Jeremiah 36:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

Take yourself a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

קַח־לְךָ֮ מְגִלַּת־סֵפֶר֒ וְכָתַבְתָּ֣ אֵלֶ֗יהָ אֵ֣ת כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֞ים אֲשֶׁר־דִּבַּ֧רְתִּי אֵלֶ֛יךָ עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל וְעַל־יְהוּדָ֖ה וְעַל־כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֑ם מִיּ֞וֹם דִּבַּ֤רְתִּי אֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ מִימֵ֣י יֹאשִׁיָּ֔הוּ וְעַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה

Transliteration

qaḥ-to-you məgillat-sēper, and-kātabtā unto-it ʾēt all-the-dəbārîm which-dibbartî unto-you against-Yiśrāʾēl and-against-Yəhûdāh and-against-all-the-gôyim from-day dibbartî unto-you from-days-of Yōʾšiyyāhû and-until the-day the-this

Grammar Details

• *qaḥ*: imperative, masculine singular - take
• *məgillat*: construct state, feminine singular - scroll of
• *sēper*: common noun, masculine singular - book/document/scroll
• *kātabtā*: perfect, 2nd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and you shall write
• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *dəbārîm*: common noun, masculine plural with definite article - the words/matters
• *dibbartî*: perfect, 1st singular - I spoke/I have spoken
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper name - Israel
• *Yəhûdāh*: proper name - Judah
• *gôyim*: common noun, masculine plural with definite article - the nations/peoples
• *Yōʾšiyyāhû*: proper name, masculine singular - Josiah

Word Meanings

• *məgillat-sēper*: scroll of a book/writing scroll/document roll
• *dəbārîm*: words/matters/things/commands
• *gôyim*: nations/peoples/gentiles

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the days of Josiah until today.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Take{H3947} thee a roll{H4039} of a book,{H5612} and write{H3789} therein all the words{H1697} that I have spoken{H1696} unto thee against Israel,{H3478} and against Judah,{H3063} and against all the nations,{H1471} from the day{H3117} I spake{H1696} unto thee, from the days{H3117} of Josiah,{H2977} even unto this day.{H3117}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Take{H3947}{(H8798)} thee a roll{H4039} of a book{H5612}, and write{H3789}{(H8804)} therein all the words{H1697} that I have spoken{H1696}{(H8765)} unto thee against Israel{H3478}, and against Judah{H3063}, and against all the nations{H1471}, from the day{H3117} I spake{H1696}{(H8765)} unto thee, from the days{H3117} of Josiah{H2977}, even unto this day{H3117}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Take a boke, & write therin all ye wordes, yt I haue spoke to the, to Israel, to Iuda & to all the people, fro the tyme yt I begane for to speake vnto the (in ye reigne of Iosias) vnto this daye.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Take thee a roule or booke, and write therein all the wordes that I haue spoken to thee against Israel, and against Iudah, and against all the nations, from the day that I spake vnto thee, euen from the dayes of Iosiah vnto this day.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Take a booke, and write therein all the wordes that I haue spoken to thee against Israel, against Iuda, and against all the people, from the tyme that I began to speake vnto thee in the raigne of Iosias, vnto this day:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Take a scroll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `Take to thee a roll of a book, and thou hast written on it all the words that I have spoken unto thee concerning Israel, and concerning Judah, and concerning all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Take a book and put down in it all the words I have said to you against Israel and against Judah and against all the nations, from the day when my word came to you in the days of Josiah till this day.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Take a scroll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “Get a scroll. Write on it everything I have told you to say about Israel, Judah, and all the other nations since I began to speak to you in the reign of Josiah until now.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 30:2 : 2 Thus says the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write down all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
• Jer 25:3 : 3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even to this day, that is the twenty-third year, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking; but you have not listened.
• Jer 1:10 : 10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
• Exod 17:14 : 14 And the LORD said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
• Ezra 6:2 : 2 And a scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, with this record written in it:
• Ps 40:7 : 7 Then I said, Behold, I come: in the scroll of the book it is written of me,
• Isa 8:1 : 1 Moreover, the LORD said to me, Take for yourself a large scroll, and write on it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
• Jer 1:2-3 : 2 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 3 It also came in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
• Jer 1:5 : 5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations.
• Jer 3:3-9 : 3 Therefore, the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed. 4 Will you not from this time call to me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth? 5 Will he hold onto his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done evil things as you could. 6 The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot. 7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn to me. But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also. 9 And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 10 And yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to me with her whole heart, but in pretension, says the LORD.
• Jer 23:13-14 : 13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal and caused my people Israel to err. 14 I have also seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They are all to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah.
• Jer 25:9-9 : 9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, says the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. 13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. 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. 15 For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of this fury at My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it. 16 And they shall drink, and stagger, and go mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. 17 Then I took the cup from the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent me: 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day; 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; 20 And all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, 21 Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon, 22 And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastlands which are beyond the sea, 23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in the farthest corners, 24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the desert, 25 And all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, 26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world which are upon the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. 27 Therefore you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink, and be drunk, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. 28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; You shall certainly drink. 29 For, behold, I begin to bring calamity on the city which is called by My name, and should you be completely unpunished? You shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of hosts.
• Jer 36:6 : 6 Therefore go, and read in the scroll which you have written from my mouth the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house on the fasting day; and you shall also read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
• Jer 36:23 : 23 And it happened, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
• Jer 51:60 : 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
• Ezek 2:9 : 9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was sent to me; and, look, a scroll of a book was in it;
• Ezek 3:1-3 : 1 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go speak to the house of Israel. 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that scroll. 3 And he said to me, Son of man, fill your stomach and fill your insides with this scroll that I give you. So I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.
• Hos 8:12 : 12 I have written for him the great things of my law, but they were considered a strange thing.
• Hab 2:2-3 : 2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, so that he may run who reads it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie: though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.
• Zech 5:1-4 : 1 Then I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, a flying scroll. 2 And he said to me, What do you see? And I answered, I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits. 3 Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on this side; and everyone who swears shall be cut off according to it on that side. 4 I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with its timber and its stones.
• Rev 5:1-9 : 1 And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a book written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals? 3 And no one in heaven, or on earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look at it. 4 And I wept greatly because no one was found worthy to open and to read the book, or to look at it. 5 And one of the elders said to me, Weep not; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the book and to break its seven seals. 6 And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth. 7 Then He came and took the book out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. 8 And when He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9 And they sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for You were slain and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
• Jer 36:29 : 29 And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus says the LORD: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written in it, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause man and beast to cease from there?
• Jer 45:1 : 1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the dictation of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
• Jer 47:1-7 : 1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza. 2 Thus says the LORD: Behold, waters rise up out of the north and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land and all that is in it; the city, and those who dwell in it: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. 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; 4 Because of the day that comes to plunder all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains: for the LORD will plunder the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor. 5 Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself? 6 O sword of the LORD, how long until you be quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard, rest, and be still. 7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD has given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the seashore? There He has appointed it.
• Jer 32:30-35 : 30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says the LORD. 31 For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before my face, 32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 33 And they have turned to me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction. 34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it. 35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
• Jer 2:4 : 4 Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
• Isa 30:8-9 : 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and document it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever: 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD:
• Job 31:35 : 35 Oh that one would hear me! Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.
• Deut 31:24 : 24 And it came to pass, when Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
• 2 Kgs 17:18-20 : 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them from his sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. 19 Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made. 20 So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.