Now therefore hear you the word of the LORD: you say, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not your word against the house of Isaac.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Drop; menaces, Ezechiel xx. 46. Septuagint, "thou shalt not disturb (Calmet) or threaten the house of Jacob. "(St. Jerome)
Idol; the calf, worshipped in Bethel. (Challoner)
Hebrew, "Isaac "as ver. 9. (Haydock)