Study it in the app“To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Look, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot pay attention; look, the word of YHWH has become to them a reproach; they take no pleasure in it.”
To whomעַל מִיshall I speakאֲדַבְּרָהand give warning,וְאָעִידָהthat they may hear?וְיִשְׁמָעוּLook,הִנֵּהtheir earאָזְנָםis uncircumcised,עֲרֵלָהand they cannotוְלֹא יוּכְלוּpay attention;לְהַקְשִׁיבlook,הִנֵּהthe wordדְבַרof YHWHיְהוָהhas becomeהָיָהto themלָהֶםa reproach;לְחֶרְפָּהthey take noלֹאpleasureיַחְפְּצוּin it.בוֹ
speak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “adabra” appearswarn
To warn strongly, calling someone as witness.
Where else “aida” appearshear
To hear a sound, or learn of something.
Where else “yishmau” appearshearing
The ear that listens: "incline your ear".
Where else “azna” appearsuncircumcised
A man without the covenant sign; said with scorn.
Where else “arela” appearsbe able
To have the strength, the permission or the opportunity to do something.
Where else “yuchlu” appearspay attention, listen
To pay attention, to listen carefully, to prick up the ears. It is more than hearing: it is heeding what is said.
Where else “hakshiv” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devar” 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” appearsbecome
To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.
Where else “haya” appearsdisgrace, reproach
Disgrace, reproach, scorn from others. Being childless was then felt as a humiliation.
Where else “cherpa” appearsdelight in
To take pleasure in someone or something and look on it with favor.
Where else “yachptsu” appears9Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: “They will glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; turn back your hand like a grape gatherer over the branches.”
10 · This verse (above)
11But I am full of the fury of YHWH; I am weary of holding in. “Pour out on the child in the street, and on the gathering of young men together; for both husband with wife will be taken, the old with the one full of days.
