Jeremiah 29:23

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יַ֡עַן אֲשֶׁר֩ עָשׂ֨וּ נְבָלָ֜ה בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וַיְנַֽאֲפוּ֙ אֶת־נְשֵׁ֣י רֵֽעֵיהֶ֔ם וַיְדַבְּר֨וּ דָבָ֤ר בִּשְׁמִי֙ שֶׁ֔קֶר אֲשֶׁ֖ר ל֣וֹא צִוִּיתִ֑ם וְאָנֹכִ֛י *הוידע **הַיּוֹדֵ֥עַ וָעֵ֖ד נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃ ס

Transliteration

Yaʿan ʾăšer ʿāśû nəbālâ bə-Yiśrāʾēl wa-yənaʾăpû ʾet-nəšê rēʿêhem wa-yədabbərû dābār bi-šəmî šeqer ʾăšer lôʾ ṣiwwîtîm wə-ʾānōkî ha-yôdēaʿ wā-ʿēd nəʾum-YHWH

Grammar Details

• *Yaʿan*: preposition - because
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which
• *ʿāśû*: perfect, 3rd common plural - they did/made
• *nəbālâ*: noun, feminine singular - disgraceful thing/folly
• *bə-Yiśrāʾēl*: preposition + proper noun - in Israel
• *wa-yənaʾăpû*: conjunction + imperfect, 3rd masculine plural, consecutive - and they committed adultery
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *nəšê*: noun, feminine plural construct - wives of
• *rēʿêhem*: noun, masculine plural construct + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their neighbors
• *wa-yədabbərû*: conjunction + imperfect, 3rd masculine plural, Piel, consecutive - and they spoke
• *dābār*: noun, masculine singular - word
• *bi-šəmî*: preposition + noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - in my name
• *šeqer*: noun, masculine singular - falsehood/lie
• *lôʾ*: negative particle - not
• *ṣiwwîtîm*: perfect, 1st person singular, Piel + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - I commanded them
• *wə-ʾānōkî*: conjunction + 1st person singular independent pronoun - and I
• *ha-yôdēaʿ*: definite article + participle, masculine singular - the one knowing
• *wā-ʿēd*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and witness
• *nəʾum*: construct noun, masculine singular - declaration of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh

Word Meanings

• *Yaʿan*: because/on account of
• *nəbālâ*: disgraceful thing/folly/wickedness
• *nāʾap*: commit adultery/be unfaithful
• *dābār*: word/matter/thing
• *šeqer*: falsehood/lie/deception
• *yôdēaʿ*: knowing/being aware of
• *ʿēd*: witness/testimony

Referenced Verses

• Jer 23:14 : 14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
• Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Heb 4:13 : 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
• Prov 5:21 : 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
• Jer 16:17 : 17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
• Jer 29:8-9 : 8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. 9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.
• Jer 29:21 : 21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;
• Zeph 3:4 : 4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
• Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
• Ps 50:16-18 : 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
• Jer 7:9-9 : 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
• Jer 13:27 : 27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
• 2 Pet 2:10-19 : 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
• Jude 1:8-9 : 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
• Rev 3:14 : 14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
• Jer 23:21 : 21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
• Jer 23:23-24 : 23 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? 24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.