What Does Jeremiah 27:21 Mean?
Yes, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem.
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Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;THE KEY
In Hebrew, what “remains” carries the shape of what has been left behind.
THE MEANING
The verse draws your eye to what is still in place: vessels in the LORD’s house and in the king’s house in Jerusalem. It names those remaining things within the LORD’s address, so their location does not put them beyond what is being spoken now.
THE ROOT
נִשְׁאָרִים
nish’arim
GROWS FROM
שׁאר
To remain or be left over.
The form here names the vessels as those left after something has been removed, giving “remain” the texture of a remainder rather than mere stillness. This same root names a remnant, so the vessels belong to a language of what is left over.
ALSO GROWS
she’erit: What is left over.
שְׁאֵרִית
The same root turns the state of being left into the noun “remnant,” revealing the vessels as part of what remains.
she’ar: The rest, or what remains.
שְׁאָר
This branch makes explicit the idea carried by the vessels: what is still there is a remainder.
THE PATTERN
Scripture keeps the remnant visible as part of an unfolding story.
And the remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.And the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, like dew from the LORD, like soaking rains upon the grass, which does not wait for man and does not linger for the sons of man.So also now, in this present season, there is a remnant left behind, picked out by favor.THE THREAD
And the remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.The Hebrew form נִשְׁאָרָה (nish’arah, “that remains”) in Isaiah comes from שׁאר (sha’ar, “remain or be left over”), the same root behind the vessels “that remain” here. Isaiah’s image opens “remain” as a continuing condition that can take root and bear fruit.
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