| 29. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with two parallel prepositional constructions: bachazot {בָּחֲזוֹת | bā-ḥă-zôt} ‘in seeing’ and b’kesem {בְּקֶסֶם | bə-qé-sem} ‘by divination’, each governing the benefactive pronoun לָךְ {לָךְ | lāḵ} ‘for you’. The nouns shav {שָׁוְא | šāw} ‘vanity’ and kazav {כָּזָב | kā-zāḇ} ‘deceit’ form a chiastic parallel that intensifies the charge of false prophecy. The infinitive latet {לָתֵת | lā-têt} ‘to give’ with othekha {אוֹתְךָ | ʾōṯ-ḵā} ‘you’ introduces a result clause leading into a three-term construct chain el-tsavarei {אֶל־צַוָּארֵי | ʾel-tsavārei} ‘to the necks of’, challey {חַלְלֵי | ḥal-lê} ‘slain of’, and reshaim {רְשָׁעִים | rə-shā-ʿîm} ‘the wicked’. The relative clause with asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} ‘who’ and ba {בָּא | bāʾ} ‘has come’ modifies yomam {יוֹמָם | yō-mām} ‘his day’, followed by b’et {בְּעֵת | bə-ʿēt} ‘at the time of’ combined with avon {עֲוֹן | ʿā-vōn} ‘iniquity’ and keitz {קֵץ | kēts} ‘end’, marking the eschatological culmination of guilt. The layering of infinitives, prepositions, and construct relations underscores a progression from deception to divine judgment. |