Jeremiah 50:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵם֩ וּבָעֵ֨ת הַהִ֜יא נְאֻם־יְהוָ֗ה יְבֻקַּ֞שׁ אֶת־עֲוֺ֤ן יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וְאֵינֶ֔נּוּ וְאֶת־חַטֹּ֥את יְהוּדָ֖ה וְלֹ֣א תִמָּצֶ֑אינָה כִּ֥י אֶסְלַ֖ח לַאֲשֶׁ֥ר אַשְׁאִֽיר׃

Transliteration

In the yamim those and in the ʿet that nəʾum-YHWH yəvuqqash ʾet-ʿavon yisraʾel wə-ʾeynennu and ʾet-ḥattot yəhudah and not timmatseʾnah for ʾeslaḥ to those whom ʾashʾir.

Grammar Details

• *yamim*: noun, masculine plural + definite article - the days
• *ʿet*: noun, feminine singular + definite article - the time
• *nəʾum*: construct noun - declaration of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *yəvuqqash*: Pual imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will be sought
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *ʿavon*: noun, masculine singular construct - iniquity of
• *yisraʾel*: proper noun - Israel
• *wə-ʾeynennu*: conjunction + negative particle + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - and it is not
• *ḥattot*: noun, feminine plural construct - sins of
• *yəhudah*: proper noun - Judah
• *timmatseʾnah*: Niphal imperfect, 3rd person feminine plural - they will be found
• *ʾeslaḥ*: imperfect, 1st person singular - I will forgive/pardon
• *ʾashʾir*: Hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular - I will leave/spare/reserve

Word Meanings

• *nəʾum*: utterance/declaration/oracle
• *yəvuqqash*: will be sought/searched for
• *ʿavon*: iniquity/guilt/punishment for iniquity
• *ʾeynennu*: it is not/it will not exist
• *ḥattot*: sins/offenses/failures
• *timmatseʾnah*: they will be found/discovered/located
• *ʾeslaḥ*: I will forgive/pardon/show mercy
• *ʾashʾir*: I will leave/spare/reserve/keep

Referenced Verses

• Mic 7:19 : 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
• Jer 31:34 : 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
• Isa 1:9 : 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
• Isa 43:25 : 25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
• Isa 44:22 : 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
• Isa 11:1-2 : 1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
• Num 23:21 : 21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
• Ps 103:12 : 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
• Jer 33:15 : 15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
• Jer 44:14 : 14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
• Jer 50:4 : 4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
• Acts 3:19 : 19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
• Acts 3:26 : 26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
• Rom 5:16 : 16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
• Rom 6:13 : 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
• Rom 8:33-34 : 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
• Rom 11:6 : 6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
• Rom 11:26-27 : 26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
• Heb 8:10-12 : 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
• Heb 10:17-18 : 17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
• 2 Pet 3:15 : 15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;