What Does Isaiah 14:26 Mean in the King James?
This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
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 divine rule both counseled decision and outstretched hand: what is determined is already reaching into action.
THE MEANING
Your world is within a purpose already formed: counsel is set across the whole earth, and the hand reaches across every nation. The verse joins intention to action, with that hand claiming authority over the nations now. Its reach carries judgment as well as rule.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a nation’s power is ultimate and self-governing: every nation remains within the reach of this purpose.
THE ROOT
עֵצָה הַיְּעוּצָה
ʿēṣāh hayyeʿūṣāh
GROWS FROM
יעץ
To advise, counsel, or deliberate.
“purpose / purposed” in this verse is ʿēṣāh hayyeʿūṣāh. The first Hebrew word, עֵצָה (ʿēṣāh), means “counsel”; the next is a form of the same root, יָעַץ (yaʿats), “to counsel” or “determine.” The verse makes counsel a formed decision, then pairs it with the outstretched hand: purpose reaches into action.
ALSO GROWS
ʿēṣāh: Counsel, advice, deliberation.
עֵצָה
This is the noun translated “purpose,” giving the decree the shape of considered counsel.
yaʿats: To advise, counsel, or deliberate.
יָעַץ
This related verb turns counsel into the act of determining expressed by “purposed.”
yōʿēṣ: Counselor, adviser.
יוֹעֵץ
The same root can name one who counsels, underscoring that this purpose carries an intentional source.
הַנְּטוּיָה
han-netuyah
GROWS FROM
נטה
To stretch out, extend, incline, or spread.
The English “stretched” can sound like a static posture; נטה carries directed extension, outward or toward something. Here the hand reaches over the nations as an active claim of rule, and that reach has consequence.
ALSO GROWS
natah: To stretch out, extend, or incline.
נָטָה
This is the verb behind “stretched,” so the hand’s reach is an active movement.
hatteh: “Incline,” as in “Incline thine ear” (Psalm 17:6).
הַטֵּה
The same root can describe a directed reach toward hearing; here it describes a hand extended over nations.
THE PATTERN
Divine counsel becomes action, carrying its decision across the world.
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.THE THREAD
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:Isaiah 46:10 uses עֵצָה (ʿēṣāh, “counsel”), the same word behind “purpose” here. There, that counsel stands as God says, “I will do”; the parallel opens Isaiah 14:26’s stretched hand as counsel enacted across the nations.
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