11 translations · Hebrew
Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
Isaiah 26:20 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
- KJV King James Version
- Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Come, My people, enter into your inner chambers, || And shut your doors behind you, || Hide yourself shortly [for] a moment until the indignation passes over.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- My people, go inside your homes and close your doors behind you. Hide there for a little while until the fury has passed.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Come, My people, enter into thy inner chambers, And shut thy doors behind thee, Hide thyself shortly a moment till the indignation pass over.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Come, my people, enter into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself just for a little moment, until the indignation be past.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself as it were for a little moment until the indignation shall be overpast.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon thee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass away.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| לֵ֤ךְ | lêḵ | Go | H1980 הָלַךְ to go: went |
| עַמִּי֙ | ‘am·mî | my people | H5971 עַם people |
| בֹּ֣א | bō | enter | H935 בּוֹא to come (in): come |
| בַחֲדָרֶ֔יךָ | ḇa·ḥă·ḏā·re·ḵā | your rooms | H2315 חֶ֫דֶר chamber |
| וּֽסְגֹ֥ר | ū·sə·ḡōr | and shut | H5462 סָגַר to shut |
| דְּלָתֶיךָ | də·lå̄·ṯɛ·ḵå̄ | your doors | H1817 דָּל door |
| בַּעֲדֶ֑ךָ | ba·‘ă·ḏe·ḵā | behind you | H1157 בַּ֫עַד about/through/for |
| חֲבִ֥י | ḥă·ḇî | Hide yourselves | H2247 חָבָה to hide |
| כִמְעַט־ | ḵim·‘aṭ- | a little | H4592 מְעַט little |
| רֶ֖גַע | re·ḡa‘ | while | H7281 רֶ֫גַע moment |
| עַד־ | ‘aḏ- | until | H5704 עַד till |
| יַעֲבוֹר | ya·ʿă·ḇōr | has passed | H5674 עָבַר to pass |
| זָֽעַם׃ | zā·‘am | the wrath | H2195 זַ֫עַם indignation |
Related verses
- Psalm 30:5
For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
- Psalm 27:5
For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.
- Isaiah 54:7–8
“For a small moment I have forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you. In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.
- Matthew 6:6
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
- Psalm 91:4
He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
- Proverbs 18:10
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
- Psalm 17:8
Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
- 2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
- Psalm 32:7
You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
- Isaiah 10:25
For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
18 We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
19 Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
20 Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
21 For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
Read all of Isaiah 26 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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