What Does Jeremiah 25:29 Mean in the King James?
For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The same Hebrew verb marks the city as bearing God’s name and summons a sword against the earth, so being named does not mean being exempt.
THE MEANING
Bearing God’s name marks belonging to God, but it does not shield a city, or anyone, from the reckoning that reaches the earth. The sword is summoned against all its inhabitants; the verse leaves no protected class outside that scope.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this verse dissolves is that being identified with God makes a person or place immune from judgment.
THE ROOT
קָרָא
qara
GROWS FROM
קרא
To call out, summon, or proclaim.
“called / call” in this verse is qara. The root קרא (qara, “call” or “summon”) appears first in “called by my name,” then again when the speaker calls for a sword. The city is marked by God’s name, but the verbal echo places it within the summons too: belonging does not make it untouchable.
ALSO GROWS
qara: To call, summon, or proclaim.
קָרָא
The verb describes both the city bearing the name and the sword being summoned.
miqra: A convocation or assembly; something called together.
מִקְרָא
It shows how a call can gather or summon; here, the summons is a sword against the earth’s inhabitants.
THE PATTERN
Divine naming marks belonging, but grants no exemption: judgment begins among those bearing the name and reaches the whole earth.
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?For there is no respect of persons with God.THE THREAD
But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.Both verses use קרא (qara, “call”) with a name: Jeremiah speaks of a city called by God’s name, while Isaiah says God calls a person by name. Isaiah shows the intimacy of being named; Jeremiah’s echo shows that belonging does not make the sword’s summons disappear.
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