Isaiah 2:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י נָטַ֗שְׁתָּה עַמְּךָ֙ בֵּ֣ית יַעֲקֹ֔ב כִּ֤י מָלְאוּ֙ מִקֶּ֔דֶם וְעֹֽנְנִ֖ים כַּפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וּבְיַלְדֵ֥י נָכְרִ֖ים יַשְׂפִּֽיקוּ׃

Transliteration

For nāṭaštâ ʿamməkā bêt Yaʿăqōb, for mālʾû from-qedem and-ʿōnenîm like-the-Pəlištîm, and-in-yaldê nōkrîm yaśpîqû.

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *nāṭaštâ*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you have forsaken/abandoned
• *ʿamməkā*: noun, masculine singular construct + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your people
• *bêt*: noun, masculine singular construct - house of
• *Yaʿăqōb*: proper noun - Jacob
• *mālʾû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they are full/filled
• *mi-qedem*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - from the east
• *wə-ʿōnenîm*: conjunction + verb, poel participle, masculine plural - and soothsayers/diviners
• *ka-Pəlištîm*: preposition + proper noun, masculine plural - like the Philistines
• *û-bə-yaldê*: conjunction + preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - and with the children of
• *nōkrîm*: adjective, masculine plural - foreigners/strangers
• *yaśpîqû*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they strike hands/join/ally themselves

Word Meanings

• *nāṭaštâ*: you have forsaken/abandoned/rejected/cast off
• *mālʾû*: they are full of/filled with
• *qedem*: east/ancient times/former things
• *ʿōnenîm*: soothsayers/diviners/fortune-tellers/those practicing magic
• *yaldê nōkrîm*: children of foreigners/foreign customs
• *yaśpîqû*: they strike hands with/join/ally themselves/abound in

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 1:2 : 2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
• Rom 11:20 : 20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
• 2 Kgs 16:7-8 : 7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me. 8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
• 1 Chr 10:13 : 13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;
• 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
• 2 Chr 24:20 : 20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
• Neh 13:23 : 23 In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
• Ps 106:35 : 35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
• Prov 6:1 : 1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
• Isa 8:19 : 19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
• Isa 47:12-13 : 12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. 13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
• Jer 10:2 : 2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
• Lam 5:20 : 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
• Rom 11:1-2 : 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
• Exod 22:18 : 18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
• Exod 34:16 : 16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
• Lev 19:31 : 31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
• Lev 20:6 : 6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
• Num 23:7 : 7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
• Num 25:1-2 : 1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
• Deut 18:10-14 : 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. 14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
• Deut 21:11-13 : 11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
• Deut 31:16-17 : 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
• 1 Kgs 11:1-2 : 1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; 2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.