Jeremiah 11:20

Webster's Bible (1833)

But, Yahweh of Hosts, who judge righteously, who try the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַֽיהוָ֤ה צְבָאוֹת֙ שֹׁפֵ֣ט צֶ֔דֶק בֹּחֵ֥ן כְּלָי֖וֹת וָלֵ֑ב אֶרְאֶ֤ה נִקְמָֽתְךָ֙ מֵהֶ֔ם כִּ֥י אֵלֶ֖יךָ גִּלִּ֥יתִי אֶת־רִיבִֽי׃

Transliteration

And-yhwh ṣĕbāʾôt šōpēṭ ṣedeq, bōḥēn kĕlāyôt and-lēb; ʾerʾeh niqmātĕkā from-them, for to-you gillîtî ʾet-rîbî.

Grammar Details

• *yhwh*: proper noun - YHWH/LORD
• *ṣĕbāʾôt*: noun, feminine plural - hosts/armies
• *šōpēṭ*: Qal participle, masculine singular - judging
• *ṣedeq*: noun, masculine singular - righteousness
• *bōḥēn*: Qal participle, masculine singular - testing/examining
• *kĕlāyôt*: noun, feminine plural - kidneys/inward parts
• *lēb*: noun, masculine singular - heart
• *ʾerʾeh*: Qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will see
• *niqmātĕkā*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your vengeance
• *gillîtî*: Piel perfect, 1st person singular - I have revealed
• *rîbî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my case/cause

Word Meanings

• *šōpēṭ ṣedeq*: judging righteously/righteous judge/who judges with justice
• *bōḥēn kĕlāyôt wālēb*: tester of kidneys and heart/examiner of the innermost being and mind/who tests the thoughts and emotions
• *ʾerʾeh niqmātĕkā*: I will see your vengeance/let me witness your retribution
• *gillîtî ʾet-rîbî*: I have revealed my case/I have committed my cause/I have disclosed my complaint

Referenced Verses

• Ps 7:9 : 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, But establish the righteous; Their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
• Jer 20:12 : 12 But, Yahweh of Hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.
• Jer 17:10 : 10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
• 1 Sam 16:7 : 7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
• 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you.
• Ps 10:14-15 : 14 But you do see trouble and grief; You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless. 15 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
• Jer 17:18 : 18 Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
• Gen 18:25 : 25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
• Jer 15:15 : 15 Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; don't take me away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
• Rev 2:23 : 23 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
• Rev 6:9-9 : 9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. 10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
• Rev 18:20 : 20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her."
• Jer 18:20-23 : 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle. 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. 23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.
• Acts 17:31 : 31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."
• Phil 4:6 : 6 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
• 2 Tim 4:14 : 14 Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his works,
• 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
• Ps 35:2 : 2 Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help.
• Ps 43:1 : 1 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
• Ps 57:1 : 1 > Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, For my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, Until disaster has passed.
• Ps 98:9 : 9 Let them sing before Yahweh, For he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with equity.
• Jer 12:1 : 1 Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
• Job 5:8 : 8 "But as for me, I would seek God, To God would I commit my cause;
• 1 Sam 24:15 : 15 Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.
• 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.