Isaiah 26:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

You have increased the nation, O LORD, You have increased the nation; You are glorified; You had removed it far to all the ends of the earth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יָסַ֤פְתָּ לַגּוֹי֙ יְהוָ֔ה יָסַ֥פְתָּ לַגּ֖וֹי נִכְבָּ֑דְתָּ רִחַ֖קְתָּ כָּל־קַצְוֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

Yāsaptā to gôy, YHWH, yāsaptā to gôy, niḵbādtā; riḥaqtā all qaṣwê-ʾāreṣ.

Grammar Details

• *Yāsaptā*: qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular - 'you have increased'
• *laggôy*: preposition with definite article and masculine singular noun - 'to the nation'
• *YHWH*: divine name - 'YHWH'
• *yāsaptā*: qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular - 'you have increased'
• *niḵbādtā*: niphal perfect 2nd person masculine singular - 'you are glorified'
• *riḥaqtā*: piel perfect 2nd person masculine singular - 'you have extended'
• *kol-qaṣwê-ʾāreṣ*: masculine singular construct with masculine plural construct and feminine singular noun - 'all ends of the earth'

Word Meanings

• *Yāsaptā*: increased/added to/expanded
• *gôy*: nation/people/gentiles
• *niḵbādtā*: glorified/honored/made heavy
• *riḥaqtā*: extended/enlarged/expanded/removed far

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  You have increased the nation, LORD; You have increased the nation. You are glorified; You have extended all the borders of the land.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Thou hast increased the nation, O Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Agayne, thou increacest the people (o LORDE), thou increacest the people, thou shalt be praysed and magnified in all ye endes of the worlde.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord: thou hast increased the nation: thou art made glorious: thou hast enlarged all the coastes of the earth.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Thou hast increased the people, O Lorde, thou hast increased the people, thou art glorious, thou hast sent them farre of vnto all the coastes of the earth.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed [it] far [unto] all the ends of the earth.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  You have increased the nation, O Yahweh, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Thou hast added to the nation, O Jehovah, Thou hast added to the nation, Thou hast been honoured, Thou hast put far off all the ends of earth.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Thou hast increased the nation, O Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Thou hast increased the nation, O Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  You have made the nation great, O Lord, you have made it great; glory is yours: you have made wide the limits of the land.

• World English Bible (2000)

  You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  You have made the nation larger, O LORD, you have made the nation larger and revealed your splendor, you have extended all the borders of the land.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 9:3 : 3 You have multiplied the nation and not increased the joy; they rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
• Isa 10:22 : 22 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.
• Isa 33:17 : 17 Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will see the land that is very far away.
• Isa 44:23 : 23 Sing, O heavens; for the LORD has done it: shout, you lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it: for the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
• Isa 54:2-3 : 2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: do not spare, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes; 3 For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and your descendants shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
• Isa 60:21 : 21 Also your people shall all be righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, that I may be glorified.
• Jer 30:19 : 19 And out of them shall come thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
• Jer 32:37 : 37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
• Ezek 5:12 : 12 A third part of you shall die with pestilence, and with famine they shall be consumed in your midst: and a third part shall fall by the sword around you; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
• Ezek 36:24 : 24 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
• Luke 21:24 : 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
• John 12:23-28 : 23 But Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified. 24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. 25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me; and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me, my Father will honor him. 27 Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this cause I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name. Then a voice came from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.
• John 13:31-32 : 31 Therefore, when he had gone out, Jesus said, Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and will glorify him immediately.
• John 15:8 : 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you shall be my disciples.
• John 17:1 : 1 These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify you:
• Rev 11:15-18 : 15 And the seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever. 16 And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying, We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who is and who was and who is to come, because You have taken Your great power and have reigned. 18 The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, and those who fear Your name, small and great, and destroy those who destroy the earth.
• Gen 12:2 : 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:
• Gen 13:16 : 16 And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also shall be numbered.
• Num 23:10 : 10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of one-fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like his!
• Deut 4:27-28 : 27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you. 28 And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
• Deut 10:22 : 22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.
• Deut 28:25 : 25 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
• Deut 28:64 : 64 And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone.
• Deut 32:26-27 : 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misbehave themselves, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.
• 1 Kgs 8:46 : 46 If they sin against you, (for there is no man that does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near;
• 2 Kgs 17:6 : 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
• 2 Kgs 17:23 : 23 until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day.
• 2 Kgs 23:27 : 27 And the LORD said, I will also remove Judah out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
• Neh 9:23 : 23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land which You had promised to their forefathers they would enter and possess.
• Ps 86:9-9 : 9 All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and shall glorify Your name. 10 For You are great and do wondrous things; You alone are God.
• Isa 6:12 : 12 And the LORD has removed men far away, and there is a great forsaking in the midst of the land.