Isaiah 1:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׁמְע֥וּ דְבַר־יְהוָ֖ה קְצִינֵ֣י סְדֹ֑ם הַאֲזִ֛ינוּ תּוֹרַ֥ת אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ עַ֥ם עֲמֹרָֽה׃

Transliteration

šim'û dᵉbar-YHWH qᵉṣînê sᵉdōm haʾăzînû tôrat ʾĕlōhênû 'am 'ămōrâ

Grammar Details

• *šim'û*: verb, qal imperative, masculine plural - hear
• *dᵉbar*: noun, masculine singular construct - word of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *qᵉṣînê*: noun, masculine plural construct - rulers of
• *sᵉdōm*: proper noun - Sodom
• *haʾăzînû*: verb, hifil imperative, masculine plural - give ear to
• *tôrat*: noun, feminine singular construct - law/instruction of
• *ʾĕlōhênû*: noun, masculine plural + 1st person plural suffix - our God
• *'am*: noun, masculine singular construct - people of
• *'ămōrâ*: proper noun - Gomorrah

Word Meanings

• *šim'û*: hear/listen/obey
• *dᵉbar*: word/message/command
• *qᵉṣînê*: rulers/chiefs/commanders
• *haʾăzînû*: give ear to/listen attentively/pay attention to
• *tôrat*: law/instruction/teaching/direction

Referenced Verses

• Rev 11:8 : 8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
• Deut 32:32 : 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
• Isa 3:9 : 9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
• Ezek 16:46 : 46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
• Ezek 16:49 : 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
• Amos 3:1 : 1 Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
• Amos 3:8 : 8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
• Amos 9:7 : 7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
• 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.
• Rom 9:29 : 29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
• Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
• Isa 28:14 : 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
• Jer 9:26 : 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
• Jer 23:14 : 14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
• 1 Kgs 22:19-23 : 19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. 20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. 21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. 22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. 23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
• Gen 13:13 : 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.