King James Version
Isaiah 17:7 in the King James Version says “At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 17 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.”
Isaiah 17:7 · KJV
And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images. images: or, sun images
In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“At that day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“look”
H8159to gaze at or about (properly, for help); by implication, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed (as looking around in amazement) or bewil
“shall a man”
H120ruddy i.e., a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“and his eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“to the Holy”
H6918sacred (ceremonially or morally); (as noun) god (by eminence), an angel, a saint, a sanctuary
“One of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“shall have respect”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
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