Jeremiah 10:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

O Jehovah, correct me, but in measure: not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יַסְּרֵ֥נִי יְהוָ֖ה אַךְ־בְּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט אַל־בְּאַפְּךָ֖ פֶּן־תַּמְעִטֵֽנִי׃

Transliteration

Yassərēnî YHWH only-in-mišpāṭ ʾal-in-ʾappəḵā lest-tamʿiṭēnî

Grammar Details

*Yassərēnî*: piel imperative, masculine singular + 1st singular suffix - correct me
*mišpāṭ*: noun, masculine singular - judgment/justice
*ʾappəḵā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your anger
*tamʿiṭēnî*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine singular + 1st singular suffix - you diminish me

Word Meanings

*Yassərēnî*: correct me/discipline me/chasten me
*mišpāṭ*: judgment/justice/ordinance/due measure
*ʾappəḵā*: your anger/wrath/face/nostrils
*tamʿiṭēnî*: you diminish me/reduce me/make me few/bring me to nothing

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Ps 6:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger, Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Ps 38:1 : 1 A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Jer 30:11 : 11 For I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to save thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee, but I will not make a full end of thee; but I will correct thee in measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished.
Hab 3:2 : 2 O Jehovah, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid: O Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years; In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.
Job 6:18 : 18 The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
Isa 40:23 : 23 that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Isa 41:11-12 : 11 Behold, all they that are incensed against thee shall be put to shame and confounded: they that strive with thee shall be as nothing, and shall perish. 12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contend with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.

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