H1869–דָּרַךְ–da.rakh

Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

דָּרְכ֥וּ da.re.Khu “they bend”

You will put your foot on the lion and the snake; the young lion and the great snake will be crushed under your feet.

תִּדְרֹ֑ךְ tid.Rokh “you will tread”

Guiding them in the right way, so that they might come into the town of their resting-place.

וַ֭יַּֽדְרִיכֵם (יַּֽדְרִיכֵ) i.yad.ri.khe “he led”

Make me go in the way of your teachings; for they are my delight.

הַ֭דְרִיכֵנִי (הַ֭דְרִיכֵ) Had.ri.khe. “lead”

I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.

הִ֝דְרַכְתִּ֗יךָ (הִ֝דְרַכְתִּ֗י) hid.rakh.Ti. “I led”

Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.

דְּרֻכ֑וֹת de.ru.Khot “[are] bent”

And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea completely dry; and with his burning wind his hand will be stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet.

וְהִדְרִ֖יךְ (הִדְרִ֖יךְ) hid.Rikh “he will make walk”

And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.

יִדְרֹ֥ךְ yid.Rokh “he will tread”הַדֹּרֵ֖ךְ (דֹּרֵ֖ךְ) do.Rekh “treader”

For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.

דְּרוּכָ֔ה de.ru.Khah “bent”

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

אַדְרִיכֵ֑ם (אַדְרִיכֵ֑) 'ad.ri.Khe “I will guide”

The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.

מַדְרִֽיכֲךָ֖ (מַדְרִֽיכֲ) mad.ri.kha. “[who] leads”

They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.

דֹּרֵ֣ךְ do.Rekh “[one who] treads”

Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes?

כְּדֹרֵ֥ךְ (דֹרֵ֥ךְ) do.Rekh “[one who] treads”

I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red.

דָּרַ֣כְתִּי da.Rakh.ti “I have trodden”וְאֶדְרְכֵ֣ם (אֶדְרְכֵ֣) 'ed.re.Khe “I trod”

Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

וַֽיַּדְרְכ֤וּ (יַּדְרְכ֤וּ) i.yad.re.Khu “they have bent”

So, as a prophet, give out these words among them, and say to them, The voice of the Lord will be sounding like a lion from on high; he will send out his voice from his holy place, like the loud voice of a lion, against his flock; he will give a cry, lik

כְּדֹרְכִ֣ים (דֹרְכִ֣ים) do.re.Khim “[those who] tread”

Go up, you horses; go rushing on, you carriages of war; go out, you men of war: Cush and Put, gripping the body-cover, and the Ludim, with bent bows.

דֹּ֥רְכֵי Do.re.khei “<of> [those who] bend”

All joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field and for the land of Moab; I have made the wine come to an end from the crushing vessels: no longer will the grapes be crushed with the sound of glad voices.

יִדְרֹ֣ךְ yid.Rokh “anyone will tread”

Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen; let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord.

דֹּ֣רְכֵי Do.re.khei “[those who] bend”

Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord,

דֹּ֨רְכֵי Do.re.khei “[those who] bend”

Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.

יִדְרֹ֤ךְ yid.Rokh “he bend”הַדֹּרֵךְ֙ (דֹּרֵךְ֙) do.reKh “[one] bending”

For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain-floor when it is stamped down; before long, the time of her grain-cutting will come.

הִדְרִיכָ֑הּ (הִדְרִיכָ֑) hid.ri.Kha “[when] someone treads down”

The Lord has made sport of all my men of war in me, he has got men together against me to send destruction on my young men: the virgin daughter of Judah has been crushed like grapes under the feet of the Lord.

דָּרַ֣ךְ da.Rakh “he has trodden”

His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.

דָּרַ֨ךְ da.Rakh “he has bent”

With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

דָּרַ֤ךְ da.Rakh “he has bent”