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Voices in the Watchtower: The Syntax of Refusal in Jeremiah 6:17
וַהֲקִמֹתִי עֲלֵיכֶם צֹפִים הַקְשִׁיבוּ לְקֹול שֹׁופָר וַיֹּאמְרוּ לֹא נַקְשִׁיב
In the sixth chapter of Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah), amid a lamentation over Judah’s persistent rebellion and God’s call to repentance, we find a verse that pulses with tension—not only theological, but grammatical. Jeremiah 6:17 presents a sequence of commands and responses that culminate in a dramatic refusal:
> וַהֲקִמֹתִי עֲלֵיכֶם צֹפִים הַקְשִׁיבוּ לְקֹול שֹׁופָר וַיֹּאמְרוּ לֹא נַקְשִׁיב׃
> “I set watchmen over you: ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen.’”… Learn Hebrew
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