What Does Jeremiah 16:19 Mean?

“O LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god

“my strength”

strength in various applications (force, security, majesty, praise)

“and my fortress”

a fortified place; figuratively, a defense

“and my refuge”

a retreat (literally or figuratively); abstractly, a fleeing

“in the day”

a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso

“of affliction”

transitively, a female rival

near, with or among; often in general, to

“the Gentiles”

a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

“shall come”

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

“unto thee from the ends”

cessation, i.e., an end (especially of the earth); often used adverb, no further; also the ankle (in the dual), as being the extremity of the leg or f

“of the earth”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

“and shall say”

to say (used with great latitude)

a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only

“lies”

an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)

“have inherited”

to inherit (as a (figurative) mode of descent), or (generally) to occupy; causatively, to bequeath, or (generally) distribute, instate

“Surely our fathers”

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

“vanity”

emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb

a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle

“and things wherein there is no profit”

properly, to ascend; figuratively, to be valuable (objectively; useful, subjectively; benefited)