Jeremiah 22:7

American Standard Version (1901)

And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons; and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

׃22 7 וְקִדַּשְׁתִּ֥י עָלֶ֛יךָ מַשְׁחִתִ֖ים אִ֣ישׁ וְכֵלָ֑יו וְכָֽרְתוּ֙ מִבְחַ֣ר אֲרָזֶ֔יךָ וְהִפִּ֖ילוּ עַל־הָאֵֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

And qiddaštî against you mašḥitîm, ʾîš and kēlāyw, and kārᵉtû mibḥar ʾărāzeykā and hippîlû upon hāʾēš.

Grammar Details

• *wᵉ-qiddaštî*: conjunction + perfect, 1st singular with waw consecutive, piel - and I will consecrate
• *ʿāleykā*: preposition with 2nd masculine singular suffix - against you
• *mašḥitîm*: participle, masculine plural, hiphil - destroyers
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man/each
• *wᵉ-kēlāyw*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - and his tools/weapons
• *wᵉ-kārᵉtû*: conjunction + perfect, 3rd common plural with waw consecutive, qal - and they will cut down
• *mibḥar*: noun, masculine singular construct - choice of
• *ʾărāzeykā*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your cedars
• *wᵉ-hippîlû*: conjunction + perfect, 3rd common plural with waw consecutive, hiphil - and they will cast
• *ʿal-hā-ʾēš*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine singular - upon the fire

Word Meanings

• *qiddaštî*: I will consecrate/sanctify/set apart
• *mašḥitîm*: destroyers/ravagers
• *ʾîš*: man/each one
• *kēlāyw*: his tools/implements/weapons
• *kārᵉtû*: they will cut down/cut off
• *mibḥar*: choice/best/select
• *hippîlû*: they will cast/throw/fell

Referenced Verses

• Isa 10:33-34 : 33 Behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will lop the boughs with terror: and the high of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low. 34 And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
• Isa 37:24 : 24 By thy servants hast thou defied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;
• Jer 4:6-7 : 6 Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. 7 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
• Jer 21:14 : 14 And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.
• Isa 13:3-5 : 3 I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones. 4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts is mustering the host for the battle. 5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
• Ezek 9:1-7 : 1 Then he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause ye them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. 2 And behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lieth toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. And they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar. 3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side. 4 And Jehovah said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof. 5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye through the city after him, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity; 6 slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house. 7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and smote in the city.
• Zech 11:1 : 1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
• Matt 22:7 : 7 But the king was wroth; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
• Isa 10:3-7 : 3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? 4 They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 5 Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation! 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.
• Isa 27:10-11 : 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
• Isa 54:16-17 : 16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the fire of coals, and bringeth forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. 17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah, and their righteousness which is of me, saith Jehovah.
• Jer 50:20-23 : 20 In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant. 21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: slay and utterly destroy after them, saith Jehovah, and do according to all that I have commanded thee. 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
• Jer 5:15 : 15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.