Jeremiah 31:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I will again make new your buildings, O virgin of Israel, and you will take up your place: again you will take up your instruments of music, and go out in the dances of those who are glad.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

ע֤וֹד אֶבְנֵךְ֙ וְֽנִבְנֵי֔ת בְּתוּלַ֖ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל ע֚וֹד תַּעְדִּ֣י תֻפַּ֔יִךְ וְיָצָ֖את בִּמְח֥וֹל מְשַׂחֲקִֽים׃

Transliteration

Again ʾebnēk and nibənêt, bətûlat Yiśrāʾēl; again taʿdî tuppaik and yāṣāʾt in məḥôl məśaḥăqîm.

Grammar Details

• *ʾebnēk*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular with 2nd person feminine singular suffix - I will build you
• *nibənêt*: verb, niphal perfect, 2nd person feminine singular - you will be built
• *bətûlat*: noun, feminine singular construct - virgin
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *taʿdî*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person feminine singular - you will adorn
• *tuppaik*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd person feminine singular suffix - your timbrels/tambourines
• *yāṣāʾt*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person feminine singular - you will go out
• *məḥôl*: noun, masculine singular - dance
• *məśaḥăqîm*: verb, piel participle, masculine plural - making merry/dancing/laughing

Word Meanings

• *ʾebnēk*: I will build you/restore you/establish you
• *nibənêt*: you will be built/established/restored
• *bətûlat*: virgin/maiden
• *taʿdî*: you will adorn/decorate/ornament
• *tuppaik*: your timbrels/tambourines/hand-drums
• *yāṣāʾt*: you will go out/come forth/proceed
• *məḥôl*: dance/dancing procession
• *məśaḥăqîm*: making merry/dancing/rejoicing/laughing

Referenced Verses

• Jer 33:7 : 7 And I will let the fate of Judah and of Israel be changed, building them up as at first.
• Jer 31:13 : 13 Then the virgin will have joy in the dance, and the young men and the old will be glad: for I will have their weeping turned into joy, I will give them comfort and make them glad after their sorrow.
• Judg 11:34 : 34 Then Jephthah came back to his house in Mizpah, and his daughter came out, meeting him on his way with music and with dances; she was his only child; he had no other sons or daughters.
• Ps 149:3 : 3 Let them give praise to his name in the dance: let them make melody to him with instruments of brass and corded instruments of music.
• Ps 150:3-6 : 3 Give him praise with the sound of the horn: give him praise with corded instruments of music. 4 Give him praise with instruments of brass and in the dance: give him praise with horns and corded instruments. 5 Give him praise with the loud brass: give him praise with the high-sounding brass. 6 Let everything which has breath give praise to the Lord. Let the Lord be praised.
• Isa 37:22 : 22 This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.
• Jer 1:10 : 10 See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.
• Jer 14:17 : 17 And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.
• Jer 18:13 : 13 So this is what the Lord has said: Make search among the nations and see who has had word of such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very shocking thing.
• Jer 30:18-19 : 18 The Lord has said, See, I am changing the fate of the tents of Jacob, and I will have pity on his houses; the town will be put up on its hill, and the great houses will be living-places again. 19 And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.
• 1 Sam 18:6-7 : 6 Now on their way, when David came back after the destruction of the Philistine, the women came out of all the towns of Israel, with songs and dances, meeting David with melody and joy and instruments of music. 7 And the women, answering one another in their song, said, Saul has put to death his thousands and David his tens of thousands.
• 2 Kgs 19:21 : 21 This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.
• Ps 51:18 : 18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.
• Ps 69:35 : 35 For God will be the saviour of Zion, and the builder of the towns of Judah; so that it may be their resting-place and heritage.
• Lam 1:15 : 15 The Lord has made sport of all my men of war in me, he has got men together against me to send destruction on my young men: the virgin daughter of Judah has been crushed like grapes under the feet of the Lord.
• Lam 2:13 : 13 What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you well?
• Amos 5:2 : 2 The virgin of Israel has been made low, never again to be lifted up: she is stretched out by herself on her land; there is no one to put her on her feet again.
• Amos 9:11 : 11 In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;
• Luke 15:23 : 23 And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad.
• Acts 15:16 : 16 After these things I will come back, and will put up the tent of David which has been broken down, building up again its broken parts and making it complete:
• Eph 2:20-22 : 20 Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone, 21 In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord; 22 In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.
• Rev 19:1-8 : 1 After these things there came to my ears a sound like the voice of a great band of people in heaven, saying, Praise to the Lord; salvation and glory and power be to our God: 2 For true and upright are his decisions; for by him has the evil woman been judged, who made the earth unclean with the sins of her body; and he has given her punishment for the blood of his servants. 3 And again they said, Praise to the Lord. And her smoke went up for ever and ever. 4 And the four and twenty rulers and the four beasts went down on their faces and gave worship to God who was seated on the high seat, saying, Even so, praise to the Lord. 5 And a voice came from the high seat, saying, Give praise to our God, all you his servants, small and great, in whom is the fear of him. 6 And there came to my ears the voice of a great army, like the sound of waters, and the sound of loud thunders, saying, Praise to the Lord: for the Lord our God, Ruler of all, is King. 7 Let us be glad with delight, and let us give glory to him: because the time is come for the Lamb to be married, and his wife has made herself ready. 8 And to her it was given to be clothed in delicate linen, clean and shining: for the clean linen is the righteousness of the saints.
• Rev 21:10-27 : 10 And he took me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and let me see the holy town Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, 11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone of great price, a jasper stone, clear as glass: 12 She had a wall great and high, with twelve doors, and at the doors twelve angels; and names on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. 13 And on the east were three doors; and on the north three doors; and on the south three doors; and on the west three doors. 14 And the wall of the town had twelve bases, and on them the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb. 15 And he who was talking with me had a gold measuring-rod to take the measure of the town, and of its doors, and its wall. 16 And the town is square, as wide as it is long; and he took the measure of the town with the rod, one thousand and five hundred miles: it is equally long and wide and high. 17 And he took the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, after the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. 18 And the building of its wall was of jasper, and the town was clear gold, clear as glass. 19 The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; 20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. 21 And the twelve doors were twelve pearls; every door was made of one pearl; and the street of the town was clear gold, as clear as glass. 22 And I saw no Temple there; because the Lord God, the Ruler of all, and the Lamb are its Temple. 23 And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb. 24 And the nations will go in its light: and the kings of the earth will take their glory into it. 25 And the doors of it will never be shut by day (for there is no night there): 26 And the glory and honour of the nations will come into it: 27 And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.
• Jer 31:21 : 21 Put up guiding pillars, make road signs for yourself: give attention to the highway, even the way in which you went: be turned again, O virgin of Israel, be turned to these your towns.
• Exod 15:20-21 : 20 And Miriam, the woman prophet, the sister of Aaron, took an instrument of music in her hand; and all the women went after her with music and dances. 21 And Miriam, answering, said, Make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory; the horse and the horseman he has sent into the sea.