King James Version
Isaiah 63:14 in the King James Version says “As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 63 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.”
Isaiah 63:14 · KJV
That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? the sounding: or, the multitude
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. our redeemer: or, our redeemer from everlasting is thy name
KJV Study — Public Domain
“As a beast”
H929properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)
“into the valley”
H1237properly, a split, i.e., a wide level valley between mountains
“goeth down”
H3381to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); cau
“the Spirit”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“caused him to rest”
H5117to rest, i.e., settle down; used in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, intransitive, transitive and causative (to dwell, stay, l
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner
“so didst thou lead”
H5090to drive forth (a person, an animal or chariot), also (from the panting induced by effort), to sigh
“thy people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
“name”
H8034an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
“thyself a glorious”
H8597ornament (abstractly or concretely, literally or figuratively)
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