Isaiah 48:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כֹּֽה־אָמַ֧ר יְהוָ֛ה גֹּאַלְךָ֖ קְד֣וֹשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אֲנִ֨י יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙ מְלַמֶּדְךָ֣ לְהוֹעִ֔יל מַדְרִֽיכֲךָ֖ בְּדֶ֥רֶךְ תֵּלֵֽךְ׃

Transliteration

Thus ʾāmar YHWH gōʾalkā qedôsh yiśrāʾēl ʾănî YHWH ʾĕlōhêkā melammĕdĕkā to hôʿîl madrîkăkā in derek tēlēk

Grammar Details

• *ʾāmar*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he said
• *YHWH*: divine name - LORD
• *gōʾalkā*: qal participle masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your redeemer
• *qedôsh*: adjective masculine singular construct - holy one of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *ʾănî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
• *ʾĕlōhêkā*: masculine plural + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your God
• *melammĕdĕkā*: piel participle masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - teaching you
• *hôʿîl*: hiphil infinitive construct - to profit/benefit
• *madrîkăkā*: hiphil participle masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - leading you
• *derek*: masculine singular construct - way of
• *tēlēk*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you will walk/go

Word Meanings

• *ʾāmar*: said/spoke/declared
• *gōʾalkā*: your redeemer/your deliverer/your vindicator
• *qedôsh*: holy one/set-apart one/sacred one
• *melammĕdĕkā*: teaching you/instructing you/training you
• *hôʿîl*: to profit/to benefit/to succeed
• *madrîkăkā*: leading you/guiding you/causing you to walk
• *derek*: way/path/road/journey
• *tēlēk*: you should walk/you should go/you should follow

Referenced Verses

• Ps 32:8 : 8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
• Deut 8:17-18 : 17 and [lest] you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth. 18 But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.
• Job 22:21-22 : 21 "Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you. 22 Please receive instruction from his mouth, And lay up his words in your heart.
• Ps 25:12 : 12 What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
• Job 36:22 : 22 Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
• Isa 30:20 : 20 Though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not your teachers be hidden anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers;
• Ps 73:24 : 24 You will guide me with your counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.
• Isa 54:13 : 13 All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.
• Mic 4:2 : 2 Many nations will go and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, And to the house of the God of Jacob; And he will teach us of his ways, And we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion will go forth the law, And the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem;
• John 6:45 : 45 It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
• Ps 71:17 : 17 God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
• Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Good and upright is Yahweh, Therefore he will instruct sinners in the way. 9 He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.
• 1 Kgs 8:36 : 36 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
• Isa 44:6-9 : 6 Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God. 7 Who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and that shall happen, let them declare. 8 Don't fear, neither be afraid: haven't I declared to you of old, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don't know any Rock. 9 Those who fashion an engraved image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses don't see, nor know: that they may be disappointed. 10 Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing? 11 Behold, all his fellows shall be disappointed; and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to shame together. 12 The smith [makes] an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretches out a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with planes, and he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house. 14 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest: he plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it. 15 Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he takes of it, and warms himself; yes, he kindles it, and bakes bread: yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it. 16 He burns part of it in the fire; with part of it he eats flesh; he roasts roast, and is satisfied; yes, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire. 17 The residue of it he makes a god, even his engraved image; he falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me; for you are my god. 18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand. 19 None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? 20 He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? 21 Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel; for you are my servant: I have formed you; you are my servant: Israel, you shall not be forgotten by me. 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return to me; for I have redeemed you. 23 Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it; shout, you lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel. 24 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who stretches forth the heavens alone; who spreads abroad the earth (who is with me?);
• Isa 54:5 : 5 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
• Jer 31:33-34 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: 34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
• Eph 4:21 : 21 if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
• Isa 49:7 : 7 Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.
• Isa 49:9-9 : 9 saying to those who are bound, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture. 10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water will he guide them.
• Isa 2:3 : 3 Many peoples shall go and say, "Come, let's go up to the mountain of Yahweh, To the house of the God of Jacob; And he will teach us of his ways, And we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion the law shall go forth, And the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.
• Isa 43:14 : 14 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.
• Isa 43:16 : 16 Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
• Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus says Yahweh, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein].
• Isa 48:20 : 20 Go you forth from Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say you, Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob.