Isaiah 65:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yea, I will recompense into their bosom,

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִנֵּ֥ה כְתוּבָ֖ה לְפָנָ֑י לֹ֤א אֶחֱשֶׂה֙ כִּ֣י אִם־שִׁלַּ֔מְתִּי וְשִׁלַּמְתִּ֖י עַל־חֵיקָֽם׃

Transliteration

hinneh khetuvah to-panay not ʾeheshe but if-shillamti and-shillamti on-heqam

Grammar Details

*hinneh*: interjection - behold/lo
*khetuvah*: Qal passive participle, feminine singular - written
*panay*: plural noun with 1st person singular suffix - my face
*ʾeheshe*: Qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will be silent
*shillamti*: Piel perfect, 1st person singular - I have repaid
*heqam*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their bosom

Word Meanings

*hinneh*: behold/lo/see
*khetuvah*: written/recorded/inscribed
*panay*: my face/my presence/before me
*ʾeheshe*: I will be silent/I will refrain/I will keep still
*shillamti*: I have repaid/I have recompensed/I have requited
*heqam*: their bosom/their lap/their chest

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Referenced Verses

Ps 50:3 : 3 Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.
Jer 16:18 : 18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled mine inheritance with their abominations.
Ps 79:12 : 12 And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
Isa 42:14 : 14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: [now] will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.
Isa 64:12 : 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
Ps 50:21 : 21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: [But] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
Ps 56:8 : 8 Thou numberest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book?
Exod 17:14 : 14 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Deut 32:34 : 34 Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?
Ezek 11:21 : 21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezek 22:31 : 31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought upon their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Joel 3:4 : 4 Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head.
Mal 3:16 : 16 Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another; and Jehovah hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.
Rev 20:12 : 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

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