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title: Isaiah 65:3 — A people that provoke Me to My face continually, that sacrifice in g… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: A people that provoke Me to My face continually, that sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense upon bricks; Who acts: people, that. Isaiah 65:3 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 65:3 יְשַׁעְיָהוּ

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**Who acts:** people, that · **What happens:** provoke, sacrifice, burn · **To what, where:** Me, gardens, incense

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This is Isaiah 65:3 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — people, that — and what happens in the verse to Me, gardens, incense, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 66 chapters of Isaiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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הָעָ֗ם הַמַּכְעִיסִ֥ים אוֹתִ֛י עַל־פָּנַ֖י תָּמִ֑יד זֹֽבְחִים֙ בַּגַּנּ֔וֹת וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖ים עַל־הַלְּבֵנִֽים׃

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[A people that provoke Me to My face continually, that sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense upon bricks;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1379/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:ISA:1244
# text = הָעָ֗ם הַמַּכְעִיסִ֥ים אוֹתִ֛י עַל־פָּנַ֖י תָּמִ֑יד זֹֽבְחִים֙ בַּגַּנּ֔וֹת וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖ים עַל־הַלְּבֵנִֽים׃
# verse = ISA.65.3
1-2	הָעָ֗ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	הָ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	2	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=ISA_65:3!1|MId=o230650030011|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
2	עָ֗ם	עַם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	Gloss=people|Ref=ISA_65:3!1|MId=o230650030012|Strong=5971
3-4	הַמַּכְעִיסִ֥ים	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	הַ	הַ	SCONJ	_	_	4	mark	_	Gloss=[who].provoke|Ref=ISA_65:3!2|MId=o230650030021|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
4	מַּכְעִיסִ֥ים	כָּעַס	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Plur	2	acl:relcl	_	Gloss=to.anger|Ref=ISA_65:3!2|MId=o230650030022|Strong=3707|Frame=AA:230650030012;A0:230650030032;|Type=participle_active
5-6	אוֹתִ֛י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	אוֹת	אֵת	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	Gloss=|Ref=ISA_65:3!3|MId=o230650030031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker
6	ִ֛י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	Gloss=me|Ref=ISA_65:3!3|MId=o230650030032|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
7	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=ISA_65:3!4|MId=o230650030041|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No
8-9	פָּנַ֖י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	פָּנ	פָּנֶה	NOUN	_	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Gloss=face|Ref=ISA_65:3!5|MId=o230650030051|Strong=6440
9	ַ֖י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=my|Ref=ISA_65:3!5|MId=o230650030052|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
10	תָּמִ֑יד	תָּמִיד	ADV	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	advmod	_	Gloss=continually|Ref=ISA_65:3!6|MId=o230650030061|Strong=8548
11	זֹֽבְחִים֙	זָבַח	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur	2	appos	_	Gloss=[who].sacrifice|Ref=ISA_65:3!7|MId=o230650030071|Strong=2076|Frame=A0:230650030012;|Type=participle_active
12-14	בַּגַּנּ֔וֹת	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	14	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=ISA_65:3!8|MId=o230650030081|Strong=0871a
13	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	14	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=ISA_65:3!8|MId=o230650030081ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
14	גַּנּ֔וֹת	גַּנָּה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	11	obl	_	Gloss=gardens|Ref=ISA_65:3!8|MId=o230650030082|Strong=1593
15-16	וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖ים	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	וּֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	16	cc	_	Gloss=and.[who]|Ref=ISA_65:3!9|MId=o230650030091|Strong=2050b
16	מְקַטְּרִ֖ים	קָטַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur	11	conj	_	Gloss=make.smoke|Ref=ISA_65:3!9|MId=o230650030092|Strong=6999|Frame=A0:230650030012;|Type=participle_active
17	עַל־	עַל	ADP	_	_	19	case	_	Gloss=on|Ref=ISA_65:3!10|MId=o230650030101|Strong=5921|SpaceAfter=No
18-19	הַלְּבֵנִֽים	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	19	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=ISA_65:3!11|MId=o230650030111|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
19	לְּבֵנִֽים	לְבֵנָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	16	obl	_	Gloss=bricks|Ref=ISA_65:3!11|MId=o230650030112|Strong=3843
20	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	19	punct	_	Ref=ISA_65:3!11
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| מַּכְעִיסִים *to anger* | participle active · hiphil | ִי *me* |  |  | עָם *people* |
| זֹֽבְחִים *\[who\] sacrifice* | participle active · qal | עָם *people* |  |  |  |
| מְקַטְּרִים *make smoke* | participle active · piel | עָם *people* |  |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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עַמָא דְמַרְגְזִין עַל מֵימְרִי קֳדָמַי תְּדִירָא דָבְחִין בְּגִנָן טַעֲוָתָא וּמַסְקִין בּוּסְמַיָא עַל לִבְנַיָא:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [A people that provoke Me to My face continually, that sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense upon bricks;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1379/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:ISA:1244`.

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