Study it in the app“Who is the man wise enough to understand this? And to whom has the mouth of YHWH spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished, burned like the wilderness, with no one passing through?”
Who isמִיthe manהָאִישׁwise enoughהֶחָכָםto understandוְיָבֵןthis?אֶת זֹאתAnd to whomוַאֲשֶׁר אֵלָיוhas the mouthפִּיof YHWHיְהוָהspoken,דִּבֶּרthat he may declare it?וְיַגִּדָהּWhyעַל מָהhas the landהָאָרֶץperished,אָבְדָהburnedנִצְּתָהlike the wilderness,כַמִּדְבָּרwith noמִבְּלִיone passing through?עֹבֵר
man
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appearswise
Someone who knows how to live well, revering YHWH.
Where else “chacham” appearsunderstand
To understand, realize.
Where else “yaven” appearsmouth
The part of the face with which one speaks, eats and kisses.
Where else “pi” 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” appearsspeak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “diber” appearsdeclare
To announce what God does or will do.
Where else “yagida” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsperish
To die, be ruined.
Where else “avda” appearsset on fire
Set on fire, burn.
Where else “nitsta” appearswilderness
Dry, unfarmed land where flocks graze.
Where else “midbar” appearswithout; not
Without; not; nothing.
Where else “beli” appearspass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “over” appears11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a lair of jackals, and the cities of Judah I will make a desolation, without inhabitant.”
12 · This verse (above)
13And YHWH said, “Because they have forsaken my instruction that I set before them, and have not listened to my voice or walked in it,
