Isaiah 37:29

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יַ֚עַן הִתְרַגֶּזְךָ֣ אֵלַ֔י וְשַׁאֲנַנְךָ֖ עָלָ֣ה בְאָזְנָ֑י וְשַׂמְתִּ֨י חַחִ֜י בְּאַפֶּ֗ךָ וּמִתְגִּי֙ בִּשְׂפָתֶ֔יךָ וַהֲשִׁ֣יבֹתִ֔יךָ בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְ אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֥אתָ בָּֽהּ׃

Transliteration

Because hitragezkā ʾēlay, and-šaʾănankā arose in-ʾoznāy, wə-śamtî ḥaḥî in-ʾappekā ûmitgî in-śəpātekā, wahăšîbōtîkā in-the-derek ʾăšer-bāʾtā in-it.

Grammar Details

• *hitragezkā*: verb, hithpael infinitive construct with 2ms suffix - your raging
• *ʾēlay*: preposition with 1cs suffix - against me
• *šaʾănankā*: noun, masculine singular construct with 2ms suffix - your complacency/arrogance
• *ʾoznāy*: noun, feminine dual construct with 1cs suffix - my ears
• *wə-śamtî*: conjunction + verb, qal perfect 1st person common singular - and I will put
• *ḥaḥî*: noun, masculine singular construct with 1cs suffix - my hook
• *ʾappekā*: noun, masculine singular construct with 2ms suffix - your nose
• *ûmitgî*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular construct with 1cs suffix - and my bridle
• *śəpātekā*: noun, feminine plural construct with 2ms suffix - your lips
• *wahăšîbōtîkā*: conjunction + verb, hiphil perfect 1st person common singular with 2ms suffix - and I will turn you back
• *derek*: noun, feminine singular - way/road
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which
• *bāʾtā*: verb, qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you came

Word Meanings

• *hitragezkā*: your raging/being agitated/being angry
• *šaʾănankā*: your complacency/arrogance/self-assurance
• *śamtî*: I will put/place/set
• *ḥaḥî*: my hook/ring
• *ʾappekā*: your nose/nostrils/face
• *mitgî*: my bridle/bit
• *śəpātekā*: your lips/mouth
• *hăšîbōtîkā*: I will turn you back/return you/bring you back
• *derek*: way/road/path
• *bāʾtā*: you came/entered

Referenced Verses

• Isa 30:28 : 28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
• Ezek 38:4 : 4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
• Isa 37:34 : 34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
• Ezek 29:4 : 4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
• Isa 10:12 : 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
• Amos 4:2 : 2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
• Nah 1:9-9 : 9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. 11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
• Matt 27:24 : 24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
• John 15:22-23 : 22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
• Acts 9:4 : 4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
• Acts 22:22 : 22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
• Isa 36:4 : 4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
• Isa 36:10 : 10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
• Isa 37:10 : 10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
• 2 Kgs 19:27-28 : 27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. 28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
• Job 15:25-26 : 25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. 26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
• Job 41:2 : 2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
• Ps 2:1-3 : 1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
• Ps 32:9 : 9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
• Ps 46:6 : 6 The heathen raged{H8804)}, the kingdoms were moved{H8804)}: he uttered{H8804)} his voice, the earth melted{H8799)}.
• Ps 74:4 : 4 Thine enemies{H8802)} roar{H8804)} in the midst of thy congregations; they set up{H8804)} their ensigns for signs.
• Ps 74:23 : 23 Forget{H8799)} not the voice of thine enemies{H8802)}: the tumult of those that rise up{H8801)} against thee increaseth{H8802)} continually.
• Ps 83:2 : 2 For, lo, thine enemies{H8802)} make a tumult{H8799)}: and they that hate{H8764)} thee have lifted up{H8804)} the head.
• Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up{H8804)}, O LORD, the floods have lifted up{H8804)} their voice; the floods lift up{H8799)} their waves. 4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.