Jeremiah 50:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵם֩ וּבָעֵ֨ת הַהִ֜יא נְאֻם־יְהוָ֗ה יְבֻקַּ֞שׁ אֶת־עֲוֺ֤ן יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְאֵינֶ֔נּוּ וְאֶת־חַטֹּ֥את יְהוּדָ֖ה וְלֹ֣א תִמָּצֶ֑אינָה כִּ֥י אֶסְלַ֖ח לַאֲשֶׁ֥ר אַשְׁאִֽיר׃

Transliteration

In the yamim those and in the ʿet that nəʾum-YHWH yəvuqqash ʾet-ʿavon yisraʾel wə-ʾeynennu and ʾet-ḥattot yəhudah and not timmatseʾnah for ʾeslaḥ to those whom ʾashʾir.

Grammar Details

• *yamim*: noun, masculine plural + definite article - the days
• *ʿet*: noun, feminine singular + definite article - the time
• *nəʾum*: construct noun - declaration of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *yəvuqqash*: Pual imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will be sought
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *ʿavon*: noun, masculine singular construct - iniquity of
• *yisraʾel*: proper noun - Israel
• *wə-ʾeynennu*: conjunction + negative particle + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - and it is not
• *ḥattot*: noun, feminine plural construct - sins of
• *yəhudah*: proper noun - Judah
• *timmatseʾnah*: Niphal imperfect, 3rd person feminine plural - they will be found
• *ʾeslaḥ*: imperfect, 1st person singular - I will forgive/pardon
• *ʾashʾir*: Hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular - I will leave/spare/reserve

Word Meanings

• *nəʾum*: utterance/declaration/oracle
• *yəvuqqash*: will be sought/searched for
• *ʿavon*: iniquity/guilt/punishment for iniquity
• *ʾeynennu*: it is not/it will not exist
• *ḥattot*: sins/offenses/failures
• *timmatseʾnah*: they will be found/discovered/located
• *ʾeslaḥ*: I will forgive/pardon/show mercy
• *ʾashʾir*: I will leave/spare/reserve/keep

Referenced Verses

• Mic 7:19 : 19 He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
• Jer 31:34 : 34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
• Isa 1:9 : 9 Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
• Isa 43:25 : 25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins.
• Isa 44:22 : 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
• Isa 11:1-2 : 1 And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit. 2 And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah.
• Num 23:21 : 21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob; Neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: Jehovah his God is with him, And the shout of a king is among them.
• Ps 103:12 : 12 As far as the east is from the west, So far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
• Jer 33:15 : 15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
• Jer 44:14 : 14 so that none of the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.
• Jer 50:4 : 4 In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Jehovah their God.
• Acts 3:19 : 19 Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;
• Acts 3:26 : 26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Servant, {G2424} sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.
• Rom 5:16 : 16 And not as through one that sinned, [so] is the gift: for the judgment [came] of one unto condemnation, but the free gift [came] of many trespasses unto justification.
• Rom 6:13 : 13 neither present your members unto sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.
• Rom 8:33-34 : 33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth; 34 who is he that condemneth? It is Christ Jesus that died, yea rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
• Rom 11:6 : 6 But if it is by grace, {G3765} it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
• Rom 11:26-27 : 26 and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; {G2532} He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27 And this is my covenant unto them, When I shall take away their sins.
• Heb 8:10-12 : 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them {G1519} a God, And they shall be to me {G1519} a people: 11 And they shall not {G3361} teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins will I remember no {G3361} more.
• Heb 10:17-18 : 17 And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no {G3361} more. 18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
• 2 Pet 3:15 : 15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote unto you;