Study it in the app“And now, thus says YHWH Elohim Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Why are you doing great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and nursing child, from the midst of Judah, so as not to leave you a remnant,”
And now,וְעַתָּהthusכֹּהsaysאָמַרYHWHיְהוָהElohimאֱלֹהֵיTsevaot,צְבָאוֹתthe Elohimאֱלֹהֵיof Israel:יִשְׂרָאֵלWhyלָמָהare youאַתֶּםdoingעֹשִׂיםgreatגְדוֹלָהevilרָעָהagainst your souls,אֶל נַפְשֹׁתֵכֶםto cut offלְהַכְרִיתfrom youלָכֶםmanאִישׁand woman,וְאִשָּׁהchildעוֹלֵלand nursing child,וְיוֹנֵקfrom the midstמִתּוֹךְof Judah,יְהוּדָהso as notלְבִלְתִּיto leaveהוֹתִירyouלָכֶםa remnant,שְׁאֵרִית
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” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appearsTsevaot
A name of God: the one who commands the armies of heaven and earth.
Where else “tsevaot” 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” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “osim” appearsgreat
Of great size, amount or importance: a river, a city, a king.
Where else “gedola” appearsevil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “raa” appearslife
Life, when it is at stake.
Where else “nafshote” appearscut off
To wipe out, or be shut out from the people.
Where else “hachrit” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appearswoman
An adult female person: single, married or widowed.
Where else “isha” appearsyoung child
A small child, an infant. Said of young children, often together with "the nursing child."
Where else “olel” appearssuck
For a baby to take milk from his mother's breast.
Where else “yonek” appearsmidst
The central point of something, or the company of several: in the midst of them.
Where else “toch” appearsJudah
Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later the southern kingdom; King David came from it. The name sounds like "give thanks". Borne also by other Israelites.
Where else “yehuda” appearsspare
To spare someone's life, or make plentiful.
Where else “hotir” appearsremnant
Remnant: those left alive after a disaster.
Where else “sheerit” appears6So my fury and my anger were poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a ruin, a desolation, as it is this day.
7 · This verse (above)
8provoking me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have come to reside as aliens there, so that you cut yourselves off and so that you become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
