What Does Jeremiah 16:14 Mean in the King James?

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

Jeremiah 16:14 · KJV

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THE KEY

The LORD’s life is not trapped in the one remembered rescue that first brought you out.

THE MEANING

The living God is not confined to one remembered rescue or one old formula; another way out of constriction remains possible now. The story of deliverance can widen without erasing what came before.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The lie undone is that one defining rescue is the last form deliverance can take, or the only evidence that the LORD is living.

THE ROOT

הֶעֱלָה

he'elah

GROWS FROM

עלה

ʿ-l-h

Rise, ascend, go up; in this causative form, bring up.

⁨הֶעֱלָה⁩ (he’elah, brought up) comes from ⁨עָלָה⁩ (ʿalah, rise or go up): deliverance is phrased as an ascent. ⁨מִצְרַיִם⁩ (Mitzrayim, Egypt, the two narrows) carries ⁨צַר⁩ (tsar, narrow or constricting) with its dual ending, setting that ascent against constriction.

ALSO GROWS

ʿalah: Rise, ascend, go up.

עָלָה

This is the same root in its basic verbal form: being brought out of Egypt is pictured as being raised up.

ma'alah: Ascent, step, or degree.

מַעֲלָה

The noun carries the same upward movement, making the verse’s language of deliverance directional: up and out.

THE PATTERN

A single defining rescue gives way to new testimony as deliverance continues.

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.

Jeremiah 23:7-8 · KJVThe Egypt formula is widened to include being brought from the north and scattered lands, so one rescue does not exhaust the testimony.

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 43:18-19 · KJVA new way and fresh waters appear beyond what is already remembered, making room for another opening.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Luke 4:18 · KJVDeliverance appears as the release of captives and the setting at liberty of the bruised, a continuing expression of release.

THE THREAD

But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

Jeremiah 16:15 · KJV

The same verb, ⁨הֶעֱלָה⁩ (he’elah, brought up), returns here, while the point of departure expands from Egypt to the north and the scattered lands. The next line does not erase the first rescue; it shows the living testimony widening through another act of bringing out.

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