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Jeremiah 9

Jer. 9:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And I will make
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
Jerusalem
Yruwshalaim (Hebrew #3389)
a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of 3390)); probably from (the passive participle of) 3384 and 7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
KJV usage: Jerusalem.
Pronounce: yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im
Origin: rarely Yruwshalayim {yer-oo- shaw-lah'-yim}
heaps
gal (Hebrew #1530)
something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves)
KJV usage: billow, heap, spring, wave.
Pronounce: gal
Origin: from 1556
d, and a den
ma`own (Hebrew #4583)
from the same as 5772; an abode, of God (the Tabernacle or the Temple), men (their home) or animals (their lair); hence, a retreat (asylum)
KJV usage: den, dwelling((-)place), habitation.
Pronounce: maw-ohn'
Origin: or maiyn (1 Chronicles 4:41) {maw-een'}
of dragons
tanniyn (Hebrew #8577)
intensive from the same as 8565; a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal
KJV usage: dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.
Pronounce: tan-neen'
Origin: or tanniym (Ezek. 29:3) {tan-neem'}
; and I will make
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
the cities
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
of Judah
Yhuwdah (Hebrew #3063)
celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
KJV usage: Judah.
Pronounce: yeh-hoo-daw'
Origin: from 3034
λdesolate
shmamah (Hebrew #8077)
feminine of 8076; devastation; figuratively, astonishment
KJV usage: (laid, X most) desolate(- ion), waste.
Pronounce: shem-aw-maw'
Origin: or shimamah {shee-mam-aw'}
, without an inhabitant
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
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Lam. 2:2,7‑8• 2The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied:{HR}He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;{HR}He hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
 7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary,{HR}He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;{HR}They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn feast.
 8Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion:{HR}He hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying:{HR}Therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. (Lam. 2:2,7‑8)
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desolation.

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Cross References

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Jerusalem.
Jer. 26:18• 18Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. (Jer. 26:18)
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Jer. 51:37• 37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. (Jer. 51:37)
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Neh. 4:2• 2And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? (Neh. 4:2)
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Psa. 79:1• 1A psalm of Asaph.{HR}O God, nations are come into thine inheritance,{HR}The temple of thy holiness have they defiled,{HR}They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. (Psa. 79:1)
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Isa. 25:2• 2For thou hast made of the city a heap; of the fortified town a ruin; a palace of strangers to be no city—it shall never be built up. (Isa. 25:2)
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Mic. 1:6• 6Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof. (Mic. 1:6)
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Mic. 3:12• 12Therefore 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. (Mic. 3:12)
a den.
Jer. 10:22• 22The voice of a rumour! Behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals. (Jer. 10:22)
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Isa. 13:22• 22And wolves shall cry in their palaces, and jackals in the pleasant castles. And her time [is] near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. (Isa. 13:22)
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Isa. 34:13• 13And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. (Isa. 34:13)
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Rev. 18:2• 2And he cried with a strong voice, saying, Fallen [fallen] is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a haunt of every unclean spirit, and a haunt of every unclean and hated bird. (Rev. 18:2)
the cities.
Jer. 34:22• 22Behold, I command, saith Jehovah, and I will cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant. (Jer. 34:22)
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Isa. 44:26• 26that confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited, and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof; (Isa. 44:26)
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Lam. 2:2,7‑8• 2The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied:{HR}He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;{HR}He hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
 7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary,{HR}He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;{HR}They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn feast.
 8Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion:{HR}He hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying:{HR}Therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. (Lam. 2:2,7‑8)
desolate.
Heb. desolation.
Jer. 25:11,18• 11And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
 18To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing and a curse as it is this day; (Jer. 25:11,18)
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Lam. 3:47• 47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. (Lam. 3:47)
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Mic. 6:16• 16For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and ye walk in their counsels: that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing; and ye shall bear the reproach of my people. (Mic. 6:16)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

W. Kelly Translation

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And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)