Isaiah 26:7

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֹ֥רַח לַצַּדִּ֖יק מֵֽישָׁרִ֑ים יָשָׁ֕ר מַעְגַּ֥ל צַדִּ֖יק תְּפַלֵּֽס׃

Transliteration

ʾōraḥ for ṣaddîq mêšārîm; yāšār maʿgal ṣaddîq tepallēs.

Grammar Details

• *ʾōraḥ*: masculine singular construct - 'path of/for'
• *laṣṣaddîq*: preposition with definite article and masculine singular adjective - 'for the righteous'
• *mêšārîm*: masculine plural noun - 'uprightness/straightness'
• *yāšār*: masculine singular adjective - 'straight/level'
• *maʿgal*: masculine singular construct - 'path/track of'
• *ṣaddîq*: masculine singular adjective - 'righteous'
• *tepallēs*: piel imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - 'you make level/weigh'

Word Meanings

• *ʾōraḥ*: path/way/road/journey
• *mêšārîm*: uprightness/straightness/equity/evenness
• *yāšār*: straight/level/right/just
• *maʿgal*: path/track/entrenchment/wagon-track
• *tepallēs*: make level/weigh/measure/examine

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 2:2-4 : 2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God. 3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
• 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.
• Job 27:5-6 : 5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. 6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
• Job 31:6 : 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
• Ps 1:6 : 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
• Ps 11:4 : 4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
• Ps 11:7 : 7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
• Ps 18:23-26 : 23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. 24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. 25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; 26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
• Prov 20:7 : 7 The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
• Isa 35:8 : 8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
• Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
• Zeph 3:5 : 5 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
• 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
• Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
• 1 John 3:7 : 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
• 1 John 3:10 : 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.