Jeremiah 20:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and did not repent: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontime;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָה֙ הָאִ֣ישׁ הַה֔וּא כֶּֽעָרִ֛ים אֲשֶׁר־הָפַ֥ךְ יְהוָ֖ה וְלֹ֣א נִחָ֑ם וְשָׁמַ֤ע זְעָקָה֙ בַּבֹּ֔קֶר וּתְרוּעָ֖ה בְּעֵ֥ת צָהֳרָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

And wəhāyāh the ʾîš the hū like ʿārîm which-hāpaḵ YHWH and not niḥām, and wəšāmaʿ zəʿāqāh in the bōqer and tərûʿāh in ʿēt ṣŏhŏrāyim.

Grammar Details

• *wəhāyāh*: waw consecutive + qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and let him be
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the man
• *hū*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - that
• *ʿārîm*: noun, feminine plural with preposition - like cities
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
• *hāpaḵ*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he overthrew
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - LORD
• *niḥām*: niphal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he repented/changed his mind
• *wəšāmaʿ*: waw consecutive + qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and let him hear
• *zəʿāqāh*: noun, feminine singular - outcry/cry
• *bōqer*: noun, masculine singular with definite article and preposition - in the morning
• *tərûʿāh*: noun, feminine singular - alarm/shout
• *ʿēt*: noun, feminine singular construct - time of
• *ṣŏhŏrāyim*: noun, masculine dual - noon/midday

Word Meanings

• *ʿārîm*: cities/towns
• *hāpaḵ*: overthrew/overturned/destroyed
• *niḥām*: repented/changed his mind/relented
• *zəʿāqāh*: outcry/cry/wailing
• *tərûʿāh*: alarm/shout/war cry
• *ṣŏhŏrāyim*: noon/midday

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  May that man be like the cities the LORD overthrew without relenting. May he hear cries of distress in the morning and shouts of alarm at noon.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Let it happen vnto that man, as to the cities which ye LORDE turned vpside downe (when he had longe herde the wicked rumoure of them)

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And let that man be as the cities, which the Lord hath ouerturned and repented not: and let him heare the cry in the morning, and the showting at noone tide,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Let it happen vnto that man, as to the cities whiche the Lorde turned vpsidedowne and repented not: Let hym heare crying in the morning, and at noone day lamentable howling.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Then hath that man been as the cities, That Jehovah overthrew, and repented not, And he hath heard a cry at morning, And a shout at time of noon.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;

• World English Bible (2000)

  Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  May that man be like the cities that the LORD destroyed without showing any mercy. May he hear a cry of distress in the morning and a battle cry at noon.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 18:22 : 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.
• Deut 29:23 : 23 And that the whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath:
• Jer 48:3-4 : 3 A voice of crying shall be heard from Horonaim, plundering and great destruction. 4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have set up a cry.
• Ezek 21:22 : 22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mound, and to build a fort.
• Hos 10:14 : 14 Therefore a tumult shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be plundered, as Shalman plundered Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces on her children.
• Hos 11:8 : 8 How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I deliver you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I set you like Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is kindled together.
• Amos 1:14 : 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
• Amos 2:2 : 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
• Amos 4:11 : 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.
• Jonah 3:4 : 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city, a day's journey, and he cried out, saying, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
• Jonah 3:9-9 : 9 Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we do not perish? 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented of the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.
• Jonah 4:2 : 2 And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and relent from doing harm.
• Zeph 1:16 : 16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.
• Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even a breeding of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation: the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
• Luke 17:29 : 29 But on the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
• 2 Pet 2:6 : 6 And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemning them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;
• Jude 1:7 : 7 As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
• Jer 4:19 : 19 My heart, my heart! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
• Jer 18:8 : 8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turns from their evil, I will relent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
• Jer 26:13 : 13 Therefore now amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will relent of the evil that he has pronounced against you.
• Gen 19:24-25 : 24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven. 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.