Isaiah 21:2
King James Version
8 Jun 2026
“A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.”
נָגַד
To tell, to declare, to make known. Nagad. The heavens declare the glory of God. Everything in creation is telling the story of its Creator.
עָלָה
go up
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עָלָה
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
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שָׁבַת
I will cause to cease
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שָׁבַת
to repose, i.e. desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causative, figurative or specific)
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שָׁדַד
is destroying
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שָׁדַד
properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage
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צוּר
lay siege
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צוּר
to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
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חָזוּת
a vision
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חָזוּת
a look; hence (figuratively) striking appearance, revelation, or (by implication) compact
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עֵילָם
O Elam
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עֵילָם
Elam, a son of Shem and his descendants, with their country; also of six Israelites
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קָשֶׁה
severe
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קָשֶׁה
severe (in various applications)
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מָדַי
O Media
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מָדַי
Madai, a country of central Asia
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