Study it in the app“And when this people asks you, or the prophet or a priest, saying, ‘What is the burden of YHWH?’ then you shall say to them, ‘What burden? I will abandon you, declares YHWH.’”
And whenוְכִיthis peopleהָעָם הַזֶּהasks you,יִשְׁאָלְךָorאוֹthe prophetהַנָּבִיאorאוֹa priest,כֹהֵןsaying,לֵאמֹר‘What isמַהthe burdenמַשָּׂאof YHWH?’יְהוָהthen you shall sayוְאָמַרְתָּto them,אֲלֵיהֶם‘Whatאֶת מַהburden?מַשָּׂאI will abandonוְנָטַשְׁתִּיyou,אֶתְכֶםdeclaresנְאֻםYHWH.’יְהוָה
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appearsask
To ask a question.
Where else “yishal” appearsprophet
Someone who speaks for YHWH.
Where else “navi” appearspriest
One who serves in the sanctuary and offers for the people.
Where else “chohen” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearsoracle
A weighty message from God that a prophet carries, an oracle.
Where else “masa” 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” appearsabandon
To turn away from someone or something and leave it behind.
Where else “natashti” appearsdeclaration
Solemn words God himself speaks: "oracle of YHWH".
Where else “neum” appearsThe Hebrew word (מַשָּׂא) means both “burden” and “oracle,” the word that weighs on the prophet; 23:33-40 plays on both senses. With the same letters divided differently, “What burden?” (אֶת־מַה־מַּשָּׂא) reads “You are the burden” (אַתֶּם הַמַּשָּׂא).
32Look, I am against those who prophesy dreams of falsehood, declares YHWH, and tell them and lead astray my people by their falsehoods and by their recklessness; and I did not send them and did not command them, and they do not profit this people at all, declares YHWH.
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34And the prophet, and the priest, and the people who says, ‘The burden of YHWH,’ I will punish that man and his house.
