Study it in the app“Therefore, look, days are coming when I will punish the carved images of Babylon, and all her land will be put to shame, and all her slain will fall in her midst.”
Therefore,לָכֵןlook,הִנֵּהdaysיָמִיםare comingבָּאִיםwhen I will punishוּפָקַדְתִּי עַלthe carved imagesפְּסִילֵיof Babylon,בָבֶלand allוְכָלher landאַרְצָהּwill be put to shame,תֵּבוֹשׁand allוְכָלher slainחֲלָלֶיהָwill fallיִפְּלוּin her midst.בְתוֹכָהּ
time
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yamim” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “baim” appearspunish
To call to account, punish.
Where else “fakadti” appearscarved image
Carved image: the figure of a god carved in wood or stone.
Where else “pesile” appearsBabel, Babylon
See it on the mapWhere else “vavel” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “artsa” appearsbe disappointed
To be disgraced because what one trusted in failed.
Where else “tevosh” appearsslain
Someone killed or wounded in war.
Where else “chalale” appearsfall in battle
To die in battle, killed by the enemy.
Where else “yiplu” appearsmidst
The central point of something, or the company of several: in the midst of them.
Where else “tocha” appearsBabylon
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).
46And lest your heart grow faint and you be afraid at the report that is heard in the land: the report comes in one year, and after it in another year the report, and violence in the land, and ruler against ruler.
47 · This verse (above)
48And the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, will shout for joy over Babylon; for from the north the devastators will come to her, declares YHWH.
