Study it in the app“Among the smooth stones of the streambed is your portion; they, they are your lot; also to them you have poured out a libation, you have offered up an offering. With these things should I be appeased?”
Among the smooth stonesבְּחַלְּקֵיof the streambedנַחַלis your portion;חֶלְקֵךְthey,הֵםtheyהֵםare your lot;גּוֹרָלֵךְalsoגַּםto themלָהֶםyou have poured outשָׁפַכְתְּa libation,נֶסֶךְyou have offered upהֶעֱלִיתan offering.מִנְחָהWith these thingsהַעַל אֵלֶּהshould I be appeased?אֶנָּחֵם
smooth (stones)
Smooth; stones polished by water.
Where else “chalke” appearstorrent
A channel that runs with water only in the rainy season.
Where else “nachal” appearsportion
What falls to one: "YHWH is what I receive".
Where else “chelke” appearsfate
What falls to one in life.
Where else “gorale” appearsspill
To empty out water or blood; "spill blood" is to kill.
Where else “shafacht” appearslibation
Wine or other drink poured as an offering.
Where else “nesech” appearsoffer up
To burn a sacrifice on the altar; literally "make go up".
Where else “heelit” appearsoffering
An offering to God.
Where else “mincha” appearsfind relief
To recover one's spirits after a loss and feel relief.
Where else “enachem” appearsIn Hebrew there is a wordplay between “smooth” (challeqe) and “your portion” (chelqech).
5who inflame yourselves among the terebinths, under every leafy tree, who slaughter the children in the streambeds, under the clefts of the rocks?
6 · This verse (above)
7On a mountain high and lifted up you have set your bed; also there you went up to sacrifice a sacrifice.
