| 32. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with the purpose clause le'esh {לְאֵשׁ | lə-ʾēš} ‘to fire’, followed by the passive predicate tuhi {תֻּהִי | tuḥî} ‘you shall be’. The construct damekh yihyeh betokh ha-aretz {דָּמֵךְ יִהְיֶה בְּתוֹךְ הָאָרֶץ | dā-mēḵ yih-yeh bə-ṯōḵ hā-ʾā-reṣ} ‘your blood will be in the midst of the land’ foregrounds public disgrace. The negated imperfect lo tizakheri {לֹא תִזָּכְרִי | lōʾ tiz-zā-ḵē-rî} ‘you will not be remembered’ emphasizes permanent erasure. The closing formula ki ani Yahweh dibbarti {כִּי אֲנִי יְהוָה דִּבַּרְתִּי | kî ʾă-nî Yahweh dib-bar-tî} ‘for I, the LORD, have spoken’ functions as a legal-declarative clause. The translation shifts Hebrew VSO order to English SVO and renders infinitival adjuncts as purpose phrases to preserve emphatic structure. |