Jeremiah 30:13
in Jeremiah 30There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
KJV
There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
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This verse in Jeremiah 30
Commentary
10 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
That thou mayest be bound up - Others put a stop after “cause,” and translate, For binding thy wound, healing plaster thou hast none.
This site's exposition
For this is what the LORD
on Jeremiah 30:12-17
The diagnosis is stated plainly, “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.” Verse 14 names the cause, “your great iniquity and your numerous sins.” Verse 17 answers the wound with the LORD's promise, “I will restore your health and heal your wounds,” reversing the word spoken against her.
This site's exposition
There is no one to plead your cause
Judah stands like a patient with no advocate and no healer. Wesley reads the point as a warning that no quick cure was coming, whatever the false prophets promised. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, on verse 16, see the Lord taking up the cause that no one else would plead.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 12 onwards) For thus says the Lord, your fracture is incurable, your wound is grievous. There is no one to judge your judgment for binding, there is no usefulness in your healing. All your lovers have forgotten you, they will not seek you. For the enemy has struck you with a cruel (or strong) punishment because of the multitude of your iniquities, your sins have become severe (or multiplied). Why do you cry out about your contrition?
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
No medicine - The prophet's design was to convince them, that there was no present remedy, but patience, though their false prophets might promise a cure.
There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up,....
It is commonly thus when families go to decay; those hang off from them that had been their hangers-on. In two cases we are glad of the assistance of our friends and need their service:-- 1.
Though God correct them, and justly, for their sins, their manifold transgressions and mighty sins, yet he will return in mercy to them, and even their sin shall not prevent their deliverance when God's time shall come.
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
none to plead--a new image from a court of justice. bound up--namely, with the bandages applied to tie up a wound. no healing medicines--literally, "medicines of healing," or else applications, (literally, "ascensions") of medicaments.
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There is none to plead thy cause - All thy friends and allies have forsaken thee.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
to be healed cure. No one thinks that you will have salvation.
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
Your injury is painful, your wound grievous (Enfers in Old French).
cruel chastisement chastisements of cruelty. The chastisement is cruel.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֵֽין־ | ʾein- | there not | H369 → | 789 times |
| דָּ֥ן | dan | [is one who] pleads | H1777 → | 24 times |
| דִּינֵ֖ךְ | dinekh | cause your | H1779 → | 20 times |
| לְמָז֑וֹר | lemazor | to a sore | H4205 → | |
| רְפֻא֥וֹת | refuot | [are] medications of | H7499 → | |
| תְּעָלָ֖ה | tealah | healing | H8585 → | |
| אֵ֥ין | ʾein | there not | H369 → | 789 times |
| לָֽךְ׃ | lakh | for <the> you |
אֵֽין־there not
ʾein-H369 →789 times
דָּ֥ן[is one who] pleads
danH1777 →24 times
דִּינֵ֖ךְcause your
dinekhH1779 →20 times
לְמָז֑וֹרto a sore
lemazorH4205 →
רְפֻא֥וֹת[are] medications of
refuotH7499 →
תְּעָלָ֖הhealing
tealahH8585 →
אֵ֥יןthere not
ʾeinH369 →789 times
לָֽךְ׃for <the> you
lakh
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jeremiah 30:17But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
it leads to
- Psalms 107:20
He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.
- Jeremiah 33:6
Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
- 1 Peter 2:24
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- Psalms 103:3
He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
- Exodus 15:26
saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then…
- Psalms 107:20
Through
Ezekiel 22:30I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no…
it leads to
- Isaiah 59:16
He saw that there was no man; He was amazed that there was no one to intercede. So His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him.
- Jeremiah 5:1
“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I…
- Psalms 106:23
So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.
- Isaiah 59:16
Where this verse is studied
On this page
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About Jeremiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.