Isaiah 57:4
Old Testament • 13 words with Strong's data
"Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,"
Word-by-Word Analysis
קִרְאָה
qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
שְׂחוֹק
sᵉchôwq
laughter (in merriment or defiance)
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
קִרְאָה
qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
פָּתַח
pâthach
to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
פֶּה
peh
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with prepos...
לָשׁוֹן
lâshôwn
the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame,...
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
פֶּשַׁע
peshaʻ
a revolt (national, moral or religious)
זֶרַע
zeraʻ
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
שֶׁקֶר
sheqer
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
Key Terms in This Verse
פָּתַח pâthach
to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
Study H6605 →לָשׁוֹן lâshôwn
the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
Study H3956 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →פֶּה peh
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
Study H6310 →Cross References
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast wi...
As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away...
And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.
Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the ...
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
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