Isaiah 52:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י לֹ֤א בְחִפָּזוֹן֙ תֵּצֵ֔אוּ וּבִמְנוּסָ֖ה לֹ֣א תֵלֵכ֑וּן כִּֽי־הֹלֵ֤ךְ לִפְנֵיכֶם֙ יְהוָ֔ה וּמְאַסִּפְכֶ֖ם אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ ס

Transliteration

kî lōʾ bəḥippāzôn tēṣēʾû ûbimnûsâ lōʾ tēlēkûn kî-hōlēk lipnêkem YHWH ûməʾassipkem ʾĕlōhê yiśrāʾēl

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *bəḥippāzôn*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - in haste
• *tēṣēʾû*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you will go out
• *ûbimnûsâ*: conjunction + preposition + noun, feminine singular - and in flight
• *tēlēkûn*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural (paragogic nun) - you will go
• *kî-hōlēk*: conjunction + verb, qal participle, masculine singular - for goes
• *lipnêkem*: preposition + noun, masculine plural with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - before you
• *YHWH*: proper noun - Yahweh/the LORD
• *ûməʾassipkem*: conjunction + verb, piel participle, masculine singular with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - and your rear guard
• *ʾĕlōhê*: noun, masculine plural construct - God of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

• *bəḥippāzôn*: in haste/hurriedly/in alarm
• *bimnûsâ*: in flight/in panic/as fugitives
• *hōlēk* *lipnêkem*: goes before you/leads you
• *məʾassipkem*: your rear guard/the one gathering you/your protector

Referenced Verses

• Isa 58:8 : 8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
• Mic 2:13 : 13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
• Isa 45:2 : 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
• Exod 14:19-20 : 19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: 20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
• Exod 12:11 : 11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
• Exod 12:33 : 33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
• Exod 12:39 : 39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
• Exod 13:21-22 : 21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: 22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
• Deut 20:4 : 4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
• Judg 4:14 : 14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
• 1 Chr 14:15 : 15 And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.
• Isa 28:16 : 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
• Exod 14:8 : 8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.
• Isa 51:14 : 14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
• Num 10:25 : 25 And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.