Jeremiah 4:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מֵעַ֣י ׀ מֵעַ֨י ׀ *אחולה **אוֹחִ֜ילָה קִיר֥וֹת לִבִּ֛י הֹֽמֶה־לִּ֥י לִבִּ֖י לֹ֣א אַחֲרִ֑ישׁ כִּ֣י ק֤וֹל שׁוֹפָר֙ *שמעתי **שָׁמַ֣עַתְּ נַפְשִׁ֔י תְּרוּעַ֖ת מִלְחָמָֽה׃

Transliteration

My mēʿay, my mēʿay, I ʾôḥîlāh! The qîrôt of my libbî! hōmeh to me my libbî! Not ʾaḥărîš! For qôl šôpār šāmaʿat my napšî, tərûʿat milḥāmāh

Grammar Details

• *mēʿay*: masculine plural noun with 1st singular suffix - my bowels/inner parts
• *ʾôḥîlāh*: hiphil imperfect cohortative, 1st singular - I writhe in pain
• *qîrôt*: feminine plural noun, construct - walls of
• *libbî*: masculine singular noun with 1st singular suffix - my heart
• *hōmeh*: qal participle, masculine singular - pounding/making tumult
• *ʾaḥărîš*: hiphil imperfect, 1st singular - I will keep silence
• *qôl*: masculine singular noun, construct - sound of
• *šôpār*: masculine singular noun - ram's horn/trumpet
• *šāmaʿat*: qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - has heard
• *napšî*: feminine singular noun with 1st singular suffix - my soul
• *tərûʿat*: feminine singular noun, construct - alarm of
• *milḥāmāh*: feminine singular noun - war/battle

Word Meanings

• *mēʿay*: bowels/inner parts/inward feelings
• *ʾôḥîlāh*: writhe in pain/am in anguish/wait anxiously
• *qîrôt*: walls/sides
• *libbî*: my heart/mind/inner self
• *hōmeh*: pounding/making tumult/raging
• *ʾaḥărîš*: keep silence/be still/hold my peace
• *qôl*: sound/voice/noise
• *šôpār*: ram's horn/trumpet/shofar
• *šāmaʿat*: heard/listened to/heeded
• *napšî*: my soul/life/self
• *tərûʿat*: alarm/war cry/battle shout
• *milḥāmāh*: war/battle/fighting

Referenced Verses

• Isa 16:11 : 11 Wherefore my heart soundeth like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-heres.
• Isa 22:4 : 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Hab 3:16 : 16 I heard, and my body trembled, My lips quivered at the voice; Rottenness entereth into my bones, and I tremble in my place; Because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, For the coming up of the people that invadeth us.
• Jer 9:1 : 1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
• Jer 9:10 : 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone.
• Isa 15:5 : 5 My heart crieth out for Moab; her nobles [flee] unto Zoar, to Eglath - shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.
• Isa 21:3 : 3 Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
• Lam 3:48-51 : 48 Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, 50 Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven. 51 Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
• Dan 7:15 : 15 As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
• Dan 7:28 : 28 Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my countenance was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
• Dan 8:27 : 27 And I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days; then I rose up, and did the king's business: and I wondered at the vision, but none understood it.
• Amos 3:6 : 6 Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shall evil befall a city, and Jehovah hath not done it?
• Jer 4:5 : 5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.
• Jer 4:21 : 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
• Zeph 1:15-16 : 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, 16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
• Luke 19:41-42 : 41 And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, If thou hadst known in this {G4675} day, even thou, the things which belong unto {G4675} peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
• Rom 9:2-3 : 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
• Rom 10:1 : 1 Brethren, my heart's desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved.
• Gal 4:19 : 19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until {G3739} Christ be formed in you—
• Jer 13:17 : 17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is taken captive.
• Jer 14:17-18 : 17 And thou shalt say this word unto them, Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound. 18 If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, they that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
• Jer 20:9 : 9 And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot [contain].
• Jer 23:9 : 9 Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of his holy words.
• Jer 48:31-32 : 31 Therefore will I wail for Moab; yea, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir-heres shall they mourn. 32 With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah: thy branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage the destroyer is fallen.
• Lam 1:16 : 16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.
• Lam 2:11 : 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
• Gen 49:6 : 6 O my soul, come not thou into their council; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they hocked [ an ox.]
• Num 10:9 : 9 And when ye go to war in your land against the adversary that oppresseth you, then ye shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
• Judg 5:21 : 21 The river Kishon swept them away, That ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength.
• Ps 16:2 : 2 [ O my soul], thou hast said unto Jehovah, Thou art my Lord: I have no good beyond thee.
• Ps 42:5-6 : 5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And [why] art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him [For] the help of his countenance. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
• Ps 103:1 : 1 [ A Psalm of David.] Bless Jehovah, O my soul; And all that is within me, [bless] his holy name.
• Ps 116:7 : 7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; For Jehovah hath dealt bountifully with thee.
• Ps 119:53 : 53 Hot indignation hath taken hold upon me, Because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
• Ps 119:136 : 136 Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law.
• Ps 146:1 : 1 Praise ye Jehovah. Praise Jehovah, O my soul.