Study it in the app“Woe to the one who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ ‘Arise!’ to the mute stone! Will it teach? Look, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.”
Woeהוֹיto the one who saysאֹמֵרto the wood,לָעֵץ‘Awake!’הָקִיצָה‘Arise!’עוּרִיto the muteדּוּמָםstone!לְאֶבֶןWill itהוּאteach?יוֹרֶהLook,הִנֵּהitהוּאis overlaidתָּפוּשׂwith goldזָהָבand silver,וָכֶסֶףand there is noאֵיןbreathרוּחַat allוְכָלin it.בְּקִרְבּוֹ
woe
A cry of grief for the dead or a warning of disaster.
Where else “hoy” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “omer” appearswood
What is taken from a cut tree: firewood, board, rod or timber.
Where else “ets” appearsawake
To awake, to wake up from sleep.
Where else “hakitsa” appearsawake
To rouse from sleep or inactivity; in prayer, to ask God to act.
Where else “uri” appearssilently, in silence
Silently, quietly, in stillness.
Where else “dumam” appearsstone
A piece of rock, large or small, used for building, marking or throwing.
Where else “even” appearsteach
To show someone the way he should go; to instruct him.
Where else “yore” appearsGeneral meaning: Seize.
Where else “tafus” appearsgold
Gold.
Where else “zahav” appearssilver
A white, valuable metal, the one most used after gold.
Where else “chesef” appearsbreath
Literally "wind": the air that leaves the lungs.
Where else “ruach” appearsmidst
In the midst of: "among the people".
Where else “kirb” appears18What does a carved image profit when its maker has carved it, a cast image and a teacher of falsehood, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make mute idols?
19 · This verse (above)
20But YHWH is in his holy temple; silence before him, all the earth!”
