Study it in the app“Therefore thus says YHWH Tsevaot, Elohim of Israel: Look, I am punishing the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of Assyria.”
ThereforeלָכֵןthusכֹּהsaysאָמַרYHWHיְהוָהTsevaot,צְבָאוֹתElohimאֱלֹהֵיof Israel:יִשְׂרָאֵלLook, Iהִנְנִיam punishingפֹקֵד אֶלthe kingמֶלֶךְof Babylonבָּבֶלand his land,וְאֶל אַרְצוֹasכַּאֲשֶׁרI punishedפָּקַדְתִּי אֶלthe kingמֶלֶךְof Assyria.אַשּׁוּר
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” 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” appearspunish
To call to account, punish.
Where else “foked” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsBabel, Babylon
See it on the mapWhere else “bavel” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arts” appearsAssyria, Asshur
See it on the mapWhere else “ashur” appears1Babylon
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).
2Assyria
Today: northern Iraq (with parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran)
An empire of northern Mesopotamia along the Tigris River, in present-day Iraq.
Assyria took the northern kingdom of Israel captive (2 Kgs 17:6). God sent Jonah to preach in Nineveh, its capital (Jonah 3:3).
17A scattered sheep is Israel; lions have driven it away; the first devoured it, the king of Assyria; and this last one has gnawed its bones, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
18 · This verse (above)
19And I will bring back Israel to his fold, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan, and on the mountain of Ephraim and Gilead his soul will be satisfied.
