Jeremiah 2:37

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גַּ֣ם מֵאֵ֥ת זֶה֙ תֵּֽצְאִ֔י וְיָדַ֖יִךְ עַל־רֹאשֵׁ֑ךְ כִּֽי־מָאַ֤ס יְהֹוָה֙ בְּמִבְטַחַ֔יִךְ וְלֹ֥א תַצְלִ֖יחִי לָהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Gam from zeh tēṣəʾî wəyādayik ʿal-rōʾšēk because māʾas YHWH in miḇṭaḥayik and not taṣlîḥî to them.

Grammar Details

*Gam*: adverb - also/even
*zeh*: demonstrative, masculine singular - this
*tēṣəʾî*: qal imperfect, 2nd person feminine singular - you will go out
*wəyādayik*: conjunction with noun and 2nd person feminine singular suffix - and your hands
*rōʾšēk*: noun with 2nd person feminine singular suffix - your head
*māʾas*: qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he has rejected/despised
*YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
*miḇṭaḥayik*: noun plural with 2nd person feminine singular suffix - your objects of trust
*taṣlîḥî*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd person feminine singular - you will succeed/prosper

Word Meanings

*tēṣəʾî*: you will go out/you will depart/you will leave
*māʾas*: has rejected/has despised/has refused
*miḇṭaḥayik*: your objects of trust/your confidences/those in whom you trust
*taṣlîḥî*: you will succeed/you will prosper/you will have success

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 13:19 : 19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
Jer 37:7-9 : 7 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land. 8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire. 9 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart. 10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
Ezek 17:15-20 : 15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered? 16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. 17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons: 18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head. 20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
Num 14:41 : 41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
2 Chr 13:12 : 12 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
Isa 10:4 : 4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Jer 2:36 : 36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
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 32:5 : 5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.

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