Isaiah 48:1

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Heare this, O thou house of Iacob: ye yt are called by the name of Israel, and are come out of one stocke wt Iuda: which sweare by the name of the LORDE, and beare witnesse by the God of Israel (but not wt treuth and right)

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׁמְעוּ־זֹ֣את בֵּֽית־יַעֲקֹ֗ב הַנִּקְרָאִים֙ בְּשֵׁ֣ם יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וּמִמֵּ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה יָצָ֑אוּ הַֽנִּשְׁבָּעִ֣ים ׀ בְּשֵׁ֣ם יְהוָ֗ה וּבֵאלֹהֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ יַזְכִּ֔ירוּ לֹ֥א בֶאֱמֶ֖ת וְלֹ֥א בִצְדָקָֽה׃

Transliteration

Shimʿû-zōʾt bêt-yaʿăqōb hanniqrāʾîm in shēm yiśrāʾēl ûmimmê yehûdāh yāṣāʾû hannishbāʿîm in shēm YHWH ûbēʾlōhê yiśrāʾēl yazkîrû not in ʾemet and not in ṣedāqāh

Grammar Details

• *Shimʿû*: imperative plural - hear/listen
• *zōʾt*: demonstrative feminine singular - this
• *bêt*: construct state - house of
• *yaʿăqōb*: proper noun - Jacob
• *hanniqrāʾîm*: definite article + niphal participle masculine plural - the ones being called
• *shēm*: masculine singular construct - name of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *ûmimmê*: conjunction wə + preposition min + construct form - and from waters of
• *yehûdāh*: proper noun - Judah
• *yāṣāʾû*: qal perfect 3rd person plural - they came out/went forth
• *hannishbāʿîm*: definite article + niphal participle masculine plural - the ones swearing
• *YHWH*: divine name - LORD
• *ûbēʾlōhê*: conjunction wə + preposition bə + construct form - and in/by God of
• *yazkîrû*: hiphil imperfect 3rd person plural - they mention/invoke
• *ʾemet*: feminine singular - truth/faithfulness
• *ṣedāqāh*: feminine singular - righteousness

Word Meanings

• *Shimʿû*: hear/listen/obey
• *hanniqrāʾîm*: called/named/summoned
• *ûmimmê*: from waters of/from sources of/from lineage of
• *yāṣāʾû*: came forth/descended/originated
• *hannishbāʿîm*: who swear/take oaths/make pledges
• *yazkîrû*: mention/invoke/proclaim/commemorate
• *ʾemet*: truth/faithfulness/reliability
• *ṣedāqāh*: righteousness/justice/rightful conduct

Referenced Verses

• Ps 68:26 : 26 O geue thankes vnto God the LORDE in the congregacion, for the welles of Israel.
• Jer 4:2 : 2 And shalt sweare: The LORDE lyueth: in treuth, in equite and rightuousnesse: and all people shall be fortunable and ioyfull in him.
• Deut 33:28 : 28 And Israel shall dwell safe alone. The eye of Iacob shalbe vpon ye londe where corne and wine is, heauen also shal droppe with dewe.
• Num 24:7 : 7 The water shal flowe out of his boket, and his sede shalbe a greate water. His kynge shalbe hyer then Agag, & his kyngdome shalbe exalted.
• Deut 6:13 : 13 but thou shalt feare the LORDE thy God, and him onely shalt thou serue, and sweare by his name.
• Isa 45:23 : 23 I sweare by myself: out of my mouth cometh ye worde of rightuousnesse, and that maye no man turne: but all knees shal bowe vnto me, and all tunges shal sweare by me,
• Isa 65:16 : 16 Who so reioyseth vpo earth, shall reioyse in the true God: And Who so sweareth vpo earth, shal sweare in the true God. For the olde enemite shalbe forgotten, and taken awaye out of my sight.
• Isa 58:2 : 2 For they seke me dalye, and wil knowe my wayes, euen as it were a people that dyd right, and had not forsaken the statutes of their God. They argue with me concernynge right iudgment, and wil pleate at the lawe with their God.
• Isa 62:8 : 8 The LORDE hath sworne by his right honde & by his stronge arme, that fro hence forth he wil not geue thy corne to be meate for thine enemies, ner yi wyne (wheri thou hast laboured) to be drynke for ye straungers.
• Deut 10:20 : 20 Thou shalt feare the LORDE thy God, him onely shalt thou serue, vnto him shalt thou cleue & sweare by his name.
• Deut 5:28 : 28 Whan the LORDE herde the voyce of yor wordes which ye spake vnto me, he sayde vnto me: I haue herde ye voyce of the wordes of this people, which they haue spoken vnto ye. It is all good that they haue spoken.
• Gen 32:28 : 28 He sayde: Thou shalt nomore be called Iacob, but Israel, for thou hast stryuen with God and with men, and hast preuayled.
• Gen 35:10 : 10 & saide vnto him: Thou art called Iacob, neuertheles thou shalt nomore be called Iacob, but Israel shal be yi name. And so was he called Israel.
• Exod 23:13 : 13 All that I haue sayde vnto you, that kepe. And as for the names of other goddes, ye shall not remembre them, and out of youre mouthes shal they not be herde.
• Lev 19:12 : 12 Ye shal not sweare falsely by my name, & so to vnhalowe the name of thy God: for I am the LORDE.
• 2 Kgs 17:34 : 34 And vnto this daye do they after ye olde fashion, so yt they nether feare ye LORDE, ner yet kepe their awne ordinaunces and lawes, after the lawe and commaundement that the LORDE comaunded the childre of Iacob, vnto whom he gaue ye name of Israel,
• Ps 50:16-20 : 16 But vnto the vngodly sayeth God: Why doest thou preach my lawes, and takest my couenaunt in thy mouth? 17 Where as thou hatest to be refourmed, and castest my wordes behynde the? 18 Yf thou seist a thefe, thou runnest with him, and art partaker with the aduouterers. 19 Thou lettest yi mouth speake wickednesse, & thy tonge paynteth disceate. 20 Thou syttest and speakest agaynst thy brother, yee and slaundrest thine owne mothers sonne.
• Ps 63:11 : 11 They shal fall in to the swerde, & be a porcio for foxes. But ye kynge shal reioyse in God: all they that sweare by hym, shal be commeded, for the mouth of lyers shalbe stopped.
• Ps 66:3 : 3 O yt all the worlde wolde worshipe the, synge of the and prayse thy name.
• Prov 5:16 : 16 Let yi welles flowe out a brode, that there maye be ryuers of water in the stretes.
• Isa 1:10-14 : 10 Heare the worde of the LORDE ye tyrauntes of Sodoma: and herken vnto the lawe of oure God, thou people of Gomorra. 11 Why offre ye so many sacrifices vnto me? I am discontent for the brentoffringes of wethers, and with ye fatnesse offedbeastes. I haue no pleasure in the bloude of bullockes, lambes and gootes. 12 When ye apeare before me, who requyreth you to treade within my porches? 13 Offre me no mo oblacions, for it is but lost laboure. I abhorre youre incense. I maye not awaye with youre newmoones, youre Sabbathes and solempne dayes. Youre fastinges are also in vayne. 14 I hate youre new holy dayes and fastinges, euen fro my very harte. They make me weery, I can not abyde them.
• Isa 26:13 : 13 O LORDE oure God, though soch lordes haue dominacion vpon vs as knowe not the: yet graute, that we maye only hope in the, and kepe thy name in remembraunce.
• Isa 44:5 : 5 One will saye: I am the LORDES. Another wil call vnder the name of Iacob. The thirde shal subscrybe with his honde vnto ye LORDE, and geue him self vnder the name of Israel.
• Jer 5:2 : 2 For though they can saye: the LORDE lyueth, yet do they sweare to disceaue:
• Jer 7:9-9 : 9 For when ye haue stolle, murthured, committed aduoutrie, and periury: Whe ye haue offred vnto Baal, folowinge straunge & vnknowne goddes: 10 Then come ye, and stonde before me in this house (which hath my name geuen vnto it) and saye: Tush, we are absolued quyte, though we haue done all these abhominacions.
• Zeph 1:5 : 5 yee & soch as vpon their house toppes worshipe & bowe them selues vnto the hoost of heauen: which sweare by the LORDE, and by their Malchom also:
• Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come & punysh you, & I myself wil be a swift wytnes agaynst the witches, agaynst the aduouterers, agaynst false swearers: yee ad agaynst those, that wrogeously kepe backe the hyrelynges dewty: which vexe the wyddowes & the fatherlesse, & oppresse the straunger, and feare not me, sayeth the LORDE of hoostes.
• Matt 15:8-9 : 8 This people draweth nye vnto me wt their mouth, & honoureth me wt their lippes, howbeit, their hert is farre fro me. 9 But in vayne do they serue me, whyle they teach soch doctrynes as are nothinge but the commaundementes of men.
• Matt 23:13 : 13 Wo vnto you Scrybes and Pharises, ye ypocrytes, that shut vp the kyngdome of heauen before men: Ye come not in youre selues, nether suffre ye them to enter, that wolde be in.
• John 1:47 : 47 Iesus sawe Nathanael comynge to him, and sayde of him: Beholde, a righte Israelite, in whom is no gyle.
• John 4:24 : 24 God is a sprete, and they that worshippe him, must worshippe in sprete and in the trueth.
• Rom 2:17 : 17 But take hede, thou art called a Iewe, and trustest in the lawe, & makest thy boost of God,
• Rom 2:28-29 : 28 For he is not a Iew which is a Iewe outwarde: nether is that circucision which is done outwardly in ye flesh: 29 But he is a Iewe, which is hydd within. And the circumcision of ye hert is the circumcision, which is done in the sprete and not in the letter: Whoseprayse is not of men, but of God.
• Rom 9:6 : 6 But I speake not these thinges, as though the worde of God were of none effecte: for they are not all Israelites, which are of Israel:
• Rom 9:8 : 8 vnto the, that is, They which are children after the flesh, are not the children of God, but the children of the promes are counted for the sede.
• 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 which speake false thorow ypocrysie, and haue their coscience marked with an whote yron,
• 2 Tim 3:2-5 : 2 For there shalbe me which shal holde of the selues, couetous, boasters, proude, cursed speakers, dishobedient to their elders, vnthankfull, vngoostly, 3 vnkynde, truce breakers, false accusers, ryatours, fearce, despysers of them which are good, 4 traytours, heady, hye mynded, gredy vpon voluptuousnes more then the louers of God, 5 hauynge a shyne off godly lyuynge, but denyenge the power therof. And soch avoyde.
• Rev 2:9 : 9 I knowe thy workes and tribulacion and pouerte, but thou art ryche: And I knowe the blaspheny of them which call them selues Iewes and are not: but are the cogregacion of Sathan.
• Rev 3:9 : 9 Beholde, I shal geue some of the congregacion of Sathan, which call them selues Iewes and are not, but do lye: Beholde: I wil make them, that they shal come & worshippe before thy fete: and shal knowe that I haue loued the.