Isaiah 58:1

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

קְרָ֤א בְגָרוֹן֙ אַל־תַּחְשֹׂ֔ךְ כַּשּׁוֹפָ֖ר הָרֵ֣ם קוֹלֶ֑ךָ וְהַגֵּ֤ד לְעַמִּי֙ פִּשְׁעָ֔ם וּלְבֵ֥ית יַעֲקֹ֖ב חַטֹּאתָֽם׃

Transliteration

qərā in gārôn ʾal-taḥśōk like šôpār hārēm qôlekā wə-haggēd to ʿammî pišʿām û-to bêt yaʿăqōb ḥaṭṭōʾtām

Grammar Details

• *qərā*: imperative, masculine singular - call/cry out
• *gārôn*: noun with preposition bə, masculine singular - in/with throat
• *ʾal*-*taḥśōk*: negative particle with imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - do not withhold/spare/hold back
• *šôpār*: noun with preposition kə, masculine singular - like a trumpet/ram's horn
• *hārēm*: imperative, masculine singular - lift up/raise
• *qôlekā*: noun with 2nd person masculine singular possessive suffix - your voice
• *wə*-*haggēd*: conjunction with imperative, masculine singular - and declare/tell
• *ʿammî*: noun with 1st person possessive suffix with preposition lə - to my people
• *pišʿām*: noun with 3rd person masculine plural possessive suffix - their transgression/rebellion
• *û*-to: conjunction with preposition lə - and to
• *bêt*: construct form of noun - house of
• *yaʿăqōb*: proper name - Jacob
• *ḥaṭṭōʾtām*: noun with 3rd person masculine plural possessive suffix - their sin

Word Meanings

• *qərā*: call/cry out/proclaim
• *gārôn*: throat/neck
• *taḥśōk*: withhold/spare/hold back/restrain
• *šôpār*: trumpet/ram's horn/shofar
• *hārēm*: lift up/raise/exalt
• *haggēd*: tell/declare/announce/report
• *pišʿām*: transgression/rebellion/sin
• *ḥaṭṭōʾtām*: sin/offense/wrongdoing

Referenced Verses

• Mic 3:8-9 : 8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 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. 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
• Acts 20:26-27 : 26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. 27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
• Titus 2:15 : 15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
• Ezek 3:17-21 : 17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. 20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
• Ezek 20:4 : 4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:
• Ezek 22:2 : 2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
• Matt 3:7-9 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: 9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
• Acts 7:51-52 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
• Rev 14:9-9 : 9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and ceive his mark in his fohead, or in his hand, 10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poud out without mixtu into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fi and brimstone in the psence of the holy angels, and in the psence of the Lamb:
• Hos 8:1 : 1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the use of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
• Rev 1:10 : 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a gat voice, as of a trumpet,
• Rev 4:1 : 1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it we of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be heafter.
• Ps 40:9-9 : 9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my li, O LORD, thou knowest. 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
• Isa 27:13 : 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
• Isa 40:6 : 6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
• Isa 40:9-9 : 9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! 10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
• Isa 56:10 : 10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
• Jer 1:7-9 : 7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. 8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. 9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. 10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
• Jer 1:17-19 : 17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. 18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. 19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
• Jer 7:8-9 : 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 15:19-20 : 19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them. 20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
• Ezek 2:3-8 : 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. 4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. 5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. 6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. 7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious. 8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.
• Ezek 3:5-9 : 5 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel; 6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee. 7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. 8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.