Leviticus 26:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and I have set My face against you, and ye have been smitten before your enemies; and those hating you have ruled over you, and ye have fled, and there is none pursuing 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 wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.
• Deut 28:25 : 25 `Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth;
• Lev 17:10 : 10 `And any man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners, who is sojourning in your midst, who eateth any blood, I have even set My face against the person who is eating the blood, and have cut him off from the midst of his people;
• Ps 53:5 : 5 There they feared a fear -- there was no fear, For God hath scattered the bones of him Who is encamping against thee, Thou hast put to shame, For God hath despised them.
• Judg 2:14 : 14 And the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He giveth them into the hand of spoilers, and they spoil them, and He selleth them into the hand of their enemies round about, and they have not been able any more to stand before their enemies;
• Jer 19:7 : 7 And I have made void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and have caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their life, and I have given their carcase for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth,
• Lam 1:5 : 5 Her adversaries have become chief, Her enemies have been at ease, For Jehovah hath afflicted her, For the abundance of her transgressions, Her infants have gone captive before the adversary.
• 1 Sam 4:10 : 10 And the Philistines fight, and Israel is smitten, and they flee each to his tents, and the blow is very great, and there fall of Israel thirty thousand footmen;
• 1 Sam 31:1 : 1 And the Philistines are fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel flee from the face of the Philistines, and fall wounded in mount Gilboa,
• Neh 9:27-30 : 27 and Thou givest them into the hand of their adversaries, and they distress them, and in the time of their distress they cry unto Thee, and Thou, from the heavens, dost hear, and, according to Thine abundant mercies, dost give to them saviours, and they save them out of the hand of their adversaries. 28 `And when they have rest, they turn back to do evil before Thee, and Thou dost leave them in the hand of their enemies, and they rule over them; and they turn back, and call Thee, and Thou from the heavens dost hear, and dost deliver them, according to Thy mercies, many times, 29 and dost testify against them, to bring them back unto Thy law; and they -- they have acted proudly, and have not hearkened to Thy commands, and against Thy judgments have sinned, -- which man doth and hath lived in them -- and they give a refractory shoulder, and their neck have hardened, and have not hearkened. 30 `And Thou drawest over them many years, and testifiest against them by Thy Spirit, by the hand of Thy prophets, and they have not given ear, and Thou dost give them into the hand of peoples of the lands,
• Ps 68:1-2 : 1 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm, a song of David. Rise doth God -- scattered are His enemies! And those hating Him flee from His face. 2 As the driving away of smoke Thou drivest away, As the melting of wax before fire, The wicked perish at the presence of God.
• Ps 106:41-42 : 41 And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them, 42 And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.
• Lev 20:5-6 : 5 then I have set My face against that man, and against his family, and have cut him off, and all who are going a-whoring after him, even going a-whoring after the Molech, from the midst of their people. 6 `And the person who turneth unto those having familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to go a-whoring after them, I have even set My face against that person, and cut him off from the midst of his people.
• Lev 26:36-37 : 36 `And those who are left of you -- I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled -- flight from a sword -- and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing. 37 And they have stumbled one on another, as from the face of a sword, and there is none pursuing, and ye have no standing before your enemies,