| 34. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with two emphatic first-person verbs vehotzeti {וְהוֹצֵאתִי | wə-hō-ṣē-’ə-tî} ‘and I will bring out’ and veqibatzti {וְקִבַּצְתִּי | wə-qib-baṣ-tî} ‘and I will gather’ framing divine determination. Each verb is followed by the direct object marker + suffix (etkhem {אֶתְכֶם | ’eṯ-ḵem} ‘you’), specifying the exiles. Prepositional phrases min haammim {מִן־הָעַמִּים | min hā-‘am-mîm} ‘from the peoples’ and min haaratzot {מִן־הָאֲרָצוֹת | min hā-’ă-rā-ṣōṯ} ‘from the lands’ situate Israel among nations. The relative asher {אֲשֶׁר | ’ă-šer} introduces nefotzotem bam {נְפוֹצוֹתֶם בָּם | nə-p̄ō-ṣō-ṯem bām} ‘where you have been scattered among them.’ The final triplet—beyad khazakah {בְּיָד חֲזָקָה | bə-yāḏ ḥă-zā-qāh} ‘by a mighty hand,’ uvizroa netuyah {וּבִזְרוֹעַ נְטוּיָה | û-ḇiz-rō-‘a nə-ṭû-yāh} ‘and by an outstretched arm,’ uvechemah shefukhah {וּבְחֵמָה שְׁפוּכָה | û-ḇə-ḥē-māh šə-p̄û-ḵāh} ‘and by fury poured out’—uses parallelism to heighten the narrative of divine deliverance and judgment. |