| 19. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with lo {לֹא | lō} marking categorical negation. It employs synonymous parallelism by pairing ish {אִישׁ | ʾîš} ‘man’ with ben-ʾā-ḏām {בֶן־אָדָם | ben-ʾā-ḏām} ‘son of man’, each followed by a vav-consecutive + imperfect clause: viyikazzev {וִיכַזֵּב | wî-yixaẓ-ẓēḇ} ‘would lie’ (Piel imperfect) and veyitneham {וְיִתְנֶחָם | wə-yit-ne-ḥām} ‘would relent’ (Hitpael imperfect), both negated to underscore divine freedom from deceit or regret. The demonstrative ha-hûʾ {הַהוּא | ha-hûʾ} sets up two chiastic questions. The sequence of perfect verbs with vav-consecutive—ʾāmar {אָמַר | ʾā-mar} ‘has spoken’ and we-dibbēr {וְדִבֵּר | wə-dib-bēr} ‘has declared’—followed by imperfect clauses yaʿăśeh {יַעֲשֶה | ya-ʿă-śeh} ‘will do’ and yiqqimennāh {יִקִּימֶנָּה | yiq-qim-en-nāh} ‘will establish it’, reinforces the inseparability of divine word and action. |