KJV King James Version
Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
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Isaiah 10:30
Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth!
WEB World English Bible
Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
ASV American Standard Version
Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim! hearken, O Laishah! O thou poor Anathoth!
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Cry aloud with thy voice, daughter of Gallim, Give attention, Laish! answer her, Anathoth.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 10
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand [against] the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature [shall be] hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
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1 Samuel 25:44But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which [was] of Gallim.Jeremiah 1:1The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:Joshua 21:18Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.Judges 18:7Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that [were] therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and [there was] no magistrate in the land, that might put [them] to shame in [any] thing; and they [were] far from the Zidonians, and had no business with [any] man.Jeremiah 32:8So Hanameel mine uncle’s son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that [is] in Anathoth, which [is] in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance [is] thine, and the redemption [is] thine; buy [it] for thyself. Then I knew that this [was] the word of the LORD.1 Kings 2:26And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou [art] worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.Judges 18:29And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city [was] Laish at the first.
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