Jeremiah 23:9

“Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones tremble; I have become like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of YHWH and because of his holy words.”

Jeremiah 23:9 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Jeremiah 23:9, word by word

Concerning the prophetsנְּבִאִיםneviim

prophet

Someone who speaks for YHWH.

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My heartלִבִּlibi

heart

The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.

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is brokenנִשְׁבַּרnishbar

crush

To break pride; "a broken heart".

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within meקִרְבִּkirbi

inside

One's inner part, one's inmost self.

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my bonesעַצְמוֹתַatsmota

bone

Each hard piece of the skeleton; also the body itself, of the dead or the living.

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trembleרָחֲפוּrachafu

tremble

The body going slack with fear.

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I have becomeהָיִיתִיhayiti

become

To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.

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like a drunkenשִׁכּוֹרshikor

drunk

Drunk: one who has drunk too much wine.

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manאִישׁish

man

An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.

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and like a manגֶבֶרgever

man

Man, a grown man in his strength.

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whom wineיָיִןyayin

wine

Wine; also drunkenness.

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has overcomeעֲבָרavar

pass

To get over a river, or go through a land.

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because ofפְּנֵיpene

before

Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.

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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.

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his holyקָדְשׁkadsh

holy thing

Something set apart for God: a day, an offering.

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wordsדִּבְרֵיdivre

word

What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.

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The context

8but ‘As YHWH lives, who brought up and who brought the offspring of the house of Israel out of the land of the north and out of all the lands where I had driven them’; and they will dwell on their own ground.”

9 · This verse (above)

10For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness have dried up; and their course is evil, and their might is not right.

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