Leviticus 26:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנָתַתִּ֤י פָנַי֙ בָּכֶ֔ם וְנִגַּפְתֶּ֖ם לִפְנֵ֣י אֹיְבֵיכֶ֑ם וְרָד֤וּ בָכֶם֙ שֹֽׂנְאֵיכֶ֔ם וְנַסְתֶּ֖ם וְאֵין־רֹדֵ֥ף אֶתְכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And-nātattî pānay against-you and-niggaptem before ʾōyebêkem and-rādû in-you śōneʾêkem and-nastem and-ʾên-rōdēp ʾetkem

Grammar Details

• *nātattî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular with waw consecutive - and I will set
• *pānay*: noun, masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my face
• *niggaptem*: verb, niphal perfect, 2nd person masculine plural with waw consecutive - and you will be struck down
• *ʾōyebêkem*: verb, qal participle, masculine plural + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your enemies
• *rādû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural with waw consecutive - and they will rule
• *śōneʾêkem*: verb, qal participle, masculine plural + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - those who hate you
• *nastem*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine plural with waw consecutive - and you will flee
• *ʾên*: particle of negation - there is not
• *rōdēp*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - pursuer
• *ʾetkem*: direct object marker + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - you

Word Meanings

• *pānay*: my face/my presence/my attention
• *niggaptem*: be struck down/be defeated/be smitten
• *rādû*: rule over/dominate/have dominion over
• *śōneʾêkem*: those who hate you/your haters/your enemies
• *nastem*: flee/run away/escape

Referenced Verses

• Prov 28:1 : 1 The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.
• Deut 28:25 : 25 The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.
• Lev 17:10 : 10 And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.
• Ps 53:5 : 5 They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.
• Judg 2:14 : 14 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them.
• Jer 19:7 : 7 I will make the purpose of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place; I will have them put to the sword by their haters, and by the hands of those who have designs on their life; and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.
• Lam 1:5 : 5 Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters; for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.
• 1 Sam 4:10 : 10 So the Philistines went to the fight, and Israel was overcome, and every man went in flight to his tent: and great was the destruction, for thirty thousand footmen of Israel were put to the sword.
• 1 Sam 31:1 : 1 Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel: and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.
• Neh 9:27-30 : 27 And so you gave them up into the hands of their haters who were cruel to them: and in the time of their trouble, when they made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; and in your great mercy gave them saviours, who made them free from the hands of their haters. 28 But when they had rest, they did evil again before you: so you gave them into the hands of their haters, who had rule over them: but when they came back and made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; again and again, in your mercy, you gave them salvation; 29 And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hearts were lifted up, and they gave no attention to your orders and went against your decisions (which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him), and turning their backs on you, made their necks stiff and did not give ear. 30 Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.
• Ps 68:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm. A Song.> Let God be seen, and let his haters be put to flight; let those who are against him be turned back before him. 2 Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.
• Ps 106:41-42 : 41 And he gave them into the hands of the nations; and they were ruled by their haters. 42 By them they were crushed, and made low under their hands.
• Lev 20:5-6 : 5 Then my face will be turned against him and his family, and he and all those who do evil with him will be cut off from among their people. 6 And whoever goes after those who make use of spirits and wonder-workers, doing evil with them, against him will my face be turned, and he will be cut off from among his people.
• Lev 26:36-37 : 36 And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them; 37 Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.