Deuteronomy 29:19

Webster's Bible (1833)

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹא־יֹאבֶ֣ה יְהוָה֮ סְלֹ֣חַֽ לוֹ֒ כִּ֣י אָ֠ז יֶעְשַׁ֨ן אַף־יְהוָ֤ה וְקִנְאָתוֹ֙ בָּאִ֣ישׁ הַה֔וּא וְרָ֤בְצָה־‪[c]‬ בּוֹ֙ כָּל־הָ֣אָלָ֔ה הַכְּתוּבָ֖ה בַּסֵּ֣פֶר הַזֶּ֑ה וּמָחָ֤ה יְהוָה֙ אֶת־שְׁמ֔וֹ מִתַּ֖חַת הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

Not-yōʾbeh YHWH sᵉlōaḥ to-him, for then yeʿšan anger-YHWH and-qinʾātô against-the-ʾîš the-that, and-rābṣāh against-him all-the-ʾālāh the-kᵉtûbāh in-the-sēp̄er the-zeh, and-māḥāh YHWH ʾet-šᵉmô from-under the-šāmāyim.

Grammar Details

• *yōʾbeh*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - he will be willing
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the divine name
• *sᵉlōaḥ*: Qal infinitive construct - to forgive/pardon
• *yeʿšan*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - it will smoke
• *qinʾātô*: noun feminine singular construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his jealousy
• *ʾîš*: noun masculine singular - man
• *rābṣāh*: Qal perfect 3rd feminine singular - it will lie down
• *ʾālāh*: noun feminine singular - oath/curse
• *kᵉtûbāh*: Qal passive participle feminine singular - written
• *sēp̄er*: noun masculine singular - book/scroll
• *zeh*: demonstrative adjective masculine singular - this
• *māḥāh*: Qal perfect 3rd masculine singular consecutive - and he will wipe out
• *šᵉmô*: noun masculine singular construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his name
• *šāmāyim*: noun masculine plural - heavens

Word Meanings

• *yōʾbeh*: be willing/consent/agree
• *sᵉlōaḥ*: to forgive/pardon/spare
• *yeʿšan*: smoke/burn/be kindled
• *qinʾātô*: his jealousy/zeal/passion
• *rābṣāh*: settle upon/crouch/lie in wait
• *māḥāh*: wipe out/blot out/destroy

Referenced Verses

• Num 15:30 : 30 But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is home-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
• Eph 4:17 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
• Eph 5:6 : 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
• Gen 2:17 : 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
• Num 15:39 : 39 and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;
• Deut 17:2 : 2 If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,
• Deut 29:12 : 12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;
• Ps 10:4-6 : 4 The wicked, in the pride of his face, Has no room in his thoughts for God. 5 His ways are prosperous at all times; He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight: As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them. 6 He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken; For generations I shall have no trouble."
• Ps 10:11 : 11 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."
• Ps 49:18 : 18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul-- And men praise you when you do well for yourself--
• Ps 94:6-7 : 6 They kill the widow and the alien, And murder the fatherless. 7 They say, "Yah will not see, Neither will Jacob's God consider."
• Prov 29:1 : 1 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck Will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
• Eccl 11:9 : 9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, And walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
• Jer 3:17 : 17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Yahweh; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
• Jer 5:12-13 : 12 They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: 13 and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them.
• Jer 7:3-9 : 3 Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Don't you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these. 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; 6 if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt: 7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore. 8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit. 9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, 10 and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations? 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.
• Jer 7:24 : 24 But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
• Jer 28:15-17 : 15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie. 16 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth: this year you shall die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh. 17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
• Jer 44:16-17 : 16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we will not listen to you. 17 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
• Jer 44:27 : 27 Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
• Ezek 13:16 : 16 [to wit], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord Yahweh.
• Ezek 13:22 : 22 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive:
• Rom 1:21 : 21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
• 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;