Isaiah 57:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאָמַ֥ר סֹֽלּוּ־סֹ֖לּוּ פַּנּוּ־דָ֑רֶךְ הָרִ֥ימוּ מִכְשׁ֖וֹל מִדֶּ֥רֶךְ עַמִּֽי׃ ס

Transliteration

wə-ʾāmar sōllû-sōllû pannû-dārek hārîmû mikšôl midderek ʿammî.

Grammar Details

*wə-ʾāmar*: conjunctive waw + qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and he says/said
*sōllû-sōllû*: qal imperative, masculine plural (repeated) - build up, build up
*pannû-dārek*: piel imperative, masculine plural + noun, feminine, singular - clear the way
*hārîmû*: hiphil imperative, masculine plural - lift up/remove
*mikšôl*: noun, masculine, singular - stumbling block/obstacle
*midderek*: preposition + noun, feminine, singular construct - from the way of
*ʿammî*: noun, masculine, singular + 1st person singular suffix - my people

Word Meanings

*sōllû-sōllû*: build up/cast up/prepare (repeated for emphasis)
*pannû-dārek*: clear the way/remove obstacles/prepare the path
*hārîmû*: remove/take away/lift up
*mikšôl*: stumbling block/obstacle/hindrance
*derek*: way/road/path/journey

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Referenced Verses

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.
Isa 40:3 : 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.
Luke 3:5-6 : 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; 6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
Rom 14:13 : 13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother's way, or an occasion of falling.
1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat {G3756} no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.
Isa 35:8 : 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].
Jer 18:15 : 15 For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;
1 Cor 1:23 : 23 but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews {G3303} a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness;
1 Cor 8:9 : 9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.
1 Cor 10:32-33 : 32 Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God: 33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of the many, that they may be saved.
2 Cor 6:3 : 3 giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;
Heb 12:13 : 13 and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.

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