Jeremiah 30:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more enslave him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָה֩ בַיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא נְאֻ֣ם ׀ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֗וֹת אֶשְׁבֹּ֤ר עֻלּוֹ֙ מֵעַ֣ל צַוָּארֶ֔ךָ וּמוֹסְרוֹתֶ֖יךָ אֲנַתֵּ֑ק וְלֹא־יַעַבְדוּ־ב֥וֹ ע֖וֹד זָרִֽים

Transliteration

And-hāyāh in-the-yôm the-that nᵉʾum Yhwh ṣᵉḇāʾôṯ ʾešbōr ʿullô from-upon ṣawwāreḵā and-môsᵉrôṯeḵā ʾănattēq and-not-yaʿaḇḏû-bô ʿôḏ zārîm

Grammar Details

• *hāyāh*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - will be/happen
• *yôm*: masculine singular noun with definite article + preposition - in the day
• *nᵉʾum*: construct state - declaration of
• *Yhwh*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *ṣᵉḇāʾôṯ*: masculine plural noun - hosts/armies
• *ʾešbōr*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will break
• *ʿullô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his yoke
• *ṣawwāreḵā*: masculine singular noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your neck
• *môsᵉrôṯeḵā*: feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your bonds/fetters
• *ʾănattēq*: piel imperfect 1st person singular - I will tear off/snap
• *yaʿaḇḏû-bô*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural + preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - they will serve/enslave him
• *ʿôḏ*: adverb - still/yet/again
• *zārîm*: masculine plural adjective - strangers/foreigners

Word Meanings

• *ʿullô*: his yoke/his burden
• *môsᵉrôṯeḵā*: your bonds/fetters/chains
• *ʾănattēq*: I will tear off/snap/break
• *zārîm*: strangers/foreigners/aliens

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  On that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will break the yoke off your neck and tear away your bonds. Foreigners will no longer enslave you.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And it shall come to pass in that day,{H3117} saith{H5002} Jehovah{H3068} of hosts,{H6635} that I will break{H7665} his yoke{H5923} from off thy neck,{H6677} and will burst{H5423} thy bonds;{H4147} and strangers{H2114} shall no more make him their bondman;{H5647}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For it shall come to pass in that day{H3117}, saith{H5002}{(H8803)} the LORD{H3068} of hosts{H6635}, that I will break{H7665}{(H8799)} his yoke{H5923} from off thy neck{H6677}, and will burst{H5423}{(H8762)} thy bonds{H4147}, and strangers{H2114}{(H8801)} shall no more serve{H5647}{(H8799)} themselves of him:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For in that daye, saieth the LORDE, I will take his yock from of thy neck, & breake thy bondes. They shall nomore serue straunge goddes vnder him,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For in that day, sayth the Lorde of hostes, I will breake his yoke from off thy necke, and breake thy bondes, and strangers shall no more serue themselues of him.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For in that day saith the Lorde of hoastes, I wyll take his yoke from of thy necke, and breake thy bondes, and straungers shall no more haue dominion ouer them:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, [that] I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, I break his yoke from off thy neck, And thy bands I draw away, And lay no more service on him do strangers.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondman;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondman;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that his yoke will be broken off his neck, and his bands will be burst; and men of strange lands will no longer make use of him as their servant:

• World English Bible (2000)

  It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  When the time for them to be rescued comes,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will rescue you from foreign subjugation. I will deliver you from captivity. Foreigners will then no longer subjugate them.

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 34:27 : 27 And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those who used them.
• Nah 1:13 : 13 Now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds apart.
• Isa 9:4 : 4 For you have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
• Jer 27:2 : 2 Thus says the LORD to me; Make bonds and yokes, and put them upon your neck,
• Jer 28:10 : 10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it.
• Isa 10:27 : 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
• Isa 14:25 : 25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him underfoot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
• Jer 2:20 : 20 For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot.
• Jer 25:14 : 14 For many nations and great kings shall enslave them also: and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
• Jer 28:13 : 13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says the LORD; You have broken the yokes of wood; but you shall make for them yokes of iron.
• Jer 27:7 : 7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his grandson, until the very time of his land comes: and then many nations and great kings shall enslave him.
• Jer 28:4 : 4 And I will bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah who went to Babylon, says the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.