Isaiah 14:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; like a carcass trodden under foot.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַתָּ֞ה הָשְׁלַ֤כְתָּ מִֽקִּבְרְךָ֙ כְּנֵ֣צֶר נִתְעָ֔ב לְב֥וּשׁ הֲרֻגִ֖ים מְטֹ֣עֲנֵי חָ֑רֶב יוֹרְדֵ֥י אֶל־אַבְנֵי־ב֖וֹר כְּפֶ֥גֶר מוּבָֽס׃

Transliteration

But-you hāšlaktā from-qiḇrǝḵā like-nēṣer nitʿāḇ, lǝḇûš hărugîm mǝṭōʿănê ḥāreḇ; yôrǝdê to-ʾaḇnê-ḇôr, like-p̄eḡer mûḇās.

Grammar Details

• *hāšlaktā*: hophal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you are thrown out
• *qiḇrǝḵā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your grave
• *nēṣer*: masculine singular noun - branch/shoot
• *nitʿāḇ*: niphal participle, masculine singular - abhorred/despised
• *lǝḇûš*: qal passive participle, masculine singular - clothed
• *hărugîm*: qal passive participle, masculine plural - slain ones
• *mǝṭōʿănê*: pual participle, masculine plural construct - those pierced by
• *ḥāreḇ*: feminine singular noun - sword
• *yôrǝdê*: qal active participle, masculine plural construct - those going down to
• *ʾaḇnê*: feminine plural construct - stones of
• *ḇôr*: masculine singular noun - pit/cistern
• *p̄eḡer*: masculine singular noun - corpse/carcass
• *mûḇās*: hophal participle, masculine singular - trampled

Word Meanings

• *hāšlaktā*: you are thrown out/you are cast out/you are flung
• *qiḇrǝḵā*: your grave/your tomb/your sepulcher
• *nēṣer*: branch/shoot/sprout
• *nitʿāḇ*: abhorred/despised/detested
• *lǝḇûš*: clothed/dressed/covered
• *hărugîm*: slain ones/killed ones/those put to death
• *mǝṭōʿănê*: those pierced by/those thrust through by
• *ḥāreḇ*: sword/knife/dagger
• *yôrǝdê*: those going down to/those descending to
• *p̄eḡer*: corpse/carcass/dead body
• *mûḇās*: trampled/trodden down/stomped upon

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  but you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trampled underfoot.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  and thou art cast out of thy graue like a wilde braunch: like as dead mens rayment that are shott thorow with the swerde: as they that go downe to the stones of the depe: as a dead coarse that is troden vnder fete:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But thou art cast out of thy graue like an abominable branch: like the raiment of those that are slaine, and thrust thorowe with a sword, which goe downe to the stones of the pit, as a carkeise troden vnder feete.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And thou art cast out of thy graue like a fylthy abhominable braunche, like as dead mens rayment that are shot thorowe with the sworde, and go downe to the stones of the deepe, as a dead coarse that is troden vnder feete.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, [and as] the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But you are cast forth away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And -- thou hast been cast out of thy grave, As an abominable branch, raiment of the slain, Thrust through ones of the sword, Going down unto the sons of the pit, As a carcase trodden down.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

• World English Bible (2000)

  But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the Pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 41:7 : 7 And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.
• Jer 41:9 : 9 Now the pit where Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had killed because of Gedaliah, was the one which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.
• Ezek 32:23 : 23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is around her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
• 1 Kgs 21:19 : 19 And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says the LORD, Have you killed, and also taken possession? And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood, even yours.
• 1 Kgs 21:24 : 24 The one who dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and the one who dies in the field the birds of the air shall eat.
• 2 Kgs 9:25 : 25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how, when I and you rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD uttered this oracle against him;
• 2 Kgs 9:34-36 : 34 And when he had come in, he ate and drank, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter. 35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. 36 Therefore they came back and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the plot of Jezreel dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel:
• Isa 22:16-18 : 16 What have you here? And whom have you here, that you have hewn a sepulcher here, as he who hews himself a sepulcher on high, who carves a dwelling for himself in a rock? 17 Behold, the LORD will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you. 18 He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country: there you shall die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your lord's house.
• Jer 8:1-2 : 1 At that time, says the LORD, they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: 2 And they will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, whom they have served, after whom they have walked, whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped. They will not be gathered nor buried; they will be dung upon the face of the earth.
• Jer 16:6 : 6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, nor shall anyone mourn for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.
• Jer 22:19 : 19 He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.