Jeremiah 9:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִֽי־הָאִ֤ישׁ הֶֽחָכָם֙ וְיָבֵ֣ן אֶת־זֹ֔את וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבֶּ֧ר פִּֽי־יְהוָ֛ה אֵלָ֖יו וְיַגִּדָ֑הּ עַל־מָה֙ אָבְדָ֣ה הָאָ֔רֶץ נִצְּתָ֥ה כַמִּדְבָּ֖ר מִבְּלִֽי עֹבֵֽר׃

Transliteration

mî-hā'îš heḥākām wĕyābēn 'et-zō't wa'ăšer dibbēr pî-YHWH 'ēlāyw wĕyaggidāh for-māh 'ābĕdāh hā'āreṣ niṣṣĕtāh like-the-midbār from-without 'ōbēr

Grammar Details

*mî*: interrogative pronoun - who
*hā'îš*: masculine noun with definite article - the man
*heḥākām*: adjective, masculine singular with definite article - the wise
*wĕyābēn*: conjunction + imperfect verb, 3rd person masculine singular, jussive - and let him understand
*'et*: direct object marker
*zō't*: demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - this
*wa'ăšer*: conjunction + relative particle - and that which
*dibbēr*: perfect verb, 3rd person masculine singular, piel - has spoken
*pî*: masculine noun, construct state - mouth of
*YHWH*: divine name
*'ēlāyw*: preposition with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to him
*wĕyaggidāh*: conjunction + imperfect verb, 3rd person masculine singular, hiphil, jussive - and let him declare it
*māh*: interrogative pronoun with prefixed preposition - for what reason
*'ābĕdāh*: perfect verb, 3rd person feminine singular - has perished
*hā'āreṣ*: feminine noun with definite article - the land
*niṣṣĕtāh*: perfect verb, 3rd person feminine singular, niphal - has been laid waste
*midbār*: masculine noun with prefixed preposition - like the wilderness
*'ōbēr*: participle, masculine singular - one passing through

Word Meanings

*mî*: who/which person
*hā'îš heḥākām*: the wise man/the man who is wise
*wĕyābēn*: and let him understand/discern/comprehend
*dibbēr*: has spoken/declared/uttered
*pî-YHWH*: mouth of YHWH/word of YHWH
*wĕyaggidāh*: and let him declare it/announce it/explain it
*māh*: what/why/for what reason
*'ābĕdāh*: has perished/been destroyed/been ruined
*hā'āreṣ*: the land/earth/country
*niṣṣĕtāh*: has been laid waste/burned/made desolate
*midbār*: wilderness/desert/uninhabited land
*'ōbēr*: one passing through/traveler/passer-by

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Referenced Verses

Isa 25:2 : 2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Isa 34:13 : 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
Jer 51:37 : 37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
Jer 10:22 : 22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
Isa 13:22 : 22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Jer 34:22 : 22 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
Jer 25:11 : 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jer 25:18 : 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
Jer 26:9 : 9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
Jer 26:18 : 18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Isa 44:26 : 26 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
Neh 4:2 : 2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
Ps 79:1 : 1 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come{H8804)} into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled{H8765)}; they have laid{H8804)} Jerusalem on heaps.
Lam 2:2 : 2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
Lam 2:7-8 : 7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast. 8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
Lam 3:47 : 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Mic 1:6 : 6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
Rev 18:2 : 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

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