Jeremiah 17:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִקְוֵ֤ה יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ יְהוָ֔ה כָּל־עֹזְבֶ֖יךָ יֵבֹ֑שׁוּ *יסורי **וְסוּרַי֙ בָּאָ֣רֶץ יִכָּתֵ֔בוּ כִּ֥י עָזְב֛וּ מְק֥וֹר מַֽיִם־חַיִּ֖ים אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

miqwēh yiśrāʾēl Yhwh all-ʿōzĕbêkā yēbōšû and-sûray in-the-ʾāreṣ yikkātēbû for ʿāzĕbû mĕqôr mayim-ḥayyîm direct-object-marker-Yhwh

Grammar Details

• *miqwēh*: construct state, masculine singular - hope of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *Yhwh*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *ʿōzĕbêkā*: qal participle masculine plural + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - those forsaking you
• *yēbōšû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they will be ashamed
• *sûray*: qal participle masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - those turning from me
• *ʾāreṣ*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the earth/land
• *yikkātēbû*: niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they will be written
• *ʿāzĕbû*: qal perfect 3rd person common plural - they have forsaken
• *mĕqôr*: construct state, masculine singular - fountain of
• *mayim*: masculine plural noun - waters
• *ḥayyîm*: masculine plural adjective - living

Word Meanings

• *miqwēh*: hope/expectation/gathering place
• *ʿōzĕbêkā*: those who forsake you/abandon you
• *sûray*: those who turn away from me/depart from me
• *mĕqôr*: fountain/spring/source

Referenced Verses

• Isa 1:28 : 28 But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.
• Jer 14:8 : 8 O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?
• Ps 73:27 : 27 For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you.
• Isa 66:5 : 5 Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out because of my name, have said, Let the Lord's glory be made clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to shame.
• John 8:6-8 : 6 They said this, testing him, so that they might have something against him. But Jesus, with his head bent down, made letters on the floor with his finger. 7 But when they went on with their questions, he got up and said to them, Let him among you who is without sin be the first to send a stone at her. 8 And again, with bent head, he made letters on the floor.
• Joel 3:16 : 16 Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.
• Luke 10:20 : 20 Do not be glad, however, because you have power over spirits, but because your names are recorded in heaven.
• John 4:10 : 10 In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.
• John 4:14 : 14 But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.
• Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.
• Jer 2:17 : 17 Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?
• Ps 36:8-9 : 8 The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures. 9 For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light.
• Ps 22:4 : 4 Our fathers had faith in you: they had faith and you were their saviour.
• Isa 45:16-17 : 16 All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low. 17 But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.
• Isa 65:11-14 : 11 But as for you who have given up the Lord, who have no care for my holy mountain, who get ready a table for Chance, and make offerings of mixed wine to Fate; 12 Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer; you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me. 13 For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed: 14 My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.
• Ps 97:7 : 7 Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods; give him worship, all you gods.
• Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.
• Prov 14:14 : 14 He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.
• Jer 2:26-27 : 26 As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets; 27 Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.
• Jer 17:5 : 5 This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.
• Jer 17:17 : 17 Be not a cause of fear to me: you are my safe place in the day of evil.
• Ezek 16:63 : 63 So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.
• Ezek 36:32 : 32 Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel.
• Dan 12:2 : 2 And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.
• John 7:37-38 : 37 On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him. 38 He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.
• Acts 28:20 : 20 But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.
• 1 Tim 1:1 : 1 Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the order of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope;
• Rev 7:17 : 17 For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.
• Rev 20:15 : 15 And if anyone's name was not in the book of life, he went down into the sea of fire.
• Rev 21:6 : 6 And he said to me, It is done. I am the First and the Last, the start and the end. I will freely give of the fountain of the water of life to him who is in need.
• Rev 22:1 : 1 And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb,
• Rev 22:17 : 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who gives ear, say, Come. And let him who is in need come; and let everyone desiring it take of the water of life freely.