Jeremiah 5:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַל־כֵּן֩ הִכָּ֨ם אַרְיֵ֜ה מִיַּ֗עַר זְאֵ֤ב עֲרָבוֹת֙ יְשָׁדְדֵ֔ם נָמֵ֤ר שֹׁקֵד֙ עַל־עָ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם כָּל־הַיּוֹצֵ֥א מֵהֵ֖נָּה יִטָּרֵ֑ף כִּ֤י רַבּוּ֙ פִּשְׁעֵיהֶ֔ם עָצְמ֖וּ מְשׁוּבוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Upon-thus hikkām 'aryēh from ya'ar, zə'ēb 'ărābôt yəšāddēm, nāmēr šōqēd upon-their 'ārêhem; all-hayyôṣē' from them yiṭṭārēp; because they rabbû their piš'êhem, they 'āṣəmû their məšûbôtêhem.

Grammar Details

• *'al*: preposition - upon/against
• *kēn*: adverb - thus/so
• *hikkām*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix, hiphil - he struck them
• *'aryēh*: noun, masculine singular - lion
• *min*: preposition - from
• *ya'ar*: noun, masculine singular - forest
• *zə'ēb*: noun, masculine singular - wolf
• *'ărābôt*: noun, feminine plural - plains/deserts/steppes
• *yəšāddēm*: imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix, piel - he will ravage them
• *nāmēr*: noun, masculine singular - leopard
• *šōqēd*: participle, masculine singular, qal - watching/lying in wait
• *'ārêhem*: noun, feminine plural construct + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their cities
• *kol*: noun, masculine singular construct - all/every
• *hayyôṣē'*: article + participle, masculine singular, qal - the one going out
• *mēhēnnâ*: preposition + 3rd feminine plural suffix - from them
• *yiṭṭārēp*: imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, niphal - he will be torn to pieces
• *kî*: conjunction - because/for
• *rabbû*: perfect, 3rd plural, qal - they are many/increased
• *piš'êhem*: noun, masculine plural construct + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their transgressions
• *'āṣəmû*: perfect, 3rd plural, qal - they were numerous/mighty
• *məšûbôtêhem*: noun, feminine plural construct + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their apostasies/backslidings

Word Meanings

• *hikkām*: struck them/attacked them
• *'aryēh*: lion
• *zə'ēb*: wolf
• *'ărābôt*: plains/deserts/steppes/wilderness
• *yəšāddēm*: ravages them/destroys them/plunders them
• *nāmēr*: leopard/panther
• *šōqēd*: watching/lying in wait/being vigilant
• *yiṭṭārēp*: will be torn to pieces/mauled
• *rabbû*: are many/have increased/multiplied
• *piš'êhem*: their transgressions/rebellions/crimes
• *'āṣəmû*: are numerous/mighty/strong
• *məšûbôtêhem*: their apostasies/backslidings/rebellions

Referenced Verses

• Jer 4:7 : 7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
• Hab 1:8 : 8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
• Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
• Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
• Ezek 23:19 : 19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
• Dan 7:4 : 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
• Dan 7:6 : 6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
• Hos 5:14 : 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
• Hos 13:7-8 : 7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: 8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
• Amos 5:18-19 : 18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
• Nah 2:11-12 : 11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid? 12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
• Rev 13:2 : 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
• Jer 9:12-14 : 12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? 13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; 14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
• Jer 14:7 : 7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
• Jer 16:10-12 : 10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God? 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; 12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
• Jer 25:38 : 38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
• Jer 30:14 : 14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
• Jer 30:24 : 24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
• Jer 49:19 : 19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
• Lam 1:5 : 5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
• Ezek 14:16-21 : 16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate. 17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it: 18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves. 19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: 20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. 21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
• Ezek 16:25 : 25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
• Num 32:14 : 14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
• Ezra 9:6 : 6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
• Ezra 10:10 : 10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
• Ps 104:20 : 20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
• Isa 59:12 : 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
• Jer 2:15 : 15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
• 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.