Jeremiah 13:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says the LORD: I will have no pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנִפַּצְתִּים֩ אִ֨ישׁ אֶל־אָחִ֜יו וְהָאָב֧וֹת וְהַבָּנִ֛ים יַחְדָּ֖ו נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה לֹֽא־אֶחְמ֧וֹל וְלֹֽא־אָח֛וּס וְלֹ֥א אֲרַחֵ֖ם מֵהַשְׁחִיתָֽם׃ ס

Transliteration

And nippaṣtîm ʾîsh to ʾāchîw and the ʾābôt and the bānîm yachdāw, neʾum-YHWH. Not ʾechmôl and not ʾāchûs and not ʾărachēm from hashechîtām.

Grammar Details

• *wenippaṣtîm*: conjunction with piel perfect, 1st singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - and I will dash them
• *ʾîsh*: noun, masculine singular - man/each
• *ʾel*: preposition - to/against
• *ʾāchîw*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his brother
• *wehāʾābôt*: conjunction with definite article with noun, masculine plural - and the fathers
• *wehabbānîm*: conjunction with definite article with noun, masculine plural - and the sons
• *yachdāw*: adverb - together
• *neʾum*: construct noun - declaration of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *ʾechmôl*: imperfect, 1st singular - I will spare/pity
• *welōʾ*: conjunction with negative particle - and not
• *ʾāchûs*: imperfect, 1st singular - I will have compassion
• *ʾărachēm*: piel imperfect, 1st singular - I will show mercy
• *mēhashechîtām*: preposition with hiphil infinitive construct with 3rd masculine plural suffix - from destroying them

Word Meanings

• *nippaṣtîm*: dash them/break them to pieces/shatter them
• *ʾechmôl*: spare/have pity
• *ʾāchûs*: have compassion/spare
• *ʾărachēm*: have mercy/be compassionate

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  And I will shatter them, one against another, fathers and sons together,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will show no pity, no compassion, and no mercy to prevent their destruction.’

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will dash{H5310} them one{H376} against another,{H251} even the fathers{H1} and the sons{H1121} together,{H3162} saith{H5002} Jehovah:{H3068} I will not pity,{H2550} nor spare,{H2347} nor have compassion,{H7355} that I should not destroy{H7843} them.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will dash{H5310}{(H8765)} them one{H376} against another{H251}, even the fathers{H1} and the sons{H1121} together{H3162}, saith{H5002}{(H8803)} the LORD{H3068}: I will not pity{H2550}{(H8799)}, nor spare{H2347}{(H8799)}, nor have mercy{H7355}{(H8762)}, but destroy{H7843}{(H8687)} them.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And I will shute them one agaynst another, yee ye fathers agaynst the sonnes, saieth the LORDE. I wil not pardon them, I wil not spare them, ner haue pitie vpon them: but destroye them.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And I wil dash them one against another, euen the fathers and the sonnes together, sayeth the Lord: I will not spare, I will not pitie nor haue compassion, but destroy them.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And I wyll set them one agaynst another, yea the fathers against the sonnes, saith the Lorde: I wyll not pardon them, I wyll not spare them, nor haue pitie vpon them: but destroy them.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And have dashed them one against another, And the fathers and the sons together, An affirmation of Jehovah, I do not pity, nor spare, nor have I mercy, So as not to destroy them.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith Jehovah: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith Jehovah: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  And I will smash them like wine bottles against one another, children and parents alike. I will not show any pity, mercy, or compassion. Nothing will keep me from destroying them,’ says the LORD.”

Referenced Verses

• Deut 29:20 : 20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
• Ps 2:9 : 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
• Isa 9:20-21 : 20 And he will snatch on the right hand and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand and not be satisfied; they will eat every man the flesh of his own arm. 21 Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together will be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
• Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.
• Jer 6:21 : 21 Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.
• Jer 19:9-9 : 9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend during the siege and distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their lives, shall distress them. 10 Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with you, 11 And shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, until there is no place left to bury.
• Jer 21:7 : 7 And afterward, says the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their lives, and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, nor have pity, nor have mercy.
• Jer 47:3 : 3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
• Jer 48:12 : 12 Therefore behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will send to him wanderers, who shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels and break their bottles.
• Ezek 5:10-11 : 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and the whole remnant of you I will scatter into all the winds. 11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have any pity.
• Ezek 7:4 : 4 And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity: but I will repay your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
• Ezek 7:9 : 9 And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways and your abominations that are in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD who strikes.
• Ezek 8:18 : 18 Therefore I will also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.
• Ezek 9:5 : 5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go after him through the city and strike: let not your eye spare, neither have any pity:
• Ezek 9:10 : 10 And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
• Ezek 24:14 : 14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your deeds, they shall judge you, says the Lord GOD.
• Matt 10:21 : 21 And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father the child; and the children shall rise against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
• Mark 13:12 : 12 Now brother shall betray brother to death, and father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
• Jer 16:5 : 5 For thus says the LORD, Do not enter the house of mourning, nor go to lament or bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
• Judg 7:20-22 : 20 And the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands to blow with, and they cried, The sword of the LORD and of Gideon. 21 And they stood every man in his place around the camp, and all the army ran, and cried out, and fled. 22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout the whole army, and the army fled to Beth Shittah in Zererath, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
• 1 Sam 14:16 : 16 The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude melted away, and they went here and there.
• 2 Chr 20:23 : 23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.