Jeremiah 35:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Go, and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith Jehovah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כֹּֽה־אָמַ֞ר יְהוָ֤ה צְבָאוֹת֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הָלֹ֤ךְ וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙ לְאִ֣ישׁ יְהוּדָ֔ה וּלְיֽוֹשְׁבֵ֖י יְרֽוּשָׁלָ֑͏ִם הֲל֨וֹא תִקְח֥וּ מוּסָ֛ר לִשְׁמֹ֥עַ אֶל־דְּבָרַ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

Thus-ʾāmar yhwh ṣĕbāʾôt ʾĕlōhê yiśrāʾēl hālōk wĕʾāmartā to-ʾîš yĕhûdāh ûlĕyôšĕbê yĕrûšālā͏im will you not tiqḥû mûsār lišmōaʿ to-dĕbāray nĕʾum-yhwh.

Grammar Details

• *ʾāmar*: perfect verb, 3rd person masculine singular - he said
• *yhwh*: divine name - YHWH/LORD
• *ṣĕbāʾôt*: noun, masculine plural - hosts/armies
• *ʾĕlōhê*: noun, masculine plural construct - God of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *hālōk*: infinitive absolute - going
• *wĕʾāmartā*: conjunction + perfect verb, 2nd person masculine singular - and you shall say
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular construct - men of
• *yĕhûdāh*: proper noun - Judah
• *ûlĕyôšĕbê*: conjunction + preposition + participle, masculine plural construct - and to inhabitants of
• *yĕrûšālā͏im*: proper noun - Jerusalem
• *tiqḥû*: imperfect verb, 2nd person masculine plural - you will take
• *mûsār*: noun, masculine singular - instruction/discipline
• *lišmōaʿ*: preposition + infinitive construct - to listen
• *dĕbāray*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my words
• *nĕʾum*: noun, masculine singular construct - declaration of

Word Meanings

• *ʾāmar*: said/spoke/declared
• *ṣĕbāʾôt*: hosts/armies/of heavenly forces
• *hālōk*: going/walk/proceed
• *ʾîš*: men/people of
• *tiqḥû*: you will take/receive/accept
• *mûsār*: instruction/discipline/correction/warning
• *lišmōaʿ*: to listen/hear/obey
• *nĕʾum*: declaration/oracle/utterance of

Referenced Verses

• Jer 5:3 : 3 O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
• Jer 32:33 : 33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
• Jer 6:8-9 : 8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited. 9 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again thy hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets. 10 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of Jehovah is become unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
• Isa 28:9-9 : 9 Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? 10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. 11 Nay, but by [men of] strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people; 12 to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
• Isa 42:23 : 23 Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come?
• Ps 32:8-9 : 8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee. 9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, [Else] they will not come near unto thee.
• Prov 8:10 : 10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold.
• Prov 19:20 : 20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
• Jer 9:12 : 12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?
• Heb 12:25 : 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned [them] on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away from him that [warneth] from heaven: