Isaiah 26:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening was upon them.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְהוָ֖ה בַּצַּ֣ר פְּקָד֑וּךָ צָק֣וּן לַ֔חַשׁ מוּסָרְךָ֖ לָֽמוֹ׃

Transliteration

YHWH, in ṣar peqādûḵā; ṣāqûn laḥaš mûsārḵā for them.

Grammar Details

*YHWH*: divine name - 'YHWH'
*baṣṣar*: preposition with definite article and masculine singular noun - 'in distress'
*peqādûḵā*: qal perfect 3rd person plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'they sought you'
*ṣāqûn*: qal perfect 3rd person plural - 'they poured out'
*laḥaš*: masculine singular noun - 'whisper/prayer'
*mûsārḵā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your discipline/chastening'
*lāmô*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix (poetic) - 'to them'

Word Meanings

*ṣar*: distress/trouble/affliction/adversity
*peqādûḵā*: sought/visited/attended to/missed
*ṣāqûn*: poured out/poured forth/shed
*laḥaš*: whisper/prayer/incantation/charm
*mûsārḵā*: discipline/chastening/correction/instruction

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Referenced Verses

Hos 5:15 : 15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.
Hos 7:14 : 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds: they assemble themselves for grain and new wine; they rebel against me.
Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Deut 4:29-30 : 29 But from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt find him, when thou searchest after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. 30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, in the latter days thou shalt return to Jehovah thy God, and hearken unto his voice:
Judg 10:9-9 : 9 And the children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed. 10 And the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah, saying, We have sinned against thee, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baalim.
1 Sam 1:15 : 15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Jehovah.
2 Chr 6:37-38 : 37 yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly; 38 if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 And when he was in distress, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 And he prayed unto him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah he was God.
Ps 42:4 : 4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.
Ps 50:15 : 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Ps 77:1-2 : 1 For the Chief Musician; afer the manner of Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I will cry unto God with my voice, Even unto God with my voice; and he will give ear unto me. 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.
Ps 91:15 : 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble: I will deliver him, and honor him.
Ps 142:2 : 2 I pour out my complaint before him; I show before him my trouble.
Isa 37:3 : 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Jer 22:23 : 23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
Lam 2:19 : 19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

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