Isaiah 52:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For ye shall not go out in haste, neither shall ye go by flight: for Jehovah will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י לֹ֤א בְחִפָּזוֹן֙ תֵּצֵ֔אוּ וּבִמְנוּסָ֖ה לֹ֣א תֵלֵכ֑וּן כִּֽי־הֹלֵ֤ךְ לִפְנֵיכֶם֙ יְהוָ֔ה וּמְאַסִּפְכֶ֖ם אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ ס

Transliteration

kî lōʾ bəḥippāzôn tēṣēʾû ûbimnûsâ lōʾ tēlēkûn kî-hōlēk lipnêkem YHWH ûməʾassipkem ʾĕlōhê yiśrāʾēl

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *bəḥippāzôn*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - in haste
• *tēṣēʾû*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you will go out
• *ûbimnûsâ*: conjunction + preposition + noun, feminine singular - and in flight
• *tēlēkûn*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural (paragogic nun) - you will go
• *kî-hōlēk*: conjunction + verb, qal participle, masculine singular - for goes
• *lipnêkem*: preposition + noun, masculine plural with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - before you
• *YHWH*: proper noun - Yahweh/the LORD
• *ûməʾassipkem*: conjunction + verb, piel participle, masculine singular with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - and your rear guard
• *ʾĕlōhê*: noun, masculine plural construct - God of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

• *bəḥippāzôn*: in haste/hurriedly/in alarm
• *bimnûsâ*: in flight/in panic/as fugitives
• *hōlēk* *lipnêkem*: goes before you/leads you
• *məʾassipkem*: your rear guard/the one gathering you/your protector

Referenced Verses

• Isa 58:8 : 8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of Jehovah shall by thy rearward.
• Mic 2:13 : 13 The breaker is gone up before them: they have broken forth and passed on to the gate, and are gone out thereat; and their king is passed on before them, and Jehovah at the head of them.
• Isa 45:2 : 2 I will go before thee, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;
• Exod 14:19-20 : 19 And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud removed from before them, and stood behind them: 20 and it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one came not near the other all the night.
• Exod 12:11 : 11 And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is Jehovah's passover.
• Exod 12:33 : 33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We are all dead men.
• Exod 12:39 : 39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victuals.
• Exod 13:21-22 : 21 And Jehovah went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; that they might go by day and by night: 22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, departed not from before the people.
• Deut 20:4 : 4 for Jehovah your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
• Judg 4:14 : 14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which Jehovah has delivered Sisera into your hand; is not Jehovah gone out before you? So Barak went down from mountain Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
• 1 Chr 14:15 : 15 And it shall be, when thou hearest the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry-trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle; for God is gone out before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.
• Isa 28:16 : 16 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious [corner-] [stone] of sure foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste.
• Exod 14:8 : 8 And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.
• Isa 51:14 : 14 The captive exile shall speedily be loosed; and he shall not die [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.
• Num 10:25 : 25 And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.