Jeremiah 7:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For the children of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, says the Lord: they have put their disgusting images in the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־עָשׂ֨וּ בְנֵי־יְהוּדָ֥ה הָרַ֛ע בְּעֵינַ֖י נְאֻום־יְהוָ֑ה שָׂ֣מוּ שִׁקּֽוּצֵיהֶ֗ם בַּבַּ֛יִת אֲשֶׁר־נִקְרָא־שְׁמִ֥י עָלָ֖יו לְטַמְּאֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

For-ʿāśû bənê-yəhûdāh hāraʿ bəʿênay nəʾum-YHWH śāmû šiqqûṣêhem babbayit ʾăšer-niqrāʾ-šəmî ʿālāyw ləṭamməʾô.

Grammar Details

• *ʿāśû*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine plural - they did/made
• *bənê-yəhûdāh*: masculine plural construct + proper noun - sons/children of Judah
• *hāraʿ*: definite article + masculine singular adjective - the evil/wickedness
• *bəʿênay*: preposition + feminine dual noun with 1st person singular suffix - in my eyes
• *nəʾum-YHWH*: masculine singular construct + divine name - declaration of YHWH
• *śāmû*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine plural - they placed/put
• *šiqqûṣêhem*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their detestable things
• *babbayit*: preposition + definite article + masculine singular noun - in the house
• *ʾăšer-niqrāʾ-šəmî*: relative pronoun + niphal perfect 3rd person masculine singular + masculine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - which is called my name
• *ʿālāyw*: preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - upon it
• *ləṭamməʾô*: preposition + piel infinitive construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to defile it

Word Meanings

• *ʿāśû*: they did/they made/they performed
• *bənê*: sons of/children of/people of
• *raʿ*: evil/wickedness/badness
• *nəʾum-YHWH*: declaration of YHWH/utterance of the LORD
• *śāmû*: they placed/they put/they set
• *šiqqûṣêhem*: their detestable things/their abominations/their idols
• *niqrāʾ-šəmî*: is called my name/bears my name
• *ləṭamməʾô*: to defile it/to make it unclean/to pollute it

Referenced Verses

• Jer 32:34 : 34 But they put their disgusting images into the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.
• Ezek 7:20 : 20 As for their beautiful ornament, they had put it on high, and had made the images of their disgusting and hated things in it: for this cause I have made it an unclean thing to them.
• Dan 9:27 : 27 And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.
• 2 Kgs 21:4 : 4 And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
• 2 Kgs 21:7 : 7 He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.
• 2 Chr 33:4-5 : 4 And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever. 5 And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.
• 2 Chr 33:7 : 7 And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
• 2 Chr 33:15 : 15 He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.
• Jer 23:11 : 11 For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.
• 2 Kgs 23:4-6 : 4 Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el. 5 And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the twelve signs and all the stars of heaven. 6 And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.
• 2 Kgs 23:12 : 12 And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.
• Ezek 8:5-9 : 5 Then he said to me, Son of man, now let your eyes be lifted up in the direction of the north; and on looking in the direction of the north, to the north of the doorway of the altar, I saw this image of envy by the way in. 6 And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing? even the very disgusting things which the children of Israel are doing here, causing me to go far away from my holy place? but you will see other most disgusting things. 7 And he took me to the door of the open place; and looking, I saw a hole in the wall. 8 And he said to me, Son of man, make a hole in the wall: and after making a hole in the wall I saw a door. 9 And he said to me, Go in and see the evil and disgusting things which they are doing here. 10 So I went in and saw; and there every sort of living thing which goes flat on the earth, and unclean beasts, and all the images of the children of Israel, were pictured round about on the wall. 11 And before them seventy of the responsible men of the children of Israel had taken their places, every man with a vessel for burning perfumes in his hand, and in the middle of them was Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan; and a cloud of smoke went up from the burning perfume. 12 And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land. 13 Then he said to me, You will see even more disgusting things which they do. 14 Then he took me to the door of the way into the Lord's house looking to the north; and there women were seated weeping for Tammuz. 15 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? you will see even more disgusting things than these. 16 And he took me into the inner square of the Lord's house, and at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the covered way and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord and their faces turned to the east; and they were worshipping the sun, turning to the east. 17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? is it a small thing to the children of Judah that they do the disgusting things which they are doing here? for they have made the land full of violent behaviour, making me angry again and again: and see, they put the branch to my nose.
• Ezek 43:7-8 : 7 And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place where the seat of my power is and the resting-place of my feet, where I will be among the children of Israel for ever: and no longer will the people of Israel make my holy name unclean, they or their kings, by their loose ways and by the dead bodies of their kings; 8 By putting their doorstep by my doorstep, and the pillar of their door by the pillar of my door, with only a wall between me and them; and they have made my holy name unclean by the disgusting things which they have done: so in my wrath I sent destruction on them.