Jeremiah 1:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְדִבַּרְתִּ֤י מִשְׁפָּטַי֙ אוֹתָ֔ם עַ֖ל כָּל־רָעָתָ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֣ר עֲזָב֗וּנִי וַֽיְקַטְּרוּ֙ לֵאלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲו֖וּ לְמַעֲשֵׂ֥י יְדֵיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And-dibbartî mišpāṭay ʾôtām upon all-rāʿātām ʾăšer ʿăzābûnî and-yĕqaṭṭĕrû to-ʾĕlōhîm ʾăḥērîm and-yištaḥăwû to-maʿăśê yĕdêhem

Grammar Details

• *dibbartî*: Piel perfect 1st singular - I will speak/pronounce
• *mišpāṭay*: plural noun with 1st person singular suffix - my judgments
• *ʾôtām*: direct object marker with 3rd masculine plural suffix - them
• *rāʿātām*: feminine singular noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their evil/wickedness
• *ʾăšer*: relative particle - who/which/that
• *ʿăzābûnî*: Qal perfect 3rd common plural with 1st person singular suffix - they forsook me
• *yĕqaṭṭĕrû*: Piel imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they burned incense/offerings
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: plural noun - gods
• *ʾăḥērîm*: adjective masculine plural - other
• *yištaḥăwû*: Hishtaphel imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they bowed down/worshiped
• *maʿăśê*: plural construct - works of
• *yĕdêhem*: dual noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their hands

Word Meanings

• *dibbartî* *mišpāṭay*: I will speak my judgments/I will pronounce my verdicts
• *rāʿātām*: their evil/their wickedness/their wrongdoing
• *ʿăzābûnî*: they forsook me/they abandoned me/they rejected me
• *yĕqaṭṭĕrû*: they burned incense/they made offerings/they sacrificed
• *yištaḥăwû*: they bowed down/they worshiped/they prostrated themselves

Referenced Verses

• Jer 7:9 : 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;
• Jer 19:4 : 4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
• Deut 28:20 : 20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
• Isa 2:8 : 8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
• Isa 37:19 : 19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
• Jer 4:12 : 12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
• Jer 44:17 : 17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
• Jer 17:13 : 13 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.
• Acts 7:41 : 41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
• Jer 51:17 : 17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
• Ezek 8:9-9 : 9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. 10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. 11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
• Ezek 24:14 : 14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
• Hos 8:6 : 6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
• Hos 11:2 : 2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
• Joel 2:11 : 11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
• Matt 23:35-36 : 35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. 36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
• Jer 4:28 : 28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
• Jer 5:9 : 9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
• Jer 5:29 : 29 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
• Jer 10:8-9 : 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. 9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
• Jer 10:15 : 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
• Jer 11:12 : 12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
• Jer 11:17 : 17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
• Jer 15:6 : 6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
• Jer 16:11 : 11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
• Isa 44:15 : 15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
• Isa 65:3 : 3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
• 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?
• Deut 31:16 : 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
• Josh 24:20 : 20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
• 2 Kgs 22:17 : 17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
• 2 Chr 7:19 : 19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
• 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
• 2 Chr 34:25 : 25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.