Jeremiah 23:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, the tempest of Jehovah, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִנֵּ֣ה ׀ סַעֲרַ֣ת יְהוָ֗ה חֵמָה֙ יָֽצְאָ֔ה וְסַ֖עַר מִתְחוֹלֵ֑ל עַ֛ל רֹ֥אשׁ רְשָׁעִ֖ים יָחֽוּל׃

Transliteration

Hinnēh saʿărat YHWH ḥēmâ yāṣəʾâ, and-saʿar mitḥôlēl; upon rōʾš rəšāʿîm yāḥûl.

Grammar Details

• *Hinnēh*: interjection - behold/look
• *saʿărat*: noun, feminine singular construct - tempest/storm of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *ḥēmâ*: noun, feminine singular - wrath/fury
• *yāṣəʾâ*: qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - has gone forth
• *saʿar*: noun, masculine singular - whirlwind/storm
• *mitḥôlēl*: hithpolel participle, masculine singular - swirling/whirling
• *rōʾš*: noun, masculine singular construct - head of
• *rəšāʿîm*: adjective, masculine plural - wicked ones
• *yāḥûl*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it will whirl/swirl

Word Meanings

• *saʿărat*: tempest/storm/whirlwind
• *ḥēmâ*: wrath/fury/rage/poison
• *mitḥôlēl*: swirling/whirling/writhing
• *rəšāʿîm*: wicked ones/criminals/guilty ones

Referenced Verses

• Jer 25:32 : 32 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
• Jer 30:23 : 23 Behold, the tempest of Jehovah, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.
• 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;
• Nah 1:3-6 : 3 Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear [the guilty]: Jehovah hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
• Zech 9:14 : 14 And Jehovah shall be seen over them; and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
• Ps 58:9 : 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
• Prov 1:27 : 27 When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.
• Prov 10:25 : 25 When the whirlwind passeth, the wicked is no more; But the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
• Isa 5:25-28 : 25 Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly. 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: 28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind:
• Isa 21:1 : 1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
• Isa 40:24 : 24 Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.
• Isa 66:15-16 : 15 For, behold, Jehovah will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire will Jehovah execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.
• Jer 4:11 : 11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;