Isaiah 29:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֗ה כַּֽחֲלוֹם֙ חֲז֣וֹן לַ֔יְלָה הֲמוֹן֙ כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֔ם הַצֹּבְאִ֖ים עַל־אֲרִיאֵ֑ל וְכָל־צֹבֶ֙יהָ֙ וּמְצֹ֣דָתָ֔הּ וְהַמְּצִיקִ֖ים לָֽהּ

Transliteration

wĕ-hāyāh like-ḥălôm ḥăzôn laylāh hămôn all-ha-gôyim ha-ṣōḇĕʾîm against-ʾărîʾēl and-all-ṣōḇeyhā and-mĕṣōdātāh and-ha-mĕṣîqîm to-her

Grammar Details

• *wĕ-hāyāh*: verb, qal perfect with waw consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - and it will be
• *ka-ḥălôm*: preposition kaph + noun, masculine singular - like a dream
• *ḥăzôn*: noun, masculine singular construct - vision of
• *laylāh*: noun, masculine singular - night
• *hămôn*: noun, masculine singular construct - multitude/crowd of
• *kol-ha-gôyim*: particle kol + definite article + noun, masculine plural - all the nations
• *ha-ṣōḇĕʾîm*: definite article + verb, qal participle, masculine plural - the ones warring/fighting
• *ʿal-ʾărîʾēl*: preposition ʿal + proper noun - against Ariel
• *wĕ-ḵol-ṣōḇeyhā*: conjunction waw + particle kol + verb, qal participle, masculine plural with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - and all her fighters/attackers
• *ū-mĕṣōdātāh*: conjunction waw + noun, feminine singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - and her fortress/stronghold
• *wĕ-ha-mĕṣîqîm*: conjunction waw + definite article + verb, hiphil participle, masculine plural - and the ones causing distress
• *lāh*: preposition lamed + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - to her

Word Meanings

• *ḥălôm*: dream/dreaming
• *ḥăzôn*: vision/revelation
• *hămôn*: multitude/crowd/tumult
• *ṣōḇĕʾîm*: warring/fighting/attacking
• *ṣōḇeyhā*: her fighters/attackers/besiegers
• *mĕṣōdātāh*: her fortress/stronghold/siege works
• *mĕṣîqîm*: ones causing distress/afflicting/harassing

Referenced Verses

• Job 20:8 : 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
• Ps 73:20 : 20 As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
• Zech 12:9 : 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
• Mic 4:11-12 : 11 And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see [our desire] upon Zion. 12 But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, neither understand they his counsel; for he hath gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor.
• Nah 1:3-9 : 3 Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear [the guilty]: Jehovah hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him. 7 Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that take refuge in him. 8 But with an over-running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. 9 What do ye devise against Jehovah? he will make a full end; affliction shall not rise up the second time. 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble. 11 There is one gone forth out of thee, that deviseth evil against Jehovah, that counselleth wickedness. 12 Thus saith Jehovah: Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so shall they be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
• Zech 12:3-5 : 3 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples; all that burden themselves with it shall be sore wounded; and all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it. 4 In that day, saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness. 5 And the chieftains of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Jehovah of hosts their God.
• Zech 14:1-3 : 1 Behold, a day of Jehovah cometh, when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then shall Jehovah go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
• Zech 14:12-15 : 12 And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from Jehovah shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor. 14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. 15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in those camps, as that plague.
• Rev 20:8-9 : 8 and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9 And they went up over the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down {G575} {G2316} out of heaven, and devoured them.
• Isa 17:14 : 14 At eventide, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
• Isa 37:36 : 36 And the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
• Isa 41:11-12 : 11 Behold, all they that are incensed against thee shall be put to shame and confounded: they that strive with thee shall be as nothing, and shall perish. 12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contend with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
• Jer 25:31-33 : 31 A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, saith Jehovah. 32 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth. 33 And the slain of Jehovah shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the face of the ground.
• Jer 51:42-44 : 42 The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. 43 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby. 44 And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.