Study it in the app“Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of YHWH; awake as in the days of old, the generations of the ages. Are you not the one who cut to pieces Rahab, who pierced the sea monster?”
Awake,עוּרִיawake,עוּרִיput onלִבְשִׁיstrength,עֹזarmזְרוֹעַof YHWH;יְהוָהawakeעוּרִיas in the daysכִּימֵיof old,קֶדֶםthe generationsדֹּרוֹתof the ages.עוֹלָמִיםAre you notהֲלוֹא אַתְּthe oneהִיאwho cut to piecesהַמַּחְצֶבֶתRahab,רַהַבwho piercedמְחוֹלֶלֶתthe sea monster?תַּנִּין
awake
To rouse from sleep or inactivity; in prayer, to ask God to act.
Where else “uri” appearsput on
To cover the body with clothes: to put on what one is to wear.
Where else “livshi” appearsstrength
Power to act or to withstand, attributed above all to God.
Where else “oz” appearsarm
The limb between shoulder and hand; in an animal, the shoulder.
Where else “zeroa” 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” appearstime
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yme” appearsof old
Times long ago, from far back.
Where else “kedem” appearsgeneration
The people of the same time.
Where else “dorot” appearsof old
The times of the forefathers, far back in the past.
Where else “olamim” appearshew
To shape rock, or carve wells or tombs in it.
Where else “machtsevet” appearsRahab
Rahab: a poetic name for Egypt, meaning "arrogant" or "tumultuous"; it also names a sea monster subdued by God. It is not the name of the woman of Jericho, which is spelled differently in Hebrew.
Where else “rahav” appearspierce
Another word spelled the same: to wound fatally.
Where else “mecholelet” appearssea monster
A huge beast of the sea.
Where else “tanin” appears8For like a garment the moth will eat them, and like wool the worm will eat them; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for generations of generations.”
9 · This verse (above)
10Are you not the one who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a road for the redeemed to cross over?
