Isaiah 49:2

And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;

King James Version · Read in your translation · Open the Explore console

Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
made	וַיָּ֤שֶׂם vai.Ya.sem	H7760	to put (used in a great variety of applications · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
mouth	פִּי֙ pi	H6310	the mouth (as the means of blowing) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix
sharp	חַדָּ֔ה cha.Dah	H2299	sharp · adjective, feminine singular absolute
sword	כְּחֶ֣רֶב ke.Che.rev	H2719	drought · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
shadow	בְּצֵ֥ל be.Tzel	H6738	shade · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
hand	יָד֖וֹ ya.Do	H3027	a hand (the open one (indicating power · noun, common both genders singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
hid	הֶחְבִּיאָ֑נִי hech.bi.'A.ni	H2244	to secrete · verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix
made	וַיְשִׂימֵ֙נִי֙ vay.si.Me.ni	H7760	to put (used in a great variety of applications · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix
polished	בָּר֔וּר ba.Rur	H1305	to clarify (i.e. brighten) · verb, qal passive participle, masculine singular absolute
shaft	לְחֵ֣ץ le.Chetz	H2671	properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
quiver	בְּאַשְׁפָּת֖וֹ be.'ash.pa.To	H827	a quiver or arrow-case · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
hid	הִסְתִּירָֽנִי his.ti.Ra.ni	H5641	to hide (by covering) · verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, a…
Revelation 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in hi…
Isaiah 50:4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth mor…
Revelation 2:12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
Isaiah 11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod…
Isaiah 51:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundati…
Psalms 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Jeremiah 1:18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Ju…

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 49:1-6

Here, I. An auditory is summoned together and attention demanded. The sermon in the foregoing chapter was directed to the house of Jacob and the people of Israel, Isa 49:1, Isa 49:12. But this is directed to the isles (that is, the Gentiles, for they are called the isles of the Gentiles, Gen 10:5) and to the people from far, that were strangers to the commonwealth of Israel, and afar off. Let these listen (Isa 49:1) as to a thing at a distance, which yet they are to hear with desire and attention. Note, 1. The tidings of a Redeemer are sent to the Gentiles, and to those that lie most remote; and they are concerned to listen to them. 2. The Gentiles listened to the gospel when the Jews were d…

Read the whole note in the console

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 49:2

my mouth . . . sword-- (Isa 11:4; Rev 19:15). The double office of the Word of God, saving and damnatory, is implied (Isa 50:4; Joh 12:48; Heb 4:12). shaft-- (Psa 45:5). "Polished," that is, free from all rust, implies His unsullied purity. in . . . quiver . . . hid me--Like a sword in its scabbard, or a shaft in the quiver, Messiah, before His appearing, was hid with God, ready to be drawn forth at the moment God saw fit [HENGSTENBERG]; also always protected by God, as the arrow by the quiver (Isa 51:16).

John Gill on Isaiah 49:2

And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword,.... Or, "he hath put his words in my mouth as a sharp sword,'' as the Targum; namely, the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, and is sharper than a twoedged sword, and is said to come out of the mouth of Christ, Ephesians 6:17, with which he pierces into and cuts the hearts of men, and lays open all their sin and unrighteousness, and cuts down the worst and best in men, and slays all his enemies; so his mouth was as a sharp sword in the days of his flesh, to inveigh against the sins and to refute the errors of the Scribes and Pharisees; as it will be, in the latter day, to smite the nations of the earth, Revelation 19:15, "in the sha…

Read the whole note in the console

The Church Fathers

This arrow signifies his divinity, resting in a quiver signifying the body assumed from the Virgin, in whose cloth of flesh his divinity was clothed.
— Chromatius of Aquileia, TRACTATE ON MATTHEW 2:4

Therefore, if anyone can with a capacious mind conceive and consider the beauty and comeliness of all these things which were created in Him, being struck by the very loveliness of things and pierced by the magnificence of their splendor as by a chosen arrow, as the prophet says, he will receive from Him a saving wound, and will burn with the blessed fire of His love.
— Origen of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS, PROLOGUE

Make for yourself, O man, a case; stripping off the old man with his actions, put on the new. Your case, your sheath, is Christ, who protects and hides you in the evil day. Do you want to know why the case is protection? My quiver, He says, protected him. Therefore, your case is faith: fill it with the good scents of your virtues; that is, chastity, mercy, and justice, and in it, enter completely fragrant with the sweet scent of excellent deeds of faith.
— Ambrose of Milan, The Six Days of Creation, 5.80

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Arms, Armor — The subject naturally divides itself into— I. Offensive weapons: Arms. II. Defensive weapons: Armor. I. Offensive weapons.—
Bow — The bow was in use in early times both in war and in the chase (Gen. 21:20; 27:3; 48:22). The tribe of Benjamin were famous for the use of the bow (1 Chr. 8:40; 12:2; 2 Chr. 14:8; 17:17); so also…
Quiver — The sheath for arrows. The Hebrew word (aspah) thus commonly rendered is found in Job 39:23; Ps. 127:5; Isa. 22:6; 49:2; Jer. 5:16; Lam. 3:13. In Gen. 27:3 this word is the rendering of the Hebrew…
Arrows · Called shafts — Called shafts
Sword, The · Illustrative: Of the word of Christ — Illustrative: Of the word of Christ

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Isaiah 49:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 49:1-6

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 49:2

John Gill on Isaiah 49:2

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Isaiah 49:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 49:1-6

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 49:2

John Gill on Isaiah 49:2

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Isaiah 49:2

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 49:1-3

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 49:2

Rashi on Isaiah 49:2