Jeremiah 21:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּפָקַדְתִּ֧י עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם כִּפְרִ֥י מַעַלְלֵיכֶ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וְהִצַּ֤תִּי אֵשׁ֙ בְּיַעְרָ֔הּ וְאָכְלָ֖ה כָּל־סְבִיבֶֽיהָ׃

Transliteration

And pāqadtî against you according to the pĕrî maʿalĕlêkem, nĕʾum-yhwh; and hiṣṣattî ʾēš in her yaʿrāh, and ʾākĕlāh all sĕbîbeyhā.

Grammar Details

• *ûpāqadtî*: conjunction with verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - and I will punish
• *ʿălêkem*: preposition with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - against you
• *kiprî*: preposition with noun, masculine, singular, construct - according to the fruit of
• *maʿalĕlêkem*: noun, masculine, plural construct with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your deeds
• *nĕʾum*: noun, masculine, singular, construct - declaration of
• *yhwh*: proper noun - the LORD
• *wĕhiṣṣattî*: conjunction with verb, hiphil perfect, 1st person singular - and I will kindle
• *ʾēš*: noun, feminine, singular - fire
• *bĕyaʿrāh*: preposition with noun, masculine, singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - in her forest
• *wĕʾākĕlāh*: conjunction with verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - and it will devour
• *kol*: noun, masculine, singular, construct - all of
• *sĕbîbeyhā*: noun, masculine, plural construct with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - her surroundings

Word Meanings

• *pāqadtî*: I will punish/visit/attend to
• *pĕrî*: fruit/result/outcome
• *maʿalĕlêkem*: your deeds/practices
• *nĕʾum*: declaration/utterance/oracle
• *hiṣṣattî*: I will kindle/set on fire
• *yaʿrāh*: her forest/thicket/wooded area
• *ʾākĕlāh*: it will devour/consume
• *sĕbîbeyhā*: her surroundings/environs

Referenced Verses

• Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Say ye of the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him.
• 2 Chr 36:19 : 19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
• Prov 1:31 : 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
• Jer 32:19 : 19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
• Jer 52:13 : 13 and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.
• Ezek 20:46-48 : 46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop [thy word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South; 47 and say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt thereby. 48 And all flesh shall see that I, Jehovah, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.
• Jer 9:25 : 25 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will punish all them that are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:
• Jer 17:10 : 10 I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
• Isa 10:18-19 : 18 And he will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth. 19 And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.
• Isa 24:21 : 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
• 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 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 6:29 : 29 The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
• Isa 10:12 : 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
• Jer 22:7 : 7 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.
• Jer 11:22 : 22 therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;
• Zech 11:1 : 1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
• Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.