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Forכִּיat the voiceמִקּוֹלof YHWHיְהוָהAssyriaאַשּׁוּרwill be shattered;יֵחַתwith the rodבַּשֵּׁבֶטhe will strike.יַכֶּה
Isaiah 30:31
Study it in the app“For at the voice of YHWH Assyria will be shattered; with the rod he will strike.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 30:31, word by word
- at the voiceקּוֹלkol
voice
What is heard when someone speaks or sings; also the voice of God.
Where else “kol” appears- of YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- Assyriaאַשּׁוּרashur
Assyria, Asshur
See it on the mapWhere else “ashur” appears- will be shatteredיֵחַתyechat
be shattered
To be broken in pieces, undone by a blow.
Where else “yechat” appears- with the rodשֵּׁבֶטshevet
rod
A stick for guiding or correcting; the king's sign of power.
Where else “shevet” appears- he will strikeיַכֶּהyake
punish
God punishes with a plague.
Where else “yake” appears
Places in this verse
Assyria
Today: northern Iraq (with parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran)
An empire of northern Mesopotamia along the Tigris River, in present-day Iraq.
Assyria took the northern kingdom of Israel captive (2 Kgs 17:6). God sent Jonah to preach in Nineveh, its capital (Jonah 3:3).
The context
30And YHWH will make heard the splendor of his voice, and the descent of his arm he will show, with raging anger and the flame of a devouring fire, cloudburst and downpour and stones of hail.
31 · This verse (above)
32And every passing of the appointed staff that YHWH lays upon him will be with tambourines and with lyres; and in battles of brandishing he will fight against them.