| 3. Linguistic Exegesis The clause opens with ve-hayah {וְהָיָה | wə-hā-yāh} ‘and it will be,’ a formula that introduces a sure future outcome. A temporal frame follows: beyom haniach Yahweh lekha {בְּיוֹם הָנִיחַ יְהוָה לְךָ | bə-yôm hā-nîaḥ Yə-hō-wāh lə-kā} ‘in the day the LORD causes rest for you,’ where the Hiphil infinitive haniach highlights Yahweh as the effective agent who produces rest rather than merely observing it. The verse then unfolds as a triad of coordinated prepositional phrases marked by min ‘from’: me-atzbekha {מֵעָצְבְּךָ | mē-ʿāṣbəḵā} ‘from your pain,’ u-meragzekha {וּמֵרָגְזֶךָ | ū-mē-rāgzeḵā} ‘and from your agitation,’ and u-min-ha-avodah ha-kashah {וּמִן־הָעֲבֹדָה הַקָּשָׁה | ū-min-hā-ʿăvōdāh haq-qāšāh} ‘and from the harsh labor.’ This stacked parallelism gives cumulative force, portraying rest as comprehensive release from inner distress and external oppression. The relative clause asher ubbad-bakh {אֲשֶׁר עֻבַּד־בָּךְ | ʾăšer ʿubbad-bāḵ} ‘that was worked on you’ uses the Pual to emphasize enforced, passive experience: the labor was not chosen but inflicted. English is best rendered with an initial time clause and repeated “from” phrases to preserve the Hebrew rhythm and the scope of deliverance. |