Isaiah 31:2

American Standard Version (1901)

Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְגַם־הוּא חָכָם וַיָּבֵא רָע וְאֶת־דְּבָרָיו לֹא הֵסִיר וְקָם עַל־בֵּית מְרֵעִים וְעַל־עֶזְרַת פֹּעֲלֵי אָוֶן

Transliteration

And gam-hûʾ ḥāḵām and wayyāḇēʾ rāʿ and ʾet-dᵉḇārāyw not hēsîr and qām against bêt mᵉrēʿîm and against ʿezrat pōʿᵃlê ʾāwen

Grammar Details

• *gam*: adverb - also/even
• *hûʾ*: pronoun, 3rd masculine singular - he
• *ḥāḵām*: adjective, masculine singular - wise
• *wayyāḇēʾ*: imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd masculine singular, hiphil - and he brings
• *rāʿ*: noun, masculine singular - evil/calamity
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *dᵉḇārāyw*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his words
• *hēsîr*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular, hiphil - he removes/takes away
• *qām*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular, qal - he rises/stands
• *bêt*: noun, masculine singular construct - house of
• *mᵉrēʿîm*: participle, masculine plural, hiphil - evildoers
• *ʿezrat*: noun, feminine singular construct - help of
• *pōʿᵃlê*: participle, masculine plural construct, qal - workers of
• *ʾāwen*: noun, masculine singular - iniquity/wickedness

Word Meanings

• *ḥāḵām*: wise/skillful/clever
• *wayyāḇēʾ*: brings/causes to come
• *rāʿ*: evil/calamity/disaster
• *hēsîr*: removes/takes away/turns aside
• *qām*: rises/stands/arises
• *mᵉrēʿîm*: evildoers/those who do evil
• *ʾāwen*: iniquity/wickedness/trouble

Referenced Verses

• Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?
• Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.
• Isa 63:4-5 : 4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. 5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my wrath, it upheld me.
• Jer 10:7 : 7 Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain; forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee. [
• Jer 10:12 : 12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens:
• Jer 36:32 : 32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides unto them many like words.
• Jer 44:29-30 : 29 And this shall be the sign unto you, saith Jehovah, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil: 30 Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.
• Ezek 29:6 : 6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
• Amos 3:6 : 6 Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shall evil befall a city, and Jehovah hath not done it?
• Zeph 3:8 : 8 Therefore wait ye for me, saith Jehovah, until the day that I rise up to the prey; for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger; for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
• Zech 1:6 : 6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and they turned and said, Like as Jehovah of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
• Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
• Rom 16:27 : 27 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory for ever. Amen.
• 1 Cor 1:21-29 : 21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe. 22 Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness; 24 but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26 For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called] : 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; 28 and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, [yea] and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are: 29 that no flesh should glory before God.
• Jude 1:25 : 25 to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, [be] glory, majesty, dominion and power, before all time, and now, and for evermore. Amen.
• Josh 23:15 : 15 And it shall come to pass, that as all the good things are come upon you of which Jehovah your God spake unto you, so will Jehovah bring upon you all the evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.
• 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are weighed.
• Job 5:13 : 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
• Ps 12:5-6 : 5 Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; I will set him in the safety he panteth for. 6 The words of Jehovah are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, Purified seven times.
• Ps 68:1-2 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; A Psalm of David, a Song]. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; Let them also that hate him flee before him. 2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
• Ps 78:65-66 : 65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. 66 And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.
• Isa 20:4-6 : 4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. 5 And they shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6 And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?
• Isa 22:14 : 14 And Jehovah of hosts revealed himself in mine ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till ye die, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
• Isa 28:21 : 21 For Jehovah will rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
• Isa 30:3 : 3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
• Isa 30:13-14 : 13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant. 14 And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.
• Isa 31:3 : 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
• Isa 32:6 : 6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
• Num 10:35 : 35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, O Jehovah, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.