Study it in the app““He has devoured me, he has crushed me, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he has set me down as an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like the sea monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has driven me out.”
“He has devoured me,אֲכָלַנִיhe has crushed me,הֲמָמַנִיNebuchadnezzarנְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּרkingמֶלֶךְof Babylon;בָּבֶלhe has set me downהִצִּיגַנִיas an emptyרִיקvessel;כְּלִיhe has swallowed meבְּלָעַנִיlike the sea monster;כַּתַּנִּיןhe has filledמִלָּאhis bellyכְרֵשׂוֹwith my delicacies;מֵעֲדָנָיhe has driven me out.הֱדִיחָנִי
devour
Literally "eat": to destroy something, as fire burns everything up.
Where else “achala” appearscrush
To roll noisily, or grind down.
Where else “hamama” 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” appearsset, place
Set, place, leave in position.
Where else “hitsiga” appearsempty
Something empty, worthless.
Where else “rik” appearsvessel
Any container for keeping or carrying liquids and food.
Where else “keli” appearsswallow
Swallow, swallow up; hence, destroy.
Where else “belaa” appearssea monster
A huge beast of the sea.
Where else “tanin” appearsfill
To take up all the space of something, or to give someone all it can hold.
Where else “mila” appearsbelly
Belly, stomach.
Where else “cheres” appearsdelight, pleasure
Pleasure, delight; luxury.
Where else “adana” appearsdrive out
Put someone out of their place.
Where else “hediach” appearsZion speaks (cf. 51:35). In this verse the written text (ketiv) says “us”; the reading (qere), followed here, says “me.”
Babylon
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).
33For thus says YHWH Tsevaot, Elohim of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest will come for her.
34 · This verse (above)
35‘My violence and my flesh be upon Babylon,’ the inhabitant of Zion will say; ‘and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,’ Jerusalem will say.”
