Isaiah 49:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשַׂמְתִּ֥י כָל־הָרַ֖י לַדָּ֑רֶךְ וּמְסִלֹּתַ֖י יְרֻמֽוּן׃

Transliteration

Wə-śamtî all-hāray for-dāreḵ, ûməsillōṯay yərumûn.

Grammar Details

*Wə-śamtî*: conjunction + verb, qal perfect, 1st singular - and I will make/place
*hāray*: noun, masculine plural + 1st singular suffix - my mountains
*dāreḵ*: noun, masculine singular - way/road
*ûməsillōṯay*: conjunction + noun, feminine plural + 1st singular suffix - and my highways
*yərumûn*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they will be raised up

Word Meanings

*śamtî*: I will make/I will set/I will place
*hāray*: my mountains/my mountain ranges
*dāreḵ*: way/road/path/journey
*məsillōṯay*: my highways/my raised roads/my causeways
*yərumûn*: they will be raised up/they will be exalted/they will be elevated

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Referenced Verses

Isa 11:16 : 16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, that shall remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isa 62:10 : 10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the peoples.
Luke 3:4-5 : 4 as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight. 5 Every valley shall be filled, And every mountain and hill shall be brought low; And the crooked shall become straight, And the rough ways {G1519} smooth;
John 14:6 : 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Ps 107:4 : 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation.
Ps 107:7 : 7 He led them also by a straight way, That they might go to a city of habitation.
Isa 35:8-9 : 8 [And a highway] [shall be there, and a way,] [and it shall be called] [The way] [of holiness;] [the unclean] [shall not pass over] [it; but is shall be for the redeemed]: the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err [therein]. 9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up thereon; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there]: 10 and the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isa 40:3-4 : 3 The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:
Isa 43:19 : 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Isa 57:14 : 14 And he will say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.

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