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Isaiah 66:14 Explained in Context
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Verse 14. 14And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
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Quick Meaning
The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb” at Isaiah 66:14 as part of “Excluded Servants Hear Birth and Maternal Comfort for Zion.”
Read It With
- Isaiah 66:5–14
Read Isaiah 66:14 with 66:5–14. By itself, “And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, historical horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Mocking kin are answered by temple noise, Zion gives birth before labor, children nurse at Jerusalem's abundance, and divine comfort makes servants flourish.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within the same chapter, this unit advances from “Heaven's Throne Exposes Manipulative Worship” into “Excluded Servants Hear Birth and Maternal Comfort for Zion.” Its non-interchangeable movement is: Mocking kin are answered by temple noise, Zion gives birth before labor, children nurse at Jerusalem's abundance, and divine comfort makes servants flourish. This verse's placement is specific: The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb” at Isaiah 66:14 as part of “Excluded Servants Hear Birth and Maternal Comfort for Zion.”
What Remains True
Hope for a community must hold justice, belonging, safety, worship, grief, and repair together. In Isaiah 66:14, that bounded truth is carried through this verse's role: The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb” at Isaiah 66:14 as part of “Excluded Servants Hear Birth and Maternal Comfort for Zion.”
How It Can Shape Life
- Serve real communities with accountable justice and welcome while refusing territorial absolutism, misogyny, or claims that one modern city exhausts the poetry. This response follows Isaiah 66:5–14's specific concern, “Excluded Servants Hear Birth and Maternal Comfort for Zion.” This verse directs that response through its exact role: The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb” at Isaiah 66:14 as part of “Excluded Servants Hear Birth and Maternal Comfort for Zion.”
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Isaiah 66:5–14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology at the exact unit, without treating morphology as apparatus, lexicon, composition history, or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 66:5–14 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked
Open the fixed Hebrew Isaiah file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Notes: Isaiah
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2016; current official PDF
Supports: Verse-level controls for Hebrew, syntax, poetry, older KJV language, chronology, names, textual issues, and material translation alternatives.
Exact location: Official NET Isaiah PDF, translator, study, and textual notes attached to Isaiah 66:5–14 in the complete 205-page book PDF
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