Isaiah 22:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּקְרָ֗א אֲדֹנָ֧י יְהוִ֛ה צְבָא֖וֹת בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא לִבְכִי֙ וּלְמִסְפֵּ֔ד וּלְקָרְחָ֖ה וְלַחֲגֹ֥ר שָֽׂק׃

Transliteration

And-yiqrāʾ ʾᵃdōnāy YHWH ṣᵉbāʾôt in-the-yôm the-that to-bᵉkî and-to-mispēd and-to-qorḥāh and-to-ḥᵃgōr śāq

Grammar Details

וַיִּקְרָ֗א: conjunction + Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular, apocopated - and he called
*ʾᵃdōnāy*: noun with 1st person plural suffix - my Lord
*YHWH*: divine name
*ṣᵉbāʾôt*: masculine plural - hosts/armies
בַּיּ֣וֹם: preposition + definite article + masculine singular - in the day
הַה֑וּא: definite article + demonstrative pronoun - that
לִבְכִי֙: preposition + masculine singular - to weeping
וּלְמִסְפֵּ֔ד: conjunction + preposition + masculine singular - and to mourning
וּלְקָרְחָ֖ה: conjunction + preposition + feminine singular - and to baldness
וְלַחֲגֹ֥ר: conjunction + preposition + Qal infinitive construct - and to gird
*śāq*: masculine singular - sackcloth

Word Meanings

*yiqrāʾ*: called/summoned/invited
*ʾᵃdōnāy*: my Lord/Master
*YHWH*: Yahweh/LORD
*ṣᵉbāʾôt*: hosts/armies
*bᵉkî*: weeping/crying
*mispēd*: mourning/wailing/lamentation
*qorḥāh*: baldness (sign of mourning)
*ḥᵃgōr*: gird/wrap/put on
*śāq*: sackcloth (rough cloth worn during mourning)

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Referenced Verses

Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Mic 1:16 : 16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Joel 1:13 : 13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Jas 4:8-9 : 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Jas 5:1 : 1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Jonah 3:6 : 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.
2 Chr 35:25 : 25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Ezra 9:3 : 3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
Neh 8:9-9 : 9 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. 10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength. 11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved. 12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
Neh 9:9 : 9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
Job 1:20 : 20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
Eccl 3:4 : 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Eccl 3:11 : 11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
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.

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