Jeremiah 12:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the pride of the Jordan?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י אֶת־רַגְלִ֥ים ׀ רַ֙צְתָּה֙ וַיַּלְא֔וּךָ וְאֵ֥יךְ תְּתַֽחֲרֶ֖ה אֶת־הַסּוּסִ֑ים וּבְאֶ֤רֶץ שָׁלוֹם֙ אַתָּ֣ה בוֹטֵ֔חַ וְאֵ֥יךְ תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה בִּגְא֥וֹן הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃

Transliteration

For ʾet-raglîm you-raṣtāh wa-they-yalʾûkā wə-how you-tətaḥăreh ʾet-hassûsîm û-in-ʾereṣ šālôm you bôṭēaḥ wə-how you-taʿăśeh in-gəʾôn hayyardēn

Grammar Details

*ʾet*: direct object marker
*raglîm*: noun, masculine plural - footmen/those on foot
*raṣtāh*: verb, Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you run
*wa*: conjunction - and
*yalʾûkā*: verb, Hiphil imperfect, 3rd person plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - they weary you
*wə*: conjunction - and
*tətaḥăreh*: verb, Hithpael imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you compete/contend
*hassûsîm*: noun, masculine plural with definite article - the horses
*û*: conjunction - and
*ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine singular construct - land
*šālôm*: noun, masculine singular - peace/safety
*bôṭēaḥ*: verb, Qal participle, masculine singular - trusting/secure
*taʿăśeh*: verb, Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will do
*gəʾôn*: noun, masculine singular construct - majesty/swelling/pride
*hayyardēn*: noun, proper, masculine singular with definite article - the Jordan

Word Meanings

*raṣtāh*: run/race
*yalʾûkā*: weary you/exhaust you
*tətaḥăreh*: compete/contend/race against
*šālôm*: peace/safety/security
*bôṭēaḥ*: trusting/secure/confident
*gəʾôn hayyardēn*: majesty of Jordan/thickets of Jordan/swelling of Jordan

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Referenced Verses

Jer 49:19 : 19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that will stand before me?
Jer 50:44 : 44 Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that can stand before me?
1 Pet 4:12 : 12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you:
Heb 12:3-4 : 3 For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls. 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:
Josh 3:15 : 15 and when they that bare the ark were come unto the Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overfloweth all its banks all the time of harvest,)
1 Chr 12:15 : 15 These are they that went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
Ps 42:7 : 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Ps 69:1-2 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Prov 3:11 : 11 My son, despise not the chastening of Jehovah; Neither be weary of his reproof:
Prov 24:10 : 10 If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.
Jer 26:8 : 8 And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
Jer 36:26 : 26 And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Jehovah hid them.
Jer 38:4-6 : 4 Then the princes said unto the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death; forasmuch as he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt. 5 And Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can do anything against you. 6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

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