Isaiah 49:9

“to say to the prisoners, ‘Go out,’ to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ Along the roads they will graze, and on all the bare heights will be their pasture.”

Isaiah 49:9 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Isaiah 49:9, word by word

to sayאמֹרmor

say

To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.

Where else “mor” appears
to the prisonersאֲסוּרִיםasurim

confine

To keep someone shut up, like a prisoner.

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‘Go out,’צֵאוּtseu

go out

To go out of a place.

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are in darknessחֹשֶׁךְchoshech

gloom

Distress, ignorance or death.

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‘Show yourselves.’הִגָּלוּhigalu

uncover

To remove what covers, leaving something in view.

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the roadsדְּרָכִיםderachim

road

The track or route by which one goes from one place to another.

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they will grazeיִרְעוּyiru

graze

To tend a flock, or eat grass.

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the bare heightsשְׁפָיִיםshefayim

bare height

Bare hill, a height without trees.

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will be their pastureמַרְעִיתָmarita

pasture

The meadow where the flock grazes; God's people are "the sheep of his pasture".

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The context

8Thus says YHWH: “In a time of favor I answered you, and in a day of salvation I helped you; and I will keep you and make you a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate inheritances;

9 · This verse (above)

10They will not hunger nor thirst, and neither the scorching ground nor the sun will strike them; for he who has compassion on them will lead them, and by springs of water he will guide them.

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