rûaḥ) of God or of the LORD. Christian tradition identifies it with the Holy Spirit, a person of the Trinity; Jewish tradition reads it as God's own power or presence, not a separate person.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
  • Ephesians 4:30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
  • Psalms 78:56But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
  • Psalms 78:40How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
  • Jeremiah 21:5And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath.
  • Nehemiah 9:16–17But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments. They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed…
  • Ezekiel 20:8But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger…
  • Psalms 51:11Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
  • Ezekiel 2:7But speak My words to them, whether they listen or refuse to listen, for they are rebellious.
  • Exodus 15:24So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
  • Exodus 16:8And Moses added, “The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and bread to fill you in the morning, for He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD.”
  • Psalms 95:9–11where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work. For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.” So I…
  • Ezekiel 20:21But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out…
  • Deuteronomy 32:19–25When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters. He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of…
  • Exodus 23:21Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.
  • Psalms 78:8Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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