KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
To get what Isaiah 28:17 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “Judgment” | מִשְׁפָּט֙ | Properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style | Judgment |
| “also will I lay” | וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י | To put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically) | also lay |
| “to the line,” | לְקָ֔ו | A cord (as connecting), especially for measuring; figuratively, a rule; also a rim, a musical string or accord | line |
| “and righteousness” | וּצְדָקָ֖ה | Rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity) | righteousness |
| “to the plummet:” | לְמִשְׁקָ֑לֶת | A weight, i.e., a plummet (with line attached) | plummet |
| “and the hail” | בָרָד֙ | Hail | hail |
| “shall sweep away” | וְיָעָ֤ה | To brush aside | sweep away |
| “the refuge” | מַחְסֵ֣ה | A shelter (literally or figuratively) | refuge |
| “of lies,” | כָזָ֔ב | Falsehood; literally (untruth) or figuratively (idol) | lies |
| “and the waters” | מַ֖יִם | Water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen | waters |
| “shall overflow” | יִשְׁטֹֽפוּ׃ | To gush; by implication, to inundate, cleanse; by analogy, to gallop, conquer | overflow |
| “the hiding place.” | וְסֵ֥תֶר | A cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense) | hiding place |
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15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
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