{"id":76566,"date":"2020-06-29T12:58:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T09:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=76566"},"modified":"2020-06-29T12:58:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T09:58:03","slug":"where-is-your-scourge-o-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/where-is-your-scourge-o-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Is Your Scourge, O Death?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"76566","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"513","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Bring it on!\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13:14 \u201c\u2018From Sheol shall I ransom them, from death shall I redeem them? Where are your words, O Death, where your scourge, O Sheol? Regret is hidden from My eyes.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some interpreters construe this as a positive declaration by God, that He will ransom Ephraim from death. But this makes no sense in light of the language of utter devastation deployed in the next verse, so it is best to understand it as a rhetorical question with the implied answer \u201cno.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some critics revocalize <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">devareyka<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cyour words,\u201d as <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">devrekha<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cyour pestilence,\u201d yielding a neater parallelism with the second verset. As in verse 10, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018ehi<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the beginning of each of the two versets here is emended to <em>\u2018<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ayeh<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. If, as this translation assumes, the preceding line of poetry comprises two rhetorical questions, then the meaning of the two questions here is: where is your scourge, Death?&#8211;bring it to bear on these miscreants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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