Jeremiah 5:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat; they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds; they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall beat down thy fortified cities, wherein thou trustest, with the sword.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאָכַ֨ל קְצִֽירְךָ֜ וְלַחְמֶ֗ךָ יֹאכְלוּ֙ בָּנֶ֣יךָ וּבְנוֹתֶ֔יךָ יֹאכַ֤ל צֹאנְךָ֙ וּבְקָרֶ֔ךָ יֹאכַ֥ל גַּפְנְךָ֖ וּתְאֵנָתֶ֑ךָ יְרֹשֵׁ֞שׁ עָרֵ֣י מִבְצָרֶ֗יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַתָּ֛ה בּוֹטֵ֥חַ בָּהֵ֖נָּה בֶּחָֽרֶב׃

Transliteration

And he will 'ākal your qəṣîrəkā and your laḥmekā, they will yō'kəlû your bānêkā and your bənôtêkā, he will yō'kal your ṣō'nəkā and your bəqārekā, he will yō'kal your gapnəkā and your tə'ēnātekā; he will yərōšēš your cities of mibṣārêkā which you bôṭēaḥ in them with ḥāreb.

Grammar Details

• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *'ākal*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he ate/devoured
• *qəṣîrəkā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your harvest
• *laḥmekā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your bread/food
• *yō'kəlû*: imperfect, 3rd plural - they will eat
• *bānêkā*: noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your sons
• *bənôtêkā*: noun, feminine plural + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your daughters
• *yō'kal*: imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will eat
• *ṣō'nəkā*: noun, feminine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your flock
• *bəqārekā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your herd
• *gapnəkā*: noun, feminine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your vine
• *tə'ēnātekā*: noun, feminine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your fig tree
• *yərōšēš*: imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, piel - he will impoverish
• *'ārê*: noun, feminine plural construct - cities of
• *mibṣārêkā*: noun, masculine plural + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your fortifications
• *'ăšer*: relative pronoun - which
• *'attâ*: pronoun, 2nd masculine singular - you
• *bôṭēaḥ*: participle, masculine singular - trusting
• *bāhēnnâ*: preposition + 3rd feminine plural suffix - in them
• *be*: preposition - with
• *ḥāreb*: noun, feminine singular - sword

Word Meanings

• *'ākal*/*yō'kal*: eat/devour/consume
• *qəṣîrəkā*: your harvest/crop
• *laḥmekā*: your bread/food
• *ṣō'nəkā*: your flock/sheep
• *bəqārekā*: your herd/cattle
• *yərōšēš*: will impoverish/shatter/break down
• *mibṣārêkā*: your fortified places/fortifications/strongholds
• *bôṭēaḥ*: trusting/relying/feeling secure

Referenced Verses

• Deut 28:33 : 33 The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway;
• Lev 26:16 : 16 I also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
• Deut 28:30-31 : 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof. 31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to save thee.
• Judg 6:3-4 : 3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them; 4 and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
• Isa 62:9 : 9 but they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Jehovah; and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.
• Isa 65:22 : 22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
• Jer 1:15 : 15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith Jehovah; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
• Jer 4:7 : 7 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
• Jer 4:26 : 26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of Jehovah, [and] before his fierce anger.
• Jer 8:16 : 16 The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those that dwell therein.
• Jer 50:7 : 7 All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.
• Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
• Lam 2:2 : 2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.
• Ezek 36:4 : 4 therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are round about;
• Hos 8:14 : 14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces; and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.
• Hab 3:17-18 : 17 For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
• Zeph 3:6 : 6 I have cut off nations; their battlements are desolate; I have made their streets waste, so that none passeth by; their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.