Isaiah 5:24

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָכֵן֩ כֶּאֱכֹ֨ל קַ֜שׁ לְשׁ֣וֹן אֵ֗שׁ וַחֲשַׁ֤שׁ לֶֽהָבָה֙ יִרְפֶּ֔ה שָׁרְשָׁם֙ כַּמָּ֣ק יִֽהְיֶ֔ה וּפִרְחָ֖ם כָּאָבָ֣ק יַעֲלֶ֑ה כִּ֣י מָאֲס֗וּ אֵ֚ת תּוֹרַת֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת וְאֵ֛ת אִמְרַ֥ת קְדֽוֹשׁ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל נִאֵֽצוּ׃

Transliteration

Therefore lākēn as keʾĕkōl qaš by ləšôn ʾēš and as waḥăšaš lehābâ yirpeh, their šāršām shall yihyeh like kammāq, and their ûpirḥām like kāʾābāq yaʿăleh; for kî they have māʾăsû ʾēt the tôrat of YHWH ṣəbāʾôt, and the wəʾēt ʾimrat of qədôš-yiśrāʾēl they have niʾēṣû.

Grammar Details

• *lākēn*: adverb - therefore
• *keʾĕkōl*: preposition with qal infinitive construct - as consuming
• *qaš*: masculine singular noun - stubble/straw
• *ləšôn*: masculine singular construct - tongue of
• *ʾēš*: feminine singular noun - fire
• *waḥăšaš*: conjunction with masculine singular noun - and dry grass
• *lehābâ*: feminine singular noun - flame
• *yirpeh*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - collapses/sinks down
• *šāršām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their root
• *yihyeh*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - will be
• *kammāq*: preposition with definite article with masculine singular noun - like rot/decay
• *ûpirḥām*: conjunction with masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - and their blossom
• *kāʾābāq*: preposition with definite article with masculine singular noun - like dust
• *yaʿăleh*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - will go up
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *māʾăsû*: qal perfect 3rd person common plural - they have rejected
• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *tôrat*: feminine singular construct - law/instruction of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD
• *ṣəbāʾôt*: masculine plural noun - hosts/armies
• *wəʾēt*: conjunction with direct object marker
• *ʾimrat*: feminine singular construct - word of
• *qədôš*: masculine singular adjective construct - holy one of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *niʾēṣû*: piel perfect 3rd person common plural - they have spurned

Word Meanings

• *qaš*: stubble/straw/chaff
• *ḥăšaš*: dry grass/hay/chaff
• *yirpeh*: collapses/sinks down/withers
• *māq*: rot/decay/rottenness
• *pirḥām*: blossom/flower/sprout
• *ʾābāq*: dust/powder/fine particles
• *māʾăsû*: rejected/refused/despised
• *tôrat*: law/instruction/teaching
• *ṣəbāʾôt*: hosts/armies/celestial bodies
• *niʾēṣû*: spurned/despised/treated with contempt

Referenced Verses

• Job 18:16 : 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
• Isa 30:12 : 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
• Joel 2:5 : 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
• Isa 47:14 : 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
• Exod 15:7 : 7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
• Luke 3:17 : 17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
• Acts 13:41 : 41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
• Isa 30:9 : 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
• 1 Cor 3:12-13 : 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
• 1 Thess 4:8 : 8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
• Heb 10:28-29 : 28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
• Luke 7:30 : 30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
• Luke 10:16 : 16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
• John 12:48 : 48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
• 1 Sam 15:23 : 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
• 1 Sam 15:26 : 26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.
• 2 Sam 12:9-9 : 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
• 2 Kgs 17:14-15 : 14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
• Neh 9:26 : 26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
• Ps 50:17 : 17 Seeing thou hatest{H8804)} instruction, and castest{H8686)} my words behind thee.
• Isa 8:6 : 6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
• Isa 9:14-17 : 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. 15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. 17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
• Jer 6:19 : 19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
• Jer 8:9 : 9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
• Hos 5:12 : 12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
• Hos 9:16 : 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
• Amos 2:9 : 9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
• Nah 1:10 : 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
• Mal 4:1 : 1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• Matt 3:12 : 12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.