What Does Isaiah 54:13 Mean in the King James?
And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
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 verse binds the children being taught by the LORD to their great shalom, a wholeness wider than calm.
THE MEANING
The promise speaks to you now: the LORD teaches your children, and their peace is great. This peace is also well-being and wholeness, a life made sound.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that peace means only an absence of conflict: here, peace is joined to being taught by the LORD and names a greater wholeness.
THE ROOT
לִמּוּדֵי
limmudei
GROWS FROM
למד
l-m-d
To learn; in forms of this word, to teach or be taught.
The Hebrew calls the children limmudei YHWH, learners, or taught ones, of the LORD. The word carries a relationship to the one who teaches, so the promise presents their instruction as coming from the LORD himself.
ALSO GROWS
lamad: Learn, be taught
לָמַד
The same root places learning and being taught within one word family.
talmid: Learner, disciple
תַּלְמִיד
This branch shows the children as learners shaped by the one who teaches them.
שָׁלוֹם
shalom
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
To be whole, complete, or sound.
Shalom holds peace together with wholeness and well-being. Its root family makes the promise larger than quiet: the children’s lives are sound and whole.
ALSO GROWS
shalem: Whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes visible the wholeness carried within the verse’s word for peace.
shillem: Repay, make good
שִׁלֵּם
This branch carries the sense of making good or restoring what is due, echoing shalom’s movement toward completeness.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness is joined to being taught directly by God.
Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.THE THREAD
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.Psalm 119:165 uses the same Hebrew word, shalom, for “peace.” It places great shalom beside love for Torah, instruction, echoing Isaiah’s pairing of the LORD’s teaching with the children’s wholeness.
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