King James Version
Jeremiah 31:36 in the King James Version says “If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation ...” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 31 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.”
Jeremiah 31:36 · KJV
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
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used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“depart”
H4185to withdraw (both literally and figuratively, whether intransitive or transitive)
“If those ordinances”
H2706an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“also shall cease”
H7673to repose, i.e., desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causative, figurative or specific)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“from being a nation”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“me for ever”
H3117a 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
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