Study it in the app“Therefore, thus says YHWH Tsevaot concerning the prophets: Look, I am feeding them wormwood, and I will give them to drink water of poison; for from the prophets of Jerusalem godlessness has gone out into all the land.””
Therefore,לָכֵןthusכֹּהsaysאָמַרYHWHיְהוָהTsevaotצְבָאוֹתconcerning the prophets:עַל הַנְּבִאִיםLook, Iהִנְנִיam feedingמַאֲכִילthemאוֹתָםwormwood,לַעֲנָהand I will give them to drinkוְהִשְׁקִתִיםwaterמֵיof poison;רֹאשׁforכִּיfromמֵאֵתthe prophetsנְבִיאֵיof Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִַםgodlessnessחֲנֻפָּהhas gone outיָצְאָהinto allלְכָלthe land.”הָאָרֶץ
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amar” 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” appearsTsevaot
A name of God: the one who commands the armies of heaven and earth.
Where else “tsevaot” appearsprophet
Someone who speaks for YHWH.
Where else “neviim” appearsfeed
To feed.
Where else “maachil” appearswormwood
Wormwood: a very bitter plant; an image of what ends in bitterness.
Where else “laana” appearsgive drink
To give water or another liquid to people or animals.
Where else “hishkiti” appearswater
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “me” appearspoison plant
A bitter, harmful plant.
Where else “rosh” appearsJerusalem
See it on the mapWhere else “yerushalaim” appearsgodlessness
Godlessness, profaneness that defiles.
Where else “chanupa” appearsgo out
To go out of a place.
Where else “yatsa” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsCf. 9:15.
Jerusalem
Today: Old City of Jerusalem
A city in the hills of Judea, about 22 miles (35 km) west of the Dead Sea and 35 miles (55 km) east of the Mediterranean.
David took it and made it his city (2 Sam 5:7); Solomon built the temple there (1 Kgs 8:1). Jesus was presented there, and the apostles' witness began from it (Luke 2:22; Acts 1:8).
14And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: committing adultery and walking in falsehood; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns back from his evil; they have become to me, all of them, like Sodom, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.
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16Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you; they are filling you with vapor; a vision of their own heart they speak, not from the mouth of YHWH.
