| 2. Linguistic Exegesis The verse unfolds as a series of vav-consecutive actions, beginning with ve'avo {וְאָב֣וֹא | wə-’ā-vō} ‘and I will come,’ and continuing through vehacharadti {וְהַֽחֲרַדְתִּי | wə-ḥa-ḥa-rā-ḏə-tī} ‘and I will terrify,’ venas {וְנָ֖ס | wə-nās} ‘and will flee,’ and vehikeiti {וְהִכֵּיתִ֥י | wə-hi-kē-tī} ‘and I will strike.’ A conditional protasis is signaled by the participle yagea {יָגֵ֙עַ֙ | yā-gē-ʻa} ‘weary’ paired with the adjective urefeh {וּרְפֵ֣ה | u-rə-p̄e} ‘faint,’ implying “when he is weary and faint.” The relative particle asher {אֲשֶׁר־ | ’a-šer-} ‘who’ introduces the subordinate clause specifying kol {כָּל | kāl} ‘all’ ha'am {הָעָ֣ם | hā-ʿām} ‘the people,’ and the prepositional phrase levado {לְבַדּֽוֹ | lə-vaḏ-dō} ‘alone’ confines the final action to the king alone. |