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title: Isaiah 59:7 — Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood;… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their paths. Who acts: feet, lips, thoughts. Isaiah 59:7 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 59:7 יְשַׁעְיָהוּ

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**Who acts:** feet, lips, thoughts · **What happens:** run, make, shed, be, think · **To what, where:** haste, innocent blood, thoughts, paths

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This is Isaiah 59:7 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 — feet, lips, thoughts — and what happens in the verse to haste, innocent blood, thoughts, paths, 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.

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רַגְלֵיהֶם֙ לָרַ֣ע יָרֻ֔צוּ וִֽימַהֲר֔וּ לִשְׁפֹּ֖ךְ דָּ֣ם נָקִ֑י מַחְשְׁבֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙ מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת אָ֔וֶן שֹׁ֥ד וָשֶׁ֖בֶר בִּמְסִלּוֹתָֽם׃

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[Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their paths.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1280/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:1152
# text = רַגְלֵיהֶם֙ לָרַ֣ע יָרֻ֔צוּ וִֽימַהֲר֔וּ לִשְׁפֹּ֖ךְ דָּ֣ם נָקִ֑י מַחְשְׁבֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙ מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת אָ֔וֶן שֹׁ֥ד וָשֶׁ֖בֶר בִּמְסִלּוֹתָֽם׃
# verse = ISA.59.7
1-2	רַגְלֵיהֶם֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	רַגְלֵי	רֶגֶל	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Dual	6	nsubj	_	Gloss=feet|Ref=ISA_59:7!1|MId=o230590070011|Strong=7272
2	הֶם֙	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=ISA_59:7!1|MId=o230590070012|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
3-5	לָרַ֣ע	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	לָ	לְ	ADP	_	_	5	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=ISA_59:7!2|MId=o230590070021|Strong=3807a
4	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	5	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=ISA_59:7!2|MId=o230590070021ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
5	רַ֣ע	רַע	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Gloss=evil|Ref=ISA_59:7!2|MId=o230590070022|Strong=7451|Type=adjective
6	יָרֻ֔צוּ	רוּץ	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=they.run|Ref=ISA_59:7!3|MId=o230590070031|Strong=7323|Frame=A0:230590070011;|Type=yiqtol
7-8	וִֽימַהֲר֔וּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	וִֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	8	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_59:7!4|MId=o230590070041|Strong=2050b
8	ימַהֲר֔וּ	מָהַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur|Person=3	6	conj	_	Gloss=they.hasten|Ref=ISA_59:7!4|MId=o230590070042|Strong=4116|Frame=A0:230580010113;|Type=yiqtol
9-10	לִשְׁפֹּ֖ךְ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
9	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=ISA_59:7!5|MId=o230590070051|Strong=3807a
10	שְׁפֹּ֖ךְ	שָׁפַךְ	VERB	_	HebBinyan=QAL	8	xcomp	_	Gloss=shed|Ref=ISA_59:7!5|MId=o230590070052|Strong=8210|Frame=A0:230580010113;A1:230590070061;|Type=infinitive_construct
11	דָּ֣ם	דָּם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	obj	_	Gloss=blood|Ref=ISA_59:7!6|MId=o230590070061|Strong=1818
12	נָקִ֑י	נָקִי	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	11	amod	_	Gloss=innocent|Ref=ISA_59:7!7|MId=o230590070071|Strong=5355|Type=adjective
13-14	מַחְשְׁבֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	מַחְשְׁבֽוֹתֵי	מַחֲשָׁבָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	Gloss=thoughts|Ref=ISA_59:7!8|MId=o230590070081|Strong=4284
14	הֶם֙	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=ISA_59:7!8|MId=o230590070082|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
15	מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת	מַחֲשָׁבָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	Gloss=[are].thoughts|Ref=ISA_59:7!9|MId=o230590070091|Strong=4284
16	אָ֔וֶן	אָוֶן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	15	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.wickedness|Ref=ISA_59:7!10|MId=o230590070101|Strong=0205
17	שֹׁ֥ד	שֹׁד	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	Gloss=devastation|Ref=ISA_59:7!11|MId=o230590070111|Strong=7701
18-19	וָשֶׁ֖בֶר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	וָ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	19	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=ISA_59:7!12|MId=o230590070121|Strong=2050b
19	שֶׁ֖בֶר	שֶׁבֶר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	17	conj	_	Gloss=destruction|Ref=ISA_59:7!12|MId=o230590070122|Strong=7667
20-22	בִּמְסִלּוֹתָֽם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
20	בִּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	21	case	_	Gloss=[are].on|Ref=ISA_59:7!13|MId=o230590070131|Strong=0871a
21	מְסִלּוֹת	מְסִלָּה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	Gloss=highways|Ref=ISA_59:7!13|MId=o230590070132|Strong=4546
22	ָֽם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=ISA_59:7!13|MId=o230590070133|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
23	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	22	punct	_	Ref=ISA_59:7!13
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יָרֻצוּ *they run* | yiqtol · qal | רַגְלֵי *feet* |  |  |  |
| ימַהֲרוּ *they hasten* | yiqtol · piel |  |  |  |  |
| שְׁפֹּךְ *shed* | infinitive construct · qal |  | דָּם *blood* |  |  |

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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}

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רַגְלֵיהוֹן לְמֶעְבַּד דְבִישׁ רַהֲטִין וּמוֹחִין לְמִשְׁפַּךְ דַם זַכַּאי עֶשְׁתּוֹנֵיהוֹן עֶשְׁתּוֹנֵי אוֹנָס בִּזָא וּתְבָרָא בְּכִבְשֵׁיהוֹן:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their paths.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1280/)

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**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:1152`.

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