Isaiah 14:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

For Yahweh of Hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

World English Bible · Public Domain

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יָפֵ֑ר

pârar

H6565

“to break”

Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 50× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 17:14

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1829 , 1830 , 1831

to break, frustrate - (Hiphil) - to break, violate - to frustrate, make ineffectual - (Hophal) - to be frustrated - to be broken - to break - (Pilpel) to break to bits, shatter - to split, divide - (Qal) to split, crack through - (Poel) to break apart - (Hithpoel) to be split, be cracked through

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

10: words
9: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יָפֵ֑ר to break H6565 occurs in 46 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

4 verbs
3 nouns
1 conjunction
2 particles

Verb forms

יָעָ֖ץ Qal · Perfect
יָפֵ֑ר Hiphil · Imperfect
הַנְּטוּיָ֖ה Qal · Participle Passive
יְשִׁיבֶֽנָּה Hiphil · Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וּמִ֣י who H4310 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 18 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 16 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Isaiah 14:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Isaiah 43:13 Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is none who can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?
Job 23:13 But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
2 Chronicles 20:6 and he said, Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren't you God in heaven? and aren't you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in your hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against Yahweh.
Job 9:12 Behold, he snatches away; who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'
Proverbs 19:21 There are many plans in a man's heart, But Yahweh's counsel will prevail.
Romans 8:28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
Psalms 33:11 The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, The thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Romans 8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Isaiah 46:11 calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.
Jeremiah 4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.
Isaiah 23:9 Yahweh of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
Job 40:8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
Daniel 4:31–35 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from the sky, [saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from you:
Isaiah 9:12 the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Isaiah 14:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

כִּֽי יְהוָ֧ה צְבָא֛וֹת יָעָ֖ץ וּמִ֣י יָפֵ֑ר וְיָד֥וֹ הַנְּטוּיָ֖ה וּֽמִ֥י יְשִׁיבֶֽנָּה

For Yahweh of Hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Isaiah 14:27 Septuagint · lemma form

ὅς γάρ ὁ θεός ὁ ἅγιος βουλεύω τίς διασκεδάζω καί ὁ χείρ ὁ ὑψηλός τίς ἀποστρέφω

For what the Holy God has purposed, who shall frustrate? and who shall turn back his uplifted hand?

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

אֲרֵי יְיָ צְבָאוֹת מְלַךְ וּמַן יַעְדֵי וּגְבוּרְתֵּיהּ מְרַמְמָא וְלֵית דִיתִיבִינֵיהּ:

For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who can remove it? yea, His power is exalted, and who can withstand it?

Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Isaiah 14:27 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Isa 14:27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul [it]? and his hand [is] stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

Ver. 27. For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it?] Emphasin habet interrogatio. An excellent and unanswerable way of arguing from the irresistible will and almighty power of God; the like whereof is used by a certain Persian in Herodotus, in most elegant expressions, as Junius here noteth. {a}

{a} In Calliope.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

(Dan 4:35).

To comfort the Jews, lest they should fear that people; not in order to call the Philistines to repentance, since the prophecy was probably never circulated among them. They had been subdued by Uzziah or Azariah (Ch2 26:6); but in the reign of Ahaz (Ch2 28:18), they took several towns in south Judea. Now Isaiah denounces their final subjugation by Hezekiah.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(27) His hand is stretched out.—Literally, and more emphatically, His is the outstretched hand.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

For the Lord of hosts hath purposed,.... What is before declared, the fall of Babylon, and the destruction of the Assyrian, and everything else that comes to pass in this world; there is nothing comes to pass but he has purposed, and everything he has purposed does come to pass:

and who shall disannul it? not the most powerful monarch, or most powerful armies, or the most refined councils of men, or the greatest politicians on earth:

and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? or aside, from giving the blow it is designed to give; no power on earth is equal to it.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the Lord of hosts - (see the note at Isa 1:9).

Who shall disannul it? - Who has power to defeat his purposes? Difficult as they may be in appearance, and incredible as their fulfillment may seem, yet his purposes are formed in full view of all the circumstances; and there is no power to resist his arm, or to turn him aside from the execution of his designs. By this assurance God designed to comfort his people when they should be in Babylon in a long and dreary captivity (compare Psa 137:1-9.) And by the same consideration his people may be comforted at all times. His plans shall stand. None can disannul them. No arm has power to resist him. None of the schemes formed against him shall ever prosper. Whatever ills, therefore, may befall his people; however thick, and gloomy, and sad their calamities may be; and however dark his dispensations may appear, yet they may bare the assurance that all his plans are wise, and that they all shall stand. No matter how many, or how mighty may be the foes of the church; no matter how strong their cities, or their ramparts; no matter how numerous their armies, or how self-confident may be their leaders, they have no power to resist God. If their plans are in his way they will be thrown down; if revolutions are necessary among human beings to accomplish His purposes, they will be brought about; if cities and armies need to be destroyed in order that “his” plans may succeed, and his church be safe, they will be demolished, just as the army of Sennacherib was laid pale in death, and as Babylon - the haughtiest of cities - was overthrown. Who can stand against God? and who can resist the execution of his will?

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

His hand is stretched out; literally, his is the outstretched hand, which is more emphatic.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

J. A. Alexander on Isaiah

Joseph Addison Alexander

As the preceding verse declares the extent of God’s avenging purpose, so this affirms the certainty of its execution, as a necessary consequence of his almighty power. “For Jehovah of Hosts hath purposed (this), and who shall annul (His purpose)? And His hand (is) the (one) stretched out, and who shall turn it back?” The meaning of the last clause is not simply that His hand is stretched out, but that the hand stretched out is His.

Joseph Addison Alexander, The Prophecies of Isaiah (1846–1847; New York: Scribner, 1870–1878) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ibn Ezra

Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra

For the Lord of hosts, etc. Since the Lord has decreed, who can annul it.

Ibn Ezra on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009” (CC BY 4.0); and “Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Isaiah, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is pârar (“to break”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “to break” (pârar) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Genesis 17:14, which shares the word «to break», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “who” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
«יָעָ֖ץ» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 16 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
“who” occurs 2× in this single verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.