What Does Isaiah 3:10 Mean in the King James?
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
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
Alignment bears fruit that returns as nourishment to the one who lives it.
THE MEANING
When you live in alignment, your actions do not vanish; they grow into fruit you yourself receive. This verse names that outcome as good, tying what you taste to what your own life brings forth.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that doing what is right is wasted or leaves no trace: your actions ripen into something you encounter.
THE ROOT
צַדִּיק
tsaddiq
GROWS FROM
צדק
ts-d-q
Rightness, justice, alignment.
English “righteous” can sound like a fixed moral label, but צַדִּיק (tsaddiq, an aligned person) grows from צדק (ts-d-q, rightness, justice, alignment). The verse sets that alignment beside deeds and their fruit: alignment takes shape in action, and its result becomes what the person tastes.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: Rightness, justice, or alignment.
צֶדֶק
It names the quality beneath the person called righteous in this verse.
tsedaqah: Justice or right action; alignment made visible.
צְדָקָה
It shows alignment taking form in conduct, the very deeds whose fruit is eaten here.
THE PATTERN
A person’s conduct grows into fruit that becomes part of that person’s own life.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.THE THREAD
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.Proverbs 11:30 carries the same Hebrew root for “righteous” and the same word for “fruit,” then opens the image outward: the aligned person’s fruit becomes a tree of life. Isaiah shows the person receiving the fruit; Proverbs shows that fruit nourishing others.
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