Jeremiah 20:16

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָה֙ הָאִ֣ישׁ הַה֔וּא כֶּֽעָרִ֛ים אֲשֶׁר־הָפַ֥ךְ יְהוָ֖ה וְלֹ֣א נִחָ֑ם וְשָׁמַ֤ע זְעָקָה֙ בַּבֹּ֔קֶר וּתְרוּעָ֖ה בְּעֵ֥ת צָהֳרָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

And wəhāyāh the ʾîš the hū like ʿārîm which-hāpaḵ YHWH and not niḥām, and wəšāmaʿ zəʿāqāh in the bōqer and tərûʿāh in ʿēt ṣŏhŏrāyim.

Grammar Details

• *wəhāyāh*: waw consecutive + qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and let him be
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the man
• *hū*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - that
• *ʿārîm*: noun, feminine plural with preposition - like cities
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
• *hāpaḵ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he overthrew
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - LORD
• *niḥām*: niphal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he repented/changed his mind
• *wəšāmaʿ*: waw consecutive + qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and let him hear
• *zəʿāqāh*: noun, feminine singular - outcry/cry
• *bōqer*: noun, masculine singular with definite article and preposition - in the morning
• *tərûʿāh*: noun, feminine singular - alarm/shout
• *ʿēt*: noun, feminine singular construct - time of
• *ṣŏhŏrāyim*: noun, masculine dual - noon/midday

Word Meanings

• *ʿārîm*: cities/towns
• *hāpaḵ*: overthrew/overturned/destroyed
• *niḥām*: repented/changed his mind/relented
• *zəʿāqāh*: outcry/cry/wailing
• *tərûʿāh*: alarm/shout/war cry
• *ṣŏhŏrāyim*: noon/midday

Referenced Verses

• Jer 18:22 : 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
• Deut 29:23 : 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
• Jer 48:3-4 : 3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. 4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
• Ezek 21:22 : 22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
• Hos 10:14 : 14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
• Hos 11:8 : 8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
• Amos 1:14 : 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
• Amos 2:2 : 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
• Amos 4:11 : 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
• Jonah 3:4 : 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
• Jonah 3:9-9 : 9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
• Jonah 4:2 : 2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
• Zeph 1:16 : 16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
• Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
• Luke 17:29 : 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
• 2 Pet 2:6 : 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
• Jude 1:7 : 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
• Jer 4:19 : 19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
• Jer 18:8 : 8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
• Jer 26:13 : 13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
• Gen 19:24-25 : 24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.