King James Version
Isaiah 63:10 in the King James Version says “But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 63 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.”
Isaiah 63:10 · KJV
For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him? shepherd: or, shepherds
That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“But they rebelled”
H4784to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“Spirit”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
“therefore he was turned”
H2015to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
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
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