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These two thingsשְׁתַּיִם הֵנָּהhave befallen youקֹרְאֹתַיִךְ—whoמִיwill grieveיָנוּדfor you?—לָךְthe devastationהַשֹּׁדand the breaking,וְהַשֶּׁבֶרand the famineוְהָרָעָבand the sword;וְהַחֶרֶבhowמִיshall I comfort you?אֲנַחֲמֵךְ
Isaiah 51:19
Study it in the app“These two things have befallen you —who will grieve for you?— the devastation and the breaking, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 51:19, word by word
- These two thingsשְׁתַּיִםshetayim
two
A pair, a quantity of two.
Where else “shetayim” appears- have befallen youקֹרְאֹתַיִkorotayi
befall
For an event, good or bad, to befall someone without his seeking it.
Where else “korotayi” appears- will grieveיָנוּדyanud
sympathize
To show sorrow for someone and comfort him.
Where else “yanud” appears- the devastationשֹּׁדshod
destruction, violence
Devastation, ruin that comes with violence.
Where else “shod” appears- and the breakingשֶּׁבֶרshever
ruin
The downfall of a people or someone.
Where else “shever” appears- and the famineרָעָבraav
famine, hunger
Hunger; famine, a shortage of food in a region.
Where else “raav” appears- and the swordחֶרֶבcherev
sword
A sword; or war.
Where else “cherev” appears- shall I comfort youאֲנַחֲמֵanachame
comfort
To ease someone in his pain with words and company.
Where else “anachame” appears
Translation note
In Hebrew the verb is in the first person; literally, “who… shall I comfort you?”
The context
18There is no one to guide her among all the children she bore; and there is no one to take her by her hand among all the children she raised.
19 · This verse (above)
20Your children have fainted; they lie at the corner of every street, like an antelope in a net, full of the fury of YHWH, of the rebuke of your Elohim.