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Let It Come! — Jussives, Sarcasm, and the Grammar of Provocation
הָאֹמְרִ֗ים יְמַהֵ֧ר יָחִ֛ישָׁה מַעֲשֵׂ֖הוּ לְמַ֣עַן נִרְאֶ֑ה וְתִקְרַ֣ב וְתָבֹ֗ואָה עֲצַ֛ת קְדֹ֥ושׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וְנֵדָֽעָה׃
The Voice of the Scoffer
Isaiah 5:19 places us in the mouth of the arrogant: those who dare the God of Yisra’el to act, mocking divine delay and justice. But the verse doesn’t merely quote their defiance — it mirrors it in grammar. The Hebrew is laced with jussive verbs, cohortative structures, and rhetorical inversion. Their words are arranged in commands, not prayers — in provocations, not petitions. The syntax is deliberate: the scoffer disguises rebellion as eagerness, and grammar becomes the very vessel of blasphemy.… Learn Hebrew
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