King James Version
Jeremiah 30:4 in the King James Version says “And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.”
Jeremiah 30:4 · KJV
Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. of fear: or, there is fear, and not peace
Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? a man: Heb. a male
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And these are the words”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“spake”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“that the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“concerning Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“and concerning Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
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