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Thereforeעַל כֵּןI said,אָמַרְתִּי“Look awayשְׁעוּfrom me;מִנִּיlet me be bitterאֲמָרֵרin weeping;בַּבֶּכִיdo notאַלhurryתָּאִיצוּto comfort meלְנַחֲמֵנִיover the devastationעַל שֹׁדof the daughterבַּתof my people.”עַמִּי
Isaiah 22:4
Study it in the app“Therefore I said, “Look away from me; let me be bitter in weeping; do not hurry to comfort me over the devastation of the daughter of my people.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 22:4, word by word
- I saidאָמַרְתִּיamarti
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amarti” appears- “Look awayשְׁעוּsheu
look away
To turn one's eyes from someone.
Where else “sheu” appears- let me be bitterאֲמָרֵרamarer
embitter
To make someone's life hard, or to weep bitterly.
Where else “amarer” appears- in weepingבֶּכִיbechi
weeping
Weeping.
Where else “bechi” appears- hurryתָּאִיצוּtaitsu
hurry
To do something too fast.
Where else “taitsu” appears- to comfort meנַחֲמֵnachame
comfort
To ease someone in his pain with words and company.
Where else “nachame” appears- over the devastationשֹׁדshod
destruction, violence
Devastation, ruin that comes with violence.
Where else “shod” appears- of the daughterבַּתbat
daughter
A girl or woman born of her parents, who belongs to her father's house.
Where else “bat” appears- of my peopleעַמִּami
Ammi
Israel, YHWH's people: "my people".
Where else “ami” appears
The context
3All your rulers fled together; without the bow they were bound; all of you who were found were bound together; far away they had fled.
4 · This verse (above)
5For it is a day of panic and of trampling and of confusion from Adonai YHWH Tsevaot in the valley of Vision, a battering down of the wall and a cry to the mountain.