Study it in the app“Therefore, thus says Adonai YHWH Tsevaot: Do not be afraid, my people who dwell in Zion, of Assyria, when he strikes you with the rod and lifts up his staff against you in the manner of Egypt.”
Therefore,לָכֵןthusכֹּהsaysאָמַרAdonaiאֲדֹנָיYHWHיְהוִהTsevaot:צְבָאוֹתDo notאַלbe afraid,תִּירָאmy peopleעַמִּיwho dwellיֹשֵׁבin Zion,צִיּוֹןof Assyria,מֵאַשּׁוּרwhen he strikes youיַכֶּכָּהwith the rodבַּשֵּׁבֶטand lifts upיִשָּׂאhis staffוּמַטֵּהוּagainst youעָלֶיךָin the mannerבְּדֶרֶךְof Egypt.מִצְרָיִם
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amar” appearsAdonai, 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” appearsYHWH (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” appearsTsevaot
A name of God: the one who commands the armies of heaven and earth.
Where else “tsevaot” appearsfear
To feel fear before danger or before someone stronger.
Where else “tira” appearsAmmi
Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
Where else “ami” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yoshev” appearsZion
See it on the mapWhere else “tsiyon” appearsAssyria, Asshur
See it on the mapWhere else “ashur” appearsstrike
To give a blow to someone or something, with the hand or a weapon.
Where else “yake” appearsrod
A stick for guiding or correcting; the king's sign of power.
Where else “shevet” appearslift up
To direct the eyes upward, make the voice loud, or put up the hand.
Where else “yisa” appearsstaff
A straight stick used for support, as a weapon or as a sign of authority.
Where else “mate” appearsmanner
The way one lives and acts.
Where else “derech” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appears1Zion
Today: Mount Zion hill, Jerusalem
A hill in Jerusalem; it first named the fortress David captured, and later sometimes the whole city.
David captured the stronghold of Zion and called it the city of David (2 Sam 5:7). The Psalms and prophets call it the place where God lives among his people (Ps 48:2).
2Assyria
Today: northern Iraq (with parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran)
An empire of northern Mesopotamia along the Tigris River, in present-day Iraq.
Assyria took the northern kingdom of Israel captive (2 Kgs 17:6). God sent Jonah to preach in Nineveh, its capital (Jonah 3:3).
3Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
23For Adonai YHWH Tsevaot is making an extermination, and it is decreed, in the midst of all the earth.
24 · This verse (above)
25For in yet a little, a very little while, the indignation will come to an end, and my anger will turn to their destruction.
