Study it in the app“You meet the one who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Look, you were angry, and we sinned; in them from of old, and we will be saved.”
You meetפָּגַעְתָּthe one who rejoicesאֶת שָׂשׂand doesוְעֹשֵׂהrighteousness,צֶדֶקthose who remember youיִזְכְּרוּךָin your ways.בִּדְרָכֶיךָLook,הֵןyouאַתָּהwere angry,קָצַפְתָּand we sinned;וַנֶּחֱטָאin themבָּהֶםfrom of old,עוֹלָםand we will be saved.וְנִוָּשֵׁעַ
meet
To go to meet someone and reach him.
Where else “pagata” appearsrejoice
Rejoice, be very glad.
Where else “sas” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “ose” appearsrighteousness
Living uprightly before God.
Where else “tsedek” appearsremember
To bring something to mind and keep it present so as to act on it.
Where else “yizkru” appearsmanner
The way one lives and acts.
Where else “derache” appearsbe angry
Be angry, burst out in rage; provoke to anger.
Where else “katsafta” appearssin
To do wrong, fail God or another.
Where else “necheta” appearsof old
The times of the forefathers, far back in the past.
Where else “olam” appearssave
To rescue someone from danger.
Where else “nivashea” appearsThe second half of this verse is difficult in Hebrew; “in them” may refer to the ways of YHWH or to the sins. The last clause can also be read as a question: “and will we be saved?”
4And from of old they have not heard, they have not listened; no eye has seen an Elohim besides you who acts for the one who awaits him.
5 · This verse (above)
6And we have become like the unclean, all of us, and like a garment of menstruation all our acts of righteousness; and we wither like the leaf, all of us, and our iniquities like the wind carry us away.
