What Does Isaiah 25:10 Mean in the King James?
For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
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
Rest and crushing occupy the same scene: the LORD’s hand settles on the mountain while Moab is trampled beneath him.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s hand rests on this mountain while Moab is trodden down beneath him like straw at a dunghill. The image holds stillness and brutal force together; the rest does not soften what happens to Moab.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a resting divine hand means gentleness for everything beneath it: this scene includes Moab being trampled down.
THE ROOT
וְנִדְרַךְ
wenidrakh
GROWS FROM
דָּרַךְ
To tread or step; in this form, to be trodden down.
“trodden down” in this verse is wenidrakh. The Hebrew form presents Moab as receiving the force of a foot pressing it down. The same root names דֶּרֶךְ (derekh, a way or path), joining the act of treading with the path made by steps, a connection English does not show.
ALSO GROWS
derekh: Way, road, path
דֶּרֶךְ
A path is a way feet tread; the root that describes Moab’s trampling also names a way made by steps.
midrakh: Footing, a place to tread
מִדְרָךְ
This branch keeps the image physical: something is set beneath a foot.
תָּנוּחַ
tanuach
GROWS FROM
נוּחַ
To rest, settle, or come to rest.
The verb depicts the LORD’s hand settling on the mountain. That settled presence stands beside the trampling of Moab, so the verse’s rest is neither an absence of force nor a softening of the judgment it describes.
ALSO GROWS
menuchah: Rest, resting place
מְנוּחָה
This noun shows rest as a place or condition of settledness, echoing the hand resting on the mountain.
heniach: To set down or cause to rest
הֵנִיחַ
This causative form carries the sense of placing something down, sharpening the image of the hand coming to rest on the mountain.
THE PATTERN
Scripture uses treading underfoot to make visible who holds power over whom.
I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.THE THREAD
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.The Hebrew root דָּרַךְ (darakh, to tread) appears here in “tread down our enemies.” It makes the force in Isaiah’s image plain: the one trodden is placed beneath, and the act of treading shows who holds the power.
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