Isaiah 42:24

“Who gave Jacob to spoil, and Israel to plunderers? Was it not YHWH, this one against whom we have sinned? And they were not willing to walk in his ways, and they did not listen to his instruction.”

Isaiah 42:24 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Isaiah 42:24, word by word

gaveנָתַןnatan

give

To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.

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Jacobיַעֲקֹבyaakov

Jacob

Jacob, the younger son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Esau and father of the twelve tribes. In Hebrew "Yaakov" sounds like "heel" and "supplant" (Genesis 25:26; 27:36). God later gave him the name Israel; the name also stands for his descendants, the people of Israel.

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to spoilמְשִׁסָּהmeshisa

spoil, plunder

Spoil: what an enemy snatches when plundering, and also the people itself left exposed to plunder (2 Kings 21:14; Isaiah 42:22; Jeremiah 30:16).

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and Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyisrael

Israel

Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.

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to plunderersבֹזְזִיםvozzim

plunder

Plunder, take spoil.

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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.

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this oneזוּzu

this

Points to something near or already mentioned (in poetry).

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we have sinnedחָטָאנוּchatanu

sin

To do wrong, fail God or another.

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And they were not willingאָבוּavu

be willing, consent

Be willing, consent, agree to something; with "not", refuse.

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to walkהָלוֹךְhaloch

walk

Literally "to go": to live a certain way, as Enoch with Elohim.

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in his waysדְרָכָיderachay

ways of YHWH

YHWH's ways: what he does and commands.

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listenשָׁמְעוּshamu

listen

To pay close attention, or heed a plea.

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to his instructionתוֹרָתtorat

teaching of YHWH

What YHWH teaches his people so they may live.

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The context

23Who among you will give ear to this, will pay attention and hear for the time to come?

24 · This verse (above)

25So he poured out on him the fury of his anger and the fierceness of war; and it set him ablaze all around, but he did not know it; and it burned against him, but he did not take it to heart.

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