Study it in the app“Therefore thus says YHWH: Look, I am giving this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will capture it.”
ThereforeלָכֵןthusכֹּהsaysאָמַרYHWH:יְהוָהLook, I amהִנְנִיgivingנֹתֵןthis cityאֶת הָעִיר הַזֹּאתinto the handבְּיַדof the Chaldeansהַכַּשְׂדִּיםand into the handוּבְיַדof Nebuchadnezzarנְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּרkingמֶלֶךְof Babylon,בָּבֶלand he will capture it.וּלְכָדָהּ
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” appearshand over
To hand someone over to another's power, giving that one victory.
Where else “noten” appearscity
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “ir” appearspower
Literally "the hand": the strength and control someone has.
Where else “yad” appearsChaldean
The Chaldeans, or the Babylonians.
Where else “kasdim” appearsNebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar: king of Babylon who subdued Judah, took Jerusalem, burned the house of YHWH and took the people into exile (2 Kings 24-25; Jeremiah; Daniel 1-4). The Hebrew writes his name in several forms.
Where else “nevuchadretsar” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsBabel, Babylon
See it on the mapWhere else “bavel” appearscapture
To conquer a city or seize someone.
Where else “lechada” appearsBabylon
Today: Babylon ruins, near Hillah, Iraq
A great city on the Euphrates River, in present-day Iraq, about 53 miles (85 km) south of Baghdad.
In its land the languages were confused at Babel (Gen 11:9). Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and took the people captive there (2 Kgs 25:1-11). Daniel lived there (Dan 1:1-6).
27“Look, I am YHWH, the Elohim of all flesh; is anything too difficult for me?
28 · This verse (above)
29And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and set this city on fire and burn it, along with the houses on whose roofs they burned incense to Baal and poured out libations to other gods, to provoke me.
