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Look,הֵןyouאַתֶּםare of nothing,מֵאַיִןand your workוּפָעָלְכֶםof nothing;מֵאָפַעan abominationתּוֹעֵבָהis he who choosesיִבְחַרyou.בָּכֶם
Isaiah 41:24
Study it in the app“Look, you are of nothing, and your work of nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 41:24, word by word
- and your workפָעָלְfaal
deed
What someone does; what God accomplishes.
Where else “faal” appears- of nothingאָפַעafa
nothing
Nothing, an empty breath.
Where else “afa” appears- an abominationתּוֹעֵבָהtoeva
abomination
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 “toeva” appears- is he who choosesיִבְחַרyivchar
choose
To take one thing and leave the others, because it is preferred.
Where else “yivchar” appears
The context
23Declare the things that are coming hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; indeed, do good or do harm, that we may look about in anguish and see it together.
24 · This verse (above)
25I have stirred up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun he will call on my name; and he will come upon officials as upon clay, and as the potter treads mud.