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בְּדָמֵ֨ךְ אֲשֶׁר־שָׁפַ֜כְתְּ אָשַׁ֗מְתְּ וּבְגִלּוּלַ֤יִךְ אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂית֙ טָמֵ֔את וַתַּקְרִ֣יבִי יָמַ֔יִךְ וַתָּבֹ֖אוּ עַד־שְׁנֹותָ֑יִךְ עַל־כֵּ֗ן נְתַתִּ֤יךְ חֶרְפָּה֙ לַגֹּויִ֔ם וְקַלָּסָ֖ה לְכָל־הָאֲרָצֹֽות׃ In the prophetic indictment of Yechezqel 22:4, God delivers a blistering judgment against Jerusalem. This verse is part of a broader allegory where Jerusalem is portrayed as an unfaithful wife, guilty of idolatry, bloodshed, and moral decay. Yet beneath its vivid imagery lies a subtle but powerful grammatical structure — one that binds together guilt, time, and divine retribution through a unique syntactic construction. The phrase בְּדָמֵךְ אֲשֶׁר־שָׁפַכְתְּ אָשַׁמְתְּ — “in your blood that you have shed, you are guilty” — introduces a rare Hebrew construction known as the instrumental preposition + relative clause + predicate verb.… Learn Hebrew