Isaiah 52:5

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעַתָּ֤ה *מי־*לי־**מַה־**לִּי־פֹה֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה כִּֽי־לֻקַּ֥ח עַמִּ֖י חִנָּ֑ם *משלו **מֹשְׁלָ֤יו יְהֵילִ֙ילוּ֙ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֔ה וְתָמִ֥יד כָּל־הַיּ֖וֹם שְׁמִ֥י מִנֹּאָּֽץ׃

Transliteration

wəʿattâ mah-lî-pōh nəʾum-YHWH kî-luqqaḥ ʿammî ḥinnām mōšəlāw yəhêlîlû nəʾum-YHWH wətāmîd kol-hayyôm šəmî minnōʾāṣ

Grammar Details

• *wəʿattâ*: conjunction + adverb - and now
• *mah-lî-pōh*: interrogative pronoun + preposition with 1st person singular suffix + adverb - what to me here
• *nəʾum-YHWH*: noun, masculine singular construct + proper noun - declaration of Yahweh
• *kî-luqqaḥ*: conjunction + verb, pual perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - for has been taken
• *ʿammî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my people
• *ḥinnām*: adverb - for nothing/without cause
• *mōšəlāw*: verb, qal participle, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his rulers
• *yəhêlîlû*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they howl/wail
• *wətāmîd*: conjunction + adverb - and continually
• *kol-hayyôm*: noun, masculine singular construct + definite article + noun, masculine singular - all the day
• *šəmî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my name
• *minnōʾāṣ*: preposition + verb, pual participle, masculine singular - is blasphemed/despised

Word Meanings

• *mah-lî-pōh*: what do I have here/what is to me here
• *nəʾum-YHWH*: declaration of Yahweh/says the LORD
• *luqqaḥ*: has been taken/has been captured
• *ḥinnām*: for nothing/without payment/without cause
• *mōšəlāw*: his rulers/those who rule over him
• *yəhêlîlû*: they howl/they wail/they mock
• *minnōʾāṣ*: is blasphemed/is despised/is treated with contempt

Referenced Verses

• Rom 2:24 : 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles thugh you, as it is written.
• Exod 1:13-16 : 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour. 15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
• Exod 2:23-24 : 23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
• Exod 3:7 : 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
• Judg 18:3 : 3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?
• Ps 44:12 : 12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
• Ps 44:16 : 16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
• Ps 74:10 : 10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
• Ps 74:18 : 18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
• Ps 74:22-23 : 22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. 23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
• Ps 137:1-2 : 1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 We hanged our har upon the willows in the midst thereof.
• Isa 22:16 : 16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
• Isa 37:6 : 6 And iah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
• Isa 37:28 : 28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
• Isa 47:6 : 6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
• Isa 51:20 : 20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
• Isa 51:23 : 23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
• Isa 52:3 : 3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
• Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
• Lam 1:21 : 21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are gd that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
• Lam 2:3 : 3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a fming fire, which devoureth round about.
• Lam 5:13-15 : 13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
• Ezek 20:9 : 9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
• Ezek 20:14 : 14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
• Ezek 36:20-23 : 20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land. 21 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went. 22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. 23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
• Zeph 1:10 : 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.