Isaiah 15:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּחוּצֹתָ֖יו חָ֣גְרוּ שָׂ֑ק עַ֣ל גַּגּוֹתֶ֧יהָ וּבִרְחֹבֹתֶ֛יהָ כֻּלֹּ֥ה יְיֵלִ֖יל יֹרֵ֥ד בַּבֶּֽכִי׃

Transliteration

In ḥûṣōtāyw they ḥāḡerû śāq upon gaggôtehâ û-in reḥōḇōtehâ kullōh yeyēlîl yōrēd in the beḵî

Grammar Details

*ḥûṣōtāyw*: noun, feminine, plural construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - its/his streets
*ḥāḡerû*: qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they gird/put on
*śāq*: noun, masculine, singular - sackcloth
*gaggôtehâ*: noun, masculine, plural construct with 3rd feminine singular suffix - her roofs
*û*: conjunction - and
*reḥōḇōtehâ*: noun, feminine, plural construct with 3rd feminine singular suffix - her squares/open places
*kullōh*: noun, masculine, singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - all of it/everyone
*yeyēlîl*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - wails/howls
*yōrēd*: qal participle, masculine singular - going down/descending
*beḵî*: noun, masculine, singular with definite article - the weeping

Word Meanings

*ḥûṣōtāyw*: its/his streets/outdoor areas
*ḥāḡerû*: they gird/put on/wear (as mourning gesture)
*śāq*: sackcloth (mourning garment)
*reḥōḇōtehâ*: her squares/open places/broad streets
*yeyēlîl*: wails/howls/laments
*yōrēd*: going down/descending/flowing down

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Referenced Verses

Jonah 3:6-8 : 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
Matt 11:21 : 21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Deut 22:8 : 8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
2 Sam 3:31 : 31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
2 Kgs 6:30 : 30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
Isa 15:2 : 2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
Isa 22:1 : 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
Isa 22:4 : 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
Jer 19:13 : 13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
Jer 48:38-39 : 38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD. 39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.

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Isa 15:4-5
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Jer 48:36-39
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36Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
37For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
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39They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
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