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By the furyבְּעֶבְרַתof YHWHיְהוָהTsevaotצְבָאוֹתthe landאָרֶץis darkened,נֶעְתַּםand the peopleהָעָםareוַיְהִיlike fuelכְּמַאֲכֹלֶתfor the fire;אֵשׁno oneאִישׁsparesלֹא יַחְמֹלוּhis brother.אֶל אָחִיו
Isaiah 9:19
Study it in the app“By the fury of YHWH Tsevaot the land is darkened, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares his brother.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 9:19, word by word
- By the furyעֶבְרַתevrat
fury
Overflowing rage, fury.
Where else “evrat” 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- Tsevaotצְבָאוֹתtsevaot
Tsevaot
A name of God: the one who commands the armies of heaven and earth.
Where else “tsevaot” appears- the landאָרֶץarets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appears- is darkenedנֶעְתַּםnetam
be dark? (uncertain)
A word of uncertain sense: to grow dark, or to glow and be scorched.
Where else “netam” appears- and the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- areיְהִיyehi
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “yehi” appears- like fuelמַאֲכֹלֶתmaacholet
fuel
Fuel: what the fire feeds on.
Where else “maacholet” appears- for the fireאֵשׁesh
fire
Fire that burns or cooks.
Where else “esh” appears- no oneאִישׁish
each
Literally "a man": any person; with "not", not a single person.
Where else “ish” appears- sparesיַחְמֹלוּyachmolu
have pity, spare
Feel pity, want to save someone; spare.
Where else “yachmolu” appears- his brotherאָחִיachi
brother
A son of the same father or the same mother.
Where else “achi” appears
The context
18For wickedness burns like a fire; it devours briers and thorns, and it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll up in a column of smoke.
19 · This verse (above)
20And they slice on the right and are hungry, and they eat on the left and are not satisfied; each eats the flesh of his own arm: