Study it in the app“Now do not stiffen your necks like your fathers; give your hand to YHWH, and come to his sanctuary which he has sanctified forever, and serve YHWH your Elohim, and his burning anger will turn away from you.”
Nowעַתָּהdo notאַלstiffenתַּקְשׁוּyour necksעָרְפְּכֶםlike your fathers;כַּאֲבוֹתֵיכֶםgive your handתְּנוּ יָדto YHWH,לַיהוָהand comeוּבֹאוּto his sanctuaryלְמִקְדָּשׁוֹwhichאֲשֶׁרhe has sanctifiedהִקְדִּישׁforever,לְעוֹלָםand serveוְעִבְדוּYHWHאֶת יְהוָהyour Elohim,אֱלֹהֵיכֶםand his burningוְ חֲרוֹןangerאַפּוֹwill turn awayיָשֹׁבfrom you.מִכֶּם
harden
To make the heart unyielding.
Where else “takshu” appearsstubbornness
Unbending: "hard-necked".
Where else “arp” appearsforefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avote” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “tenu” appearshand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yad” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yhva” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “vou” appearssanctuary
Sanctuary: a place set apart for God; also a holy thing. Said too of the shrines of other gods.
Where else “mikdash” appearsconsecrate
To set apart people, things or a day for God.
Where else “hikdish” appearsforever
Time without end, beyond what a lifetime can see.
Where else “olam” appearsworship
To honor and obey God, or other gods, as his people.
Where else “ivdu” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appearsburning anger
Burning of anger.
Where else “charon” appearsanger
The rage of one who snorts; the "long of nose" is slow to become angry.
Where else “ap” appearsturn back
To go back to YHWH, or move away from him.
Where else “yashov” appears“Give [your] hand to YHWH”: it can be understood as a gesture of surrendering oneself and promising loyalty (compare 1 Chronicles 29:24).
7Do not be like your fathers and like your brothers, who were unfaithful to YHWH, the Elohim of their fathers, so that he gave them over to horror, as you see.
8 · This verse (above)
9For when you return to YHWH, your brothers and your sons will find mercy before their captors and return to this land; for YHWH your Elohim is gracious and merciful, and he will not turn away his face from you if you return to him.”
