Jeremiah 30:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondman;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָה֩ בַיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא נְאֻ֣ם ׀ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֗וֹת אֶשְׁבֹּ֤ר עֻלּוֹ֙ מֵעַ֣ל צַוָּארֶ֔ךָ וּמוֹסְרוֹתֶ֖יךָ אֲנַתֵּ֑ק וְלֹא־יַעַבְדוּ־ב֥וֹ ע֖וֹד זָרִֽים

Transliteration

And-hāyāh in-the-yôm the-that nᵉʾum Yhwh ṣᵉḇāʾôṯ ʾešbōr ʿullô from-upon ṣawwāreḵā and-môsᵉrôṯeḵā ʾănattēq and-not-yaʿaḇḏû-bô ʿôḏ zārîm

Grammar Details

*hāyāh*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - will be/happen
*yôm*: masculine singular noun with definite article + preposition - in the day
*nᵉʾum*: construct state - declaration of
*Yhwh*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
*ṣᵉḇāʾôṯ*: masculine plural noun - hosts/armies
*ʾešbōr*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will break
*ʿullô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his yoke
*ṣawwāreḵā*: masculine singular noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your neck
*môsᵉrôṯeḵā*: feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your bonds/fetters
*ʾănattēq*: piel imperfect 1st person singular - I will tear off/snap
*yaʿaḇḏû-bô*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural + preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - they will serve/enslave him
*ʿôḏ*: adverb - still/yet/again
*zārîm*: masculine plural adjective - strangers/foreigners

Word Meanings

*ʿullô*: his yoke/his burden
*môsᵉrôṯeḵā*: your bonds/fetters/chains
*ʾănattēq*: I will tear off/snap/break
*zārîm*: strangers/foreigners/aliens

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 34:27 : 27 And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those that made bondmen of them.
Nah 1:13 : 13 And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
Isa 9:4 : 4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.
Jer 27:2 : 2 Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck;
Jer 28:10 : 10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
Isa 10:27 : 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall depart from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.
Isa 14:25 : 25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder.
Jer 2:20 : 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.
Jer 25:14 : 14 For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.
Jer 28:13 : 13 Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast broken the bars of wood; but thou hast made in their stead bars of iron.
Jer 27:7 : 7 And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondman.
Jer 28:4 : 4 and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went to Babylon, saith Jehovah; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

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