Isaiah 26:1

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Then shal this songe be sunge in the londe of Iuda: We haue a stroge citie, the walles & the ordinauce shal kepe vs.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא יוּשַׁ֥ר הַשִּׁיר־הַזֶּ֖ה בְּאֶ֣רֶץ יְהוּדָ֑ה עִ֣יר עָז־לָ֔נוּ יְשׁוּעָ֥ה יָשִׁ֖ית חוֹמ֥וֹת וָחֵֽל׃

Transliteration

In yôm the hû yûšar the šîr-hazeh in ʾereṣ yehûdāh; ʿîr ʿāz to us, yešûʿāh yāšît ḥômôt and ḥēl.

Grammar Details

• *yôm*: masculine singular noun with definite article and preposition - 'in the day'
• *hû*: demonstrative pronoun with definite article - 'that'
• *yûšar*: hophal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - 'will be sung'
• *šîr-hazeh*: masculine singular noun with demonstrative and definite article - 'this song'
• *ʾereṣ*: feminine singular construct - 'land of'
• *yehûdāh*: proper noun - 'Judah'
• *ʿîr*: feminine singular construct - 'city of'
• *ʿāz*: adjective - 'strength/strong'
• *lānû*: preposition with 1st person plural suffix - 'to/for us'
• *yešûʿāh*: feminine singular noun - 'salvation'
• *yāšît*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - 'he will set/place'
• *ḥômôt*: feminine plural noun - 'walls'
• *wāḥēl*: conjunction with masculine singular noun - 'and rampart/bulwark'

Word Meanings

• *yûšar*: will be sung/chanted/intoned
• *ʿāz*: strength/strong/powerful/mighty
• *yešûʿāh*: salvation/deliverance/victory/help
• *yāšît*: sets/places/appoints/establishes
• *ḥēl*: rampart/bulwark/fortress/outer wall

Referenced Verses

• Isa 60:18 : 18 Violence and robbery shal neuer be herde of in thy londe, nether harme and destruction with in thy borders. Thy walles shalbe called health, & thy gates the prayse of God
• Isa 62:11 : 11 Beholde, ye LORDE proclameth in the endes of the worlde: tel ye doughter Sio: se, thy Saluacio cometh, beholde, he bringeth his treasure wt him, & his workes go before him.
• Jer 33:11 : 11 Shal the voyce of gladnesse be herde agayne, the voyce of the brydegrome and of the bryde, the voyce of them that shall synge: (Prayse the LORDE of hoostes, for he is louynge, and his mercy endureth for euer) and the voyce of them that shall offre vp giftes in the house of the LORDE. For I will restore the captiuyte of this londe, as it was afore, saieth the LORDE.
• Ps 31:21 : 21 O how greate and manifolde is thy good, which thou haist hyd for them that feare ye? O what thinges bringest thou to passe for them, that put their trust in the, euen before the sonnes of men?
• Ps 48:12 : 12 Walke aboute Sion, go rounde aboute her, and tell hir towres.
• Isa 25:9 : 9 At the same tyme shal it be sayde: lo, this is oure God in who we put oure trust, and he hath healed vs. This is the LORDE that we haue wayted for: Let vs reioyse & delyte in his health.
• Isa 27:1-2 : 1 Then the LORDE with his heuye, great and loge swearde shal vyset Leuiatha, that invincible serpet: eue Leuiatha yt croked serpent, and shal slaye the Wallfish in ye see. 2 At the same tyme shal me synge of the vynyarde of Muscatel.
• Zech 2:5 : 5 Yee I myself (saieth the LORDE) wil be vnto her a wall of fyre rounde aboute, & wilbe honoured in her.
• Matt 16:18 : 18 And I saie to ye: Thou art Peter, & vpo this rocke wil I builde my cogregacion: and ye gates of hell shal not preuayle agaynst it.
• Eph 5:19-20 : 19 and talke amoge youre selues of Psalmes, and ymnes, and spirituall songes, synginge and makynge melody vnto the LORDE in youre hertes 20 geuynge thankes alwayes for all thinges vnto God the father, in the name of oure LORDE Iesus Christ,
• Rev 19:1-7 : 1 And after that, I herde the voyce of moch people in heauen, sayenge: Alleluia. Saluacion and glory and honour, and power be ascribed to the LORDE or God, 2 for true and righteous are his iudgmentes, because he hath iudged the greate whore (which did corrupt ye earth with her fornicacion) and hath auenged the bloud of his seruautes of her hond. 3 And agayne they sayde: Alleluia. And smoke rose vp for euermore. 4 And ye xxiiij: elders, & the foure beestes fell downe, and worshipped God that sat on the seate, sayenge: Amen: Alleluia. 5 And a voice came out of the seate, sayenge: prayse or LORDE God all ye that are his seruautes, & ye that feare him both small and greate. 6 And I herde the voyce of moch people, eue as ye voyce of many waters, & as ye voyce of stronge thondrynges, sayenge: Alleluia, for God omnipotent raigneth. 7 Let vs be glad and reioyce, and geue honour to him: for the mariage of the labe is come, and his wife made her selfe ready.
• Rev 21:12-22 : 12 & had greate and hye walles, and had twolue gates, and at ye gates twolue angels: and names wrytten, which are the twolue trybes of Israel: 13 on the est parte thre gates, and on the north syde thre gates, and towarde the south thre gates, and from the west thre gates: 14 and the wall of the cite had twolue foundacios, and in them the names of the lambes twolue Apostles. 15 And he that talked with me, had a golden rede to measure the cite with all, and the gates therof, and the wall therof. 16 And the cite was bylt foure square, and the length was as large as the bredth of it, and he measured the cite with the rede twolue M. furlonges: and the length and the bredth, and ye heyth of it, were equall. 17 And he measured the wall therof, an cxliiij. cubittes, after ye measure of a man, which the angel had. 18 And the buyldinge of the wall of it was of Iaspar. And the cite was of pure golde, like vnto cleare glasse: 19 and ye foundacios of the walles and of ye cite were garnysshed with all maner of precious stones. The fyrst foundacion was a Iasper, the seconde a Saphyre, ye thyrde a Calcedony, the fourth a Smaragde: 20 the fyft a Sardonix: the sixt a Sardeos: the seuenth a Crysolite, the eyght berall: the nynth a Topas: the tenth a Crysoprasos: the eleueth a Iacyncte: the twelfte an Amatist. 21 And the twolue gates were twolue pearles, and euery gate was of one pearle, and ye strete of the cite was pure golde, as a thoroweshyninge glasse. 22 And I sawe no temple therin. For the LORDE God allmighty and the lambe is the temple of it,
• Exod 15:2-9 : 2 The LORDE is my strength, and my songe, and is become my saluacion. This is my God, I wil magnifie him: He is my fathers God, I wil exalte him. 3 The LORDE is the right man of warre, LORDE is his name. 4 The charettes of Pharao & his power, hath he cast in to the see. His chosen captaynes are drowned in the reed see, 5 ye depe hath couered them: they fell to the grounde as a stone. 6 Thy right hande (O LORDE) is glorious in power: thy right hade (O LORDE) hath smytten the enemies. 7 And with thy greate glory thou hast destroyed thine aduersaries: thou sentest out yi wrath, & it cosumed them, euen as stobble. 8 In the breth of thy wrath the waters fell together, the floudes wente vpon a heape: The depes plomped together in ye myddest of the see. 9 The enemie thought: I will folowe vpon them, and ouertake them, and deuyde ye spoyle, and coole my mynde vpon them. I wil drawe out my swerde, and my hande shal destroye them. 10 Thou blewest with thy wynde, the see couered them, and they sancke downe as leed in the mightie waters. 11 LORDE, who is like vnto the amonge ye goddes? Who is so glorious in holynes, fearfull, laudable, and doinge wonders? 12 When thou stretchedest out yi right hande, the earth swalowed them vp. 13 Thou of yi very mercy hast led this people, whom thou hast delyuered, and with yi strength thou hast brought them vnto the dwellynge of thy Sanctuary. 14 Whan ye nacions herde this, they raged, sorowe came vpon the Philistynes. 15 Then were ye prynces of Edom afrayed, tremblynge came vpo ye mightie of Moab, all the indwellers of Canaan waxed faynte harted. 16 Let feare and drede fall vpon them thorow thy greate arme, that they maye be as styll as a stone, tyll thy people (O LORDE) be gone thorow, tyll yi people whom thou hast gotten, be gone thorow. 17 Brynge them in, and plante them vpon the mountayne of thy enheritaunce, vnto ye place that thou hast made for thyne owne dwellynge: euen to yi teple (O LORDE) which thy handes haue prepared. 18 The LORDE shal be kynge for euer & euer. 19 For Pharao wente in to the see with horses, and charettes, and horsmen, and the LORDE made the see fall agayne vpon them. But the children of Israel wete drye thorow the myddest of the see. 20 And Miriam the prophetisse, Aarons sister, toke a tymbrell in hir hande, and all the women folowed out after her with timbrels in a daunse. 21 And Miriam sange before the: O let vs synge vnto the LORDE, for he hath done gloriously, man and horse hath he ouerthrowne in the see.
• Num 21:17 : 17 Then sange Israel this songe, and they sange one after another ouer the well:
• Judg 5:1-9 : 1 Then Debbora and Barac the sonne of Abi Noam, sange at the same tyme, and sayde: 2 Now that ye are come to rest, ye quyete men in Israel, prayse ye LORDE, amonge soch of the people as be fre wyllinge. 3 Heare ye kynges, & herken to ye prynces: I wyl, I wyl synge to the LORDE, euen vnto the LORDE ye God of Israel wil I playe. 4 LORDE, whan thou wentest out from Seir, & camest in from the felde of Edom, ye earth quaked, the heauen dropped, and the cloudes dropped with water. 5 The hilles melted before the LORDE, Sinai before the LORDE the God of Israel. 6 In the tyme of Sanger the sonne of Anath: In the tyme of Iael the wayes fayled: and they that shulde haue gone in pathes, walked thorow croked wayes. 7 There was scarcenesse, there was scarcenesse of housbande men in Israel, vntyll I Debbora came vp, vntyll I came vp a mother in Israel. 8 God hath chosen a new thinge. He hath ouercome ye portes in battayll: and yet was there sene nether shylde ner speare amonge fortye thousande in Israel. 9 My hert loueth ye teachers of Israel: ye yt are frewyllinge amonge the people, prayse the LORDE. 10 Ye that ryde vpo fayre Asses, ye that syt in iudgment and geue sentence, ye that go by the waye, prayse the LORDE. 11 Wha ye archers cried betwene ye drawers of water, then was it spoke of ye righteousnes of the LORDE, of the righteousnes of his husbande men in Israel: then ruled the people of the LORDE vnder the gates. 12 Vp Debbora vp, get the vp, get the vp, & rehearse a songe. Arise Barak, & catch him yt catched the, thou sonne of Abinoam. 13 Then had the desolate the rule with the mightie of the people. The LORDE had ye dominion thorow the giauntes. 14 Out of Ephraim was their rote against Amalek, and after him Ben Iamin in thy people. Out of Machir haue teachers ruled, and out of Zabulo are there become gouernours thorow the wrytinge penne. 15 And out of Isachar there were prynces with Debbora, and Isachar was as Barak in ye valley, sent with his people on fote: As for Ruben, he stode hye in his awne consayte, and separated him selfe from vs. 16 Why abodest thou betwixte the borders, whan thou herdest the noyse of the flockes? because Ruben stode hye in his awne cosayte, and separated him selfe from vs. 17 Gilead abode beyonde Iordane, and why dwelt Dan amonge the shippes? Asser sat in the hauen of the see, and taried in his porcions. 18 But Zabulons people ioperde their life vnto death: Nephtali also in the toppe of ye felde of Merom. 19 The kynges came & foughte, then foughte ye kynges of the Cananites at Thaanah by the water of Megiddo, but spoyle of money broughte they not there from. 20 From heaue were they foughte agaynst, the starres in their courses foughte with Sissera. 21 The broke Cyson ouerwhelmed them, the broke Kedumim, yee the broke Cyson. My soule treade thou vpon the mightie. 22 Then made the horse fete a russhinge together, for the greate violence of their mightie horse men. 23 Curse the cite of Meros (sayde ye angell of the LORDE) curse the citesyns therof, because they come not to helpe ye LORDE, to helpe the LORDE to the giauntes. 24 Blessynge amonge wemen haue Iael the wife of Heber the Kenite: blessinge haue she in the tente amonge the wemen. 25 Whan he axed water, she gaue him mylke, & broughte forth butter in a lordly disshe. 26 She toke holde of the nale wt hir hande, & the smyth hammer with hir righte hande, and smote Sissera, cut of his heade & pearsed and bored thorow his temples. 27 He bowed him selfe downe at hir fete, he fell downe, and laye there. He sanke downe, and fell at hir fete: whan he had soncke downe, he laye there destroyed. 28 His mother loked out at the wyndowe, & cried piteously thorow the trallace: Why tarieth his charet out so loge, that he cometh not? Wherfore do the wheles of his charet make so longe tarienge? 29 The wysest amoge his ladies answered, & sayde vnto her: 30 Shulde they not finde & deuide the spoyle, vnto euery man a fayre mayde or two for a pray, & partye coloured garmetes of nedle worke to Sissera for a spoyle, partye coloured garmentes of nedle worke aboute the necke for a pray? 31 Thus all thine enemies must perishe O LORDE: but they that loue the, shal be euen as the Sonne rysinge vp in his mighte. And the londe had peace fortye yeares.
• 2 Sam 22:1-9 : 1 And Dauid spake the wordes of this songe before the LORDE, what tyme as the LORDE had delyuered him fro the hande of all his enemies, and from the hande of Saul, 2 and he sayde. The LORDE is my stony rock, & my castell, and my delyuerer. 3 God is my strength, in him wyl I put my trust: my shylde & the horne of my saluacion, my defence & my refuge, my Sauioure, thou shalt helpe me from violent wronge. 4 I wil call vpon the LORDE with prayse, so shal I be delyuered fro myne enemies. 5 For the sorowes of death copased me, and the brokes of Belial made me afrayed. 6 The paynes of hell came aboute me, and the snares of death had ouertaken me. 7 Wha I was in trouble, I called vpo the LORDE, yee euen my God called I vpon, & so he herde my voyce fro his holy temple, & my coplaynte (came) into his eares. 8 The earth trembled and quaked, the foundacions of the heauen shoke and moued, because he was wroth. 9 Smoke wente vp from his nose, and consumynge fyre out of his mouth, coles were kyndled therof. 10 He bowed the heauens and came downe, and it was darke vnder his fete. 11 He sat vpon Cherub and dyd flye, and appeared vpon the fethers of the wynde. 12 He made darknes his pauylion rounde aboute him, thicke water in the cloudes of ye ayre. 13 At the brightnesse of him were the fyre coles kyndled. 14 The LORDE thondered from heaue, and the Hyest put forth his voyce. 15 He shot his arowes, and scatered them: he lightened, and discomfited them. 16 The pourynges out of the See were sene, and the foundacions of the earth were discouered at the chydinge of the LORDE, & at the breth of the sprete of his wrath. 17 He sent downe from aboue, and receaued me, and drue me out of many waters. 18 He delyuered me fro my stronge enemye, from them that hated me, for they were to mightie for me. 19 They ouertoke me in the tyme of my trouble, but the LORDE was my succoure. 20 He broughte me forth in to liberty: he delyuered me, because he had a fauoure vnto me. 21 The LORDE shal rewarde me after my righteousnes, and acordinge to the clennes of my handes shal he recompence me. 22 For I haue kepte ye waye of the LORDE, & haue not bene vngodly agaynst my God. 23 For I haue an eye vnto all his lawes, and haue not put his ordinaunces fro me. 24 Therfore wil I be perfecte vnto him, and wyl eshue myne awne wickednes. 25 So shal ye LORDE rewarde me after my righteousnes, acordinge to the clenes of my handes in his eye sighte. 26 With the holy shalt thou be holy, and wt the perfecte thou shalt be perfecte. 27 With the cleane thou shalt be cleane, and with the frowarde thou shalt be frowarde. 28 For thou shalt saue the poore oppressed people, and shalt set thine eyes agaynst the proude to brynge them downe. 29 For thou O LORDE art my lanterne. The LORDE shal lighte my darknesse. 30 For in ye I shal discofite an hoost of men, & in my God I shal leape ouer the wall. 31 The waye of God is perfecte: ye wordes of the LORDE are tryed in the fyre: he is a shylde for all the that put their trust in him. 32 For where is there a God, excepte ye LORDE? Or who hath eny strength without oure God? 33 God hath stregthed me with power, and made playne a perfecte waye for me. 34 He hath made my fete like hartes fete, & hath set me vp an hye. 35 He teacheth my handes to fighte, and bendeth the stele bowe with myne armes. 36 And thou hast geuen me the shylde of yi health, and with yi louynge correccion shalt thou multiplye me. 37 Thou hast enlarged my goinge vnder me, and myne ankles haue not slyded. 38 I wyl folowe vpon myne enemies, and destroye the: and wyl not turne backe agayne, tyll I haue broughte them to naught. 39 I wil cosume them and thrust them thorow, that they come not vp: they shal fall vnder my fete. 40 Thou hast girded me with strength to ye battayll, and hast subdued them vnder me yt rose vp agaynst me. 41 Thou hast made myne enemies to turne their backes vpo me, that I might destroye them that hate me. 42 They shal crye, but there shalbe no Sauioure: yee euen vnto the LORDE, but he answereth them not. 43 I wil beate them as small as the dust of the earth: euen as ye claye of the stretes wil I make them thynne, and sprede them out abrode. 44 But me shalt thou delyuer from the stryuynges of the people, and shalt kepe me to be ye heade of the Heythen: A people whom I haue not knowne, shal serue me. 45 The straunge children haue denyed me: at the hearynge of the eare shal they herke vnto me. 46 The straunge children are waxen olde, & are shut vp in their presons. 47 The LORDE lyueth, and blessed be my God, and magnified be the strength of my health. 48 God seyth that I be auenged, and subdueth the people vnto me. 49 He bryngeth me out fro myne enemies: & from them yt ryse vp agaynst me, shalt thou exalte me, and from ye cruell man shalt thou delyuer me. 50 For this cause wyl I geue thankes vnto the amonge the Heythen, and synge prayses vnto thy name. 51 Which doth greate health for his kynge, & sheweth mercy vnto Dauid his anoynted, and to his sede for euermore.
• Ezra 3:11 : 11 And they sunge together, geuynge prayse & thankes vnto ye LORDE, because he is gracious, and because his mercy endureth for euer vpon Israell. And all the people shouted loude in praysinge the LORDE, because the foundacion of ye house of the LORDE was layed.
• Isa 2:11 : 11 Which casteth downe ye high lokes of presumptuous personnes, and bryngeth lowe the pryde of ma, and he only shall be exalted in ye daye.
• Isa 2:20 : 20 Then, the shal ma cast awaye his goddes of syluer and golde (which he neuertheles had made to honoure the) vnto Molles and Backes:
• Isa 5:1 : 1 Now well than, I will synge my beloued frende a songe of his vynyearde. My beloued frende hath a vyneyearde in a very frutefull plenteous grounde.
• Isa 12:1 : 1 So that then thou shalt saye: O LORDE, I thanke the, for thou wast displeased at me, but thou hast refrayned thy wrath, and hast mercy vpon me.
• Isa 24:21-23 : 21 At the same tyme shal the LORDE mustre together the hie hooste aboue, and ye kynges of the worlde vpon the earth. 22 These shalbe coupled together as prisoners be, and shalbe shut in one warde and punished innumerable daies. 23 The Moone and the Sonne shalbe ashamed, when the LORDE of hoostes shal rule them at Ierusalem vpon the mount Sion, before and with his excellent councel.
• Ps 137:3-4 : 3 The, they that led vs awaye captyue, requyred of vs a songe and melody in or heuynes: synge vs one of the songes of Sion. 4 How shal we synge the LORDES songe in a strauge lode?