Jeremiah 21:14

Authorized King James Version (1611)

But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּפָקַדְתִּ֧י עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם כִּפְרִ֥י מַעַלְלֵיכֶ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וְהִצַּ֤תִּי אֵשׁ֙ בְּיַעְרָ֔הּ וְאָכְלָ֖ה כָּל־סְבִיבֶֽיהָ׃

Transliteration

And pāqadtî against you according to the pĕrî maʿalĕlêkem, nĕʾum-yhwh; and hiṣṣattî ʾēš in her yaʿrāh, and ʾākĕlāh all sĕbîbeyhā.

Grammar Details

• *ûpāqadtî*: conjunction with verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - and I will punish
• *ʿălêkem*: preposition with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - against you
• *kiprî*: preposition with noun, masculine, singular, construct - according to the fruit of
• *maʿalĕlêkem*: noun, masculine, plural construct with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your deeds
• *nĕʾum*: noun, masculine, singular, construct - declaration of
• *yhwh*: proper noun - the LORD
• *wĕhiṣṣattî*: conjunction with verb, hiphil perfect, 1st person singular - and I will kindle
• *ʾēš*: noun, feminine, singular - fire
• *bĕyaʿrāh*: preposition with noun, masculine, singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - in her forest
• *wĕʾākĕlāh*: conjunction with verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - and it will devour
• *kol*: noun, masculine, singular, construct - all of
• *sĕbîbeyhā*: noun, masculine, plural construct with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - her surroundings

Word Meanings

• *pāqadtî*: I will punish/visit/attend to
• *pĕrî*: fruit/result/outcome
• *maʿalĕlêkem*: your deeds/practices
• *nĕʾum*: declaration/utterance/oracle
• *hiṣṣattî*: I will kindle/set on fire
• *yaʿrāh*: her forest/thicket/wooded area
• *ʾākĕlāh*: it will devour/consume
• *sĕbîbeyhā*: her surroundings/environs

Referenced Verses

• Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Say ye to the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him]: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
• 2 Chr 36:19 : 19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
• Prov 1:31 : 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
• Jer 32:19 : 19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes [are] open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
• Jer 52:13 : 13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great [men], burned he with fire:
• Ezek 20:46-48 : 46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop [thy word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; 47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein. 48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
• Jer 9:25 : 25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all [them which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;
• Jer 17:10 : 10 I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings.
• Isa 10:18-19 : 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
• Isa 24:21 : 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
• Isa 27:10-11 : 10 Yet the defenced city [shall be] desolate, [and] the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
• Isa 37:24 : 24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, [and] the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, [and] the forest of his Carmel.
• Jer 6:29 : 29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
• Isa 10:12 : 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, [that] when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
• Jer 22:7 : 7 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.
• Jer 11:22 : 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
• Zech 11:1 : 1 ¶ Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
• Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.