Study it in the app“And it will be, when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you: ‘Why has YHWH spoken against us all this great evil? And what is our iniquity, and what is our sin that we have sinned against YHWH our Elohim?’”
And it will be,וְהָיָהwhenכִּיyou tellתַגִּידthis peopleלָעָם הַזֶּהallאֵת כָּלthese words,הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּהand they say to you:וְאָמְרוּ אֵלֶיךָ‘Whyעַל מֶהhas YHWHיְהוָהspokenדִבֶּרagainst usעָלֵינוּallאֵת כָּלthis great evil?הָרָעָה הַגְּדוֹלָה הַזֹּאתAnd whatוּמֶהis our iniquity,עֲוֺנֵנוּand whatוּמֶהis our sinחַטָּאתֵנוּthatאֲשֶׁרwe have sinnedחָטָאנוּagainst YHWHלַיהוָהour Elohim?’אֱלֹהֵינוּ
happen
For something to occur or take place; many stories open with this word.
Where else “haya” appearstell
To tell someone something he does not know or has not seen.
Where else “tagid” appearscrowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devarim” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amru” 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” appearsspeak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “diber” appearsevil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “raa” appearsgreat
Of great size, amount or importance: a river, a city, a king.
Where else “gedola” appearsiniquity
A serious wrong.
Where else “avone” appearssin
Failing God, not doing what he asks.
Where else “chatate” appearssin
To do wrong, fail God or another.
Where else “chatanu” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appears9For thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Look, I am making cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
10 · This verse (above)
11then you will say to them: ‘Because your fathers abandoned me, declares YHWH, and walked after other gods, and served them and bowed down to them, and me they abandoned, and my instruction they did not keep;
