Isaiah 31:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

But he yet is wisest: therefore he wil bring euill, and not turne backe his worde, but he will arise against the house of the wicked, and against the helpe of them that worke vanitie.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְגַם־הוּא חָכָם וַיָּבֵא רָע וְאֶת־דְּבָרָיו לֹא הֵסִיר וְקָם עַל־בֵּית מְרֵעִים וְעַל־עֶזְרַת פֹּעֲלֵי אָוֶן

Transliteration

And gam-hûʾ ḥāḵām and wayyāḇēʾ rāʿ and ʾet-dᵉḇārāyw not hēsîr and qām against bêt mᵉrēʿîm and against ʿezrat pōʿᵃlê ʾāwen

Grammar Details

• *gam*: adverb - also/even
• *hûʾ*: pronoun, 3rd masculine singular - he
• *ḥāḵām*: adjective, masculine singular - wise
• *wayyāḇēʾ*: imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd masculine singular, hiphil - and he brings
• *rāʿ*: noun, masculine singular - evil/calamity
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *dᵉḇārāyw*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his words
• *hēsîr*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular, hiphil - he removes/takes away
• *qām*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular, qal - he rises/stands
• *bêt*: noun, masculine singular construct - house of
• *mᵉrēʿîm*: participle, masculine plural, hiphil - evildoers
• *ʿezrat*: noun, feminine singular construct - help of
• *pōʿᵃlê*: participle, masculine plural construct, qal - workers of
• *ʾāwen*: noun, masculine singular - iniquity/wickedness

Word Meanings

• *ḥāḵām*: wise/skillful/clever
• *wayyāḇēʾ*: brings/causes to come
• *rāʿ*: evil/calamity/disaster
• *hēsîr*: removes/takes away/turns aside
• *qām*: rises/stands/arises
• *mᵉrēʿîm*: evildoers/those who do evil
• *ʾāwen*: iniquity/wickedness/trouble

Referenced Verses

• Num 23:19 : 19 God is not as man, that he should lie, neither as the sonne of man that he shoulde repent: hath he sayde and shal he not do it? and hath he spoken, and shal he not accomplish it?
• Isa 45:7 : 7 I forme the light and create darkenes: I make peace and create euill: I the Lorde doe all these things.
• Isa 63:4-5 : 4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the yeere of my redeemed is come. 5 And I looked, and there was none to helpe, and I wondered that there was none to vpholde: therefore mine owne arme helped me, and my wrath it selfe sustained me.
• Jer 10:7 : 7 Who would not feare thee, O King of nations? For to thee appertaineth the dominion: for among all the wise men of the Gentiles, and in al their kingdomes there is none like thee.
• Jer 10:12 : 12 He hath made the earth by his power, and established the worlde by his wisedome, and hath stretched out the heauen by his discretion.
• Jer 36:32 : 32 Then tooke Ieremiah another roule, and gaue it Baruch the scribe the sonne of Neriah, which wrote therein at the mouth of Ieremiah all the wordes of the booke which Iehoiakim King of Iudah had burnt in the fire, and there were added besides them many like wordes.
• Jer 44:29-30 : 29 And this shal be a signe vnto you, saith the Lord, whe I visit you in this place, that ye may know that my words shal surely stand against you for euill. 30 Thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, I will giue Pharaoh Hophra King of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seeke his life: as I gaue Zedekiah King of Iudah into the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel his enemie, who also sought his life.
• Ezek 29:6 : 6 And al the inhabitants of Egypt shal know that I am the Lord, because they haue ben a staffe of reede to the house of Israel.
• Amos 3:6 : 6 Or shall a trumpet be blowen in the citie, and the people be not afraide? or shall there be euil in a citie, and the Lord hath not done it?
• Zeph 3:8 : 8 Therefore wait ye vpon me, saith the Lord, vntill the day that I rise vp to the praye: for I am determined to gather the nations, and that I will assemble the kingdomes to powre vpon them mine indignation, euen all my fierce wrath: for all the earth shall be deuoured with the fire of my ielousie.
• Zech 1:6 : 6 But did not my wordes and my statutes, which I commanded by my seruants ye Prophets, take holde of your fathers? and they returned, and sayd, As the Lord of hostes hath determined to doe vnto vs, according to our owne wayes, and according to our workes, so hath hee dealt with vs.
• Matt 24:35 : 35 Heauen and earth shall passe away: but my wordes shall not passe away.
• Rom 16:27 : 27 To God, I say, only wise, be praise through Iesus Christ for euer. Amen. Written to the Romanes from Corinthus, and sent by Phebe, seruaunt of the Church, which is at Cenchrea.
• 1 Cor 1:21-29 : 21 For seeing the worlde by wisedome knewe not God in the wisedome of GOD, it pleased God by the foolishnesse of preaching to saue them that beleeue: 22 Seeing also that the Iewes require a signe, and the Grecians seeke after wisdome. 23 But wee preach Christ crucified: vnto the Iewes, euen a stumbling blocke, and vnto the Grecians, foolishnesse: 24 But vnto them which are called, both of the Iewes and Grecians, we preach Christ, the power of God, and the wisedome of God. 25 For the foolishnesse of God is wiser then men, and the weakenesse of God is stronger then men. 26 For brethren, you see your calling, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. 27 But God hath chosen the foolish thinges of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weake thinges of the worlde, to confound the mightie things, 28 And vile things of the worlde and thinges which are despised, hath God chosen, and thinges which are not, to bring to nought thinges that are, 29 That no flesh shoulde reioyce in his presence.
• Jude 1:25 : 25 That is, to God only wise, our Sauiour, be glorie, and maiestie, and dominion, and power, both nowe and for euer, Amen.
• Josh 23:15 : 15 Therefore as all good things are come vpon you, which the Lorde your God promised you, so shall the Lord bring vpon you euery euill thing, vntill he haue destroyed you out of this good land, which ye Lord your God hath giue you.
• 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Speake no more presumptuously: let not arrogancie come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him enterprises are established.
• Job 5:13 : 13 He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.
• Ps 12:5-6 : 5 Now for the oppression of the needy, and for the sighes of the poore, I will vp, sayeth the Lord, and will set at libertie him, whom the wicked hath snared. 6 The wordes of the Lorde are pure wordes, as the siluer, tried in a fornace of earth, fined seuen folde.
• Ps 68:1-2 : 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme or song of Dauid. God will arise, and his enemies shalbe scattered: they also that hate him, shall flee before him. 2 As the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou driue them away: and as waxe melteth before the fire, so shall the wicked perish at the presence of God.
• Ps 78:65-66 : 65 But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, & as a strong man that after his wine crieth out, 66 And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.
• Isa 20:4-6 : 4 So shall the King of Asshur take away the captiuitie of Egypt, and the captiuitie of Ethiopia, both yong men and olde men, naked and barefoote, with their buttockes vncouered, to the shame of Egypt. 5 And they shall feare, & be ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, & of Egypt their glory. 6 Then shall the inhabitant of this yle say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fledde for helpe to be deliuered from the King of Asshur, and howe shall we be deliuered?
• Isa 22:14 : 14 And it was declared in ye eares of the Lorde of hostes. Surely this iniquitie shall not be purged from you, til ye die, saith the Lord God of hostes.
• Isa 28:21 : 21 For the Lord shall stand as in mount Perazim: hee shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his worke, his strage worke, and bring to passe his acte, his strange acte.
• Isa 30:3 : 3 But the strength of Pharaoh shalbe your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
• Isa 30:13-14 : 13 Therefore this iniquitie shalbe vnto you as a breach that falleth, or a swelling in an hie wall, whose breaking commeth suddenly in a moment. 14 And the breaking thereof is like the breaking of a potters pot, which is broken without pitie, and in the breaking thereof is not found a sheard to take fire out of the hearth, or to take water out of the pit.
• Isa 31:3 : 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirite: and when the Lorde shall stretch out his hand, the helper shall fall, and hee that is holpen shal fall, and they shall altogether faile.
• Isa 32:6 : 6 But the nigarde will speake of nigardnesse, and his heart will worke iniquitie, and do wickedly, and speake falsely against the Lorde, to make emptie the hungrie soule, and to cause the drinke of the thirstie to faile.
• Num 10:35 : 35 And when the Arke went forwarde, Moses saide, Rise vp, Lord, & let thine enemies bee scattered, & let them that hate thee, flee before thee.