Jeremiah 9:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת הִנְנִ֥י צוֹרְפָ֖ם וּבְחַנְתִּ֑ים כִּֽי־אֵ֣יךְ אֶעֱשֶׂ֔ה מִפְּנֵ֖י בַּת־עַמִּֽי׃

Transliteration

lākēn thus 'āmar YHWH ṣĕbā'ôt hinĕnî ṣôrĕpām ûbĕḥantîm kî-how 'e'ĕśeh from-pĕnê bat-'ammî

Grammar Details

• *lākēn*: adverb - therefore
• *'āmar*: perfect verb, 3rd person masculine singular - he has said
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *ṣĕbā'ôt*: feminine plural noun - of hosts/armies
• *hinĕnî*: interjection with 1st person singular suffix - behold me
• *ṣôrĕpām*: participle, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - refining them
• *ûbĕḥantîm*: conjunction + perfect verb, 1st person singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - and I will test them
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *'e'ĕśeh*: imperfect verb, 1st person singular - I will do
• *pĕnê*: masculine plural noun, construct state with prefixed preposition - from the face of
• *bat*: feminine noun, construct state - daughter of
• *'ammî*: masculine noun with 1st person singular suffix - my people

Word Meanings

• *lākēn*: therefore/thus/for this reason
• *'āmar*: said/spoke/declared
• *ṣĕbā'ôt*: of hosts/armies/multitudes
• *hinĕnî*: behold me/look, I am/here I am
• *ṣôrĕpām*: refining them/smelting them/purifying them
• *ûbĕḥantîm*: and I will test them/try them/examine them
• *'e'ĕśeh*: I will do/act/perform
• *pĕnê*: face of/presence of/because of
• *bat-'ammî*: daughter of my people (collective term for the people)

Referenced Verses

• Prov 1:24 : 24 Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded;
• Prov 1:29 : 29 For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah:
• Jer 13:10 : 10 This evil people, that refuse to hear my words, that walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is profitable for nothing.
• Job 21:14-15 : 14 And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
• John 3:19-20 : 19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they {G1381} {G3756} refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.
• Ps 120:2-6 : 2 Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, [And] from a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, Thou deceitful tongue? 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper. 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar! 6 My soul hath long had her dwelling With him that hateth peace.
• Jer 18:18 : 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
• Jer 20:10 : 10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
• Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
• Jer 5:27 : 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.
• Jer 8:5 : 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
• Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.