What Does Isaiah 65:10 Mean in the King James?
And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
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 valley whose name carries trouble becomes a place to lie down, so trouble does not get the final word.
THE MEANING
A place marked by trouble becomes pasture where life can settle. For you, seeking God meets a place where you can lie down; what has unsettled you does not define what that place can hold now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Trouble has marked this place, so trouble is all it can ever hold.
THE ROOT
עָכוֹר
ʿĀḵôr
GROWS FROM
עכר
To trouble or disturb.
“Achor” in this verse is ʿĀḵôr. The valley’s name carries the seed of trouble, yet the verse makes it pasture and a place for herds to settle. The name remains, but it no longer dictates what the valley holds.
ALSO GROWS
ʿāḵar: To trouble or disturb.
עָכַר
This verb reveals the disturbance packed into the valley’s name.
ʿōḵēr: A troubler, one who brings disturbance.
עֹכֵר
The same root can name a source of trouble, while this verse shows a troubled place becoming a place of rest.
רֵבֶץ
rēveṣ
GROWS FROM
רבץ
To crouch or lie down; to settle into a resting posture.
The Hebrew word describes a place for lying down, while the same root elsewhere describes the act of being made to lie down. The verse holds both the settled place and the settling of life within one root.
ALSO GROWS
rāḇaṣ: To lie down or crouch.
רָבַץ
This verb appears in Psalm 23:2, where the shepherd makes the speaker lie down in green pastures.
mirbāṣ: A resting place, especially for animals.
מִרְבָּץ
This noun makes the verse’s image concrete: the herd has a place where it can settle.
THE PATTERN
A place marked by trouble can become a place where life finds rest and hope.
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.THE THREAD
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.The Hebrew root רבץ, meaning to lie down or settle, appears in both verses. Isaiah names a place where the herds can lie down; the psalm uses the same root for being made to lie down in green pasture.
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