Isaiah 66:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For, behold, Jehovah will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ בָּאֵ֣שׁ יָב֔וֹא וְכַסּוּפָ֖ה מַרְכְּבֹתָ֑יו לְהָשִׁ֤יב בְּחֵמָה֙ אַפּ֔וֹ וְגַעֲרָת֖וֹ בְּלַהֲבֵי־אֵֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

For-behold YHWH in-ʾēš yāḇôʾ, and-like-sûp̄â markĕḇōtāyw; to-hāšîḇ in-ḥēmâ ʾappô, and-gaʿărātô in-lahăḇê-ʾēš.

Grammar Details

*kî-hinnēh*: conjunction + interjection - for behold
*YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
*bā-ʾēš*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - in fire
*yāḇôʾ*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will come
*wĕ-ḵa-sûp̄â*: conjunction + preposition + noun, feminine singular - and like a whirlwind
*markĕḇōtāyw*: noun, feminine plural construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his chariots
*lĕ-hāšîḇ*: preposition + hiphil infinitive construct - to return/render
*bĕ-ḥēmâ*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - in fury
*ʾappô*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his anger
*wĕ-gaʿărātô*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - and his rebuke
*bĕ-lahăḇê-ʾēš*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct + noun, feminine singular - in flames of fire

Word Meanings

*yāḇôʾ*: he will come/arrive/appear
*ʾēš*: fire/flame
*sûp̄â*: whirlwind/storm/tempest
*markĕḇōtāyw*: his chariots/war vehicles
*hāšîḇ*: to return/render/repay
*ḥēmâ*: fury/wrath/rage
*ʾappô*: his anger/wrath/face
*gaʿărātô*: his rebuke/reproof/threatening
*lahăḇê-ʾēš*: flames of fire/fiery flames

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Referenced Verses

Ps 68:17 : 17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands; The Lord is among them, [as in] Sinai, in the sanctuary.
Isa 30:33 : 33 For a Topheth is prepared of old; yea, for the king it is made ready; he hath made it deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
2 Thess 1:6-9 : 6 if so be that it is righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you, 7 and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire, 8 rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus: 9 who shall suffer punishment, [even] eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
2 Pet 3:10-12 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; {G1722} {G3571} in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein {G846} shall be burned up. 11 Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in [all] holy living and godliness, 12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Jer 4:3 : 3 For thus saith Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
Dan 11:40 : 40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south contend with him; and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass through.
Amos 7:4 : 4 Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, the Lord Jehovah called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.
Matt 22:7 : 7 But the king was wroth; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
Ps 97:3 : 3 A fire goeth before him, And burneth up his adversaries round about.
Isa 30:27-28 : 27 Behold, the name of Jehovah cometh from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire; 28 and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causeth to err [shall be] in the jaws of the peoples.
Ps 11:6 : 6 Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Ps 21:9 : 9 Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger: Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.
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.

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