Study it in the app“If with men on foot you have run and they have wearied you, how will you compete with the horses? And in a land of peace you feel secure, but how will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?”
Ifכִּיwith men on footאֶת רַגְלִיםyou have runרַצְתָּהand they have wearied you,וַיַּלְאוּךָhowוְאֵיךְwill you competeתְּתַחֲרֶהwith the horses?אֶת הַסּוּסִיםAndוּin a landבְאֶרֶץof peaceשָׁלוֹםyou feel secure,אַתָּה בוֹטֵחַbut howוְאֵיךְwill you doתַּעֲשֶׂהin the thicketבִּגְאוֹןof the Jordan?הַיַּרְדֵּן
on foot
On foot: a grown man who marches on foot.
Where else “raglim” appearsrun
To move quickly on foot, at a run.
Where else “ratsta” appearswear out
To wear out someone else, to exhaust his patience.
Where else “yalu” appearscompete
To compete, to vie with someone in a race.
Where else “tetachare” appearshorse
A war and draft animal that pulls chariots, or the one who rides it.
Where else “susim” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearspeace
Living without war or quarrels, in harmony.
Where else “shalom” appearsbe secure
To live at ease, without fear or suspicion.
Where else “voteach” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “taase” appearsthicket
The dense brush by the Jordan.
Where else “geon” appearsJordan
See it on the mapWhere else “yarden” appears“The thicket of the Jordan”: in Hebrew, “the pride of the Jordan,” the brush along its banks, where there were lions (49:19; 50:44).
Jordan
Today: Jordan River: Israel, West Bank, Jordan, Dead Sea
Israel's main river; it flows from Mount Hermon in the north, through the Sea of Galilee, to the Dead Sea.
Israel crossed it on dry ground to enter the promised land (Josh 3:17). Naaman was healed in it (2 Kgs 5:14), and Jesus was immersed in it (Matt 3:13).
4How long will the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither? Because of the evil of those who dwell in it the animals and the birds are swept away, for they say: “He will not see our end.”
5 · This verse (above)
6For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have betrayed you; even they have shouted after you in full voice; do not trust them, though they speak to you good things.
