Isaiah 30:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and document it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַתָּה בּוֹא כָתְבָהּ עַל־לוּחַ אִתָּם וְעַל־סֵפֶר חֻקָּהּ וּתְהִי לְיוֹם אַחֲרוֹן לָעַד עַד־עוֹלָם׃

Transliteration

Now, bôʾ kotebāh upon a lûaḥ with them and upon a sēper ḥuqqāh, and tehî for a day ʾaḥărôn, for a witness unto ʿôlām.

Grammar Details

• *bôʾ*: qal imperative masculine singular - go/come
• *kotebāh*: qal imperative masculine singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - write it
• *lûaḥ*: masculine singular noun - tablet/board
• *sēper*: masculine singular noun - book/scroll/document
• *ḥuqqāh*: qal imperative masculine singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - inscribe it
• *tehî*: qal jussive 3rd person feminine singular - let it be
• *ʾaḥărôn*: masculine singular adjective - latter/future/last
• *ʿôlām*: masculine singular noun - forever/eternity

Word Meanings

• *bôʾ*: go/come/enter
• *kotebāh*: write it/inscribe it
• *lûaḥ*: tablet/board/panel
• *sēper*: book/scroll/document/letter
• *ḥuqqāh*: inscribe it/engrave it
• *tehî*: let it be/may it become
• *ʾaḥărôn*: latter/future/last/coming
• *ʿôlām*: forever/eternity/perpetuity

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Now go, write it on a tablet before them and inscribe it in a book, so it will stand as a witness forever and ever.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Wherfore go hece, and write them this in their tables, and note it in a booke: that it maye remayne by their posterite, and be stil kepte.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Now go, and write it before them in a table, and note it in a booke that it may be for the last day for euer and euer:

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Nowe therefore go thy way, and write this before them in a table, and note it in a booke: that it may finally remaine and be kept styll for euer.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  No, go in, write it on a tablet with them, And on a book engrave it, And it is for a latter day, for a witness unto the age,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Now go, write it down on a tablet in their presence, inscribe it on a scroll, so that it might be preserved for a future time as an enduring witness.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 8:1 : 1 Moreover, the LORD said to me, Take for yourself a large scroll, and write on it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
• Hab 2:2 : 2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, so that he may run who reads it.
• 1 Tim 4:1 : 1 Now the Spirit speaks clearly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits, and doctrines of demons;
• 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
• Jude 1:18 : 18 How they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.
• Num 24:14 : 14 And now, behold, I go to my people: come therefore, and I will advise you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.
• Deut 4:30 : 30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you, even in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and be obedient to his voice;
• Deut 31:19 : 19 Now therefore write this song for you, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
• Deut 31:22 : 22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.
• Deut 31:29 : 29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
• Job 19:23-25 : 23 Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! 24 That they were engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever! 25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that He shall stand at last on the earth;
• Isa 2:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established on the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
• Jer 23:20 : 20 The anger of the LORD shall not return until he has executed and until he has performed the thoughts of his heart. In the latter days you shall consider it perfectly.
• Jer 36:2 : 2 Take yourself a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
• Jer 36:28-32 : 28 Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned. 29 And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus says the LORD: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written in it, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause man and beast to cease from there? 30 Therefore thus says the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. 31 And I will punish him and his descendants and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, but they did not listen. 32 Then Jeremiah took another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.
• Jer 48:47 : 47 Yet I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
• Jer 51:60 : 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
• Ezek 38:16 : 16 And you shall come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, O Gog, before their eyes.
• Hos 3:5 : 5 Afterward, the children of Israel shall return, and seek the LORD their God and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the last days.