Jeremiah 22:21 (KJV)

Words Then and Now

spake spoke Still heard today: Thus Spake Zarathustra, the famous opening music of 2001: A Space Odyssey Webster’s 1828 · Speak

What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.

Thou and Ye

thee, thy, thou one person

In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?

Matthew Henry

The doom of the royal familyThe Jewish state is described under a threefold character. Very haughty in a day of peace and safety. Very fearful on alarm of trouble. Very much cast down...

Thompson Chains

Stubbornness (1)See the chain from Psalms 32:9 · 4 links
Spir. DeafnessSee the chain from Isaiah 6:10 · 5 links
HabitLink 2 of 3 · next Micah 2:1

Parallel Passages

Jeremiah 2:25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).

Cross References

Jeremiah 3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah 32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.
Proverbs 30:9 Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Isaiah 48:8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
Jeremiah 7:22–28 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: …
Ezekiel 23:3–39 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. …
Deuteronomy 9:7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
Deuteronomy 9:24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
Deuteronomy 32:15–20 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. …
Judges 2:11–19 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: …
2 Chronicles 33:10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
2 Chronicles 36:16–17 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy. …
Nehemiah 9:16–37 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, …
Psalms 106:6–48 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. …
Jeremiah 2:31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
Jeremiah 6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
Jeremiah 35:15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
Jeremiah 36:21–26 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king. …
Ezekiel 20:8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel 20:21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.

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Topics

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Impenitence General scriptures concerning
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Timeline

Timeline of the Bible629–588 BC · Jeremiah, in the days of Josiah, Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah

Hebrew and Strong’s

I spake דִּבַּרְתִּי dibbartî דָבַר Verb · piel perfect, first person common singular
unto thee in thy prosperity אֵלַיִךְ ʾēlayik Preposition · with suffix: second person feminine singular בְּשַׁלְוֺתַיִךְ bĕšalôtayik שַׁלְוָה Noun · feminine plural construct · with preposition, suffix: second person feminine singular
thou saidst אָמַרְתְּ ʾāmart אָמַר Verb · qal perfect, second person feminine singular
I will not hear לֹא lōʾ Negative אֶשְׁמָע ʾešmāʿ שָׁמַע Verb · qal imperfect, first person common singular
This hath been thy manner זֶה zê Pronoun דַרְכֵּךְ darkēk דֶּרֶךְ Noun · masculine or feminine singular construct · with suffix: second person feminine singular
from thy youth מִנְּעוּרַיִךְ minnĕʿûrayik נָעוּר Noun · masculine or feminine plural construct · with preposition, suffix: second person feminine singular
that thou obeyedst כִּי kî Conjunction שָׁמַעַתְּ šāmaʿatt שָׁמַע Verb · qal perfect, second person feminine singular
not my voice לֹא lōʾ Negative בְּקוֹלִי bĕqôlî קוֹל Noun · masculine singular construct · with preposition, suffix: first person common singular

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