What Does Isaiah 48:13 Mean?

meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjunction); also or yea; adversatively though

“Mine hand”

a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v

“also hath laid the foundation”

to set (literally or figuratively); intensively, to found; reflexively, to sit down together, i.e., settle, consult

“of the earth”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

“and my right hand”

the right hand or side (leg, eye) of a person or other object (as the stronger and more dexterous); locally, the south

“hath spanned”

to flatten out or extend (as a tent); figuratively, to nurse a child (as promotive of growth)

“the heavens”

the 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

“when I call”

to call out to (i.e., properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)

i

near, with or among; often in general, to

“unto them they stand up”

to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)

“together”

properly, a unit, i.e., (adverb) unitedly