Jeremiah 50:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

I have set a trap for you, and you are also caught, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have fought against the LORD.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יָקֹ֨שְׁתִּי לָ֤ךְ וְגַם־נִלְכַּדְתְּ֙ בָּבֶ֔ל וְאַ֖תְּ לֹ֣א יָדָ֑עַתְּ נִמְצֵאת֙ וְגַם־נִתְפַּ֔שְׂתְּ כִּ֥י בַֽיהוָ֖ה הִתְגָּרִֽית׃

Transliteration

yaqoshti for you and also nilkadt bavel and you not yadaʿat nimtset and also nitpast for against YHWH hitgarit.

Grammar Details

• *yaqoshti*: Qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have set a snare
• *nilkadt*: Niphal perfect, 2nd person feminine singular - you have been caught/trapped
• *bavel*: proper noun - Babylon
• *yadaʿat*: perfect, 2nd person feminine singular - you knew
• *nimtset*: Niphal perfect, 2nd person feminine singular - you have been found
• *nitpast*: Niphal perfect, 2nd person feminine singular - you have been seized
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *hitgarit*: Hithpael perfect, 2nd person feminine singular - you have engaged in strife

Word Meanings

• *yaqoshti*: I have set a snare/trap/laid a snare
• *nilkadt*: you have been caught/trapped/captured
• *yadaʿat*: you knew/perceived/realized
• *nimtset*: you have been found/discovered
• *nitpast*: you have been seized/captured/taken
• *hitgarit*: you have provoked/contended with/engaged in strife with

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I set a trap for you, Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  I have laid a snare{H3369} for thee, and thou art also taken,{H3920} O Babylon,{H894} and thou wast not aware:{H3045} thou art found,{H4672} and also caught,{H8610} because thou hast striven{H1624} against Jehovah.{H3068}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  I have laid a snare{H3369}{(H8804)} for thee, and thou art also taken{H3920}{(H8738)}, O Babylon{H894}, and thou wast not aware{H3045}{(H8804)}: thou art found{H4672}{(H8738)}, and also caught{H8610}{(H8738)}, because thou hast striven{H1624}{(H8694)} against the LORD{H3068}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I myself haue layed wayte for the, & thou art taken: vnawarres art thou trapped & snared: for why, thou hast prouoked ye LORDE vnto anger:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  I haue snared thee, and thou art taken, O Babel, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striuen against the Lorde.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I my selfe haue layde a snare for thee, and thou art taken vnawares, thou art trapped and snared: for why? thou hast contended agaynst the Lorde.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  I have laid a snare for thee, And also -- thou art captured, O Babylon, And thou -- thou hast known, Thou hast been found, and also art caught, For against Jehovah thou hast stirred thyself up.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against Jehovah.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against Jehovah.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I set a trap for you, Babylon; you were caught before you knew it. You fought against me. So you were found and captured.

Referenced Verses

• Job 9:4 : 4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against Him and succeeded?
• Dan 5:30-31 : 30 That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain. 31 And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
• Job 40:2 : 2 Shall he who contends with the Almighty instruct him? He who reproves God, let him answer it.
• Job 40:9 : 9 Do you have an arm like God, or can you thunder with a voice like him?
• Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also does not know his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.
• Isa 13:11 : 11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
• Isa 21:3-5 : 3 Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I was bent over when I heard it; I was dismayed when I saw it. 4 My heart pounded, fearfulness frightened me; the night that I delighted in has been turned into terror for me. 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield.
• Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him who forms it, What are you making? or shall your work say, He has no hands?
• Jer 51:8 : 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed; howl for her, take balm for her pain, if perhaps she may be healed.
• Jer 51:31-39 : 31 One runner shall meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken wholly, 32 And that the passages are blocked, the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are terrified. 33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor; it is time to thresh her; yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. 34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me up like a monster, he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has thrown me out. 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. 36 Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry. 37 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant. 38 They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs. 39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.
• Jer 51:57 : 57 I will make her princes, wise men, captains, rulers, and mighty men drunk, and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
• 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
• Rev 18:7-8 : 7 As much as she has glorified herself, and lived luxuriously, give her that much torment and sorrow: for she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8 Therefore her plagues shall come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.
• Exod 10:3 : 3 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.