Jeremiah 3:23

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָכֵ֥ן לַשֶּׁ֛קֶר מִגְּבָע֖וֹת הָמ֣וֹן הָרִ֑ים אָכֵן֙ בַּיהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ תְּשׁוּעַ֖ת יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

Truly laššeqer from-gᵉḇāʿôt, hămôn hārîm. Truly in-YHWH ʾĕlōhênû tᵉšûʿat yiśrāʾēl.

Grammar Details

• *laššeqer*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - 'to the falsehood/lie'
• *gᵉḇāʿôt*: noun, feminine plural - 'hills'
• *hămôn*: noun, masculine singular construct - 'multitude/tumult of'
• *hārîm*: noun, masculine plural - 'mountains'
• *YHWH*: proper name - 'Yahweh/LORD'
• *ʾĕlōhênû*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person plural suffix - 'our God'
• *tᵉšûʿat*: noun, feminine singular construct - 'salvation of'
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper name - 'Israel'

Word Meanings

• *laššeqer*: to the falsehood/lie/deception/in vain
• *gᵉḇāʿôt*: hills/heights
• *hămôn*: multitude/tumult/noise/crowd
• *hārîm*: mountains/hills
• *ʾĕlōhênû*: our God
• *tᵉšûʿat*: salvation/deliverance/help
• *yiśrāʾēl*: Israel

Referenced Verses

• Ps 121:1-2 : 1 A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
• Ps 3:8 : 8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
• Jer 17:14 : 14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.
• Isa 12:2 : 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
• Isa 43:11 : 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
• Isa 44:9 : 9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
• Isa 45:15 : 15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
• Isa 45:17 : 17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
• Isa 45:20 : 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
• Isa 46:7-8 : 7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble. 8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.
• Isa 63:1 : 1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
• Isa 63:16 : 16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
• Jer 3:6 : 6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
• Jer 10:14-16 : 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
• 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?
• Ezek 20:28 : 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
• Hos 1:7 : 7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
• Jonah 2:8-9 : 8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. 9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
• John 4:22 : 22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
• Ps 37:39-40 : 39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble. 40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver{H8762)} them: he shall deliver{H8762)} them from the wicked, and save{H8686)} them, because they trust{H8804)} in him.