Focused Passage

Jeremiah 16:10-13

Jeremiah’s Sign-Life, Judah’s Exile, and the Nations’ Confession

The chapter moves from Jeremiah's commanded unmarried and childless sign-life, to the prohibition against mourning, to the prohibition against feasting, to the people's question about why disaster is coming, to the LORD's answer of ancestral and intensified sin, to the announcement of exile, to a future restoration greater than the Exodus, to the sending of fishermen and hunters to capture sinners, and finally to Jeremiah's confession of the LORD as strength and refuge and the nations' future confession that inherited idols are worthless.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

10 When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’

11 Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.

12 And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.

13 So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

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References and Original Words

Verse 10

Cross-references

Jeremiah 13:22 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 5:19 Classic cross-references Joel 2:1 Classic cross-references 1 Kings 9:8 Classic cross-references 2 Chronicles 7:21 Classic cross-references

Original words

- וְהָיָ֗ה H1961 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular When כִּ֤י H3588 Conjunction you tell תַגִּיד֙ H5046 Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular these הַזֶּ֔ה H2088 Article | Pronoun - masculine singular - אֵ֥ת H853 Direct object marker people לָעָ֣ם H5971 Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular all כָּל־ H3605 Noun - masculine singular construct these הָאֵ֑לֶּה H428 Article | Pronoun - common plural things הַדְּבָרִ֖ים H1697 Article | Noun - masculine plural they will ask וְאָמְר֣וּ H559 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural you אֵלֶ֗יךָ H413 Preposition | second person masculine singular Why עַל־ H5921 Preposition . . . מֶה֩ H4100 Interrogative has the LORD יְהוָ֤ה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular pronounced דִבֶּ֨ר H1696 Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular all כָּל־ H3605 Noun - masculine singular construct this הַזֹּ֔את H2063 Article | Pronoun - feminine singular great הַגְּדוֹלָה֙ H1419 Article | Adjective - feminine singular disaster הָרָעָ֤ה H7451 Article | Adjective - feminine singular against us עָלֵ֙ינוּ֙ H5921 Preposition | first person common plural - אֵ֣ת H853 Direct object marker What וּמֶ֤ה H4100 Conjunctive waw | Interrogative [is] our iniquity עֲוֺנֵ֙נוּ֙ H5771 Noun - common singular construct | first person common plural What וּמֶ֣ה H4100 Conjunctive waw | Interrogative is the sin חַטָּאתֵ֔נוּ H2403 Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common plural that אֲשֶׁ֥ר H834 Pronoun - relative we have committed חָטָ֖אנוּ H2398 Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural against the LORD לַֽיהוָ֥ה H3068 Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular our God אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ H430 Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural

Verse 11

Cross-references

Psalms 106:35 Classic cross-references 1 Kings 9:9 Classic cross-references 1 Peter 4:3 Classic cross-references Deuteronomy 29:25 Classic cross-references Ezekiel 11:21 Classic cross-references

Original words

Then you are to answer them וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ H559 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular . . . אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם H413 Preposition | third person masculine plural [It is] because עַל֩ H5921 Preposition - אֲשֶׁר־ H834 Pronoun - relative your fathers אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֤ם H1 Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural have forsaken עָזְב֨וּ H5800 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Me אוֹתִי֙ H853 Direct object marker | first person common singular declares נְאֻם־ H5002 Noun - masculine singular construct the LORD יְהוָ֔ה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular and followed וַיֵּלְכ֗וּ H1980 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural . . . אַֽחֲרֵי֙ H310 Preposition other אֲחֵרִ֔ים H312 Adjective - masculine plural gods אֱלֹהִ֣ים H430 Noun - masculine plural and served וַיַּעַבְד֖וּם H5647 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine plural and worshiped וַיִּשְׁתַּחֲו֣וּ H7812 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural them לָהֶ֑ם Preposition | third person masculine plural - וְאֹתִ֣י H853 Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker | first person common singular They abandoned Me עָזָ֔בוּ H5800 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural - וְאֶת־ H853 Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker and did not לֹ֥א H3808 Adverb - Negative particle keep שָׁמָֽרוּ׃ H8104 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural My instruction תּוֹרָתִ֖י H8451 Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular

Verse 12

Cross-references

Jeremiah 17:9 Classic cross-references Lamentations 5:7 Classic cross-references Hebrews 3:12 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 13:10 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 7:26 Classic cross-references

Original words

And you וְאַתֶּ֛ם H859 Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine plural have done לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת H6213 Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct more evil הֲרֵעֹתֶ֥ם H7489 Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine plural than your fathers מֵאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם H1 Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural See how וְהִנְּכֶ֣ם H2005 Conjunctive waw | Interjection | second person masculine plural each of you אִ֚ישׁ H376 Noun - masculine singular follows הֹלְכִ֗ים H1980 Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural . . . אַֽחֲרֵי֙ H310 Preposition the stubbornness שְׁרִר֣וּת H8307 Noun - feminine singular construct of his evil הָרָ֔ע H7451 Article | Adjective - masculine singular heart לִבּֽוֹ־ H3820 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular instead of לְבִלְתִּ֖י H1115 Preposition-l obeying שְׁמֹ֥עַ H8085 Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Me אֵלָֽי׃ H413 Preposition | first person common singular

Verse 13

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 28:36 Classic cross-references Deuteronomy 28:64 Classic cross-references Deuteronomy 4:26 Classic cross-references Deuteronomy 4:28 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 15:14 Classic cross-references

Original words

So I will cast וְהֵטַלְתִּ֣י H2904 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular you אֶתְכֶ֗ם H853 Direct object marker | second person masculine plural out of מֵעַל֙ H5921 Preposition-m this הַזֹּ֔את H2063 Article | Pronoun - feminine singular land הָאָ֣רֶץ H776 Article | Noun - feminine singular into עַל־ H5921 Preposition a land הָאָ֕רֶץ H776 Article | Noun - feminine singular that אֲשֶׁר֙ H834 Pronoun - relative neither לֹ֣א H3808 Adverb - Negative particle you אַתֶּ֖ם H859 Pronoun - second person masculine plural nor your fathers וַאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם H1 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural have known יְדַעְתֶּ֔ם H3045 Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural There שָׁ֞ם H8033 Adverb - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker you will serve וַעֲבַדְתֶּם־ H5647 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural other אֲחֵרִים֙ H312 Adjective - masculine plural gods אֱלֹהִ֤ים H430 Noun - masculine plural day יוֹמָ֣ם H3119 Adverb and night וָלַ֔יְלָה H3915 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular for אֲשֶׁ֛ר H834 Pronoun - relative I will show אֶתֵּ֥ן H5414 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular you לָכֶ֖ם Preposition | second person masculine plural no לֹֽא־ H3808 Adverb - Negative particle favor חֲנִינָֽה׃ס H2594 Noun - feminine singular

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