Isaiah 22:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּקְרָ֗א אֲדֹנָ֧י יְהוִ֛ה צְבָא֖וֹת בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא לִבְכִי֙ וּלְמִסְפֵּ֔ד וּלְקָרְחָ֖ה וְלַחֲגֹ֥ר שָֽׂק׃

Transliteration

And-yiqrāʾ ʾᵃdōnāy YHWH ṣᵉbāʾôt in-the-yôm the-that to-bᵉkî and-to-mispēd and-to-qorḥāh and-to-ḥᵃgōr śāq

Grammar Details

וַיִּקְרָ֗א: conjunction + Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular, apocopated - and he called
*ʾᵃdōnāy*: noun with 1st person plural suffix - my Lord
*YHWH*: divine name
*ṣᵉbāʾôt*: masculine plural - hosts/armies
בַּיּ֣וֹם: preposition + definite article + masculine singular - in the day
הַה֑וּא: definite article + demonstrative pronoun - that
לִבְכִי֙: preposition + masculine singular - to weeping
וּלְמִסְפֵּ֔ד: conjunction + preposition + masculine singular - and to mourning
וּלְקָרְחָ֖ה: conjunction + preposition + feminine singular - and to baldness
וְלַחֲגֹ֥ר: conjunction + preposition + Qal infinitive construct - and to gird
*śāq*: masculine singular - sackcloth

Word Meanings

*yiqrāʾ*: called/summoned/invited
*ʾᵃdōnāy*: my Lord/Master
*YHWH*: Yahweh/LORD
*ṣᵉbāʾôt*: hosts/armies
*bᵉkî*: weeping/crying
*mispēd*: mourning/wailing/lamentation
*qorḥāh*: baldness (sign of mourning)
*ḥᵃgōr*: gird/wrap/put on
*śāq*: sackcloth (rough cloth worn during mourning)

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Jehovah, and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?
Mic 1:16 : 16 Make thee bald, and cut off thy hair for the children of thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Joel 1:13 : 13 Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.
Jas 4:8-9 : 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt {G5312} you.
Jas 5:1 : 1 Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Jonah 3:6 : 6 And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
2 Chr 35:25 : 25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Ezra 9:3 : 3 And when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
Neh 8:9-9 : 9 And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto Jehovah your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. 10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye grieved; for the joy of Jehovah is your [ strength.] 11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved. 12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
Neh 9:9 : 9 And thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea,
Job 1:20 : 20 Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped;
Eccl 3:4 : 4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Eccl 3:11 : 11 He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.
Isa 15:2 : 2 They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.

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