Jeremiah 26:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Jeremiah said to all the rulers and to all the people, The Lord has sent me as his prophet to say against this house and against this town all the words which have come to your ears.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יִרְמְיָ֙הוּ֙ אֶל־כָּל־הַשָּׂרִ֔ים וְאֶל־כָּל־הָעָ֖ם לֵאמֹ֑ר יְהוָ֣ה שְׁלָחַ֗נִי לְהִנָּבֵ֞א אֶל־הַבַּ֤יִת הַזֶּה֙ וְאֶל־הָעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֔את אֵ֥ת כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר שְׁמַעְתֶּֽם׃

Transliteration

And-wayyōʾmer Yirməyāhû to-all-the-śārîm and-to-all-the-ʿām saying, Yəhwāh šəlāḥanî to-hinnāḇēʾ to-the-bayiṯ the-this and-to-the-ʿîr the-this ʾēṯ all-the-dəḇārîm which šəmaʿtem.

Grammar Details

• *wayyōʾmer*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with waw-consecutive - he said
• *śārîm*: masculine plural with definite article - the officials
• *ʿām*: masculine singular with definite article - the people
• *šəlāḥanî*: Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - he sent me
• *hinnāḇēʾ*: Niphal infinitive construct - to prophesy
• *bayiṯ*: masculine singular with definite article - the house/temple
• *ʿîr*: feminine singular with definite article - the city
• *dəḇārîm*: masculine plural with definite article - the words
• *šəmaʿtem*: Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you heard

Word Meanings

• *šālaḥ*: send/dispatch/stretch out
• *nāḇâ*: prophesy/speak as prophet

Referenced Verses

• Jer 26:15 : 15 Only be certain that, if you put me to death, you will make yourselves and your town and its people responsible for the blood of one who has done no wrong: for truly, the Lord has sent me to you to say all these words in your ears.
• Acts 4:19 : 19 But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:
• Acts 5:29 : 29 But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.
• Jer 26:2 : 2 This is what the Lord has said: Take your place in the open square of the Lord's house and say to all the towns of Judah, who come into the Lord's house for worship, everything I give you orders to say to them: keep back not a word;
• Jer 1:17-18 : 17 So make yourself ready, and go and say to them everything I give you orders to say: do not be overcome by fear of them, or I will send fear on you before them. 18 For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
• Jer 19:1-3 : 1 This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter's bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and of the priests; 2 And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, by the way into the door of broken pots, and there say in a loud voice the words which I will give you; 3 Say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem; the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, I will send evil on this place which will be bitter to the ears of anyone hearing of it.
• Amos 7:15-17 : 15 And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel. 16 Now then, give ear to the word of the Lord: You say, Be no prophet to Israel, and say not a word against the people of Isaac. 17 So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.