Jeremiah 7:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַתָּ֞ה אַל־תִּתְפַּלֵּ֣ל ׀ בְּעַד־הָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֗ה וְאַל־תִּשָּׂ֧א בַעֲדָ֛ם רִנָּ֥ה וּתְפִלָּ֖ה וְאַל־תִּפְגַּע־בִּ֑י כִּי־אֵינֶ֥נִּי שֹׁמֵ֖עַ אֹתָֽךְ׃

Transliteration

wə-ʾattāh not-titpallēl for-hāʿām hazzeh and-not-tiśśāʾ for-them rinnāh and-təpillāh and-not-tipgaʿ-in-me for-not-I šōmēaʿ you.

Grammar Details

*wə-ʾattāh*: conjunction + 2nd person masculine singular pronoun - and you
*titpallēl*: 2nd person masculine singular, hitpael imperfect - pray
*hāʿām hazzeh*: definite noun + demonstrative adjective - this people
*tiśśāʾ*: 2nd person masculine singular, qal imperfect - lift up/raise
*rinnāh*: feminine singular noun - cry/shout/song of joy
*təpillāh*: feminine singular noun - prayer/intercession
*tipgaʿ*: 2nd person masculine singular, qal imperfect - intercede/encounter/meet
*šōmēaʿ*: qal participle masculine singular - hearing/listening to

Word Meanings

*titpallēl*: pray/intercede/supplicate
*tiśśāʾ*: lift up/carry/raise
*rinnāh*: cry/shout/song of joy/ringing cry
*tipgaʿ*: intercede/encounter/meet/entreat/urge
*šōmēaʿ*: hearing/listening to/heeding

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Referenced Verses

Exod 32:10 : 10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
Jer 11:14 : 14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.
Deut 9:14 : 14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
Jer 15:1 : 1 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
1 John 5:16 : 16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
Isa 1:15 : 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Jer 18:20 : 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
Ezek 14:14-20 : 14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD. 15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts: 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.
Mic 3:4 : 4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
Jer 14:11-12 : 11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good. 12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
2 Sam 8:18 : 18 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.

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