Isaiah 60:12
For why the folk and realm that serveth not thee, shall perish, and heathen men shall be destroyed by wilderness.This verse in the real world
In what words
- חָרַבchârabto parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
- מַמְלָכָהmamlâkâhdominion, i.e. (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm)
- אָבַדʼâbadproperly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
- עָבַדʻâbadto work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
- גּוֹיgôwya foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of
The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
Cross-references
Isa 54:15, Zec 14:12–19, Psa 2:12, Isa 41:11, Dan 2:44–45, Isa 14:2, Mat 21:44, Rev 2:26–27