Study it in the app“And he said to me, “Have you seen, son of man? Is it a light thing for the house of Judah to do the abominations that they have done here, that they have filled the land with violence and again provoke me to anger? And look at them, putting the branch to their nose.”
And he saidוַיֹּאמֶרto me,אֵלַי“Have you seen,הֲרָאִיתָsonבֶןof man?אָדָםIs it a light thingהֲנָקֵלfor the houseלְבֵיתof Judahיְהוּדָהto doמֵעֲשׂוֹתthe abominationsהַתּוֹעֵבוֹתthatאֲשֶׁרthey have doneעָשׂוּhere,פֹהthatכִּיthey have filledמָלְאוּthe landהָאָרֶץwith violenceחָמָסand againוַיָּשֻׁבוּprovoke me to anger?לְהַכְעִיסֵנִיAnd look at them,וְהִנָּםputtingשֹׁלְחִיםthe branchהַזְּמוֹרָהto their nose.אֶל אַפָּם
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearssee
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “raita” appearshuman being
Literally "son of Adam": any person, a mortal.
Where else “ven” appearshuman being
All humankind, men and women, as creatures God formed.
Where else “adam” appearsdespise
To count something or someone as little, as a thing without weight.
Where else “nakel” appearsdynasty
Someone's descendants: "the house of David".
Where else “vet” appearsJudah
Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later the southern kingdom; King David came from it. The name sounds like "give thanks". Borne also by other Israelites.
Where else “yehuda” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asot” appearsabomination
Abomination: something that a people or God rejects with disgust, above all idolatry and the practices God forbids; also a custom another people will not tolerate.
Where else “toevot” appearsfill
To take up all the space of something, or to give someone all it can hold.
Where else “malu” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsviolence
Violence; unjust harm done to others.
Where else “chamas” appearsagain
To do something one more time.
Where else “yashuvu” appearsprovoke
To stir up someone's anger by what one does, like worshiping idols before YHWH.
Where else “hachise” appearssend
To send someone or something.
Where else “sholchim” appearsbranch, vine shoot
Branch: a shoot of the vine.
Where else “zemora” appearsnose
The nose, the part of the face we breathe through.
Where else “apa” appears“The branch to their nose”: a cultic gesture not known with certainty. According to an ancient scribal tradition, the text said “to my nose.”
16And he brought me to the inner court of the house of YHWH, and look, at the entrance of the temple of YHWH, between the porch and the altar, about twenty-five men, their backs toward the temple of YHWH and their faces eastward, and they were bowing down eastward to the sun.
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18And I too will act in fury; my eye will not spare, and I will not show pity; and they will cry in my ears with a loud voice, and I will not hear them.”
