4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Proverbs 16:4. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
כֹּ֤ל פָּעַ֣ל יְ֭הוָה לַֽמַּעֲנֵ֑הוּ וְגַם־רָ֝שָׁ֗ע לְי֣וֹם רָעָֽה׃
כֹּ֤ל
פָּעַ֣ל
לַֽמַּעֲנֵ֑הוּ
וְגַם
לְי֣וֹם
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܟܘܠܗܘܢ ܥ̇ܒ̈ܕܘܗܝ ܕܡܪܝܐ ܠܐܝܠܝܢ ܕܡܫܬܡܥܝܢ ܠܗ ܘܥܘܠܐ ܢܛܝܪ ܠܝܘܡܐ ܒܝܫܐ
ܟܘܠܗܘܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܟܘܠܗܘܢ
- Transliteration
- kwlhwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending
- Occurrences
- 100
ܥ̇ܒ̈ܕܘܗܝ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܥܒܕܘܗܝ
- Transliteration
- 'bdwhy
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 166
ܕܡܪܝܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܡܪܝܐ
- Transliteration
- dmry'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 1345
ܠܐܝܠܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܐܝܠܝܢ
- Transliteration
- l'ylyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 111
ܕܡܫܬܡܥܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܡܫܬܡܥܝܢ
- Transliteration
- dmshtm'yn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 2
ܠܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܗ
- Transliteration
- lh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 2252
ܘܥܘܠܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܥܘܠܐ
- Transliteration
- w'wl'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 31
ܢܛܝܪ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܢܛܝܪ
- Transliteration
- ntyr
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 3
ܠܝܘܡܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܝܘܡܐ
- Transliteration
- lywm'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 57
ܒܝܫܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܝܫܐ
- Transliteration
- bysh'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 122
Coverage: Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing.
Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.
כֻּלְהוֹן עוֹבָדִין דֵאלָהָא לְאִלֵין דְמִשְׁתַּמְעִין לֵיהּ וְרַשִׁיעָא לְיוֹמָא בִישָׁא׃
כֻּלְהוֹן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- להון
- Transliteration
- klhwn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 43
עוֹבָדִין
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עובדין
- Transliteration
- 'wbdyn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 49
דֵאלָהָא
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- אלה
- Transliteration
- d'lh'
- Morphology
- prefixed relative/genitive ד + noun masculine singular emphatic
- Gloss
- of/that God
- Occurrences
- 779
לְאִלֵין
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אלין
- Transliteration
- l'lyn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 298
דְמִשְׁתַּמְעִין
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- משתמעין
- Transliteration
- dmshtm'yn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 2
לֵיהּ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ליה
- Transliteration
- lyh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 1154
וְרַשִׁיעָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- רשיעא
- Transliteration
- wrshy''
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 147
לְיוֹמָא
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- יום
- Transliteration
- lywm'
- Morphology
- prefixed preposition ל + noun masculine singular emphatic
- Gloss
- to/for day
- Occurrences
- 899
בִישָׁא׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ישא
- Transliteration
- bysh'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 101
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Universa propter semetipsum operatus est Dominus; impium quoque ad diem malum.
universa
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uniuersus
- Transliteration
- universa
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 889
propter
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- propter
- Transliteration
- propter
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 688
semet
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sui
- Transliteration
- semet
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 1317
ipsum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ipse
- Transliteration
- ipsum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 2134
operatus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- operor
- Transliteration
- operatus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 234
est
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sum
- Transliteration
- est
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 20614
Dominus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- dominus
- Transliteration
- Dominus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 8181
impium
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- impius
- Transliteration
- impium
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 267
quoque
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- quoque
- Transliteration
- quoque
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 773
ad
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ad
- Transliteration
- ad
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 7531
diem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- dies
- Transliteration
- diem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 2559
malum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- malus
- Transliteration
- malum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 671
Coverage: Source-structure exceptions
Explains reader references where the imported tradition does not align one-to-one.
Editorial alignment note: The Greek Septuagint tradition often follows different ordering, grouping, or book structure here. Reader-side public-domain text for this reference: "The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." This panel is a study bridge only, not a replacement for an ancient source witness.
Source verse imported. Word-by-word lemma, morphology, gloss, and lexicon entries have not been attached for this language/source yet.
These notes explain relevant source panels that are not shown for this verse because of source coverage, licensing, alternate traditions, or versification structure.
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Greek LXX
alternate structure
This Greek source uses tradition-specific ordering or verse grouping here. The closest one-to-one panel is not currently attached for this exact reference.
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Isaiah 43:21
This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
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What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
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Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
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And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
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Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
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That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
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For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
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