What Does Isaiah 60:18 Mean in the King James?
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
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 names are the city’s nature: deliverance forms its boundary, and praise forms its threshold.
THE MEANING
This word speaks to the reader now: violence does not get to name the territory forever. Its borders are called deliverance, and its entrances are called praise, so protection and welcome carry those natures.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that violence permanently defines the place where it has been heard.
THE ROOT
יְשׁוּעָה
yeshuah
GROWS FROM
ישע
yashaʿ
Deliver; bring out of constriction into open space.
“Salvation” in this verse is yeshuah. The wall itself bears the name יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuah), deliverance: rescue is not only an event but the boundary’s nature. Its protection carries movement toward spaciousness.
ALSO GROWS
moshiaʿ: Deliverer; one who brings deliverance.
מוֹשִׁיעַ
The wall’s name describes active deliverance surrounding the land, not a label detached from its function.
hoshiaʿ: Deliver!
הוֹשִׁיעָה
The same word family can be spoken as a plea to be brought out into spaciousness.
תְּהִלָּה
tehillah
GROWS FROM
הלל
halal
Praise, acclaim, make much of.
The gates are named תְּהִלָּה (tehillah), praise, so passage into the land carries a public, vocal character. Praise becomes the threshold’s nature, not merely an inner feeling.
ALSO GROWS
hallelu-yah: Praise Yah.
הַלְלוּ־יָהּ
This familiar call to praise shares the gate’s root, showing praise as an utterance that can be heard.
hithallel: Boast, make one’s acclaim.
הִתְהַלֵּל
The root also describes making acclaim, giving the gate’s name the force of a public declaration.
יִשָּׁמַע
yishamaʿ
GROWS FROM
שמע
shamaʿ
Hear, listen.
The change is acoustic as well as architectural: violence ceases to be heard, while praise names the gate. The territory’s defining sound shifts from harm to acclaim.
ALSO GROWS
shemaʿ: Hear, listen.
שְׁמַע
The verse turns on what can be heard within the land’s borders.
shemuʿah: Report, tidings.
שְׁמוּעָה
The root can describe what circulates as news, underscoring the change in what is heard about this place.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness gives a territory a perimeter of deliverance and turns its openings into an expression of praise.
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.THE THREAD
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 same word, יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuah, deliverance), names the wall here and the speaker’s salvation there. Isaiah 12:2 joins that deliverance to a song, revealing that protection around the land and praise at its gates rise from the same root.
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