Jeremiah 22:7

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

I will send destroyers against you, each with his weapons. They will cut down your choice cedars and throw them into the fire.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

׃22 7 וְקִדַּשְׁתִּ֥י עָלֶ֛יךָ מַשְׁחִתִ֖ים אִ֣ישׁ וְכֵלָ֑יו וְכָֽרְתוּ֙ מִבְחַ֣ר אֲרָזֶ֔יךָ וְהִפִּ֖ילוּ עַל־הָאֵֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

And qiddaštî against you mašḥitîm, ʾîš and kēlāyw, and kārᵉtû mibḥar ʾărāzeykā and hippîlû upon hāʾēš.

Grammar Details

• *wᵉ-qiddaštî*: conjunction + perfect, 1st singular with waw consecutive, piel - and I will consecrate
• *ʿāleykā*: preposition with 2nd masculine singular suffix - against you
• *mašḥitîm*: participle, masculine plural, hiphil - destroyers
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man/each
• *wᵉ-kēlāyw*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - and his tools/weapons
• *wᵉ-kārᵉtû*: conjunction + perfect, 3rd common plural with waw consecutive, qal - and they will cut down
• *mibḥar*: noun, masculine singular construct - choice of
• *ʾărāzeykā*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your cedars
• *wᵉ-hippîlû*: conjunction + perfect, 3rd common plural with waw consecutive, hiphil - and they will cast
• *ʿal-hā-ʾēš*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine singular - upon the fire

Word Meanings

• *qiddaštî*: I will consecrate/sanctify/set apart
• *mašḥitîm*: destroyers/ravagers
• *ʾîš*: man/each one
• *kēlāyw*: his tools/implements/weapons
• *kārᵉtû*: they will cut down/cut off
• *mibḥar*: choice/best/select
• *hippîlû*: they will cast/throw/fell

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  And I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will prepare{H6942} destroyers{H7843} against thee, every one{H376} with his weapons;{H3627} and they shall cut down{H3772} thy choice{H4005} cedars,{H730} and cast{H5307} them into the fire.{H784}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will prepare{H6942}{(H8765)} destroyers{H7843}{(H8688)} against thee, every one{H376} with his weapons{H3627}: and they shall cut down{H3772}{(H8804)} thy choice{H4005} cedars{H730}, and cast{H5307}{(H8689)} them into the fire{H784}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I will prepare a destroyer with his weapes for the, to hew downe thy special Cedre trees, and to cast them in the fyre.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And I will prepare destroyers against thee, euery one with his weapons, and they shall cut downe thy chiefe cedar trees, and cast them in the fire.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I wyll prepare a destroyer with his weapons for thee, to hewe downe thy especiall Cedar trees, and to cast them in the fire.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast [them] into the fire.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And I have separated for thee destroyers, Each with his weapons, And they have cut down the choice of thy cedars, And have cast them on the fire.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons; and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons; and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I will send men against it to destroy it with their axes and hatchets. They will hack up its fine cedar panels and columns and throw them into the fire.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 10:33-34 : 33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, and the lofty ones will be humbled. 34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
• Isa 37:24 : 24 Through your servants you have mocked the Lord. You have said, "With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost parts of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars and its choicest cypress trees. I have reached its remotest heights, the densest of its forests.
• Jer 4:6-7 : 6 Raise a banner toward Zion! Take refuge, do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, a great destruction. 7 A lion has come out of his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has left his place to turn your land into a waste. Your cities will be ruined, without inhabitants.
• Jer 21:14 : 14 I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will consume everything around her.
• Isa 13:3-5 : 3 I have commanded My consecrated ones; I have also summoned My mighty ones, those who exult in My majesty, to carry out My anger. 4 Listen! A tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude. Listen! An uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together. The LORD of Hosts is mustering an army for battle. 5 They come from a distant land, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole earth.
• Ezek 9:1-7 : 1 Then he called out in a loud voice for me to hear, saying, 'Bring near those appointed to punish the city, each carrying his weapon of destruction in his hand.' 2 And behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each carrying his weapon for shattering in his hand. One man among them was dressed in linen and had a writing case at his waist. They entered and stood beside the bronze altar. 3 Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from above the cherub, on which it had rested, and moved to the threshold of the temple. And he called to the man dressed in linen, who had the writing case at his waist. 4 The LORD said to him, 'Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and mark a sign on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable things being done within it.' 5 To the others, he said in my hearing, 'Pass through the city after him and strike down. Do not let your eye spare, and do not show pity.' 6 Old men, young men, virgins, children, and women—kill them all to the point of destruction. But do not go near anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.' So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple. 7 Then he said to them, 'Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!' So they went out and struck down people in the city.
• Zech 11:1 : 1 Open your gates, O Lebanon, so that fire may consume your cedars.
• Matt 22:7 : 7 The king was enraged. He sent his army, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
• Isa 10:3-7 : 3 What will you do on the day of punishment, when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth? 4 There will be nothing left but to bow down among prisoners or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, His anger has not turned away, and His hand is still stretched out. 5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger, in whose hands is the staff of My indignation! 6 I send him against a godless nation; I dispatch him against a people at My wrath, to seize plunder, to take spoil, and to trample them down like mud in the streets. 7 But this is not what he intends, nor does he plan it in his heart. Instead, his purpose is to destroy and to cut off many nations.
• Isa 27:10-11 : 10 The fortified city is desolate, a desert place, abandoned and forsaken like the wilderness. There, calves will graze, lie down, and strip its branches bare. 11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.
• Isa 54:16-17 : 16 Behold, I have created the smith who blows the coals in the fire and produces a weapon fit for its purpose; and I have also created the destroyer to ruin. 17 No weapon formed against you will succeed, and you will refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me, declares the Lord.
• Jer 50:20-23 : 20 In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the guilt of Israel will be sought, but there will be none; and the sins of Judah, but none will be found, for I will forgive those I leave as a remnant. 21 Attack the land of Merathaim and those who live in Pekod! Pursue them, kill them completely, and devote them to destruction, declares the LORD. Do everything I have commanded you. 22 The sound of battle is in the land—a great destruction. 23 How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut down and broken! Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations.
• Jer 5:15 : 15 Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from far away, O house of Israel, declares the Lord. It is a mighty nation, an ancient nation, one whose language you do not know and whose speech you cannot understand.