Isaiah 17:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָה֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא יִדַּ֖ל כְּב֣וֹד יַעֲקֹ֑ב וּמִשְׁמַ֥ן בְּשָׂר֖וֹ יֵרָזֶֽה׃

Transliteration

wə-hāyāh in-ha-yôm ha-hûʾ yiddal kəḇôḏ yaʿăqōḇ û-mišman bəśārô yērāzeh

Grammar Details

• *wə-hāyāh*: conjunction + verb, Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and it will be
• in-*ha-yôm*: preposition בְּ + definite article + noun, masculine singular - in the day
• *ha-hûʾ*: definite article + demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - the that/that
• *yiddal*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - will become thin/weak/low
• *kəḇôḏ*: noun, masculine singular construct - glory of
• *yaʿăqōḇ*: proper noun - Jacob/Israel
• *û-mišman*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular construct - and fatness of
• *bəśārô*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his flesh
• *yērāzeh*: verb, Niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - will become lean/thin

Word Meanings

• *yiddal*: become thin/become low/be brought low/diminish
• *kəḇôḏ*: glory/wealth/abundance
• *mišman*: fatness/richness/abundance
• *yērāzeh*: become lean/wither/waste away

Referenced Verses

• Isa 10:16 : 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
• Isa 24:13 : 13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
• Isa 24:16 : 16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
• Ezek 34:20 : 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
• Zeph 2:11 : 11 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
• Deut 32:15-27 : 15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. 17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. 18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. 19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
• Isa 9:8 : 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
• Isa 9:21 : 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
• Isa 10:4 : 4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.