Isaiah 51:19
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?

Young's Literal Translation
These two are meeting thee, who is moved for thee? Spoiling and destruction—Famine and sword, who—I comfort thee?

King James Bible
These two [things] are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

Hebrew
These
הֵ֙נָּה֙ (hên·nāh)
Pronoun - third person feminine plural
Strong's 2007: Themselves

pairs
שְׁתַּ֤יִם (šə·ta·yim)
Number - fd
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

have befallen you:
קֹֽרְאֹתַ֔יִךְ (qō·rə·’ō·ṯa·yiḵ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 7122: To encounter, befall

devastation
הַשֹּׁ֧ד (haš·šōḏ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7701: Violence, havoc, devastation, ruin

and destruction,
וְהַשֶּׁ֛בֶר (wə·haš·še·ḇer)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7667: A breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash

famine
וְהָרָעָ֥ב (wə·hā·rā·‘āḇ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7458: Famine, hunger

and sword.
וְהַחֶ֖רֶב (wə·ha·ḥe·reḇ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

Who
מִ֖י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

will grieve for you?
יָנ֣וּד (yā·nūḏ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5110: To nod, waver, to wander, flee, disappear, to console, deplore, taunt

Who
מִ֥י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

can comfort you?
אֲנַחֲמֵֽךְ׃ (’ă·na·ḥă·mêḵ)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5162: To sigh, breathe strongly, to be sorry, to pity, console, rue, to avenge

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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