Isaiah 7:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר שִׁמְעוּ־נָ֖א בֵּ֣ית דָּוִ֑ד הַמְעַ֤ט מִכֶּם֙ הַלְא֣וֹת אֲנָשִׁ֔ים כִּ֥י תַלְא֖וּ גַּ֥ם אֶת־אֱלֹהָֽי׃

Transliteration

wā-yōʾmer, 'šimʿû-nāʾ house-of Dāwiḏ, hamʿaṭ from-you halʾôṯ men, that ṯalʾû also ʾeṯ-God-my?

Grammar Details

• *wā-yōʾmer*: consecutive imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and he said
• *šimʿû*: imperative, masculine plural - hear/listen
• *nāʾ*: particle of entreaty - please/now
• *Dāwiḏ*: proper noun, masculine singular - David
• *hamʿaṭ*: question particle with noun - is it too little
• *halʾôṯ*: Hiphil infinitive construct - to weary
• *ṯalʾû*: imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural, Hiphil - you will weary
• *ʾeṯ*: direct object marker

Word Meanings

• *wā-yōʾmer*: and he said/and he spoke
• *šimʿû*: hear/listen
• *nāʾ*: please/now (particle of entreaty)
• *hamʿaṭ*: is it too little/is it a small thing
• *halʾôṯ*: to weary/to exhaust/to make tired
• *ṯalʾû*: you will weary/you will exhaust/you will try the patience of

Referenced Verses

• Isa 43:24 : 24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
• Isa 7:2 : 2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
• Isa 25:1 : 1 O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
• Gen 30:15 : 15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
• Num 16:9 : 9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?
• Num 16:13 : 13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
• 2 Chr 21:7 : 7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
• 2 Chr 36:15-16 : 15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
• Isa 1:24 : 24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
• Isa 63:10 : 10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
• Isa 65:3-5 : 3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; 4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; 5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
• Jer 6:11 : 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
• Jer 21:12 : 12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
• Ezek 16:20 : 20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
• Ezek 16:47 : 47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
• Ezek 34:18 : 18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
• Amos 3:13 : 13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
• Mal 2:17 : 17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
• Luke 1:69 : 69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
• Acts 7:51 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
• Heb 3:10 : 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.