Study it in the app“Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly razed, and her high gates will be burned with fire; and peoples labor for nothing, and nations for the fire, and they grow weary.”
ThusכֹּהsaysאָמַרYHWHיְהוָהTsevaot:צְבָאוֹתThe broadהָרְחָבָהwallsחֹמוֹתof Babylonבָּבֶלwill be utterlyעַרְעֵרrazed,תִּתְעַרְעָרand her highהַגְּבֹהִיםgatesוּשְׁעָרֶיהָwill be burnedיִצַּתּוּwith fire;בָּאֵשׁand peoplesוְ עַמִּיםlaborיִגְעוּfor nothing,בְּדֵי רִיקand nationsוּלְאֻמִּיםfor the fire,בְּדֵי אֵשׁand they grow weary.וְיָעֵפוּ
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” appearsbroad, wide
Broad, wide, roomy. "Broad on both hands": spacious on every side.
Where else “rechava” appearswall
Wall, city wall.
Where else “chomot” appearsBabel, Babylon
See it on the mapWhere else “bavel” appearsraze
Destroy until nothing stands.
Where else “arer” appearstall
Rising far above the ground: a mountain, a wall, a tree, a horn.
Where else “gevohim” appearsgate
The entrance of a city or house, with doors that close.
Where else “sheare” appearsset on fire
Set on fire, burn.
Where else “yitsatu” appearsfire
Fire that burns or cooks.
Where else “esh” appearspeople
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “amim” appearsgrow weary, toil
Grow weary, be tired from effort; also to toil, or to make another weary.
Where else “yigu” appearsas often as
Together with other words: whenever, as often as, as much as suffices.
Where else “de” appearsin vain
In vain, for nothing.
Where else “rik” appearspeople, nation
People, nation.
Where else “leumim” appearsgrow tired
To run out of strength.
Where else “yaefu” appearsHabakkuk 2:13 says something very similar.
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).
57And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her prefects and her mighty men, and they will sleep an eternal sleep and not wake up, declares the King, YHWH Tsevaot is his name.
58 · This verse (above)
59The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign; and Seraiah was chief of the resting place.
