Jeremiah 21:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּפָקַדְתִּ֧י עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם כִּפְרִ֥י מַעַלְלֵיכֶ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וְהִצַּ֤תִּי אֵשׁ֙ בְּיַעְרָ֔הּ וְאָכְלָ֖ה כָּל־סְבִיבֶֽיהָ׃

Transliteration

And pāqadtî against you according to the pĕrî maʿalĕlêkem, nĕʾum-yhwh; and hiṣṣattî ʾēš in her yaʿrāh, and ʾākĕlāh all sĕbîbeyhā.

Grammar Details

• *ûpāqadtî*: conjunction with verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - and I will punish
• *ʿălêkem*: preposition with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - against you
• *kiprî*: preposition with noun, masculine, singular, construct - according to the fruit of
• *maʿalĕlêkem*: noun, masculine, plural construct with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your deeds
• *nĕʾum*: noun, masculine, singular, construct - declaration of
• *yhwh*: proper noun - the LORD
• *wĕhiṣṣattî*: conjunction with verb, hiphil perfect, 1st person singular - and I will kindle
• *ʾēš*: noun, feminine, singular - fire
• *bĕyaʿrāh*: preposition with noun, masculine, singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - in her forest
• *wĕʾākĕlāh*: conjunction with verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - and it will devour
• *kol*: noun, masculine, singular, construct - all of
• *sĕbîbeyhā*: noun, masculine, plural construct with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - her surroundings

Word Meanings

• *pāqadtî*: I will punish/visit/attend to
• *pĕrî*: fruit/result/outcome
• *maʿalĕlêkem*: your deeds/practices
• *nĕʾum*: declaration/utterance/oracle
• *hiṣṣattî*: I will kindle/set on fire
• *yaʿrāh*: her forest/thicket/wooded area
• *ʾākĕlāh*: it will devour/consume
• *sĕbîbeyhā*: her surroundings/environs

Referenced Verses

• Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
• 2 Chr 36:19 : 19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
• Prov 1:31 : 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
• Jer 32:19 : 19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
• Jer 52:13 : 13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:
• Ezek 20:46-48 : 46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; 47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein. 48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
• Jer 9:25 : 25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
• Jer 17:10 : 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
• Isa 10:18-19 : 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
• Isa 24:21 : 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
• Isa 27:10-11 : 10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
• Isa 37:24 : 24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
• Jer 6:29 : 29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
• Isa 10:12 : 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
• Jer 22:7 : 7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
• Jer 11:22 : 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
• Zech 11:1 : 1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
• Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.