What Does Isaiah 37:35 Mean in the King James?

For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

Isaiah 37:35 · KJV

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 city is preserved for God’s own purpose and for the sake of David, the beloved, and ⁨יָשַׁע⁩ (yasha, deliver) casts rescue as a way out of constriction into spaciousness.

THE MEANING

This verse holds the threatened city within God’s own purpose: its preservation rests on his sake and on the bond named through David, the beloved servant. Rescue opens a way through constriction; the city’s keeping does not arise from its own strength.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

A threatened place is not kept only by whatever power it can muster; this verse locates its defense in God’s purpose and in the bond he names through David.

THE ROOT

לְהוֹשִׁיעָהּ

lehoshi’ah

GROWS FROM

ישע

Deliver; bring into spaciousness.

The phrase “to save it” carries a root associated with being brought out of constriction into room. The city is not only kept from collapse; it is delivered through the threat so it can continue.

ALSO GROWS

yeshuah: Deliverance

יְשׁוּעָה

The noun names the same movement out of constraint that the city receives.

moshia: Deliverer

מוֹשִׁיעַ

The deliverer is named by the act of bringing someone out into safety.

דָּוִד

Dāwīd

GROWS FROM

דוד

Beloved; beloved one.

David’s name carries the sense of belovedness. “My servant David” holds service and beloved relation together as the stated ground, alongside God’s own sake, for the city’s keeping.

ALSO GROWS

dod: Beloved; close kinsman

דּוֹד

The shared root lets David’s name carry a relational sense, not merely identify a person.

dodi: My beloved

דּוֹדִי

This form makes the affection within the root explicit, illuminating the name’s sense of belovedness.

THE PATTERN

Protection and deliverance arise from God’s own commitment and identity.

Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

Psalm 106:8 · KJVRescue is grounded in God’s name and purpose, as this city’s preservation is grounded in God’s own sake.

As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

Isaiah 31:5 · KJVThe verse joins protection and deliverance in the same movement of keeping the threatened city.

For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

Hebrews 6:13 · KJVGod anchors the promise in himself, echoing the grounding of the city’s preservation in God’s own sake.

THE THREAD

As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

Isaiah 31:5 · KJV

This verse repeats ⁨גנן⁩ (ganan, protect or cover) and ⁨ישע⁩ (yasha, deliver). Its doubled phrasing makes clear that defense and being brought out belong to one joined movement.

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