What Does Jeremiah 51:10 Mean?
The LORD has brought out our alignment. Come, and let us recount in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.THE KEY
The righteousness named here is the LORD’s alignment brought into the open, then recounted together.
THE MEANING
The LORD brings alignment into view in your life, and this verse places you among those who can tell what that work is. Its movement runs from what God brings forth to what a gathered voice can name in Zion. The work becomes visible enough to be shared.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This dissolves the belief that what is right must be manufactured by your own effort or kept as a private claim: here the LORD brings it forth, and the community gives it voice.
THE ROOT
צִדְקֹתֵינוּ
tsidqotenu
GROWS FROM
צדק
ṣ-d-q
Alignment; what is in right order.
The word translated “righteousness” grows from a root of alignment. The verse presents that alignment as something the LORD brings into view, not merely a status hidden inside a person.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: Rightness; justice.
צֶדֶק
This branch shows that righteousness carries the sense of things brought into right relation.
tsedaqah: Righteousness; justice or charitable action.
צְדָקָה
It carries the same root into acts that make alignment visible among people.
הוֹצִיא
hotzi
GROWS FROM
יצא
y-ṣ-ʾ
Go out; come out, emerge.
“brought out” in this verse is hotzi. “Brought forth” is the causative form of a root meaning “go out” or “emerge.” The LORD causes alignment to come out into view, where it can be seen and spoken of.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: To go out; come out.
יָצָא
The root’s basic movement is emergence from within or from a place.
motsa: An outlet, exit, or place of going out.
מוֹצָא
This branch makes the root’s movement concrete: what emerges has a way into view.
וּנְסַפְּרָה
u-nesapperah
GROWS FROM
ספר
s-p-r
Count; recount, tell.
“recount” in this verse is u-nesapperah. The verb behind “declare” also carries the sense of recounting. The verse joins what the LORD brings forth to a shared telling of that work in Zion.
ALSO GROWS
safar: To count; recount.
סָפַר
The root can describe attending to what has happened and telling it.
sefer: Book; written account.
סֵפֶר
The written account is another branch of the same root of counting and recounting.
mispar: Number; count.
מִסְפָּר
This branch makes the root’s counting sense plain, alongside its sense of telling.
THE PATTERN
The LORD’s alignment is brought into the open so it can be witnessed and declared among people.
For Zion's sake I will not hush, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not lie still, until its alignment comes out like the glow of dawn, and its deliverance like a torch that burns.They come and declare his alignment to a people yet to be born, for he has done this.But now the alignment of God, apart from the instruction, has come into sight, being witnessed to by the instruction and the prophets.THE THREAD
For Zion's sake I will not hush, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not lie still, until its alignment comes out like the glow of dawn, and its deliverance like a torch that burns.The Hebrew echoes two roots from Jeremiah: צדק (ts-d-q, alignment/righteousness) and יצא (y-ts-ʾ, go out). Isaiah pictures that same alignment going out into view like brightness.
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