Isaiah 26:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Yea in the way of thy iudgementes, O Lord, haue we put our trust in thee: thy name also and the remembraunce of thee, is the thing that our soule longeth for.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֣ף אֹ֧רַח מִשְׁפָּטֶ֛יךָ יְהוָ֖ה קִוִּינ֑וּךָ לְשִׁמְךָ֥ וּֽלְזִכְרְךָ֖ תַּאֲוַת־נָֽפֶשׁ׃

Transliteration

Also ʾōraḥ of mišpāṭeḵā YHWH qiwwînûḵā; to šimḵā and to ziḵreḵā taʾăwat-nāpeš.

Grammar Details

• *ʾap*: conjunction - 'also/indeed/even'
• *ʾōraḥ*: masculine singular construct - 'path of'
• *mišpāṭeḵā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your judgments'
• *YHWH*: divine name - 'YHWH'
• *qiwwînûḵā*: piel perfect 1st person plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'we have waited for you'
• *lešimḵā*: preposition with masculine singular noun and 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'for your name'
• *ûleziḵreḵā*: conjunction, preposition with masculine singular noun and 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'and for your remembrance'
• *taʾăwat-nāpeš*: feminine singular construct with feminine singular noun - 'desire of soul'

Word Meanings

• *mišpāṭeḵā*: judgments/ordinances/decisions/justice
• *qiwwînûḵā*: waited for/expected/looked for/hoped in
• *ziḵreḵā*: remembrance/memorial/memory
• *taʾăwat*: desire/longing/craving
• *nāpeš*: soul/life/self/desire/appetite/mind

Referenced Verses

• Exod 3:15 : 15 And God spake further vnto Moyses, Thus shalt thou say vnto the chyldren of Israel: The Lorde God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isahac, and the God of Iacob hath sent me vnto you: This is my name for euer, and this is my memoriall into generation and generation.
• Num 36:13 : 13 These are the comaundementes and lawes whiche the Lorde commaunded by the hande of Moyses vnto the chyldren of Israel, in the fieldes of Moab, by Iordane towarde Iericho.
• 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 For so shal not my house be with God: For he hath made with me an euerlasting couenaunt, perfect and sure in all poyntes: and this is truly all my health, and all my desyre, that it growe, but not as grasse.
• Job 23:10-12 : 10 But as for my way, he knoweth it, and tryeth me, that as the gold I may come foorth. 11 My foote doth kepe his path, his hie way haue I holden, and will not go out of it. 12 I will not forsake the commaundement of his lippes, I haue esteemed the wordes of his mouth more then myne appoynted foode.
• Ps 13:1-2 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a Psalme of Dauid. Howe long wylt thou forget me O God, for euer? howe long wilt thou hyde thy face from me? 2 Howe long shall I seke counsayle in my soule, and be so vexed in mine heart euery day? howe long shall myne enemie triumph ouer me?
• Ps 18:23 : 23 And I was sounde & pure towardes hym: and I was weery lest I shoulde offende hym with my wickednesse.
• Ps 37:3-7 : 3 Put thou thy trust in God, and be doing good: dwell in the land, and feede in trueth. 4 Delight thou also in God: and he shall geue thee thy heartes desire. 5 Commit thy way vnto God: and put thy trust in hym, and he shall bryng it to passe. 6 He shall make thy righteousnesse appeare as cleare as the light: and thy iust dealing as the noone tyde. 7 Holde thee still in God, and wayte paciently vpon him: fret not thy selfe at him whose way doth prosper, at the man that doth abhominations.
• Ps 44:17-18 : 17 And though all this be come vpon vs: yet we do not forget thee, nor shewe our selues to be false in thy couenaunt. 18 Our heart is not turned backe, neither our steppes be declined out of thy pathes:
• Ps 63:1-3 : 1 A psalme of Dauid when he was in the wyldernesse of Iuda. O Lorde thou art my Lorde: early in the morning I do seeke thee. My soule thirsteth for thee: my fleshe also longeth after thee in a baren and drye lande where no water is. 2 To see thee euen so as I haue seene thee in the sanctuary: that I might beholde thy power and glory. 3 For thy louing kindnes is better then life itselfe: my lippes shall prayse thee.
• Ps 65:6 : 6 Thou art he who in his strength setleth fast the mountaines: and is gyrded about with power.
• Ps 73:25 : 25 Whom haue I in heauen but thee? and there is none vpon earth that I desire besides thee.
• Ps 77:10-12 : 10 And I sayde, this is my death: but the ryght hande of the most hyghest may graunt me yeres. 11 I dyd call to remebraunce the workes of God almightie: for thy wonders done a great whyle a goe came into my mynde. 12 I also gaue my selfe to muse of all thy workes: and I talked of all thy actes.
• Ps 84:2 : 2 My soule hath a desire and a longing to enter into the courtes of God: my heart and my flesh leapeth with ioy for to go to the liuing Lorde.
• Ps 106:3 : 3 Blessed are they that kepe iudgement: and do iustice at all times.
• Ps 143:5-6 : 5 I call to remembraunce the tyme long past: I muse vpon euery act of thine, I exercise my study on the worke of thy handes. 6 I stretche foorth myne handes vnto thee: my soule as a thirstie lande gaspeth vnto thee. Selah.
• Song 1:2-4 : 2 O that he would kisse me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy loue is more pleasaunt then wine, 3 and that because of the good and pleasaunt sauour of thy most precious baulmes. Thy name is a sweet smelling oyntment when it is shed foorth, therfore do the maydens loue thee. 4 Drawe thou me vnto thee we wyll runne after thee. The kyng hath brought me into his priuie chaumbers: We wylbe glad and reioyce in thee, we thinke more of thy loue then of wine: they that be righteous loue thee.
• Song 2:3-5 : 3 Like as the apple tree among the trees of the wood: so is my beloued among the sonnes. 4 My delight is to sit vnder his shadowe, for his fruite is sweete vnto my throte. 5 He bringeth me into his wine seller, his banner spread ouer me, whiche is his loue.
• Song 5:8 : 8 I charge you therfore O ye daughters of Hierusalem, yf ye fynde my beloued, that ye tell hym howe that I am sicke for loue.
• Isa 12:4 : 4 And then shall ye say: Geue thankes vnto the Lorde, call vpon his name, declare his workes among the people, kepe them in remembraunce, for his name is excellent.
• Isa 25:9 : 9 And in that day it shalbe sayde, lo this is our God, we haue wayted for hym, and he shall saue vs, this is the Lorde in whom we haue hoped, we wyll be merie and reioyce in the saluation that commeth of hym.
• Isa 30:18 : 18 Therefore doth the Lorde cause you to wayte, that he may haue mercy vpon you, to the entent that he may haue the preeminence when he is gratious vnto you: For the Lord is the God of iudgement, Blessed are all they that hope in hym.
• Isa 33:2 : 2 O Lorde haue mercie vpon vs, we haue put our whole trust in thee: be an arme to such early, and our health in the tyme of trouble.
• Isa 56:1 : 1 Thus saith the Lorde, Kepe equitie, and do right: for my sauyng health shal come shortlye, and my righteousnesse shalbe opened.
• Isa 64:4-5 : 4 For since the beginning of the worlde it hath not ben hearde or perceaued, neither hath any eye seene another God beside thee, whiche doest so muche for them that put their trust in thee. 5 Thou helpest hym that doth right with chearefulnesse, and them that thinke vpon thee in thy wayes: but lo, thou hast ben angrie, for we offended, and haue ben euer in sinne, though the worlde hath cleaued to them, yet shall we be saued.
• Mic 7:7 : 7 Neuerthelesse, I wil looke vp vnto the Lorde, I will patiently abyde God my sauiour: my God shall heare me.
• Mal 4:4 : 4 Remember the lawe of Moyses my seruaunt, which I commaunded him in Horeb for all Israel, with the ordinaunces and iudgementes.
• Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both ryghteous before God, and walked in all the lawes and ordinaunces of the Lorde, that no man coulde fynde fault with them.
• Acts 1:4 : 4 And gatheryng them together, commaunded them that they shoulde not depart from Hierusalem, but wayte for the promise of the father, wherof saith he ye haue hearde of me.
• Rom 8:25 : 25 But and yf we hope for that we see not, the do we with pacience abide for it.
• 2 Thess 3:5 : 5 And the Lorde guyde your heartes to the loue of God, and to the pacient waytyng for Christe.
• Jas 5:7-9 : 7 Be patient therfore brethren, vnto the commyng of the Lorde. Beholde, the husbandman wayteth for the precious fruite of the earth, and hath long patience thervpon, vntill he receaue the early and the later rayne. 8 Be ye also patient therfore, and settle your heartes, for the commyng of the Lorde draweth nye. 9 Grudge not one agaynst another brethren, lest ye be dampned: Beholde, the iudge standeth before the doore. 10 Take my brethren, the prophetes for an ensample of suffering aduersitie, and of patience, which spake in the name of the Lorde. 11 Beholde, we count the happy which endure. Ye haue hearde of the patience of Iob, and haue knowen what ende the Lorde made: For the Lorde is very pitifull and mercifull.