What Does Isaiah 25:9 Mean in the King James?
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
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
“Save” and “salvation” grow from one Hebrew root, joining the awaited rescue to the joy it brings.
THE MEANING
You can name God as your deliverer while the outcome is still awaited. The verse holds waiting and gladness together: expectation faces what is coming, and rejoicing already rests in God’s deliverance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that waiting means God is absent: the waiting here is directed toward God, and the verse speaks of joy in the deliverance to come.
THE ROOT
וְיוֹשִׁיעֵנוּ
ve-yoshiʿenu
GROWS FROM
ישע
y-sh-ʿ
To deliver, bring out of danger into safety; the movement is from constriction toward spaciousness.
“save / salvation” in this verse is ve-yoshiʿenu. The verse uses this root for both “save” and “salvation,” holding the act and its outcome in one word family. The rescue is attributed to God, and the same root names the deliverance in which the people rejoice.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuah: Deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
The verse repeats this root in “his salvation,” showing that the promised act and the resulting deliverance belong to one family.
moshiaʿ: Deliverer
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This form names the one who delivers, matching the verse’s recognition of God with the action attributed to him.
THE PATTERN
When God is recognized as deliverer, that recognition becomes trust and praise.
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.THE THREAD
And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.Exodus 14:13 uses יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuah, deliverance), the same root Isaiah uses for “salvation.” There, the word names a passage out of danger; here, that same deliverance is the ground of rejoicing.
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