King James Version
Isaiah 33:2 in the King James Version says “O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 33 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.”
Isaiah 33:2 · KJV
Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“be gracious”
H2603properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (i.e., move to favor by petition)
“unto us we have waited”
H6960to bind together (perhaps by twisting), i.e., collect; (figuratively) to expect
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“for thee be thou their arm”
H2220the arm (as stretched out), or (of animals) the foreleg; figuratively, force
meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjunction); also or yea; adversatively though
“our salvation”
H3444something saved, i.e., (abstractly) deliverance; hence, aid, victory, prosperity
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