Isaiah 63:17
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

Young's Literal Translation
Why causest Thou us to wander, O Jehovah, from Thy ways? Thou hardenest our heart from Thy fear, Turn back for Thy servants’ sake, The tribes of Thine inheritance.

King James Bible
O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Hebrew
Why,
לָ֣מָּה (lām·māh)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

O LORD,
יְהוָה֙ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

do You make us stray
תַתְעֵ֤נוּ (ṯaṯ·‘ê·nū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common plural
Strong's 8582: To vacillate, reel, stray

from Your ways
מִדְּרָכֶ֔יךָ (mid·də·rā·ḵe·ḵā)
Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

[and] harden
תַּקְשִׁ֥יחַ (taq·šî·aḥ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7188: To make hard, treat roughly

our hearts
לִבֵּ֖נוּ (lib·bê·nū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

from fearing You?
מִיִּרְאָתֶ֑ךָ (mî·yir·’ā·ṯe·ḵā)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3374: Fear, reverence

Return,
שׁ֚וּב (ūḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

for the sake
לְמַ֣עַן (lə·ma·‘an)
Preposition
Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent

of Your servants,
עֲבָדֶ֔יךָ (‘ă·ḇā·ḏe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

the tribes
שִׁבְטֵ֖י (šiḇ·ṭê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 7626: Rod, staff, club, scepter, tribe

of Your heritage.
נַחֲלָתֶֽךָ׃ (na·ḥă·lā·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5159: Something inherited, occupancy, an heirloom, an estate, patrimony, portion

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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