Isaiah 19:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֨ה לְא֥וֹת וּלְעֵ֛ד לַֽיהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם כִּֽי־יִצְעֲק֤וּ אֶל־יְהוָה֙ מִפְּנֵ֣י לֹֽחֲצִ֔ים וְיִשְׁלַ֥ח לָהֶ֛ם מוֹשִׁ֥יעַ וָרָ֖ב וְהִצִּילָֽם׃

Transliteration

And-hāyāh for-ʾôṯ and-for-ʿēḏ to-YHWH ṣĕḇāʾôṯ in-ʾereṣ Miṣrāyim for-yiṣʿăqû to-YHWH from-pĕnê lōḥăṣîm and-yišlaḥ to-them môšîaʿ and-rāḇ and-hiṣṣîlām

Grammar Details

• *hāyāh*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will be
• *ʾôṯ*: noun, masculine singular - sign
• *ʿēḏ*: noun, masculine singular - witness
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh
• *ṣĕḇāʾôṯ*: noun, feminine plural - hosts/armies
• *ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine singular construct - land of
• *Miṣrāyim*: proper noun, masculine dual/plural - Egypt
• *yiṣʿăqû*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will cry out
• *pĕnê*: noun, masculine plural construct - face/presence of
• *lōḥăṣîm*: verb, qal participle, masculine plural - oppressors
• *yišlaḥ*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will send
• *môšîaʿ*: verb, hiphil participle, masculine singular - savior
• *rāḇ*: adjective, masculine singular - great/mighty
• *hiṣṣîlām*: verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - he will deliver them

Word Meanings

• *hāyāh*: it will be/shall be/exist
• *ʾôṯ*: sign/token/mark/symbol
• *ʿēḏ*: witness/testimony/evidence
• *yiṣʿăqû*: they will cry out/call/complain
• *pĕnê*: face/presence/because of
• *lōḥăṣîm*: oppressors/those who oppress/those who squeeze
• *yišlaḥ*: he will send/dispatch/commission
• *môšîaʿ*: savior/deliverer/rescuer
• *rāḇ*: great/mighty/strong/significant
• *hiṣṣîlām*: he will deliver them/rescue them/save them

Referenced Verses

• Exod 2:23 : 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.
• 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;
• Josh 4:20-21 : 20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. 21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
• Josh 22:27-28 : 27 But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD. 28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.
• Josh 22:34 : 34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.
• Josh 24:26-27 : 26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
• 2 Kgs 13:4-5 : 4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them. 5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
• Ps 50:15 : 15 And call{H8798)} upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver{H8762)} thee, and thou shalt glorify{H8762)} me.
• Isa 19:4 : 4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
• Isa 20:4 : 4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
• Isa 37:36 : 36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
• Isa 45:21-22 : 21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
• Isa 49:25-26 : 25 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
• Isa 52:5 : 5 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.
• Isa 55:13 : 13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
• Luke 2:11 : 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
• Titus 2:13 : 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
• Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.