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Isaiah 21:4

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

KJV

Emarcuit cor meum ; tenebræ stupefecerunt me : Babylon dilecta mea posita est mihi in miraculum.

Vulgate

ἡ καρδία μου πλανᾶται καὶ ἡ ἀνομία με βαπτίζει, ἡ ψυχή μου ἐφέστηκεν εἰς φόβον.

LXX

My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.

ASV

תָּעָ֣ה לְבָבִ֔/י פַּלָּצ֖וּת בִּֽעֲתָ֑תְ/נִי אֵ֚ת נֶ֣שֶׁף חִשְׁקִ֔/י שָׂ֥ם לִ֖/י לַ/חֲרָדָֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
וֹ
v
noun · 251×
חֲרָדָ֨ה
chrdh
noun · 9×
חֵ֣שֶׁק
chshq
noun · 4×
יָּ֥שֶׂם
yshm
verb · 581×
ם
m
verb · 51×
נִי
ny
verb · 16×
נֶּ֔שֶׁף
nshp
noun · 12×
פַּלָּצֽוּת
pltsvt
noun · 4×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Thess 5:7 — For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
  • Dan 5:30 — In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
  • Eccl 7:4 — The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
  • Isa 5:14 — Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
  • Job 30:31 — My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
  • Luke 21:34 — And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
  • Ps 91:5 — Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;