Jeremiah 5:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; that preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹֽא־אָמְר֣וּ בִלְבָבָ֗ם נִ֤ירָא נָא֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ הַנֹּתֵ֗ן גֶּ֛שֶׁם יוֹרֶ֥ה וּמַלְק֖וֹשׁ בְּעִתּ֑וֹ שְׁבֻע֛וֹת חֻקּ֥וֹת קָצִ֖יר יִשְׁמָר־לָֽנוּ׃

Transliteration

And not-they 'āmərû in their bilbābām, "Let us nîrā' nā' 'et-YHWH our 'ĕlōhênû, the one hannōtēn gešem yôreh and malqôš in its 'ittô, šəbu'ôt ḥuqqôt qāṣîr he yišmār-to us."

Grammar Details

• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *lō'*: negative particle - not
• *'āmərû*: perfect, 3rd plural - they said
• *bi*: preposition - in
• *lbābām*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their heart
• *nîrā'*: imperfect, 1st plural, jussive - let us fear
• *nā'*: particle - please (politeness marker)
• *'et*: direct object marker
• *YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh
• *'ĕlōhênû*: noun, masculine plural + 1st plural suffix - our God
• *ha*: article - the
• *nōtēn*: participle, masculine singular - giving
• *gešem*: noun, masculine singular - rain
• *yôreh*: adjective, masculine singular - early (rain)
• *malqôš*: noun, masculine singular - late rain
• *bə*: preposition - in
• *'ittô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - its time
• *šəbu'ôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - weeks of
• *ḥuqqôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - ordinances of
• *qāṣîr*: noun, masculine singular - harvest
• *yišmār*: imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will keep
• *lānû*: preposition + 1st plural suffix - for us

Word Meanings

• *nîrā'*: let us fear/revere/be afraid of
• *hannōtēn*: the one giving/providing/granting
• *gešem*: rain/shower
• *yôreh*: early rain (autumn)
• *malqôš*: late rain (spring)
• *šəbu'ôt ḥuqqôt qāṣîr*: appointed weeks of harvest/designated seasons for harvest

Referenced Verses

• Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
• Ps 147:8 : 8 Who covereth the heavens with clouds, Who prepareth rain for the earth, Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
• Joel 2:23 : 23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God; for he giveth you the former rain in just measure, and he causeth to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first month.
• Matt 5:45 : 45 that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.
• Acts 14:17 : 17 And {G2544} yet He left not himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.
• Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.
• Job 5:10 : 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth waters upon the fields;
• Job 36:27-28 : 27 For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor, 28 Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly.
• Job 38:37 : 37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,
• Isa 64:7 : 7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.
• Jer 5:22 : 22 Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.
• Deut 11:13-14 : 13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy grain, and thy new wine, and thine oil.
• Deut 28:12 : 12 Jehovah will open unto thee his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
• 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
• Jer 50:5 : 5 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thitherward, [saying], Come ye, and join yourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
• Amos 4:7 : 7 And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
• Zech 10:1 : 1 Ask ye of Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain, [even of] Jehovah that maketh lightnings; and he will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
• Jas 5:7 : 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until {G302} it receive the early and latter rain.
• Jas 5:17-18 : 17 Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
• Rev 11:6 : 6 These have the power to shut the heaven, that it {G5205} rain not during the days of their prophecy: and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they shall desire.
• Hos 6:1 : 1 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
• Hos 3:5 : 5 afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king, and shall come with fear unto Jehovah and to his goodness in the latter days.