Isaiah 30:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַתָּה בּוֹא כָתְבָהּ עַל־לוּחַ אִתָּם וְעַל־סֵפֶר חֻקָּהּ וּתְהִי לְיוֹם אַחֲרוֹן לָעַד עַד־עוֹלָם׃

Transliteration

Now, bôʾ kotebāh upon a lûaḥ with them and upon a sēper ḥuqqāh, and tehî for a day ʾaḥărôn, for a witness unto ʿôlām.

Grammar Details

• *bôʾ*: qal imperative masculine singular - go/come
• *kotebāh*: qal imperative masculine singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - write it
• *lûaḥ*: masculine singular noun - tablet/board
• *sēper*: masculine singular noun - book/scroll/document
• *ḥuqqāh*: qal imperative masculine singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - inscribe it
• *tehî*: qal jussive 3rd person feminine singular - let it be
• *ʾaḥărôn*: masculine singular adjective - latter/future/last
• *ʿôlām*: masculine singular noun - forever/eternity

Word Meanings

• *bôʾ*: go/come/enter
• *kotebāh*: write it/inscribe it
• *lûaḥ*: tablet/board/panel
• *sēper*: book/scroll/document/letter
• *ḥuqqāh*: inscribe it/engrave it
• *tehî*: let it be/may it become
• *ʾaḥărôn*: latter/future/last/coming
• *ʿôlām*: forever/eternity/perpetuity

Referenced Verses

• Isa 8:1 : 1 And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
• Hab 2:2 : 2 And Jehovah answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.
• 1 Tim 4:1 : 1 But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
• 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,
• Jude 1:18 : 18 That they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.
• Num 24:14 : 14 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come, [and] I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
• Deut 4:30 : 30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, in the latter days thou shalt return to Jehovah thy God, and hearken unto his voice:
• Deut 31:19 : 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach thou it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
• Deut 31:22 : 22 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
• Deut 31:29 : 29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
• Job 19:23-25 : 23 Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! 24 That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever! 25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:
• Isa 2:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
• Jer 23:20 : 20 The anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly.
• Jer 36:2 : 2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
• Jer 36:28-32 : 28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned. 29 And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah thou shalt say, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? 30 Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. 31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they hearkened not. 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 48:47 : 47 Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith Jehovah. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
• Jer 51:60 : 60 And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
• Ezek 38:16 : 16 and thou shalt come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
• Hos 3:5 : 5 afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king, and shall come with fear unto Jehovah and to his goodness in the latter days.