Jeremiah 18:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַתָּ֣ה יְ֠הוָה יָדַ֜עְתָּ אֶֽת־כָּל־עֲצָתָ֤ם עָלַי֙ לַמָּ֔וֶת אַל־תְּכַפֵּר֙ עַל־עֲוֺנָ֔ם וְחַטָּאתָ֖ם מִלְּפָנֶ֣יךָ אַל־תֶּ֑מְחִי *והיו **וְיִהְי֤וּ מֻכְשָׁלִים֙ לְפָנֶ֔יךָ בְּעֵ֥ת אַפְּךָ֖ עֲשֵׂ֥ה בָהֶֽם׃ ס

Transliteration

And you, YHWH, yādaʿtā ʾet-all their ʿăṣātām against me to lammāwet. Do not tĕkappēr on their ʿăwōnām, and their ḥaṭṭāʾtām from before you do not temḥî. Let them wĕyihyû mukšālîm before you; in time of your ʾappĕkā ʿăśēh with them

Grammar Details

• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *yādaʿtā*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you know
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *ʿăṣātām*: noun, feminine singular construct with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their plan
• *lammāwet*: preposition + article + noun, masculine singular - to the death
• *tĕkappēr*: verb, piel imperfect jussive, 2nd person masculine singular - forgive/atone
• *ʿăwōnām*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their iniquity
• *ḥaṭṭāʾtām*: noun, feminine singular construct with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their sin
• *temḥî*: verb, qal imperfect jussive, 2nd person masculine singular - blot out/wipe away
• *wĕyihyû*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect jussive, 3rd person masculine plural - let them be
• *mukšālîm*: verb, hophal participle, masculine plural - overthrown/made to stumble
• *ʾappĕkā*: noun, masculine singular construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your anger
• *ʿăśēh*: verb, qal imperative, masculine singular - do/act

Word Meanings

• *yādaʿtā*: you know/are aware
• *ʿăṣātām*: their plan/counsel/advice
• *lammāwet*: to death/for death
• *tĕkappēr*: forgive/atone for/cover
• *ʿăwōnām*: their iniquity/guilt/sin
• *ḥaṭṭāʾtām*: their sin/offense
• *temḥî*: blot out/wipe away/erase
• *wĕyihyû*: let them be/become
• *mukšālîm*: overthrown/made to stumble/caused to fall
• *ʾappĕkā*: your anger/wrath/nose
• *ʿăśēh*: do/act/make

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  But You, Lord, know all their plans to kill me. Do not forgive their wrongdoing, do not blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them collapse before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Yet LORDE, thou knowest all their coucell, that they haue deuysed, to slaye me. And therfore forgeue them not their wickednes, and let not their synne be put out of thy sight: but let them be iudged before the as the giltie: This shalt thou do vnto the in ye tyme of thy indignacion.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Yet Lord thou knowest al their counsel against me tendeth to death: forgiue not their iniquitie, neither put out their sinne from thy sight, but let them be ouerthrowen before thee: deale thus with them in the time of thine anger.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Yet Lorde thou knowest all their counsayle, that they haue deuised to slay me, forgeue not their wickednesse, and let not their sinnes be put out of thy sight, but let them be iudged before thee as giltie: this do thou vnto them in the tyme of thine indignation.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay [me]: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal [thus] with them in the time of thine anger.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known, All their counsel against me `is' for death, Thou dost not cover over their iniquity, Nor their sin from before Thee blottest out, And they are made to stumble before Thee, In the time of Thine anger work against them!

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  But you, LORD, know all their plots to kill me. Do not pardon their crimes! Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them! Let them be brought down in defeat before you! Deal with them while you are still angry!

Referenced Verses

• Isa 2:9 : 9 And the average man bows down, and the great man humbles himself; therefore do not forgive them.
• Neh 4:4-5 : 4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them as prey in a land of captivity: 5 Do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you: for they have provoked you to anger before the builders.
• Ps 35:4 : 4 Let them be confused and put to shame that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
• Ps 69:22-28 : 22 Let their table become a snare before them, and what should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their dwelling place be desolate, and let none dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute the one whom you have struck, and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded. 27 Add iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not come into your righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
• Ps 109:14-15 : 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be wiped out. 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth.
• Ps 37:32-33 : 32 The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to slay him. 33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
• Ps 59:5 : 5 Therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen; be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
• Isa 10:3 : 3 And what will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation that shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your glory?
• Jer 8:12 : 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore, they shall fall among those that fall: when I punish them, they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
• Jer 11:18-20 : 18 And the LORD has given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then you showed me their doings. 19 But I was like a gentle lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more. 20 But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have presented my case to you.
• Jer 11:23 : 23 And there shall be no remnant of them, for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
• Jer 15:15 : 15 O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.
• Jer 18:18 : 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
• Luke 21:22 : 22 For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
• Rom 2:5 : 5 But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;