Study it in the app““Go, and say to Ebed-melech the Cushite, saying, ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Look, I am bringing my words to this city for evil and not for good, and they will be before you on that day.”
“Go,הָלוֹךְand sayוְאָמַרְתָּto Ebed-melechלְעֶבֶד מֶלֶךְthe Cushite,הַכּוּשִׁיsaying,לֵאמֹר‘ThusכֹּהsaysאָמַרYHWHיְהוָהTsevaot,צְבָאוֹתthe Elohimאֱלֹהֵיof Israel:יִשְׂרָאֵלLook, Iהִנְנִיam bringingמֵבִיאmy wordsאֶת דְּבָרַיto this cityאֶל הָעִיר הַזֹּאתfor evilלְרָעָהand notוְלֹאfor good,לְטוֹבָהand they will beוְהָיוּbefore youלְפָנֶיךָon that day.בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא
go
To move on foot from place to place; to set out.
Where else “haloch” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amarta” appearsEbed-melech
Ebed-melech: a name meaning "servant of the king"; a Cushite official of King Zedekiah who rescued Jeremiah from the cistern.
Where else “eved” appearsCushite
Cushite: a person from Cush, the region south of Egypt (toward present-day Sudan). Joab's messenger is called this (2 Samuel 18), and so is Ebed-melech, who pulled Jeremiah out of the cistern (Jeremiah 38). In the plural, the Cushites as a people. It says nothing good or bad about the person, only where they come from.
Where else “kushi” 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” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appearsbring
To bring something or someone.
Where else “mevi” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devara” appearscity
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “ir” appearsevil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “raa” appearsgood
What is as it should be and gives delight: sound, useful, beautiful or valuable.
Where else “tova” appearshappen
For something to occur or take place; many stories open with this word.
Where else “hayu” appearsbefore
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fane” appearsday
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears15And the word of YHWH had come to Jeremiah while he was confined in the court of the guard, saying,
16 · This verse (above)
17But I will rescue you on that day, declares YHWH, and you will not be given into the hand of the men whom you dread.
