What Does Isaiah 43:6 Mean in the King James?
I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
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 farthest places are commanded to release those who already belong to the voice calling them home.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks to whatever holds what belongs together at a distance: release it, hold it no longer. What feels beyond reach is still named as belonging, and is being brought in from the far edges.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Distance means you have been forgotten or are no longer claimed. The verse names the farthest ones as “my sons” and “my daughters” before they are brought near.
THE ROOT
תִּכְלָאִי
tikhlaʾi
GROWS FROM
כלא
k-l-ʾ
Restrain, shut in, withhold.
The word translated “keep not back” carries the sense of restraining or shutting in. Its related noun can mean “prison,” so the verse’s command reaches beyond delay: what is held in confinement is told to open.
ALSO GROWS
keleʾ: Prison; confinement.
כֶּלֶא
The act of holding in becomes a place where someone is held.
kālāʾ: To restrain or shut in.
כָּלָא
This verbal form makes the withholding in the verse concrete.
הָבִיאִי
hāviʾî
GROWS FROM
בוא
b-w-ʾ
Come, enter; in a causative form, cause to come or enter.
“Bring” is a causative form of “come”: the command is to cause an arrival. Those at the earth’s far edges are described not as lost beyond reach, but as coming into nearness.
ALSO GROWS
bôʾ: Come; enter.
בּוֹא
The root’s basic sense is arrival or entry.
mābôʾ: Entrance; approach.
מָבוֹא
The related noun names a place or way of entering, echoing the movement toward home.
THE PATTERN
A voice of belonging gathers the scattered from every distance into one.
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.THE THREAD
Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;“Bring” in both verses comes from בוא (bôʾ), meaning “come” or “enter,” used here to mean “cause to come.” Verse 5 names east and west; verse 6 extends the same gathering to north and south, leaving no direction outside it.
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