Isaiah 48:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts [is] his name.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־מֵעִ֤יר הַקֹּ֙דֶשׁ֙ נִקְרָ֔אוּ וְעַל־אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל נִסְמָ֑כוּ יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת שְׁמֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

For from ʿîr haqqōdesh niqrāʾû and upon ʾĕlōhê yiśrāʾēl nismākû YHWH ṣebāʾôt shemô

Grammar Details

• *ʿîr*: construct state - city of
• *haqqōdesh*: definite article + masculine singular - the holiness/holy
• *niqrāʾû*: niphal perfect 3rd person plural - they are called/named
• *ʾĕlōhê*: construct state - God of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *nismākû*: niphal perfect 3rd person plural - they lean/rely
• *YHWH*: divine name - LORD
• *ṣebāʾôt*: feminine plural construct - of hosts/armies
• *shemô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his name

Word Meanings

• *ʿîr*: city/town
• *haqqōdesh*: the holy/the holiness/the sanctuary
• *niqrāʾû*: are called/are named/are summoned
• *nismākû*: lean on/rely on/depend on/are supported by
• *ṣebāʾôt*: hosts/armies/multitudes

Referenced Verses

• Mic 3:11 : 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
• Isa 10:20 : 20 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
• Isa 52:1 : 1 ¶ Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
• Rom 2:17 : 17 ¶ Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
• Jer 21:2 : 2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
• Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
• Isa 47:4 : 4 [As for] our redeemer, the LORD of hosts [is] his name, the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 51:13 : 13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where [is] the fury of the oppressor?
• Matt 4:5 : 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
• Matt 27:53 : 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
• John 8:40-41 : 40 ‹But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.› 41 ‹Ye do the deeds of your father.› Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.
• Isa 64:10-11 : 10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
• Jer 7:4-9 : 4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are] these. 5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; 6 [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: 7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith the LORD.
• Jer 10:16 : 16 The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.
• Judg 17:13 : 13 Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to [my] priest.
• 1 Sam 4:3-5 : 3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies. 4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth [between] the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, [were] there with the ark of the covenant of God. 5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
• Neh 11:1 : 1 ¶ And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts [to dwell] in [other] cities.
• Neh 11:18 : 18 All the Levites in the holy city [were] two hundred fourscore and four.
• Ps 48:1 : 1 ¶ A Song [and] Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, [in] the mountain of his holiness.
• Ps 87:3 : 3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
• Rev 11:2 : 2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty [and] two months.
• Rev 21:2 : 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
• Rev 22:19 : 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book.