Isaiah 49:26

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהַאֲכַלְתִּ֤י אֶת־מוֹנַ֙יִךְ֙ אֶת־בְּשָׂרָ֔ם וְכֶעָסִ֖יס דָּמָ֣ם יִשְׁכָּר֑וּן וְיָדְע֣וּ כָל־בָּשָׂ֗ר כִּ֣י אֲנִ֤י יְהוָה֙ מֽוֹשִׁיעֵ֔ךְ וְגֹאֲלֵ֖ךְ אֲבִ֥יר יַעֲקֹֽב׃ ס

Transliteration

Wə-haʾăḵaltî ʾeṯ-môṇayiḵ ʾeṯ-bəśārām, and-like-ʿāsîs dāmām yiškārûn; wə-yāḏəʿû all-bāśār that I YHWH môšîʿēḵ wə-gōʾălēḵ ʾăḇîr Yaʿăqōḇ.

Grammar Details

• *Wə-haʾăḵaltî*: conjunction + verb, hiphil perfect, 1st singular - and I will feed/cause to eat
• *ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
• *môṇayiḵ*: verb, hiphil participle, masculine plural + 2nd feminine singular suffix - your oppressors
• *bəśārām*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their flesh
• *ʿāsîs*: noun, masculine singular - sweet wine/new wine
• *dāmām*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their blood
• *yiškārûn*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural + paragogic nun - they will be drunk
• *wə-yāḏəʿû*: conjunction + verb, qal perfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they will know
• *bāśār*: noun, masculine singular - flesh/humanity
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *môšîʿēḵ*: verb, hiphil participle, masculine singular + 2nd feminine singular suffix - your savior
• *wə-gōʾălēḵ*: conjunction + verb, qal participle, masculine singular + 2nd feminine singular suffix - and your redeemer
• *ʾăḇîr*: noun, masculine singular construct - mighty one of
• *Yaʿăqōḇ*: proper noun - Jacob

Word Meanings

• *haʾăḵaltî*: I will feed/I will cause to eat/I will make to devour
• *môṇayiḵ*: your oppressors/those who afflict you/your tormentors
• *ʿāsîs*: sweet wine/new wine/juice
• *yiškārûn*: they will be drunk/they will become intoxicated
• *bāśār*: flesh/humanity/all living beings
• *môšîʿēḵ*: your savior/your deliverer
• *gōʾălēḵ*: your redeemer/your avenger/your kinsman-redeemer
• *ʾăḇîr*: mighty one of/champion of/strong one of

Referenced Verses

• Isa 9:20 : 20 And one shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
• Ezek 39:7 : 7 And my holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel; neither will I suffer my holy name to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am Jehovah, the Holy One in Israel.
• Rev 16:6 : 6 for they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and blood hast thou given them to drink: {G1063} they are worthy.
• Rev 14:20 : 20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and there came out blood from the winepress, even unto the bridles of the horses, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
• Rev 15:3-4 : 3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the ages. 4 Who shall not fear, {G4571} O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy; for all the nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy righteous acts have been made manifest.
• Isa 45:6 : 6 that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me: I am Jehovah, and there is none else.
• Isa 60:16 : 16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the nations, and shalt suck the breast of kings; and thou shalt know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
• Isa 41:14-20 : 14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. 15 Behold, I have made thee [to be] a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 16 Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. 17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst; I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. 18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. 19 I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil - tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together: 20 that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of Jehovah hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
• Isa 43:3 : 3 For I am Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead.
• Judg 7:22 : 22 And they blew the three hundred trumpets, and Jehovah set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
• Ps 9:16 : 16 Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. {H1902} Selah}
• Ps 58:10-11 : 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked; 11 So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
• Ps 83:18 : 18 That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth.
• Isa 9:4 : 4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.
• Rev 17:6 : 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder.