Jeremiah 42:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For ye have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for ye sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our God; and according unto all that Jehovah our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י *התעתים **הִתְעֵיתֶם֮ בְּנַפְשֽׁוֹתֵיכֶם֒ כִּֽי־אַתֶּ֞ם שְׁלַחְתֶּ֣ם אֹתִ֗י אֶל־יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶם֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הִתְפַּלֵּ֣ל בַּעֲדֵ֔נוּ אֶל־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ וּכְכֹל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יֹאמַ֜ר יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֵ֛ינוּ כֵּ֥ן הַגֶּד־לָ֖נוּ וְעָשִֽׂינוּ׃

Transliteration

For you-hiṯʿêṯem in-nap̄šôṯêḵem, for-you šəlaḥtem [direct object marker]-me to-YHWH ʾĕlōhêḵem lêʾmōr, "hiṯpallêl for-us to-YHWH ʾĕlōhênû, and-according-to-all which yōʾmar YHWH ʾĕlōhênû so haggeḏ-to-us and-we-will-ʿāśînû.

Grammar Details

*hiṯʿêṯem*: Hiphil perfect 2nd person masculine plural - you have deceived
*nap̄šôṯêḵem*: feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your souls/selves
*šəlaḥtem*: Qal perfect 2nd person masculine plural - you sent
*YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
*ʾĕlōhêḵem*: masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your God
*lêʾmōr*: Qal infinitive construct - saying
*hiṯpallêl*: Hithpael imperative masculine singular - pray
*ʾĕlōhênû*: masculine plural noun + 1st person plural suffix - our God
*yōʾmar*: Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he will say
*haggeḏ*: Hiphil imperative masculine singular - tell
*ʿāśînû*: Qal perfect 1st person plural - we will do

Word Meanings

*hiṯʿêṯem*: you have deceived/led astray/erred
*nap̄šôṯêḵem*: your souls/selves/lives
*šəlaḥtem*: you sent/dispatched
*lêʾmōr*: saying/declaring
*hiṯpallêl*: pray/intercede/supplicate
*yōʾmar*: he will say/speak/command
*haggeḏ*: tell/declare/report
*ʿāśînû*: we will do/perform/act

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Referenced Verses

Num 16:38 : 38 even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before Jehovah; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
Ps 18:44 : 44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.
Ps 65:3 : 3 Iniquities prevail against me: As for our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.
Jer 3:10 : 10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith Jehovah.
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.
Jer 42:2 : 2 and said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we pray thee, our supplication be presented before thee, and pray for us unto Jehovah thy God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:
Ezek 14:3-4 : 3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them? 4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel that taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I Jehovah will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;
Ezek 33:31 : 31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but do them not; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their gain.
Matt 22:15-18 : 15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might ensnare him in [his] talk. 16 And they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one: for thou regardest not the person of men. 17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? 18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why make ye trial of me, ye hypocrites?
Matt 22:35 : 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, trying him:
Gal 6:7 : 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Jas 1:22 : 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.

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