Isaiah 10:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: a destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי אִם־יִהְיֶה עַמְּךָ יִשְׂרָאֵל כְּחוֹל הַיָּם שְׁאָר יָשׁוּב בּוֹ כִּלָּיוֹן חָרוּץ שׁוֹטֵף צְדָקָה

Transliteration

kî ʾim-yihyeh ʿammeḵā yiśrāʾēl keḥôl hayyām šeʾār yāšûb bô killāyôn ḥārûṣ šôṭēp̄ ṣedāqāh

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/though
• *ʾim*: conjunction - if/though
• *yihyeh*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - will be
• *ʿammeḵā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your people
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *keḥôl*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - like sand of
• *hayyām*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the sea
• *šeʾār*: noun, masculine singular - remnant
• *yāšûb*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - will return
• *bô*: preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - in it/among them
• *killāyôn*: noun, masculine singular - destruction/annihilation
• *ḥārûṣ*: adjective, masculine singular - determined/decreed
• *šôṭēp̄*: qal participle, masculine singular - overflowing
• *ṣedāqāh*: noun, feminine singular - righteousness

Word Meanings

• *ḥôl*: sand/grains of sand
• *šeʾār* *yāšûb*: a remnant will return/Shear-jashub (proper name)
• *killāyôn*: destruction/consumption/annihilation
• *ḥārûṣ*: determined/decreed/sharp/decisive
• *šāṭap̄*: overflowing/flooding/sweeping away
• *ṣedāqāh*: righteousness/justice/righteous acts

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Even though your people, O Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For though thy people,{H5971} Israel,{H3478} be as the sand{H2344} of the sea,{H3220} [only] a remnant{H7605} of them shall return:{H7725} a destruction{H3631} [is] determined,{H2782} overflowing{H7857} with righteousness.{H6666}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For though thy people{H5971} Israel{H3478} be as the sand{H2344} of the sea{H3220}, yet a remnant{H7605} of them shall return{H7725}{(H8799)}: the consumption{H3631} decreed{H2782}{(H8803)} shall overflow{H7857}{(H8802)} with righteousness{H6666}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For though thy people (o Israel) be as the sonde of the see, yet shal but the remnaunt of them only conuerte vnto him. Perfecte is the iudgmet of him that floweth in rightuousnesse:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For though thy people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, yet shall the remnant of them returne. The consumption decreed shall ouerflow with righteousnesse.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For though thy people O Israel be as the sande of the sea, yet shal the remnaunt of them conuert vnto him: The decreed consumption ouerfloweth with righteousnesse.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, [yet] a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For though your people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of them shall return: a destruction [is] determined, overflowing with righteousness.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, A remnant doth return of it, A consumption determined, Overflowing `with' righteousness.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, `only' a remnant of them shall return: a destruction `is' determined, overflowing with righteousness.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of them shall return: a destruction [is] determined, overflowing with righteousness.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For though your people, Israel, are as numerous as the sand on the seashore, only a remnant will come back. Destruction has been decreed; just punishment is about to engulf you.

Referenced Verses

• Rom 9:27-28 : 27 Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: 28 For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.
• Isa 6:13 : 13 But yet a tenth will be in it, and it will return, and be consumed; as a terebinth tree or as an oak, whose stump remains when it is cut down. So the holy seed shall be its stump.
• Dan 9:27 : 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the middle of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations, he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
• Rom 11:5-6 : 5 Even so then, at this present time there is also a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
• Rev 20:8 : 8 And will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for battle; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
• Gen 18:25 : 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
• 1 Kgs 4:20 : 20 Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea in numbers, eating and drinking and rejoicing.
• Isa 6:11 : 11 Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are laid waste without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate,
• Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.
• Acts 17:31 : 31 Because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained; He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.
• Rom 2:5 : 5 But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
• Rom 3:5-6 : 5 But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man) 6 Certainly not: for then how will God judge the world?
• Isa 8:8 : 8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
• Isa 27:10-11 : 10 Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches. 11 When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.
• Isa 28:15-22 : 15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hidden ourselves: 16 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: he who believes shall not act hastily. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trampled down by it. 19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning it shall pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in Mount Perazim, he shall be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his unusual act. 22 Now therefore do not be mockers, lest your bonds be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.