Jeremiah 23:38 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 23:38

But if you claim, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ then this is what the LORD says: Because you have said, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ and I specifically told you not to make this claim,

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ASV

But if ye say, The burden of Jehovah; therefore thus saith Jehovah: Because ye say this word, The burden of Jehovah, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of Jehovah;

KJV

But since ye say, The burden of the Lord; therefore thus saith the Lord; Because ye say this word, The burden of the Lord, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the Lord;

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Commentary

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Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This was the word that gave great offence to God, that, whenever they spoke of the word of the Lord, they called it, in scorn and derision, the burden of the Lord. This was a word that the prophets much used, and used it seriously, to show what a weight the word of God was upon their spirits, of what importance it was, and how pressingly it should come upon those that heard it.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאִם־	ve.'im-	and if	H518 →
מַשָּׂ֣א	ma.Sa'	[the] burden of	H4853 →
יְהוָה֮	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
תֹּאמֵרוּ֒	to.me.Ru	you will say	H559 →
לָכֵ֗ן	la.Khen	<to> therefore	H3651 →
כֹּ֚ה	koh	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֣ר	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
יַ֧עַן	Ya.'an	because	H3282 →
אֲמָרְכֶ֛ם	'a.ma.re.Khem	have spoken you	H559 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַדָּבָ֥ר	ha.da.Var	the word	H1697 →
הַזֶּ֖ה	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
מַשָּׂ֣א	ma.Sa'	[the] burden of	H4853 →
יְהוָ֑ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וָאֶשְׁלַ֤ח	va.'esh.Lach	and I sent	H7971 →
אֲלֵיכֶם֙	'a.lei.Khem	to you	H413 →
לֵאמֹ֔ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תֹאמְר֖וּ	to.me.Ru	you must say	H559 →
מַשָּׂ֥א	ma.Sa'	[the] burden of	H4853 →
יְהוָֽה׃	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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