Jeremiah 13:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תְּנוּ֩ לַיהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֤ם כָּבוֹד֙ בְּטֶ֣רֶם יַחְשִׁ֔ךְ וּבְטֶ֛רֶם יִֽתְנַגְּפ֥וּ רַגְלֵיכֶ֖ם עַל־הָ֣רֵי נָ֑שֶׁף וְקִוִּיתֶ֤ם לְאוֹר֙ וְשָׂמָ֣הּ לְצַלְמָ֔וֶת *ישית **וְשִׁ֖ית לַעֲרָפֶֽל׃

Transliteration

Tenû to YHWH ʾĕlōhêkem kābôd before yachshîk and before yitnagepû ragalêkem upon hārê nāshep, and qiwwîtem leʾôr and śāmāh leṣalmāwet and shît laʿărāpel.

Grammar Details

• *tenû*: imperative, masculine plural - give
• *laYHWH*: preposition with proper noun - to the LORD
• *ʾĕlōhêkem*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your God
• *kābôd*: noun, masculine singular - glory/honor
• *beṭerem*: preposition with adverb - before
• *yachshîk*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it grows dark
• *ûbeṭerem*: conjunction with preposition with adverb - and before
• *yitnagepû*: hithpael imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they stumble
• *ragalêkem*: noun, feminine dual with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your feet
• *ʿal*: preposition - upon/on
• *hārê*: noun, masculine plural construct - mountains of
• *nāshep*: noun, masculine singular - twilight/darkness
• *weqiwwîtem*: conjunction with piel perfect, 2nd masculine plural - and you wait/hope
• *leʾôr*: preposition with noun, masculine singular - for light
• *weśāmāh*: conjunction with perfect, 3rd masculine singular with 3rd feminine singular suffix - and he will make it
• *leṣalmāwet*: preposition with noun, masculine singular - deep darkness/shadow of death
• *weshît*: conjunction with infinitive construct alternative form - and set/place
• *laʿărāpel*: preposition with noun, masculine singular - for thick darkness/gloom

Word Meanings

• *nāshep*: twilight/darkness/dusk
• *ṣalmāwet*: deep darkness/shadow of death
• *shît*: set/place/put
• *ʿărāpel*: thick clouds/deep darkness

Referenced Verses

• Isa 8:22 : 22 and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.
• Isa 59:9 : 9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
• Josh 7:19 : 19 Joshua said to Achan, My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me now what you have done; don't hide it from me.
• Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
• Isa 5:30 : 30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
• Isa 60:2 : 2 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
• Jer 23:12 : 12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
• Ps 44:19 : 19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
• Ps 96:7-8 : 7 Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of nations, Ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength. 8 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts.
• 1 Sam 6:5 : 5 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
• Exod 10:21 : 21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt."
• Eccl 11:8 : 8 Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; But let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
• Eccl 12:1-2 : 1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the evil days come, and the years draw near, When you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;" 2 Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, And the clouds return after the rain;
• Lam 4:17 : 17 Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
• Amos 8:9-9 : 9 "It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "That I will cause the sun to go down at noon, And I will darken the earth in the clear day. 10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; And I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, And baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, And the end of it like a bitter day.
• John 12:35 : 35 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.
• 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 and, "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, whereunto also they were appointed.
• 1 John 2:10-11 : 10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him. 11 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
• Jer 4:23 : 23 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
• Jer 8:15 : 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
• Jer 14:19 : 19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!