| 2. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with the temporal interrogative ad-anah {עַד־אָ֤נָה | ʿaḏ-ʾā-nāh} ‘until how long?’, a confrontational question that frames the speaker’s impatience. The main clause uses tesimun {תְּשִׂימ֣וּן | tə-śi-mūn} with the object kintsei le-milin {קִנְצֵ֣י לְמִלִּ֑ין | qin-ṣê lə-mil-lîn}, an idiomatic expression meaning to set “end-points” for speech, that is, to stop talking and conclude. The second half shifts to two sequential imperfects: tavinu {תָּ֝בִ֗ינוּ | tā-ḇî-nū} ‘you will understand’ followed by veakhar nedabber {וְאַחַ֥ר נְדַבֵּֽר | wə-ʾa-ḥar nə-dab-bēr} ‘and afterward we will speak’, creating a progression in which comprehension is treated as the necessary precursor to continued dialogue. English renders the first clause as a rhetorical rebuke and the second as a directive-plus-result sequence (“understand … then we will speak”), preserving the discourse logic while expressing the idiom naturally. |