Jeremiah 6:7New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “As a well keeps its waters fresh, So she keeps fresh her wickedness. Violence and destruction are heard in her; Sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually [is] grief and wounds.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— As a well casteth forth her waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and devastation is heard in her; before me continually [are] grief and wounds.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— As a well poureth forth her waters, so she poureth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction are heard in her; before me continually are grief and wounds.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Like the casting forth by a well of its waters, So, hath she cast forth her wickedness,—Violence and destruction, are heard in her, Before my face, continually, are suffering and smiting.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— As the digging of a well, is [for] its waters, So she hath digged [for] her wickedness, Violence and spoil is heard in her, Before My face continually [are] sickness and smiting.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her wickedness cold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity and stripes are continually before me.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— As the fountaine casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her malice: crueltie and spoyle is continually heard in her before me with sorowe and strokes.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— As a fountaine casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickednesse: violence and spoile is heard in her, before me continually [is] griefe and wounds.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— As a cistern that gathers its water, so has she gathered her wickedness; violence and plunder are heard in her; before me continually are grief and wounds.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, [as] continually before her.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually [is] grief and wounds. |
As a fountain
953 {0953} Primeבּוֹרbowr{bore}
From H0952 (in the sense of H0877); a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or prison).
casteth out
6979 {6979} Primeקוּרquwr{koor}
A primitive root; to trench; by implication to throw forth; also (denominative from H7023) to wall up, whether literally (to build a wall) or figuratively (to estop).
z8687 <8687> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Infinitive (See H8812) Count - 1162
her waters,
4325 {4325} Primeמַיִםmayim{mah'-yim}
Dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively juice; by euphemism urine, semen.
so
x3651 (3651) Complementכֵּןken{kane}
From H3559; properly set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjugation) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles).
she casteth
x6979 (6979) Complementקוּרquwr{koor}
A primitive root; to trench; by implication to throw forth; also (denominative from H7023) to wall up, whether literally (to build a wall) or figuratively (to estop).
out
y6979 [6979] Standardקוּרquwr{koor}
A primitive root; to trench; by implication to throw forth; also (denominative from H7023) to wall up, whether literally (to build a wall) or figuratively (to estop).
z8689 <8689> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 2675
her wickedness:
7451 {7451} Primeרָעra`{rah}
From H7489; bad or (as noun) evil (naturally or morally). This includes the second (feminine) form; as adjective or noun.
violence
2555 {2555} Primeחָמָסchamac{khaw-mawce'}
From H2554; violence; by implication wrong; by metonymy unjust gain.
and spoil
7701 {7701} Primeשֹׁדshod{shode}
From H7736; violence, ravage.
is heard
8085 {8085} Primeשָׁמַעshama`{shaw-mah'}
A primitive root; to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively to tell, etc.).
z8735 <8735> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 1602
in her; before
x5921 (5921) Complementעַל`al{al}
Properly the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural, often with prefix, or as conjugation with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications.
x6440 (6440) Complementפָּנִיםpaniym{paw-neem'}
Plural (but always used as a singular) of an unused noun ( פָּנֶה paneh, {paw-neh'}; from H6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition ( before, etc.).
me
y6440 [6440] Standardפָּנִיםpaniym{paw-neem'}
Plural (but always used as a singular) of an unused noun ( פָּנֶה paneh, {paw-neh'}; from H6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition ( before, etc.).
continually
8548 {8548} Primeתָּמִידtamiyd{taw-meed'}
From an unused root meaning to stretch; properly continuance (as indefinite extension); but used only (attributively as adjective) constant (or adverbially constantly); elliptically the regular (daily) sacrifice.
[ is] grief
2483 {2483} Primeחֳלִיcholiy{khol-ee'}
From H2470; malady, anxiety, calamity.
and wounds.
4347 {4347} Primeמַכָּהmakkah{mak-kaw'}
(Plural only) from H5221; a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2:10, of the flail); by implication a wound; figuratively carnage, also pestilence. |
Jeremiah 6:7
_ _ fountain — rather, a well dug, from which water springs; distinct from a natural spring or fountain.
_ _ casteth out — causeth to flow; literally, “causeth to dig,” the cause being put for the effect (2 Kings 21:16, 2 Kings 21:24; Isaiah 57:20).
_ _ me — Jehovah. |
Jeremiah 6:7
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: (g) violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually [are] grief and wounds.
(g) He shows the reason why it would be destroyed, and how it comes from themselves. |
- a fountain:
Proverbs 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.
Isaiah 57:20 But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
James 3:10-12 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. ... Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
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- violence:
Jeremiah 20:8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
Psalms 55:9-11 Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. ... Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Ezekiel 7:11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither [shall there be] wailing for them.
Ezekiel 7:23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Ezekiel 22:3-12 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. ... In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 24:7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
Micah 2:1-2 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. ... And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Micah 2:8-10 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. ... Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore destruction.
Micah 3:1-3 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; [Is it] not for you to know judgment? ... Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
Micah 3:9-12 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. ... Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Micah 7:2-3 The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. ... That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
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