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And now,וְעַתָּהwhatמַהshall we say,נֹּאמַרour Elohim,אֱלֹהֵינוּafterאַחֲרֵיthis?זֹאתForכִּיwe have forsakenעָזַבְנוּyour commandments,מִצְוֺתֶיךָ
Ezra 9:10
Study it in the app“And now, what shall we say, our Elohim, after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezra 9:10, word by word
- shall we sayנֹּאמַרnomar
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “nomar” appears- our Elohimאֱלֹהֵיelohe
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appears- we have forsakenעָזַבְנוּazavnu
forsake
To turn one's back on YHWH, someone or a place.
Where else “azavnu” appears- your commandmentsמִצְוֺתֶיmitsvote
commandment
An order of God that must be kept.
Where else “mitsvote” appears
The context
9For we are slaves, yet in our servitude our Elohim has not forsaken us, but he extended to us loyal love before the kings of Persia, to give us life, to raise up the house of our Elohim and to set up its ruins, and to give us a fence in Judah and in Jerusalem.
10 · This verse (above)
11which you commanded by the hand of your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are entering to possess it is a land of impurity through the impurity of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, with which they have filled it from one end to the other with their uncleanness.