Isaiah 59:5
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Bible text
They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
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Statistics
- 11 Uses? Every use that covers this verse, also through a reference to its whole chapter.
- 2 Uses naming the verse? As in the Top 100: only uses that name this verse.
- #21,585 Rank? Rank 21,585 of 27,463 verses named in at least one use; tied verses share a rank.
- mapped Mapping? Position 18,930 in the sequence Protestant canon, 66 books (KJV numbering), Old Testament
11 of the uses are a lower bound (repetitions not known exactly).
The two numbers differ because a reference to a whole chapter counts in the first number for each of its verses, but does not name the verse.
Persons in this verseExperimental
Experimental AI reading, not checked against sources.
- The people of Israelgroupspoken of
"Spoken of": the verse does not name the person but means them (a pronoun, a description, the addressed "you"). "Invoked": someone in the verse refers to the person as an authority, example, ancestor or memory; the person does not take part.
Who speaks in this verseExperimental
- IsaiahOnly in the reading of:conservativeearly ChurchJewish
- Third IsaiahOnly in the reading of:critical
Author of this verseExperimental
- IsaiahOnly in the reading of:conservativeearly ChurchJewish
- Third IsaiahOnly in the reading of:critical
- Editors of the book of IsaiaheditorOnly in the reading of:critical
- Hezekiah and his companyeditorOnly in the reading of:Jewish
Topics of this verseExperimental
Central topics first, then the topics the verse touches in passing.
Genre of this verseExperimental
Confidence of the reading for this verse: medium
Notes of the reading on the traditions (in English):
- Images of viper eggs and webs for evil schemes. crit: Duhm.
Persons, speakers, authors, topics and genres: the AI reading of the Bible (experimental, not checked against sources); ids of the persons from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Sources and credits
Numbering in the versification systems?
Bible editions number some verses differently. This verse has the following labels; labels that differ from the one shown above are marked.
Sources that cite this verse?
- Sefaria: links from Jewish works to the Tanakh: 9 uses
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations: 2 uses
Uses?
11 approved public uses (data: Official), newest first.
- Date
- Jan 1, 1809 – Dec 31, 1849
- Cited as
- Isaiah 59
- Source
- Sefaria: links from Jewish works to the Tanakh, Likutei Halakhot
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Nathan Sternhartz
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Judaism
- Language
- he
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1809 – Dec 31, 1849
- Cited as
- Isaiah 59
- Source
- Sefaria: links from Jewish works to the Tanakh, Likutei Halakhot
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Nathan Sternhartz
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Judaism
- Language
- he
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1797 – Dec 31, 1813
- Cited as
- Isaiah 59
- Source
- Sefaria: links from Jewish works to the Tanakh, Likutei Moharan
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Nachman of Breslov
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Judaism
- Language
- he
- Place of origin
- Bratslav, Ukraine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1797 – Dec 31, 1813
- Cited as
- Isaiah 59
- Source
- Sefaria: links from Jewish works to the Tanakh, Likutei Moharan
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Nachman of Breslov
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Judaism
- Language
- he
- Place of origin
- Bratslav, Ukraine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1695 – Dec 31, 1765
- Cited as
- Isaiah 59
- Source
- Sefaria: links from Jewish works to the Tanakh, Ba'al Shem Tov
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Ba'al Shem Tov
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Judaism
- Language
- he
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1100 – Dec 31, 1120
- Cited as
- Isaiah 59
- Source
- Sefaria: links from Jewish works to the Tanakh, Midrash Lekach Tov
- Author
- Tobiah ben Eliezer
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Judaism
- Language
- he
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Cited as
- Isaiah 59:5
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Ishodad of Merv
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Church of the East
- Language
- syc
- Venue
- Bayramaly
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- 0500
- Cited as
- Isaiah 59
- Source
- Sefaria: links from Jewish works to the Tanakh, Eikhah Rabbah
- Usage
- Reference
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Judaism
- Language
- he
- Place of origin
- Talmudic Israel/Babylon
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- 0500
- Cited as
- Isaiah 59
- Source
- Sefaria: links from Jewish works to the Tanakh, Eikhah Rabbah
- Usage
- Reference
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Judaism
- Language
- he
- Place of origin
- Talmudic Israel/Babylon
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- 0500
- Cited as
- Isaiah 59
- Source
- Sefaria: links from Jewish works to the Tanakh, Eikhah Rabbah
- Usage
- Reference
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Judaism
- Language
- he
- Place of origin
- Talmudic Israel/Babylon
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 330 – Dec 31, 400
- Cited as
- Isaiah 59:5
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, AGAINST EUNOMIUS
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Venue
- Mucur
- Contributed by
- import-agent
How this was computed – counting rule: Every covered verse (baseline) / Named verses only; data: Official; as of Nov 15, 2026, 9:45 PM UTC
Neutral key: nrf1:ISA.059.005
- Metric
- Verse-level uses: every citation adds one for each verse it covers, under the counting rule. A citation of three verses adds 3. (definition)
- Counting rule
- Every covered verse (baseline) The baseline rule: every mention of every verse counts; a chapter or a range counts once for each verse it covers, and an unknown repetition counts as one. (definition) – uses; references to a whole chapter count for each of its verses
Named verses only Like the baseline rule, but only references that name verses count; whole chapters and books are left out. The Top 100 verses use it, so a chapter reference does not lift every verse of the chapter. (definition) – uses naming the verse (owner decision P5); the basis of the Top 100 and of the rank - Profile
- Official The official profile of every public number: only reviewed and approved entries whose evidence quality is high enough. (definition) – reviewed and approved data only
- Epoch
- 192, published Nov 15, 2026, 9:45 PM UTC (provisional)
- Sequence
- Protestant canon, 66 books (KJV numbering)
prot66.nrf, mapping release R9 - Rank
- As in the Top 100: uses naming the verse, highest first, over the verses named at least once; tied verses share a rank.
- Uses
- Approved public uses of the data shown, with at least one cited passage on these verses. The list follows the current approved data; the numbers are those of the epoch.
Live numbers are recomputed every 15 minutes and are provisional until a data release is frozen. The Bible text is shown for reading only; it is never counted. How we count Glossary