Jeremiah 14:10

World English Bible (2000)

Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כֹּֽה־אָמַ֨ר יְהוָ֜ה לָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֗ה כֵּ֤ן אָֽהֲבוּ֙ לָנ֔וּעַ רַגְלֵיהֶ֖ם לֹ֣א חָשָׂ֑כוּ וַיהוָה֙ לֹ֣א רָצָ֔ם עַתָּה֙ יִזְכֹּ֣ר עֲוֺנָ֔ם וְיִפְקֹ֖ד חַטֹּאתָֽם׃ ס

Transliteration

Thus-ʾāmar YHWH to-the-ʿām the-this thus ʾāhăḇû lānûaʿ raḡlêhem not ḥāśāḵû and-YHWH not rāṣām now yizkōr ʿăwōnām wəyip̄qōḏ ḥaṭṭōʾṯām

Grammar Details

• *ʾāmar*: qal perfect, 3rd singular masculine - he said
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *ʿām*: noun, masculine singular with preposition + definite article - to the people
• *ʾāhăḇû*: qal perfect, 3rd plural - they loved
• *lānûaʿ*: qal infinitive construct with preposition - to wander
• *raḡlêhem*: noun, feminine dual with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their feet
• *ḥāśāḵû*: qal perfect, 3rd plural with negative particle - they have not restrained
• *rāṣām*: qal perfect, 3rd singular masculine with negative particle - he has not accepted/favored them
• *yizkōr*: qal imperfect, 3rd singular masculine - he will remember
• *ʿăwōnām*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their iniquity
• *wəyip̄qōḏ*: qal imperfect, 3rd singular masculine with conjunction - and he will visit/punish
• *ḥaṭṭōʾṯām*: noun, feminine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their sins

Word Meanings

• *ʾāhăḇû*: they loved/desired/preferred
• *lānûaʿ*: to wander/to roam/to be restless
• *ḥāśāḵû*: they have not restrained/held back/spared
• *rāṣām*: accepted them/favored them/been pleased with them
• *yizkōr*: will remember/recall/bring to mind
• *wəyip̄qōḏ*: will visit/punish/attend to

Referenced Verses

• Ps 119:101 : 101 I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.
• Hos 8:13 : 13 As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But Yahweh doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
• Hos 9:9 : 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
• Amos 5:22 : 22 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
• Jer 6:20 : 20 To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me."
• Jer 8:5 : 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
• Jer 31:34 : 34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
• Jer 44:21-23 : 21 The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn't Yahweh remember them, and didn't it come into his mind? 22 so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day. 23 Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is this day.
• Jer 2:23-25 : 23 "How can you say, 'I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals'? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. [You are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways; 24 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her. 25 "Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.'
• Jer 2:36 : 36 Why do you go about so much to change your way? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
• Jer 3:1-2 : 1 "They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says Yahweh. 2 "Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
• Mal 1:8-9 : 8 When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn't that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn't that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?" says Yahweh of Armies. 9 "Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?" says Yahweh of Armies. 10 "Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of Armies, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand. 11 For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations," says Yahweh of Armies. 12 "But you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.' 13 You say also, 'Behold, what a weariness it is!' and you have sniffed at it," says Yahweh of Armies; "and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?" says Yahweh.
• Heb 8:12 : 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more."
• 1 Sam 15:2 : 2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.
• 1 Kgs 17:18 : 18 She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!"
• Ps 109:14-15 : 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
• Hos 11:7 : 7 My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won't exalt them.
• Hos 11:9 : 9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you; and I will not come in wrath.