Study it in the app“I have not spoken in secret, in a place of a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in emptiness.’ I, YHWH, speak righteousness, I declare uprightness.”
I have notלֹאspokenדִּבַּרְתִּיin secret,בַסֵּתֶרin a placeבִּמְקוֹםof a landאֶרֶץof darkness;חֹשֶׁךְI did notלֹאsayאָמַרְתִּיto the offspringלְזֶרַעof Jacob,יַעֲקֹב‘Seek meבַקְּשׁוּנִיin emptiness.’תֹּהוּI,אֲנִיYHWH,יְהוָהspeakדֹּבֵרrighteousness,צֶדֶקI declareמַגִּידuprightness.מֵישָׁרִים
speak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “dibarti” appearssecret
What is kept hidden, out of the sight of others.
Where else “seter” appearsplace
A place, a spot.
Where else “mekom” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearsdarkness
The absence of light, night.
Where else “choshech” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amarti” appearsoffspring
The children, grandchildren and whole line that come from someone.
Where else “zera” appearsJacob
Jacob, the younger son of Isaac and Rebekah, twin brother of Esau and father of the twelve tribes. In Hebrew "Yaakov" sounds like "heel" and "supplant" (Genesis 25:26; 27:36). God later gave him the name Israel; the name also stands for his descendants, the people of Israel.
Where else “yaakov” appearsseek God
To turn to YHWH to find him: to come to him and long for his presence.
Where else “vakshu” appearsemptiness
Something empty and worthless; "in vain".
Where else “tohu” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsrighteousness
Living uprightly before God.
Where else “tsedek” appearsdeclare
To announce what God does or will do.
Where else “magid” appearsuprightness
What is upright and just, in what is spoken or judged.
Where else “mesharim” appears18For thus says YHWH, who creates the heavens —he is the Elohim—, who formed the earth and made it —he established it; not as formless did he create it; to be inhabited he formed it—: “I am YHWH, and there is no other.
19 · This verse (above)
20Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, you who escaped from the nations. They do not know, those who carry the wood of their carved image and pray to a god that cannot save.
