What Does Isaiah 11:9 Mean in the King James?
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse makes a world without harm the overflow of knowing the LORD: that knowing covers the earth as completely as water covers the sea.
THE MEANING
On the LORD’s holy mountain, hurt and destruction cease. Knowing the LORD fills the earth, reaching everywhere like waters covering the sea.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that harm and destruction must always shape the world is overturned: this verse holds open a world filled with the knowledge of the LORD, where hurt and ruin cease.
THE ROOT
דֵּעָה
de’ah
GROWS FROM
ידע
To know, recognize, or perceive.
The Hebrew noun grows from the verb for knowing and perceiving, so the verse presents knowledge as more than a store of facts. The knowing of the LORD fills the earth, as water surrounds the sea.
ALSO GROWS
yada: To know or perceive.
יָדַע
This verb is the seed beneath “knowledge,” joining what is known to the act of knowing.
da’at: Knowledge or understanding.
דַּעַת
This noun shares the same root and shows how knowing takes form as understanding.
THE PATTERN
The knowledge of the LORD spreads until it fills the earth, as completely as water covers the sea.
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.THE THREAD
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.The Hebrew word for “knowledge” here and Habakkuk’s word for “to know” grow from the same root. Habakkuk repeats the image of waters covering the sea, revealing the reach of this knowing as earth-wide.
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