Study it in the app“Therefore thus says YHWH: Look, I am pleading your cause, and I will avenge your vengeance; and I will dry up her sea, and make dry her spring.”
ThereforeלָכֵןthusכֹּהsaysאָמַרYHWH:יְהוָהLook, Iהִנְנִיam pleadingרָבyour cause,אֶת רִיבֵךְand I will avengeוְנִקַּמְתִּיyour vengeance;אֶת נִקְמָתֵךְand I will dry upוְהַחֲרַבְתִּיher sea,אֶת יַמָּהּand make dryוְהֹבַשְׁתִּיher spring.אֶת מְקוֹרָהּ
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” appearsplead
To argue a cause; YHWH accuses his people.
Where else “rav” appearscase
A matter brought before the judge.
Where else “rive” appearsavenge
Avenge: make someone pay for the wrong done; take vengeance.
Where else “nikamti” appearsvengeance
Vengeance: punishment given for a wrong received.
Where else “nikmate” appearsdry up
To be left without water, a river, a sea or a spring.
Where else “hacharavti” appearssea
The sea, or a large lake.
Where else “yama” appearsdry up
To lose water or moisture and become parched or withered.
Where else “hovashti” appearsspring
The place where water wells up, and so also the source of life.
Where else “mekora” appears35‘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.”
36 · This verse (above)
37And Babylon will become heaps, a lair of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.
