Jeremiah 15:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֣תְּ נָטַ֥שְׁתְּ אֹתִ֛י נְאֻם־יְהוָ֖ה אָח֣וֹר תֵּלֵ֑כִי וָאַ֨ט אֶת־יָדִ֤י עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ וָֽאַשְׁחִיתֵ֔ךְ נִלְאֵ֖יתִי הִנָּחֵֽם׃

Transliteration

You nāṭašt me nəʾum-YHWH, backward tēlēkî; wā-ʾaṭ ʾet-yādî against-you wā-ʾašḥîtēk, nilʾêtî hinnāḥēm.

Grammar Details

• *nāṭašt*: qal perfect 2nd feminine singular - you have forsaken/abandoned
• *nəʾum-YHWH*: utterance construct + divine name - declaration of Yahweh/says the LORD
• *tēlēkî*: qal imperfect 2nd feminine singular - you will go/walk
• *wā-ʾaṭ*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 1st common singular - and I stretched out
• *ʾet-yādî*: direct object marker + noun common feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my hand
• *wā-ʾašḥîtēk*: waw consecutive + hiphil imperfect 1st common singular with 2nd feminine singular suffix - and I destroyed you
• *nilʾêtî*: niphal perfect 1st common singular - I am weary/tired
• *hinnāḥēm*: niphal infinitive construct - of relenting/showing compassion

Word Meanings

• *nāṭašt*: you have forsaken/abandoned/rejected
• *ʾāḥôr tēlēkî*: you go backward/you walk behind/you turned away
• *wā-ʾaṭ ʾet-yādî*: I stretched out my hand/I extended my hand
• *wā-ʾašḥîtēk*: and I destroyed you/demolished you/ruined you
• *nilʾêtî hinnāḥēm*: I am weary of relenting/I am tired of showing compassion/I am exhausted from having mercy

Referenced Verses

• Jer 7:24 : 24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
• Zeph 1:4 : 4 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;
• Isa 1:4 : 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
• Zech 7:11 : 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
• Hos 11:7 : 7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
• Hos 13:14 : 14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
• Jer 6:11 : 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
• Ezek 25:7 : 7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
• Hos 4:16 : 16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
• Jer 6:19 : 19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
• Amos 7:3-8 : 3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. 4 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. 5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. 6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD. 7 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. 8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
• Isa 28:13 : 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
• Jer 1:16 : 16 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.
• 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?
• Jer 2:19 : 19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
• Jer 8:5 : 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
• Jer 20:9 : 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
• Ezek 12:26-28 : 26 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off. 28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.
• Ezek 14:9 : 9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
• Ps 78:38-40 : 38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave{H8762)} their iniquity, and destroyed{H8686)} them not: yea, many a time{H8689)} turned he his anger away{H8687)}, and did not stir up{H8686)} all his wrath. 39 For he remembered{H8799)} that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away{H8802)}, and cometh not again{H8799)}. 40 How oft did they provoke{H8686)} him in the wilderness, and grieve{H8686)} him in the desert!