11 translations · Hebrew
Isaiah 58:8
Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you; and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
Isaiah 58:8 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you; and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
- KJV King James Version
- Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of Jehovah shall be thy rearward.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Then your light breaks forth as the dawn, || And your health springs up in haste, || Your righteousness has gone before you, || The glory of YHWH gathers you.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Then your light will shine out like the dawn, and you will be healed quickly; your salvation will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will go behind you.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Then broken up as the dawn is thy light, And thy health in haste springeth up, Gone before thee hath thy righteousness, The honour of Jehovah doth gather thee.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Then shall thy light break forth as the dawn, and thy health shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee, the glory of Jehovah shall be thy rearguard.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rear-ward.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and the LORD’s glory will be your rear guard.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall speedily arise, and thy justice shall go before thy face, and the glory of the Lord shall gather thee up.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אָ֣ז | ’āz | Then | H227 אָז then |
| יִבָּקַ֤ע | yib·bā·qa‘ | will break forth | H1234 בָּקַע to break up/open |
| כַּשַּׁ֙חַר֙ | kaš·ša·ḥar | like the dawn | H7837 שַׁ֫חַר dawn |
| אוֹרֶ֔ךָ | ’ō·w·re·ḵā | your light | H216 אוֹר light |
| וַאֲרֻכָתְךָ֖ | wa·’ă·ru·ḵā·ṯə·ḵā | and your healing | H724 אֲרוּכָה health |
| מְהֵרָ֣ה | mə·hê·rāh | quickly | H4120 מְהֵרָה haste |
| תִצְמָ֑ח | ṯiṣ·māḥ | will come | H6779 צָמַח to spring |
| וְהָלַ֤ךְ | wə·hā·laḵ | will go | H1980 הָלַךְ to go: went |
| לְפָנֶ֙יךָ֙ | lə·p̄ā·ne·ḵā | before you | H6440 פָּנֶה face: before |
| צִדְקֶ֔ךָ | ṣiḏ·qe·ḵā | Your righteousness | H6664 צֶ֫דֶק righteousness |
| כְּב֥וֹד | kə·ḇō·wḏ | and the glory | H3519 כָּבוֹד glory |
| יְהוָ֖ה | Yah·weh | of the LORD | H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD |
| יַאַסְפֶֽךָ׃ | ya·’as·p̄e·ḵā | will be your rear guard | H622 אָסַף to gather |
Related verses
- Isaiah 52:12
For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
- Jeremiah 33:6
‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
- Psalm 37:6
he will make your righteousness go out as the light, and your justice as the noon day sun.
- Jeremiah 30:17
For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’”
- Psalm 85:13
Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.
- Malachi 4:2
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
- Isaiah 58:10–11
and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday; and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.
- Acts 10:35
but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
- Exodus 14:19
The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
- Psalm 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
6 “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
7 Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
8 Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you; and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
9 Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
10 and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
Read all of Isaiah 58 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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