| 13. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with a construct chain, kheylekha {חֵילְךָ | ḥêl-ḵā} ‘your wealth’ and veotzrotekha {וְאוֹצְרוֹתֶיךָ | wə-ʾōṣ-rō-ṯe-ḵā} ‘your treasures’, establishing the objects of divine judgment. The prepositional infinitive lavaz {לָבַז | lā-ḇāz} ‘to plunder’ functions as the purpose complement to the imperfect etten {אֶתֵּן | ʾet-ten} ‘I will give’, indicating a determined future act. The particle lo {לֹא | lō} negates any compensation, and the phrase bimkhir {בִּמְחִיר | bi-ṃ-khîr} ‘for a price’ underscores the total absence of payment. Two parallel uvəkhāl constructions—uvəkhāl chattootekha {וּבְכָל־חַטֹּאותֶיךָ | ū-və-khāl ḥaṭ-ṭō-′ō-tē-khā} ‘because of all your sins’ and uvəkhāl gevulekha {וּבְכָל־גְּבוּלֶיךָ | ū-və-khāl gə-vu-lē-khā} ‘throughout all your borders’—define respectively the basis and the scope of the judgment. The asyndetic listing with repeated uvəkhāl heightens the sense of total, unmitigated loss. |