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But ifוְאִםyou do notלֹאhearתִשְׁמְעוּthese words,אֶת הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּהby myselfבִּיI have sworn,נִשְׁבַּעְתִּיdeclaresנְאֻםYHWH,יְהוָהthatכִּיthis houseהַבַּיִת הַזֶּהwill becomeיִהְיֶהa ruin.’”לְחָרְבָּה
Jeremiah 22:5
Study it in the app“But if you do not hear these words, by myself I have sworn, declares YHWH, that this house will become a ruin.’””
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 22:5, word by word
- hearתִשְׁמְעוּtishmu
hear
To hear a sound, or learn of something.
Where else “tishmu” appears- these wordsדְּבָרִיםdevarim
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devarim” appears- I have swornנִשְׁבַּעְתִּיnishbati
swear
To promise with God as witness.
Where else “nishbati” appears- declaresנְאֻםneum
declaration
Solemn words God himself speaks: "oracle of YHWH".
Where else “neum” appears- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- this houseבַּיִתbayit
house
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bayit” appears- will becomeיִהְיֶהyihye
become
To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.
Where else “yihye” appears- a ruin.’חָרְבָּהcharba
ruin, desolate place
A ruin, a destroyed and deserted place.
Where else “charba” appears
The context
4For if you truly do this word, then there will enter by the gates of this house kings who sit for David on his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.
5 · This verse (above)
6For thus says YHWH concerning the house of the king of Judah: “Gilead you are to me, the summit of Lebanon; yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities not inhabited.