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Jeremiah 22:6

For thus saith the LORD unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

KJV

Quia hæc dicit Dominus super domum regis Juda : Galaad, tu mihi caput Libani, si non posuero te solitudinem, urbes inhabitabiles !

Vulgate

ὅτι τάδε λέγει Κύριος κατὰ τοῦ οἴκου βασιλέως Ἰούδα Γαλαὰδ σύ μοι, ἀρχὴ τοῦ Λιβάνου, ἐὰν μὴ θῶ σε εἰς ἔρημον, πόλεις μὴ κατοικηθησομένας·

LXX

For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of the king of Judah: Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon; yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

ASV

כִּֽי כֹ֣ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה עַל בֵּית֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֔ה גִּלְעָ֥ד אַתָּ֛ה לִ֖/י רֹ֣אשׁ הַ/לְּבָנ֑וֹן אִם לֹ֤א אֲשִֽׁיתְ/ךָ֙ מִדְבָּ֔ר עָרִ֖ים לֹ֥א נושבה נוֹשָֽׁבוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

18 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
בֵּ֣ית
byt
noun · 2032×
גִּלְעָֽד
gl'd
proper_noun · 134×
הוּ
hv
verb · 85×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יְהוּדָ֔ה
yhvdh
proper_noun · 809×
יֹשְׁבֵ֣י
yshby
verb · 1088×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כֹּֽה
kh
adverb · 574×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
לְּבָנ֔וֹן
lbnvn
proper_noun · 67×
מֶֽלֶךְ
mlk
noun · 2518×
מִּדְבָּ֑ר
mdbr
noun · 270×
עִ֣יר
'yr
noun · 1093×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
רֹ֣אשׁ
r'sh
noun · 593×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Gen 37:25 — And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it
  • Isa 6:11 — Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
  • Isa 27:10 — Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
  • Jer 7:34 — Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the
  • Jer 9:11 — And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
  • Jer 22:23 — O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
  • Jer 26:18 — Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shal
  • Mic 3:12 — Therefore 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.
  • Ps 107:34 — A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
  • Rom 4:6 — Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
  • Zech 11:1 — Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.