Study it in the app“How can you say, ‘I have not defiled myself; after the Baals I have not gone’? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done, a young camel, swift, entangling her ways,”
Howאֵיךְcan you say,תֹּאמְרִי‘I have notלֹאdefiled myself;נִטְמֵאתִיafterאַחֲרֵיthe BaalsהַבְּעָלִיםI have notלֹאgone’?הָלַכְתִּיLook atרְאִיyour wayדַרְכֵּךְin the valley;בַּגַּיְאknowדְּעִיwhatמֶהyou have done,עָשִׂיתa young camel,בִּכְרָהswift,קַלָּהentanglingמְשָׂרֶכֶתher ways,דְּרָכֶיהָ
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “tomri” appearsbe unclean
To become unclean, for example by touching the dead.
Where else “nitmeti” appearsBaal
Baal: the god of the Canaanites, to whom they attributed the rain and the harvests. The word means "lord, owner." The Bible names him as a foreign god whom Israel was not to serve.
Where else “bealim” appearsfollow
"Go after" someone, follow them.
Where else “halachti” appearssee
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “rei” appearsmanner
The way one lives and acts.
Where else “darke” appearsvalley
Narrow valley, a ravine between high slopes.
Where else “gay” appearsknow
To know something, realize.
Where else “dei” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asit” appearsyoung camel
Young female camel.
Where else “bichra” appearsswift, light
Light, swift.
Where else “kala” appearscrisscross
To crisscross, to run back and forth across the paths.
Where else “mesarechet” appears22Even if you wash yourself with soda and use much lye, your iniquity is stained before me, declares Adonai YHWH.
23 · This verse (above)
24a wild donkey used to the wilderness, in the craving of her soul sniffing the wind; her heat, who can turn it back? All who seek her will not tire themselves; in her month they will find her.
