Jeremiah 7:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I also explicitly commanded them:“Obey me. If you do, I will be your God and you will be my people. Live exactly the way I tell you and things will go well with you.”

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י אִֽם־אֶת־הַדָּבָ֣ר הַ֠זֶּה צִוִּ֨יתִי אוֹתָ֤ם לֵאמֹר֙ שִׁמְע֣וּ בְקוֹלִ֔י וְהָיִ֤יתִי לָכֶם֙ לֵֽאלֹהִ֔ים וְאַתֶּ֖ם תִּֽהְיוּ־לִ֣י לְעָ֑ם וַהֲלַכְתֶּ֗ם בְּכָל־הַדֶּ֙רֶךְ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲצַוֶּ֣ה אֶתְכֶ֔ם לְמַ֖עַן יִיטַ֥ב לָכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

But kî ʾim-ʾet-haddābār hazzeh ṣiwwîtî ʾôtām lēʾmōr šimʿû bəqôlî wəhāyîtî lākem lēʾlōhîm wəʾattem tihyû-lî ləʿām wahalaktem bəkol-hadderek ʾăšer ʾăṣawweh ʾetkem ləmaʿan yîṭab lākem.

Grammar Details

• *kî ʾim*: conjunction + conditional particle - but rather
• *ʾet-haddābār*: direct object marker + definite article + masculine singular noun - this word/thing
• *hazzeh*: masculine singular demonstrative adjective - this
• *ṣiwwîtî*: piel perfect 1st person singular - I commanded
• *ʾôtām*: direct object marker + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - them
• *lēʾmōr*: qal infinitive construct - saying
• *šimʿû*: qal imperative masculine plural - listen/hear/obey
• *bəqôlî*: preposition + masculine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - to my voice
• *wəhāyîtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular with vav consecutive - and I will be
• *lākem*: preposition + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - for you
• *lēʾlōhîm*: preposition + masculine plural noun - as God
• *wəʾattem*: conjunction + 2nd person masculine plural pronoun - and you
• *tihyû-lî*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine plural + preposition with 1st person singular suffix - you will be to me
• *ləʿām*: preposition + masculine singular noun - as a people
• *wahalaktem*: qal perfect 2nd person masculine plural with vav consecutive - and you shall walk
• *bəkol-hadderek*: preposition + noun + definite article + masculine singular noun - in all the way
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
• *ʾăṣawweh*: piel imperfect 1st person singular - I command
• *ʾetkem*: direct object marker + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - you
• *ləmaʿan*: preposition + conjunction - so that/in order that
• *yîṭab*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - it will be good

Word Meanings

• *dābār*: word/thing/matter
• *ṣiwwîtî*: I commanded/I ordered/I instructed
• *šimʿû*: listen/hear/obey
• *qôl*: voice/sound/noise
• *derekh*: way/road/path/journey
• *ʾăṣawweh*: I command/I instruct/I order
• *yîṭab*: it will be good/it will go well/it will prosper

Referenced Verses

• Exod 15:26 : 26 He said,“If you will diligently obey the LORD your God, and do what is right in his sight, and pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then all the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians I will not bring on you, for I, the LORD, am your healer.”
• Deut 5:33 : 33 Walk just as he has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land you are going to possess.
• Deut 6:3 : 3 Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number– as the LORD, God of your ancestors, said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey.
• Jer 42:6 : 6 We will obey what the LORD our God to whom we are sending you tells us to do. It does not matter whether we like what he tells us or not. We will obey what he tells us to do so that things will go well for us.”
• Jer 11:4 : 4 Those are the terms that I charged your ancestors to keep when I brought them out of Egypt, that place which was like an iron-smelting furnace. I said at that time,“Obey me and carry out the terms of the covenant exactly as I commanded you. If you do, you will be my people and I will be your God.
• Jer 11:7 : 7 For I solemnly warned your ancestors to obey me. I warned them again and again, ever since I delivered them out of Egypt until this very day.
• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine, 6 and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”
• Lev 26:3-9 : 3 The Benefits of Obedience“‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments, 4 I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. 5 Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land. 6 I will grant peace in the land so that you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. I will remove harmful animals from the land, and no sword of war will pass through your land. 7 You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword. 8 Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. 9 I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you. 10 You will still be eating stored produce from the previous year and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new. 11 “‘I will put my tabernacle in your midst and I will not abhor you. 12 I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people.
• Deut 4:10 : 10 You stood before the LORD your God at Horeb and he said to me,“Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children.”
• Deut 5:16 : 16 Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.
• Deut 5:29 : 29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.
• Deut 11:27 : 27 the blessing if you take to heart the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,
• Deut 13:4 : 4 You must follow the LORD your God and revere only him; and you must observe his commandments, obey him, serve him, and remain loyal to him.
• Deut 30:2 : 2 Then if you and your descendants turn to the LORD your God and obey him with your whole mind and being just as I am commanding you today,
• Deut 30:8 : 8 You will return and obey the LORD, keeping all his commandments I am giving you today.
• Deut 30:20 : 20 I also call on you to love the LORD your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
• Jer 31:33 : 33 “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land,” says the LORD.“I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people.
• Rom 16:26 : 26 but now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith–
• 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 and every arrogant obstacle that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to make it obey Christ.
• Heb 5:9 : 9 And by being perfected in this way, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,