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Jeremiah 38:9

“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”

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ASV

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.

KJV

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אֲדֹנִ֣י'a.do.NiO lord myH113 →
הַמֶּ֗לֶךְha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428 →
הֵרֵ֜עוּhe.Re.'uthey have done evilH7489 →
הָאֲנָשִׁ֤יםha.'a.na.Shimthe menH582 →
הָאֵ֙לֶּה֙ha.'E.leh<the> theseH428 →
אֵ֣ת'et<obj.>H853 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
אֲשֶׁ֤ר'a.SherthatH834 →
עָשׂוּ֙'a.Suthey have doneH6213 →
לְיִרְמְיָ֣הוּle.yir.me.Ya.huto JeremiahH3414 →
הַנָּבִ֔יאha.na.Vi'the prophetH5030 →
אֵ֥ת'et<obj.>H853 →
אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-whomH834 →
הִשְׁלִ֖יכוּhish.Li.khuthey have thrownH7993 →
אֶל־'el-intoH413 →
הַבּ֑וֹרha.Borthe cisternH953 →
וַיָּ֤מָתvai.Ya.motand he diedH4191 →
תַּחְתָּיו֙tach.Tavin itH8478 →
מִפְּנֵ֣יmi.pe.Nei<from> because ofH6440 →
הָֽרָעָ֔בha.ra.'Av<the> famineH7458 →
כִּ֣יkiforH3588 →
אֵ֥ין'einthere notH369 →
הַלֶּ֛חֶםha.Le.chem[is] the foodH3899 →
ע֖וֹדodyetH5750 →
בָּעִֽיר׃ba.'Irin the cityH5892 →

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Jeremiah 39:17But I will deliver you on that day, declares the LORD, and you will not be delivered into the hands of the men whom you fear.Lamentations 1:11All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.Jeremiah 37:21So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.Lamentations 3:53They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.Isaiah 3:1For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,Exodus 23:2You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.2 Corinthians 11:27in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.Jeremiah 52:6By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.Job 31:34because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—Proverbs 31:8–9Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.Proverbs 24:11–12Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.Esther 7:4–6For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”Genesis 47:18When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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