Jeremiah 17:13

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִקְוֵ֤ה יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ יְהוָ֔ה כָּל־עֹזְבֶ֖יךָ יֵבֹ֑שׁוּ *יסורי **וְסוּרַי֙ בָּאָ֣רֶץ יִכָּתֵ֔בוּ כִּ֥י עָזְב֛וּ מְק֥וֹר מַֽיִם־חַיִּ֖ים אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

miqwēh yiśrāʾēl Yhwh all-ʿōzĕbêkā yēbōšû and-sûray in-the-ʾāreṣ yikkātēbû for ʿāzĕbû mĕqôr mayim-ḥayyîm direct-object-marker-Yhwh

Grammar Details

• *miqwēh*: construct state, masculine singular - hope of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *Yhwh*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *ʿōzĕbêkā*: qal participle masculine plural + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - those forsaking you
• *yēbōšû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they will be ashamed
• *sûray*: qal participle masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - those turning from me
• *ʾāreṣ*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the earth/land
• *yikkātēbû*: niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they will be written
• *ʿāzĕbû*: qal perfect 3rd person common plural - they have forsaken
• *mĕqôr*: construct state, masculine singular - fountain of
• *mayim*: masculine plural noun - waters
• *ḥayyîm*: masculine plural adjective - living

Word Meanings

• *miqwēh*: hope/expectation/gathering place
• *ʿōzĕbêkā*: those who forsake you/abandon you
• *sûray*: those who turn away from me/depart from me
• *mĕqôr*: fountain/spring/source

Referenced Verses

• Isa 1:28 : 28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
• Jer 14:8 : 8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
• Ps 73:27 : 27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
• Isa 66:5 : 5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
• John 8:6-8 : 6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. 7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
• Joel 3:16 : 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
• Luke 10:20 : 20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
• John 4:10 : 10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
• John 4:14 : 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
• Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
• Jer 2:17 : 17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
• Ps 36:8-9 : 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. 9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
• Ps 22:4 : 4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
• Isa 45:16-17 : 16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. 17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
• Isa 65:11-14 : 11 But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. 12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: 14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
• Ps 97:7 : 7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
• Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
• Prov 14:14 : 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
• Jer 2:26-27 : 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, 27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
• Jer 17:5 : 5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
• Jer 17:17 : 17 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
• Ezek 16:63 : 63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
• Ezek 36:32 : 32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
• Dan 12:2 : 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• John 7:37-38 : 37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
• Acts 28:20 : 20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
• 1 Tim 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;
• Rev 7:17 : 17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
• Rev 20:15 : 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fi.
• Rev 21:6 : 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life fely.
• Rev 22:1 : 1 And he shewed me a pu river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
• Rev 22:17 : 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heath say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life fely.