Ezekiel 36:3

“therefore prophesy and say, Thus says Adonai YHWH: Precisely because of making you desolate and hounding you from all around, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations, and you have come up on the lip of the tongue and into the slander of the people,”

Ezekiel 36:3 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Ezekiel 36:3, word by word

prophesyהִנָּבֵאhinave

prophesy

To speak what God's spirit gives to say.

Where else “hinave” appears
and sayאָמַרְתָּamarta

say

To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.

Where else “amarta” appears
Adonaiאֲדֹנָadona

Adonai, Lord

"Adonai": "my Lord", said only to God. It is a title of respect that acknowledges his authority. It is not another god besides YHWH: often it goes with his name, "Adonai YHWH", Lord YHWH.

Where else “adona” appears
YHWHיְהוִהyehvi

YHWH (with Adonai)

The four letters of God's name, YHWH (see "YHWH"). They almost always go with "Adonai"; then Jews, when reading, said "Elohim" so as not to repeat "Adonai".

Where else “yehvi” appears
of making you desolateשַׁמּוֹתshamot

be desolate

To be left empty and ruined, or make it so.

Where else “shamot” appears
and houndingשָׁאֹףshaof

trample

To crush underfoot, harass the weak.

Where else “shaof” appears
from all aroundסָּבִיבsaviv

around

In a circle or on every side of something: the camp, the city, the altar.

Where else “saviv” appears
so that you becameהְיוֹתְheot

become

To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.

Where else “heot” appears
a possessionמוֹרָשָׁהmorasha

possession

Possession, land received to be held.

Where else “morasha” appears
for the restשְׁאֵרִיתsheerit

remnant

Remnant: those left alive after a disaster.

Where else “sheerit” appears
of the nationsגּוֹיִםgoyim

Gentiles

The peoples other than Israel.

Where else “goyim” appears
and you have come upתֵּעֲלוּtealu

go up

To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.

Where else “tealu” appears
on the lipשְׂפַתsefat

lip

The part of the mouth with which one speaks, and so what one says.

Where else “sefat” appears
of the tongueלָשׁוֹןlashon

tongue

The organ in the mouth used to taste and speak; hence, what one says.

Where else “lashon” appears
and into the slanderדִבַּתdibat

bad report

Bad report about someone; slander, gossip.

Where else “dibat” appears
of the peopleעָםam

crowd

The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.

Where else “am” appears

The context

2Thus says Adonai YHWH: Because the enemy said against you, “Aha! And the eternal high places have become a possession for us,”

3 · This verse (above)

4therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of Adonai YHWH: Thus says Adonai YHWH to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, and to the desolate ruins and to the abandoned cities that have become booty and mockery to the rest of the nations that are all around,

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