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וְנָתַתִּ֨י רוּחִ֤י בָכֶם֙ וִחְיִיתֶ֔ם וְהִנַּחְתִּ֥י אֶתְכֶ֖ם עַל־אַדְמַתְכֶ֑ם וִידַעְתֶּ֞ם כִּי־אֲנִ֧י יְהוָ֛ה דִּבַּ֥רְתִּי וְעָשִׂ֖יתִי נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your land; and you shall know that I am YHWH—I have spoken, and I have done it, declares YHWH. Explanation of Feature This verse from Ezekiel 37:14 highlights the use of perfect verbs in prophetic speech to express future certainty and fulfilled promise—a common prophetic technique in Biblical Hebrew. Verbs like דִּבַּרְתִּי (“I have spoken”) and עָשִׂיתִי (“I have done”) appear in the perfect tense, but contextually refer to future actions that are so certain they are spoken of as if already completed.… Learn Hebrew