Jeremiah 17:13

Webster's Bible (1833)

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִקְוֵ֤ה יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ יְהוָ֔ה כָּל־עֹזְבֶ֖יךָ יֵבֹ֑שׁוּ *יסורי **וְסוּרַי֙ בָּאָ֣רֶץ יִכָּתֵ֔בוּ כִּ֥י עָזְב֛וּ מְק֥וֹר מַֽיִם־חַיִּ֖ים אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

miqwēh yiśrāʾēl Yhwh all-ʿōzĕbêkā yēbōšû and-sûray in-the-ʾāreṣ yikkātēbû for ʿāzĕbû mĕqôr mayim-ḥayyîm direct-object-marker-Yhwh

Grammar Details

• *miqwēh*: construct state, masculine singular - hope of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *Yhwh*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *ʿōzĕbêkā*: qal participle masculine plural + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - those forsaking you
• *yēbōšû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they will be ashamed
• *sûray*: qal participle masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - those turning from me
• *ʾāreṣ*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the earth/land
• *yikkātēbû*: niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they will be written
• *ʿāzĕbû*: qal perfect 3rd person common plural - they have forsaken
• *mĕqôr*: construct state, masculine singular - fountain of
• *mayim*: masculine plural noun - waters
• *ḥayyîm*: masculine plural adjective - living

Word Meanings

• *miqwēh*: hope/expectation/gathering place
• *ʿōzĕbêkā*: those who forsake you/abandon you
• *sûray*: those who turn away from me/depart from me
• *mĕqôr*: fountain/spring/source

Referenced Verses

• Isa 1:28 : 28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, And those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
• Jer 14:8 : 8 You hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?
• Ps 73:27 : 27 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
• Isa 66:5 : 5 Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, have said, Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy; but it is those who shall be disappointed.
• John 8:6-8 : 6 They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger. 7 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her." 8 Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.
• Joel 3:16 : 16 Yahweh will roar from Zion, And thunder from Jerusalem; And the heavens and the earth will shake; But Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, And a stronghold to the children of Israel.
• Luke 10:20 : 20 Nevertheless, don't rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."
• John 4:10 : 10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
• John 4:14 : 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
• Jer 2:13 : 13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
• Jer 2:17 : 17 Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
• Ps 36:8-9 : 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures. 9 For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
• Ps 22:4 : 4 Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.
• Isa 45:16-17 : 16 They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols. 17 [But] Israel shall be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be disappointed nor confounded world without end.
• Isa 65:11-14 : 11 But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny; 12 I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight. 13 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be disappointed; 14 behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit.
• Ps 97:7 : 7 Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, Who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
• Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the righteous is blessed, But the name of the wicked will rot.
• Prov 14:14 : 14 The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; Likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
• Jer 2:26-27 : 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets; 27 who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
• Jer 17:5 : 5 Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
• Jer 17:17 : 17 Don't be a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.
• Ezek 16:63 : 63 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.
• Ezek 36:32 : 32 Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.
• Dan 12:2 : 2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• John 7:37-38 : 37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! 38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."
• Acts 28:20 : 20 For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."
• 1 Tim 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope;
• Rev 7:17 : 17 for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
• Rev 20:15 : 15 If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
• Rev 21:6 : 6 He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.
• Rev 22:1 : 1 He showed me a{TR adds "pure"} river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
• Rev 22:17 : 17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" He who hears, let him say, "Come!" He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.