| 2. Linguistic Exegesis The conditional particle ki {כִּֽי־ | kî} ‘when’ introduces a hypothetical scenario followed by the question netze {נֵצֵ֑א | nē-ṣēʾ} ‘go out.’ The prophetic formula koh amar {כֹּֽה־אָמַ֣ר | kō ʾā-mar} ‘thus says’ establishes Yahweh {יְהוָ֗ה | Yə-hō-wāh} as speaker. The relative particle asher {אֲשֶׁ֨ר | ʾă-šer} with lamed-prepositional phrases assigns destinies in a distributive parallelism, and the repetition of each phrase underscores inevitability. English retains Hebrew’s subject–verb–object order and renders the verbs as definitive outcomes to preserve the rhythmic structure. |