Jeremiah 30:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no one seeks after.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי֩ אַעֲלֶ֨ה אֲרֻכָ֥ה לָ֛ךְ וּמִמַּכּוֹתַ֥יִךְ אֶרְפָּאֵ֖ךְ נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה כִּ֤י נִדָּחָה֙ קָ֣רְאוּ לָ֔ךְ צִיּ֣וֹן הִ֔יא דֹּרֵ֖שׁ אֵ֥ין לָֽהּ

Transliteration

For ʾaʿăleh ʾărukāh for-you and-from-makôṯayiḵ ʾerpāʾēḵ nᵉʾum-Yhwh for niddāḥāh qārᵉʾû to-you ṣiyyôn she dōrēš no for-her

Grammar Details

• *ʾaʿăleh*: hiphil imperfect 1st person singular - I will bring up
• *ʾărukāh*: feminine singular noun - healing/restoration
• *makôṯayiḵ*: feminine plural noun + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - your wounds
• *ʾerpāʾēḵ*: qal imperfect 1st person singular + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - I will heal you
• *nᵉʾum-Yhwh*: construct phrase - declaration of Yahweh
• *niddāḥāh*: niphal participle feminine singular - outcast/rejected one
• *qārᵉʾû*: qal perfect 3rd person common plural - they called
• *ṣiyyôn*: proper noun - Zion
• *dōrēš*: qal participle masculine singular - seeking/inquiring

Word Meanings

• *ʾaʿăleh*: I will bring up/restore/apply
• *ʾărukāh*: healing/restoration/health
• *makôṯayiḵ*: your wounds/blows/injuries
• *ʾerpāʾēḵ*: I will heal you/cure you/restore you
• *niddāḥāh*: outcast/rejected one/banished one
• *dōrēš*: seeking/inquiring/caring for

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they have called you an outcast, saying, 'This is Zion; no one cares for her.'

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For I will restore{H5927} health{H724} unto thee, and I will heal{H7495} thee of thy wounds,{H4347} saith{H5002} Jehovah;{H3068} because they have called{H7121} thee an outcast,{H5080} [saying], It is Zion,{H6726} whom no man seeketh after.{H1875}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For I will restore{H5927}{(H8686)} health{H724} unto thee, and I will heal{H7495}{(H8799)} thee of thy wounds{H4347}, saith{H5002}{(H8803)} the LORD{H3068}; because they called{H7121}{(H8804)} thee an Outcast{H5080}{(H8737)}, saying, This is Zion{H6726}, whom no man seeketh after{H1875}{(H8802)}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For I will geue the thy health agayne, and make thy woundes whole, saieth the LORDE: because they reuyled the, as one cast awaye and despised, o Sion.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For I will restore health vnto thee, and I will heale thee of thy woundes, saith the Lord, because they called thee, The cast away, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For I wyll geue thee thy health agayne, and make thy woundes whole saith the Lorde, because they reuiled thee, as one cast away and dispised: Sion sayde they is she whom no man regardeth.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, [saying], This [is] Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For I increase health to thee, And from thy strokes I do heal thee, An affirmation of Jehovah, For `Outcast' they have called to thee, `Zion it `is', there is none seeking for her.'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith Jehovah; because they have called thee an outcast, `saying', It is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith Jehovah; because they have called thee an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For I will make you healthy again and I will make you well from your wounds, says the Lord; because they have given you the name of an outlaw, saying, It is Zion cared for by no man.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Yes, I will restore you to health. I will heal your wounds. I, the LORD, affirm it! For you have been called an outcast, Zion, whom no one cares for.”

Referenced Verses

• Ps 107:20 : 20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
• Exod 15:26 : 26 And said, If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do what is right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD who heals you.
• Jer 33:6 : 6 Behold, I will bring it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
• Isa 11:12 : 12 And he shall set up a sign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
• Ps 103:3 : 3 Who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases;
• Isa 30:26 : 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up the breach of his people, and heals the wound of their bruise.
• Hos 6:1 : 1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us, and he will bind us up.
• Mal 4:2 : 2 But to you who fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings, and you shall go forth and grow up like stall-fed calves.
• Rev 22:2 : 2 In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
• Jer 33:24 : 24 Do you not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? Thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
• Lam 2:15 : 15 All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
• Ezek 34:16 : 16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
• Ezek 35:12 : 12 And you shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given to us to consume.
• Ezek 36:2-3 : 2 Thus says the Lord GOD; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession: 3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the rest of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
• Jer 3:22 : 22 Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to you; for you are the LORD our God.
• Jer 8:22 : 22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then is the health of the daughter of my people not recovered?
• Jer 30:13 : 13 There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up; you have no healing medicines.
• Neh 4:1-4 : 1 But it happened that when Sanballat heard we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 2 And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish that are burned? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, Even what they build, if a fox goes up, he will break down their stone wall. 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:
• Ps 12:5 : 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him who puffs at him.
• Ps 23:3 : 3 He restores my soul; he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
• Ps 44:13-16 : 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those that are around us. 14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. 15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me, 16 For the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, by reason of the enemy and avenger.
• Ps 79:9-9 : 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us, and cleanse away our sins, for Your name's sake. 10 Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the heathen in our sight by avenging the blood of Your servants which is shed. 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power, preserve those appointed to die;
• Ezek 36:20 : 20 And when they entered among the nations, wherever they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone out of his land.