Isaiah 57:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַל־מִי֙ תִּתְעַנָּ֔גוּ עַל־מִ֛י תַּרְחִ֥יבוּ פֶ֖ה תַּאֲרִ֣יכוּ לָשׁ֑וֹן הֲלֽוֹא־אַתֶּ֥ם יִלְדֵי־פֶ֖שַׁע זֶ֥רַע שָֽׁקֶר׃

Transliteration

ʿal-mî titʿannāgû ʿal-mî tarḥîbû peh taʾărîḵû lāšôn hălôʾ-ʾattem yildê-pešaʿ zeraʿ šāqer.

Grammar Details

• *ʿal-mî*: preposition + interrogative pronoun - against whom
• *titʿannāgû*: hithpael imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you make yourselves sport/delight yourselves
• *tarḥîbû*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you make wide/open wide
• *peh*: noun, masculine, singular - mouth
• *taʾărîḵû*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you make long/extend
• *lāšôn*: noun, feminine, singular - tongue
• *hălôʾ-ʾattem*: interrogative particle + negation + 2nd person masculine plural pronoun - are you not
• *yildê-pešaʿ*: noun, masculine, plural construct + noun - children of transgression
• *zeraʿ*: noun, masculine, singular construct - seed of
• *šāqer*: noun, masculine, singular - falsehood/lie

Word Meanings

• *titʿannāgû*: amuse yourselves/mock/delight yourselves/make sport
• *tarḥîbû*: open wide/enlarge/make wide
• *taʾărîḵû*: stick out/extend/prolong
• *pešaʿ*: transgression/rebellion/sin
• *šāqer*: falsehood/deception/lie

Referenced Verses

• Isa 1:4 : 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged [and gone] backward.
• Ps 35:21 : 21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me; They said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
• Ps 69:12 : 12 They that sit in the gate talk of me; And [I am] the song of the drunkards.
• Exod 9:17 : 17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
• Exod 16:7-8 : 7 and in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of Jehovah; for that he heareth your murmurings against Jehovah: and what are we, that ye murmur against us? 8 And Moses said, [This shall be], when Jehovah shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that Jehovah heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah.
• Num 16:11 : 11 Therefore thou and all thy company are gathered together against Jehovah: and Aaron, what is he that ye murmur against him?
• Josh 10:21 : 21 that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
• Judg 16:25-27 : 25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the {H631} prison-house; and he made sport before them. And they set him between the pillars: 26 and Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house resteth, that I may lean upon them. 27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
• Job 16:9-9 : 9 He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.
• Ps 22:7 : 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],
• Ps 22:13 : 13 They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.
• Ps 22:17 : 17 I may count all my bones; They look and stare upon me.
• Isa 10:15 : 15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? as if a rod should wield them that lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him that is] not wood.
• Isa 30:1 : 1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
• Isa 30:9 : 9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;
• Isa 37:23 : 23 Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 37:29 : 29 Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
• Lam 2:15-16 : 15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
• Ezek 2:4 : 4 And the children are impudent and stiffhearted: I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.
• Hos 10:9 : 9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood; the battle against the children of iniquity doth not overtake them in Gibeah.
• Matt 13:38 : 38 [and the field] [is] [the world;] [and the good] [seed,] [these] [are] [the sons] [of the kingdom;] [and the tares] [are] [the sons] [of the evil] [one];
• Matt 27:29 : 29 And they platted a crown of thorns and put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
• Matt 27:39-44 : 39 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, 40 and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 In like manner also the chief priests mocking [him], with the scribes and elders, said, 42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. He is the King of Israel; let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on him. 43 He trusteth on God; let him deliver him now, if he desireth him: for he said, I am the Son of God. 44 And the robbers also that were crucified with him cast upon him the same reproach.
• Luke 10:16 : 16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that rejecteth you rejecteth me; and he that rejecteth me rejecteth him that sent me.
• Acts 9:4 : 4 and he fell upon the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
• Eph 2:2-3 : 2 wherein {G1722} ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience; 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest: —
• Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.
• Col 3:6 : 6 for which things' sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience:
• 2 Pet 2:13 : 13 suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; [men] that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;