Study it in the app“And you, devastated one, what will you do? Though you dress in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with antimony, in vain you make yourself beautiful. The lovers despise you; they seek your soul.”
And you,וְאַתְּdevastated one,שָׁדוּדwhatמַהwill you do?תַּעֲשִׂיThoughכִּיyou dressתִלְבְּשִׁיin scarlet,שָׁנִיthoughכִּיyou adorn yourselfתַעְדִּיwith ornamentsעֲדִיof gold,זָהָבthoughכִּיyou enlargeתִקְרְעִיyour eyesעֵינַיִךְwith antimony,בַפּוּךְin vainלַשָּׁוְאyou make yourself beautiful.תִּתְיַפִּיThe loversעֹגְבִיםdespise you;מָאֲסוּ בָךְthey seekיְבַקֵּשׁוּyour soul.נַפְשֵׁךְ
devastate
To leave a country or city empty and in ruins by force.
Where else “shadud” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “taasi” appearsput on
To cover the body with clothes: to put on what one is to wear.
Where else “tilbshi” appearsscarlet
Scarlet, crimson; thread dyed that color.
Where else “shani” appearsadorn oneself
To put on jewelry to look fine.
Where else “tadi” appearsornaments
Ornaments, jewelry worn on the body.
Where else “adi” appearsgold
Gold.
Where else “zahav” appearsenlarge
To paint the eyes with antimony so they look larger.
Where else “tikri” appearseye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “enayi” appearseye paint
Dark eye paint, a mineral powder with which women outlined their eyes (2 Kings 9:30; Jeremiah 4:30). In Isaiah 54:11 and 1 Chronicles 29:2 it is said of a dark material used in building.
Where else “puch” appearsemptiness
Something of no value; using YHWH's name lightly.
Where else “shav” appearsbe beautiful
To be beautiful, lovely; originally "to be bright". Also "to make beautiful, to adorn".
Where else “tityapi” appearslust after
To desire passionately; as a noun, a lover.
Where else “ogvim” appearsreject
To regard something or someone as worthless and put it away.
Where else “maasu” appearsseek
To go after someone or something in order to find it.
Where else “yevakeshu” appearslife
Life, when it is at stake.
Where else “nafshe” appears29At the noise of horseman and archer every city flees; they go into the thickets and climb up among the rocks; every city is forsaken, and no man lives in them.
30 · This verse (above)
31For I heard a voice as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one bearing her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, spreading out her palms: “Woe to me now, for my soul faints before murderers!”
