Jeremiah 30:16

“Therefore all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries, all of them, will go into captivity; and those who despoil you will become spoil, and all who plunder you I will give to plunder.”

Jeremiah 30:16 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Jeremiah 30:16, word by word

who devour youאֹכְלַיִochlayi

devour

Literally "eat": to destroy something, as fire burns everything up.

Where else “ochlayi” appears
your adversariesצָרַיִtsarayi

adversary

Someone who oppresses and attacks another; the adversary.

Where else “tsarayi” appears
will goיֵלֵכוּyelechu

go

To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.

Where else “yelechu” appears
into captivityשְּׁבִיshevi

captive, captivity

Captive, prisoner; captivity.

Where else “shevi” appears
those who despoil youשֹׁאסַיִshosayi

plunder

To plunder, to loot.

Where else “shosayi” appears
will becomeהָיוּhayu

become

To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.

Where else “hayu” appears
spoilמְשִׁסָּהmeshisa

spoil, plunder

Spoil: what an enemy snatches when plundering, and also the people itself left exposed to plunder (2 Kings 21:14; Isaiah 42:22; Jeremiah 30:16).

Where else “meshisa” appears
who plunder youבֹּזְזַיִbozzayi

plunder

Plunder, take spoil.

Where else “bozzayi” appears
I will giveאֶתֵּןeten

give

To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.

Where else “eten” appears
to plunderבַזvaz

plunder, booty

Plunder: what the victor carries off from the defeated.

Where else “vaz” appears

The context

15Why do you cry out over your breaking? Beyond remedy is your pain. Because of the multitude of your iniquity, because your sins have become strong, I have done these things to you.

16 · This verse (above)

17For I will bring up recovery for you, and from your wounds I will heal you, declares YHWH; for ‘Driven Away’ they have called you: ‘Zion is she; no one seeks her.’

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