| 4. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with the prepositional phrase becha {בְּךָ | bə-ḵā} ‘in You’, foregrounding direct trust in the divine presence. The verb batachu {בָּטְחוּ | ḇā-ṭə-ḥū} appears twice in parallelism with avoteinu {אֲבוֹתֵינוּ | ʾă-ḇō-ṯê-nū} ‘our fathers’, intensifying the repeated act of trust. The prefixed vav in vattepaltemo {וַתְּפַלְּטֵמוֹ | wa-ttə-pal-lə-ṭê-mō}, a Piel imperfect with consecutive vav, underscores the efficacy of the deliverance, with the suffix -mo tracing back to avoteinu. English renders the Hebrew verb-subject-object sequence into subject-verb-object to uphold clarity while preserving the Hebrew’s climactic build, culminating in the divine act of redemption. |