King James Version
Isaiah 1:2 in the King James Version says “Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they hav...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.”
Isaiah 1:2 · KJV
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. laden: Heb. of heaviness gone: Heb. alienated, or, separated
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Hear”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“O heavens”
H8064the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r
“and give ear”
H238to broaden out the ear (with the hand), i.e., (by implication) to listen
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“for the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“hath spoken”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“I have nourished”
H1431to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride)
“and brought up”
H7311to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
“and they have rebelled”
H6586to break away (from just authority), i.e., trespass, apostatize, quarrel
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