Let my persecutorsרֹדְפַיbe put to shame,יֵבֹשׁוּbut let notוְאַלmeאָנִיbe put to shame;אֵבֹשָׁהlet themהֵמָּהbe terrified,יֵחַתּוּbut let notוְאַלmeאָנִיbe terrified;אֵחַתָּהbringהָבִיאupon themעֲלֵיהֶםthe dayיוֹםof evil,רָעָהand with doubleוּמִשְׁנֶהbreakingשִׁבָּרוֹןbreak them.שָׁבְרֵם
Jeremiah 17:18
Study it in the app“Let my persecutors be put to shame, but let not me be put to shame; let them be terrified, but let not me be terrified; bring upon them the day of evil, and with double breaking break them.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 17:18, word by word
- Let my persecutorsרֹדְפַrodfa
pursue
To go after someone to catch them.
Where else “rodfa” appears- be put to shameיֵבֹשׁוּyevoshu
be disappointed
To be disgraced because what one trusted in failed.
Where else “yevoshu” appears- be terrifiedיֵחַתּוּyechatu
be dismayed
To lose heart from fear, to have no strength to go on.
Where else “yechatu” appears- bringהָבִיאhavi
bring
To bring something or someone.
Where else “havi” appears- the dayיוֹםyom
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears- of evilרָעָהraa
evil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “raa” appears- and with doubleמִשְׁנֶהmishne
double
Twice the amount.
Where else “mishne” appears- breakingשִׁבָּרוֹןshibaron
ruin
Breaking, ruin.
Where else “shibaron” appears- break themשָׁבְרֵshavre
break
To break something to pieces.
Where else “shavre” appears
The context
17Do not be to me a terror; my refuge are you in the day of evil.
18 · This verse (above)
19Thus YHWH said to me: “Go and stand in the gate of the sons of the people, by which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem,