Jeremiah 23:40

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנָתַתִּ֥י עֲלֵיכֶ֖ם חֶרְפַּ֣ת עוֹלָ֑ם וּכְלִמּ֣וּת עוֹלָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֖ר לֹ֥א תִשָּׁכֵֽחַ

Transliteration

And-nātattî upon-you ḥerpat ʿôlām and-kĕlimmût ʿôlām which not tiššākēaḥ

Grammar Details

• *nātattî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I will give
• *ḥerpat*: construct noun, feminine singular - reproach of
• *ʿôlām*: noun, masculine singular - everlasting/forever
• *kĕlimmût*: construct noun, feminine singular - disgrace of
• *tiššākēaḥ*: niphal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - it will be forgotten

Word Meanings

• *nātattî*: I will give/I will place/I will put
• *ḥerpat*: reproach of/disgrace of/scorn of
• *ʿôlām*: everlasting/forever/perpetual
• *kĕlimmût*: disgrace of/humiliation of/shame of
• *tiššākēaḥ*: it will be forgotten/it will pass from memory

Referenced Verses

• Jer 20:11 : 11 But Jehovah is with me as a mighty one [and] a terrible: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly put to shame, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.
• Ezek 5:14-15 : 14 Moreover I will make thee a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by. 15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments on thee in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Jehovah, have spoken it;)
• Jer 42:18 : 18 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: As mine anger and my wrath hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt; and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
• Jer 44:8-9 : 8 in that ye provoke me unto anger with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? 9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? 10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers. 11 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah. 12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an execration, [and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
• Jer 24:9 : 9 I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
• Dan 9:16 : 16 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy wrath, I pray thee, be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are round about us.
• Dan 12:2 : 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Hos 4:7 : 7 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.
• Deut 28:37 : 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee away.