Jeremiah 15:20

Webster's Bible (1833)

I will make you to this people a fortified brazen wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Yahweh.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּנְתַתִּ֜יךָ לָעָ֣ם הַזֶּ֗ה לְחוֹמַ֤ת נְחֹ֙שֶׁת֙ בְּצוּרָ֔ה וְנִלְחֲמ֥וּ אֵלֶ֖יךָ וְלֹא־י֣וּכְלוּ לָ֑ךְ כִּֽי־אִתְּךָ֥ אֲנִ֛י לְהוֹשִֽׁיעֲךָ֥ וּלְהַצִּילֶ֖ךָ נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

û-nətattîkā to-hā-ʿām ha-zeh for-ḥômat nəḥōšet bəṣûrâ; and-nilḥămû against-you and-not-yûkəlû to-you; for-with-you I to-lĕhôšîʿăkā and-to-lĕhaṣṣîlekā nəʾum-YHWH.

Grammar Details

• *û-nətattîkā*: conjunction + qal perfect 1st common singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - and I will make you
• *hā-ʿām*: article + noun common masculine singular - the people
• *ha-zeh*: article + demonstrative adjective - this
• *ḥômat*: noun common feminine singular construct - wall of
• *nəḥōšet*: noun common feminine singular - bronze
• *bəṣûrâ*: adjective feminine singular - fortified
• *nilḥămû*: niphal perfect 3rd common plural - they will fight
• *yûkəlû*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they will prevail
• *lĕhôšîʿăkā*: hiphil infinitive construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - to save you
• *lĕhaṣṣîlekā*: hiphil infinitive construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - to deliver you
• *nəʾum-YHWH*: utterance construct + divine name - declaration of Yahweh/says the LORD

Word Meanings

• *û-nətattîkā lā-ʿām ha-zeh*: and I will make you to this people/I will set you before this people
• *ḥômat nəḥōšet bəṣûrâ*: a wall of bronze, fortified/a fortified bronze wall
• *nilḥămû ʾēlekā*: they will fight against you/they will wage war against you
• *lōʾ-yûkəlû lāk*: they will not prevail against you/they will not overcome you
• *lĕhôšîʿăkā ûlĕhaṣṣîlekā*: to save you and to deliver you/to rescue you and to preserve you

Referenced Verses

• Jer 1:18-19 : 18 For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes of it, against the priests of it, and against the people of the land. 19 They shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you, says Yahweh, to deliver you.
• Ezek 3:9 : 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
• Acts 4:8-9 : 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, 9 if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, 10 be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole. 11 He is 'the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.' 12 There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!" 13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.
• Jer 6:27 : 27 I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.
• Isa 41:10 : 10 Don't you be afraid, for I am with you; don't be dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Jer 1:8 : 8 Don't be afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you, says Yahweh.
• Ps 46:7 : 7 Yahweh of Hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
• Ps 129:1-2 : 1 > Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say, 2 Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, Yet they have not prevailed against me.
• Isa 7:14 : 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.{"Immanuel" means "God with us."}
• Isa 8:9-9 : 9 Make an uproar, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces! And give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces! Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces! 10 Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
• Ps 46:11 : 11 Yahweh of Hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
• Ps 124:1-3 : 1 > If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, Let Israel now say, 2 If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, When men rose up against us; 3 Then they would have swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
• Jer 20:11-12 : 11 But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten. 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.
• Acts 4:29-31 : 29 Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness, 30 while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus." 31 When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
• Acts 5:29-32 : 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree. 31 God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins. 32 We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."
• Acts 18:9-9 : 9 The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent; 10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city."
• Rom 8:31-39 : 31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? 33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter." 37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 2 Tim 4:16-17 : 16 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them. 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• 2 Tim 4:22 : 22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.