Jeremiah 30:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, [saying], This [is] Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי֩ אַעֲלֶ֨ה אֲרֻכָ֥ה לָ֛ךְ וּמִמַּכּוֹתַ֥יִךְ אֶרְפָּאֵ֖ךְ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה כִּ֤י נִדָּחָה֙ קָ֣רְאוּ לָ֔ךְ צִיּ֣וֹן הִ֔יא דֹּרֵ֖שׁ אֵ֥ין לָֽהּ

Transliteration

For ʾaʿăleh ʾărukāh for-you and-from-makôṯayiḵ ʾerpāʾēḵ nᵉʾum-Yhwh for niddāḥāh qārᵉʾû to-you ṣiyyôn she dōrēš no for-her

Grammar Details

• *ʾaʿăleh*: hiphil imperfect 1st person singular - I will bring up
• *ʾărukāh*: feminine singular noun - healing/restoration
• *makôṯayiḵ*: feminine plural noun + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - your wounds
• *ʾerpāʾēḵ*: qal imperfect 1st person singular + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - I will heal you
• *nᵉʾum-Yhwh*: construct phrase - declaration of Yahweh
• *niddāḥāh*: niphal participle feminine singular - outcast/rejected one
• *qārᵉʾû*: qal perfect 3rd person common plural - they called
• *ṣiyyôn*: proper noun - Zion
• *dōrēš*: qal participle masculine singular - seeking/inquiring

Word Meanings

• *ʾaʿăleh*: I will bring up/restore/apply
• *ʾărukāh*: healing/restoration/health
• *makôṯayiḵ*: your wounds/blows/injuries
• *ʾerpāʾēḵ*: I will heal you/cure you/restore you
• *niddāḥāh*: outcast/rejected one/banished one
• *dōrēš*: seeking/inquiring/caring for

Referenced Verses

• Ps 107:20 : 20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered [them] from their destructions.
• Exod 15:26 : 26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I [am] the LORD that healeth thee.
• Jer 33:6 : 6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• Isa 11:12 : 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
• Ps 103:3 : 3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
• Isa 30:26 : 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
• Hos 6:1 : 1 ¶ Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
• Mal 4:2 : 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
• Rev 22:2 : 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [was there] the tree of life, which bare twelve [manner of] fruits, [and] yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree [were] for the healing of the nations.
• Jer 33:24 : 24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
• Lam 2:15 : 15 All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying, Is] this the city that [men] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
• Ezek 34:16 : 16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up [that which was] broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
• Ezek 35:12 : 12 And thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD, [and that] I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
• Ezek 36:2-3 : 2 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession: 3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made [you] desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and [are] an infamy of the people:
• Jer 3:22 : 22 Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God.
• Jer 8:22 : 22 [Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
• Jer 30:13 : 13 [There is] none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
• Neh 4:1-4 : 1 ¶ But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite [was] by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. 4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
• Ps 12:5 : 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set [him] in safety [from him that] puffeth at him.
• Ps 23:3 : 3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
• Ps 44:13-16 : 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. 14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. 15 My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, 16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
• Ps 79:9-9 : 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. 10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where [is] their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight [by] the revenging of the blood of thy servants [which is] shed. 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
• Ezek 36:20 : 20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These [are] the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.