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And whereוְאַיֵּהare your prophetsנְבִיאֵיכֶםwhoאֲשֶׁרprophesiedנִבְּאוּto you,לָכֶםsaying,לֵאמֹר‘The kingמֶלֶךְof Babylonבָּבֶלwill notלֹאcomeיָבֹאagainst youעֲלֵיכֶםor against this land’?וְעַל הָאָרֶץ הַזֹּאת
Jeremiah 37:19
Study it in the app“And where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land’?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Jeremiah 37:19, word by word
- are your prophetsנְבִיאֵיnevie
prophet
Someone who speaks for YHWH.
Where else “nevie” appears- prophesiedנִבְּאוּnibu
prophesy
To speak what God's spirit gives to say.
Where else “nibu” appears- sayingאמֹרmor
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appears- ‘The kingמֶלֶךְmelech
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appears- of Babylonבָּבֶלbavel
Babel, Babylon
See it on the mapWhere else “bavel” appears- comeיָבֹאyavo
come
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “yavo” appears- or against this land’אָרֶץarets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appears
Places in this verse
Babylon
Today: Babylon ruins, near Hillah, Iraq
A great city on the Euphrates River, in present-day Iraq, about 53 miles (85 km) south of Baghdad.
In its land the languages were confused at Babel (Gen 11:9). Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and took the people captive there (2 Kgs 25:1-11). Daniel lived there (Dan 1:1-6).
The context
18And Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “What sin have I committed against you or against your servants or against this people, that you have put me in the prison?
19 · This verse (above)
20And now, hear, please, my lord the king; please let my supplication fall before you, and do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, that I may not die there.”