Isaiah 14:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

For I will rise up against them, says the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, says the LORD.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְקַמְתִּ֣י עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת וְהִכְרַתִּ֨י לְבָבֶ֜ל שֵׁ֥ם וּשְׁאָ֛ר וְנִ֥ין וָנֶ֖כֶד נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

And-qamtî against-them, nǝʾum YHWH ṣǝḇāʾôt; and-hiḵrattî for-bāḇel šēm and-šǝʾār and-nîn and-neḵed, nǝʾum-YHWH.

Grammar Details

• *qamtî*: qal perfect, 1st singular - I will arise/stand up
• *nǝʾum*: construct noun - declaration of
• *ṣǝḇāʾôt*: feminine plural noun - hosts/armies
• *hiḵrattî*: hiphil perfect, 1st singular - I will cut off
• *bāḇel*: proper noun - Babylon
• *šēm*: masculine singular noun - name
• *šǝʾār*: masculine singular noun - remnant/remainder
• *nîn*: masculine singular noun - offspring/posterity
• *neḵed*: masculine singular noun - descendant/grandson

Word Meanings

• *qamtî*: I will arise/I will stand up/I will rise against
• *nǝʾum*: declaration of/oracle of/says
• *ṣǝḇāʾôt*: hosts/armies/multitudes
• *hiḵrattî*: I will cut off/I will destroy/I will eliminate
• *šǝʾār*: remnant/remainder/survivor
• *nîn*: offspring/progeny/posterity
• *neḵed*: descendant/grandson/posterity

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  'I will rise up against them,' declares the LORD of Hosts, 'and I will cut off from Babylon her name and survivors, her offspring and descendants,' declares the LORD.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will rise up{H6965} against them, saith{H5002} Jehovah{H3068} of hosts,{H6635} and cut off{H3772} from Babylon{H894} name{H8034} and remnant,{H7605} and son{H5209} and son's son,{H5220} saith{H5002} Jehovah.{H3068}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For I will rise up{H6965}{(H8804)} against them, saith{H5002}{(H8803)} the LORD{H3068} of hosts{H6635}, and cut off{H3772}{(H8689)} from Babylon{H894} the name{H8034}, and remnant{H7605}, and son{H5209}, and nephew{H5220}, saith{H5002}{(H8803)} the LORD{H3068}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I wil stonde vp agaynst them (sayeth the LORDE of hoostes) and root out ye name and generacion of Babilon (saieth the LORDE)

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For I wil rise vp against them (sayth the Lorde of hostes) and will cut off from Babel the name and the remnant and the sonne, and the nephew, sayth the Lord:

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I wyll stande vp agaynst them saith the Lorde of hoastes, and roote out the name and remnaunt, sonne and sonnes sonne of Babylon saith the Lorde.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I will rise up against them, says Yahweh of Hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, says Yahweh.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And I have risen up against them, (The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts,) And have cut off, in reference to Babylon, Name and remnant, and continuator and successor, The affirmation of Jehovah.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, saith Jehovah.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, saith Jehovah.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord.

• World English Bible (2000)

  "I will rise up against them," says Yahweh of Armies, "and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son," says Yahweh.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “I will rise up against them,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“I will blot out all remembrance of Babylon and destroy all her people, including the offspring she produces,” says the LORD.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.
• 1 Kgs 14:10 : 10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him who urinates against the wall, and him who is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man takes away dung, until it is all gone.
• Job 18:16-19 : 16 His roots shall be dried up below, and above his branch shall be cut off. 17 His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. 19 He shall neither have son nor descendant among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
• Isa 13:5 : 5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
• Isa 21:9 : 9 And, behold, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the carved images of her gods he has shattered to the ground.
• Isa 43:14 : 14 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles and the Chaldeans, whose shout is in the ships.
• Isa 47:9-9 : 9 But these two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day: the loss of children and widowhood. They shall come upon you in their fullness for the multitude of your sorceries and for the great abundance of your enchantments. 10 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and your knowledge have perverted you; and you have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is none else besides me.' 11 Therefore evil shall come upon you; you shall not know from where it rises. Trouble shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off. Desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know. 12 Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you will be able to profit, perhaps you may prevail. 13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from these things that shall come upon you. 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 by, nor a fire to sit before.
• Jer 50:26-27 : 26 Come against her from the furthest border, open her storehouses: pile her up as heaps, and utterly destroy her: let nothing of her be left. 27 Slay all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
• Jer 50:29-35 : 29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the bow, camp against it all around; let none of them escape: repay her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel. 30 Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD. 31 Behold, I am against you, O most proud, says the Lord GOD of hosts: for your day has come, the time that I will visit you. 32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall help him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all around him. 33 Thus says the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all who took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. 34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. 35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
• Jer 51:3-4 : 3 Against him who bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him who lifts himself up in his armor; and do not spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army. 4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and those thrust through in her streets.
• Jer 51:56-57 : 56 Because the destroyer has come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken; for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely repay. 57 I will make her princes, wise men, captains, rulers, and mighty men drunk, and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
• Jer 51:62-64 : 62 Then you shall say, O LORD, you have spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate forever. 63 And it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates; 64 And you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.