Study it in the app“For long ago you broke your yoke, you tore off your bonds, and you said, ‘I will not serve!’ For on every high hill and under every leafy tree you lay down, a prostitute.”
Forכִּיlong agoמֵעוֹלָםyou brokeשָׁבַרְתִּיyour yoke,עֻלֵּךְyou tore offנִתַּקְתִּיyour bonds,מוֹסְרֹתַיִךְand you said,וַתֹּאמְרִי‘I will notלֹאserve!’אֶעֱבוֹרForכִּיon everyעַל כָּלhighגְּבֹהָהhillגִּבְעָהand underוְתַחַתeveryכָּלleafyרַעֲנָןtreeעֵץyouאַתְּlay down,צֹעָהa prostitute.זֹנָה
of old
The times of the forefathers, far back in the past.
Where else “olam” appearsbreak
To break something to pieces.
Where else “shavarti” appearsyoke
Yoke: the wooden piece joining two oxen; figuratively, being subject to another.
Where else “ule” appearstear off, break
Tear off, break by pulling.
Where else “nitakti” appearsbond, fetter
A bond, a strap that holds; a chain.
Where else “mosrotayi” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “tomri” appearstransgress
To break a covenant or command.
Where else “eevor” appearstall
Rising far above the ground: a mountain, a wall, a tree, a horn.
Where else “gevoha” appearshill
Hill.
Where else “giva” appearsgreen, leafy
Green, leafy: full of leaves; also fresh, flourishing.
Where else “raanan” appearstree
A tall plant with trunk and branches, giving fruit, shade or timber.
Where else “ets” appearsstoop
Stooping; stretch out to rest.
Where else “tsoa” appearsprostitute oneself
To give one's body to others outside marriage, often for pay; the woman who does so.
Where else “zona” appears“You broke… you tore off” can also be read “I broke… I tore off” (it was I who set you free). “I will not serve” is what is written; what is read says “I will not transgress.”
19Your evil will discipline you, and your apostasies will rebuke you; know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake YHWH your Elohim, and that the dread of me is not in you, declares Adonai YHWH Tsevaot.
20 · This verse (above)
21And I planted you a choice vine, all of it true seed; and how have you turned for me into degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?
