--- title: Isaiah 49:4 — But I said: 'I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for n… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: But I said: 'I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God.' Who acts: I, right, my. Isaiah 49:4 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Isaiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/) / [chapter 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/49/) / 49:4 # Isaiah 49:4 יְשַׁעְיָהוּ **Who acts:** I, right, my · **What happens:** say, labour, spend, be, recompense · **To what, where:** vain, strength · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Isaiah 49:4 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — I, right, my — and what happens in the verse to vain, strength, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 66 chapters of Isaiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. וַאֲנִ֤י אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ לְרִ֣יק יָגַ֔עְתִּי לְתֹ֥הוּ וְהֶ֖בֶל כֹּחִ֣י כִלֵּ֑יתִי אָכֵן֙ מִשְׁפָּטִ֣י אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה וּפְעֻלָּתִ֖י אֶת־אֱלֹהָֽי׃ [But I said: 'I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1086/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:ISA:985 # text = וַאֲנִ֤י אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ לְרִ֣יק יָגַ֔עְתִּי לְתֹ֥הוּ וְהֶ֖בֶל כֹּחִ֣י כִלֵּ֑יתִי אָכֵן֙ מִשְׁפָּטִ֣י אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה וּפְעֻלָּתִ֖י אֶת־אֱלֹהָֽי׃ # verse = ISA.49.4 1-2 וַאֲנִ֤י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 3 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_49:4!1|MId=o230490040011|Strong=2050b 2 אֲנִ֤י אֲנִי PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ Gloss=I|Ref=ISA_49:4!1|MId=o230490040012|Strong=0589|Type=personal 3 אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 0 root _ Gloss=I.said|Ref=ISA_49:4!2|MId=o230490040021|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:230490040012;|Type=qatal 4-5 לְרִ֣יק _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=ISA_49:4!3|MId=o230490040031|Strong=3807a 5 רִ֣יק רִיק NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 6 obl _ Gloss=emptiness|Ref=ISA_49:4!3|MId=o230490040032|Strong=7385 6 יָגַ֔עְתִּי יָגֵעַ VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 3 ccomp _ Gloss=I.have.labored|Ref=ISA_49:4!4|MId=o230490040041|Strong=3021|Frame=A0:230420010021;|Type=qatal 7-8 לְתֹ֥הוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 8 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=ISA_49:4!5|MId=o230490040051|Strong=3807a 8 תֹ֥הוּ תֹּהוּ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 obl _ Gloss=nothingness|Ref=ISA_49:4!5|MId=o230490040052|Strong=8414 9-10 וְהֶ֖בֶל _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 10 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_49:4!6|MId=o230490040061|Strong=2050b 10 הֶ֖בֶל הֶבֶל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 8 conj _ Gloss=futility|Ref=ISA_49:4!6|MId=o230490040062|Strong=1892 11-12 כֹּחִ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 כֹּח כֹּחַ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 obj _ Gloss=strength|Ref=ISA_49:4!7|MId=o230490040071|Strong=3581 12 ִ֣י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=ISA_49:4!7|MId=o230490040072|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 13 כִלֵּ֑יתִי כָּלָה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Sing|Person=1 6 parataxis _ Gloss=I.have.caused.to.fail|Ref=ISA_49:4!8|MId=o230490040081|Strong=3615|Frame=A0:230420010021;A1:230490040071;|Type=qatal 14 אָכֵן֙ אָכֵן ADV _ _ 18 advmod _ Gloss=nevertheless|Ref=ISA_49:4!9|MId=o230490040091|Strong=0403 15-16 מִשְׁפָּטִ֣י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 מִשְׁפָּט מִשְׁפָּט NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Gloss=justice|Ref=ISA_49:4!10|MId=o230490040101|Strong=4941 16 ִ֣י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=ISA_49:4!10|MId=o230490040102|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 17 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 18 case _ Gloss=[is].with|Ref=ISA_49:4!11|MId=o230490040111|Strong=0854|SpaceAfter=No 18 יְהוָ֔ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 6 parataxis _ Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=ISA_49:4!12|MId=o230490040121|Strong=3068 19-21 וּפְעֻלָּתִ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 וּ וְ CCONJ _ _ 23 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_49:4!13|MId=o230490040131|Strong=2050b 20 פְעֻלָּת פְּעֻלָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Gloss=wage[s]|Ref=ISA_49:4!13|MId=o230490040132|Strong=6468 21 ִ֖י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=ISA_49:4!13|MId=o230490040133|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 22 אֶת־ אֵת ADP _ _ 23 case _ Gloss=[is].with|Ref=ISA_49:4!14|MId=o230490040141|Strong=0854|SpaceAfter=No 23-24 אֱלֹהָֽי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23 אֱלֹה אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 6 conj _ Gloss=God|Ref=ISA_49:4!15|MId=o230490040151|Strong=0430 24 ָֽי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=ISA_49:4!15|MId=o230490040152|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 25 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 24 punct _ Ref=ISA_49:4!15 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | אָמַרְתִּי *I said* | qatal · qal | אֲנִי *I* | | | | | יָגַעְתִּי *I have labored* | qatal · qal | | | | | | כִלֵּיתִי *I have caused to fail* | qatal · piel | | כֹּח *strength* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos} וַאֲנָא אָמָרֵית לְרֵיקָנוּ לָאֵיתִי לִלְמָא וְלָא מִדָעַם חֵילֵי שֵׁיצֵיתִי בְּרַם דִינִי גְלֵי קֳדָם יְיָ וַאֲגַר עוֹבָדִי קֳדָם אֱלָהִי: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [But I said: 'I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1086/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). Hebrew sentence `wlc:ISA:985`. - ← previous: [Isaiah 49:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.3/) - next →: [Isaiah 49:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.49.5/) - ↑ back to [Isaiah 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA/49/)