Isaiah 34:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֛י י֥וֹם נָקָ֖ם לַֽיהוָ֑ה שְׁנַ֥ת שִׁלּוּמִ֖ים לְרִ֥יב צִיּֽוֹן׃

Transliteration

kî yôm nāqām lāyhwh šĕnat šillûmîm lĕrîb ṣiyyôn

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *yôm*: masculine singular construct - day of
• *nāqām*: masculine singular noun - vengeance
• *lāyhwh*: preposition + divine name - to/for YHWH
• *šĕnat*: feminine singular construct - year of
• *šillûmîm*: masculine plural noun - retribution/recompense
• *lĕrîb*: preposition + masculine singular construct - for controversy/dispute of
• *ṣiyyôn*: proper noun - Zion

Word Meanings

• *yôm*: day/time
• *nāqām*: vengeance/revenge/retribution
• *šĕnat*: year/period
• *šillûmîm*: retribution/recompense/repayment
• *rîb*: controversy/dispute/case/lawsuit
• *ṣiyyôn*: Zion (Jerusalem)

Referenced Verses

• Isa 63:4 : 4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
• Isa 61:2 : 2 to proclaim the year of Jehovah's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
• Isa 35:4 : 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [with] the recompense of God; he will come and save you.
• Ps 94:1 : 1 O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.
• Jer 46:10 : 10 For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
• Rev 6:10-11 : 10 and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? 11 And there was given them to each one a white robe; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little time, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, who should be killed even as they were, should have fulfilled [their course].
• Rev 18:20 : 20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets; for God hath judged your judgment on her.
• Rev 19:2 : 2 for true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath judged the great harlot, her that corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
• Isa 49:26 : 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
• Isa 59:17-18 : 17 And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle. 18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
• Mic 6:1 : 1 Hear ye now what Jehovah saith: Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
• Luke 18:7 : 7 And shall not God avenge his elect, that cry to him day and night, and [yet] he is longsuffering over them?
• Rom 2:5 : 5 but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
• Rom 2:8-9 : 8 but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [shall be] wrath and indignation, 9 tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;
• 2 Thess 1:6-9 : 6 if so be that it is righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you, 7 and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire, 8 rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus: 9 who shall suffer punishment, [even] eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day.
• Isa 26:21 : 21 For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
• Deut 32:35 : 35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
• Deut 32:41-43 : 41 If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me. 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy. 43 Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his people: For he will avenge the blood of his servants, And will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.