Jeremiah 20:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָה֙ הָאִ֣ישׁ הַה֔וּא כֶּֽעָרִ֛ים אֲשֶׁר־הָפַ֥ךְ יְהוָ֖ה וְלֹ֣א נִחָ֑ם וְשָׁמַ֤ע זְעָקָה֙ בַּבֹּ֔קֶר וּתְרוּעָ֖ה בְּעֵ֥ת צָהֳרָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

And wəhāyāh the ʾîš the hū like ʿārîm which-hāpaḵ YHWH and not niḥām, and wəšāmaʿ zəʿāqāh in the bōqer and tərûʿāh in ʿēt ṣŏhŏrāyim.

Grammar Details

• *wəhāyāh*: waw consecutive + qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and let him be
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the man
• *hū*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - that
• *ʿārîm*: noun, feminine plural with preposition - like cities
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
• *hāpaḵ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he overthrew
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - LORD
• *niḥām*: niphal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he repented/changed his mind
• *wəšāmaʿ*: waw consecutive + qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and let him hear
• *zəʿāqāh*: noun, feminine singular - outcry/cry
• *bōqer*: noun, masculine singular with definite article and preposition - in the morning
• *tərûʿāh*: noun, feminine singular - alarm/shout
• *ʿēt*: noun, feminine singular construct - time of
• *ṣŏhŏrāyim*: noun, masculine dual - noon/midday

Word Meanings

• *ʿārîm*: cities/towns
• *hāpaḵ*: overthrew/overturned/destroyed
• *niḥām*: repented/changed his mind/relented
• *zəʿāqāh*: outcry/cry/wailing
• *tərûʿāh*: alarm/shout/war cry
• *ṣŏhŏrāyim*: noon/midday

Referenced Verses

• Jer 18:22 : 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
• Deut 29:23 : 23 [ and that] the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
• Jer 48:3-4 : 3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction! 4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
• Ezek 21:22 : 22 In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
• Hos 10:14 : 14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
• Hos 11:8 : 8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [how] shall I cast thee off, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set thee as Zeboiim? my heart is turned within me, my compassions are kindled together.
• Amos 1:14 : 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
• Amos 2:2 : 2 but I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;
• Amos 4:11 : 11 I have overthrown [cities] among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
• Jonah 3:4 : 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
• Jonah 3:9-9 : 9 Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.
• Jonah 4:2 : 2 And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, I pray thee, O Jehovah, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
• Zeph 1:16 : 16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
• Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall make a prey of them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.
• Luke 17:29 : 29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:
• 2 Pet 2:6 : 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;
• Jude 1:7 : 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like {G5125} manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
• Jer 4:19 : 19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
• Jer 18:8 : 8 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
• Jer 26:13 : 13 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Jehovah your God; and Jehovah will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
• Gen 19:24-25 : 24 Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven; 25 and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.