With reference to the pronouns for Jerusalem in this verse, they start out in the second feminine singular, but change to the third common plural in the last two lines. This shift may be awkward in English, but occurs frequently in the Hebrew text.1
With reference to the pronouns for Jerusalem in this verse, they start out in the second feminine singular, but change to the third common plural in the last two lines. This shift may be awkward in English, but occurs frequently in the Hebrew text.1
7 I said, ‘Surely you will fear me; you will accept correction. Then your dwelling would not be cut off according to all that I have appointed against you.’ But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt.