Focused Passage

Jeremiah 16:19-21

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.

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19O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

20Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”

21“Therefore behold, I will inform them, and this time I will make them know My power and My might; then they will know that My name is the LORD.

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Verse 19

Cross-references

Psalms 18:2Classic cross-references Acts 1:8Classic cross-references Psalms 46:11Classic cross-references Hosea 2:23Classic cross-references Isaiah 25:4Classic cross-references

Original words

O LORDיְהוָ֞הH3068Noun - proper - masculine singularmy strengthעֻזִּ֧יH5797Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singularand my fortressוּמָעֻזִּ֛יH4581Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singularmy refugeוּמְנוּסִ֖יH4498Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singularin the dayבְּי֣וֹםH3117Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular constructof distressצָרָ֑הH6869Noun - feminine singularthe nationsגּוֹיִ֤םH1471Noun - masculine pluralwill comeיָבֹ֙אוּ֙H935Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine pluralto Youאֵלֶ֗יךָH413Preposition | second person masculine singularfrom the endsמֵֽאַפְסֵי־H657Preposition-m | Adverbof the earthאָ֔רֶץH776Noun - feminine singularand they will sayוְיֹאמְר֗וּH559Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine pluralOur fathersאֲבוֹתֵ֔ינוּH1Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common pluralinheritedנָחֲל֣וּH5157Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common pluralnothing butאַךְ־H389Adverbliesשֶׁ֙קֶר֙H8267Noun - masculine singularworthless idolsהֶ֖בֶלH1892Noun - masculine singularof noוְאֵֽין־H369Conjunctive waw | Adverbbenefit at allמוֹעִֽיל׃H3276Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular

Verse 20

Cross-references

Daniel 3:1Classic cross-references Jeremiah 2:11Classic cross-references Isaiah 37:19Classic cross-references Psalms 115:4Classic cross-references Galatians 4:8Classic cross-references

Original words

Can manאָדָ֖םH120Noun - masculine singularmakeהֲיַעֲשֶׂה־H6213Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singulargodsאֱלֹהִ֑יםH430Noun - masculine pluralfor himselfלּ֥וֹPreposition | third person masculine singularSuchוְהֵ֖מָּהH1992Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person masculine pluralare notלֹ֥אH3808Adverb - Negative particlegodsאֱלֹהִֽים׃H430Noun - masculine plural

Verse 21

Cross-references

Psalms 83:18Classic cross-references Psalms 9:16Classic cross-references Jeremiah 33:2Classic cross-references Amos 5:8Classic cross-references Exodus 15:3Classic cross-references

Original words

Thereforeלָכֵן֙H3651Adverbbeholdהִנְנִ֣יH2005Interjection | first person common singularI will inform themמֽוֹדִיעָ֔םH3045Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular construct | third person masculine pluraland thisהַזֹּ֔אתH2063Article | Pronoun - feminine singulartimeבַּפַּ֣עַםH6471Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singularI will make them knowאוֹדִיעֵ֥םH3045Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine plural-אֶת־H853Direct object markerMy powerיָדִ֖יH3027Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular-וְאֶת־H853Conjunctive waw | Direct object markerand My mightגְּבֽוּרָתִ֑יH1369Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singularthen they will knowוְיָדְע֖וּH3045Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common pluralthatכִּֽי־H3588ConjunctionMy nameשְׁמִ֥יH8034Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singularis the LORDיְהוָֽה׃סH3068Noun - proper - masculine singular

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