What Does Jeremiah 30:19 Mean in the King James?
And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
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 glory promised here is weight: thanksgiving rises in a people whose life is enlarged beyond fewness and smallness.
THE MEANING
This promise meets you now: your life and the people around you are not confined to fewness or smallness. Thanksgiving and gladness rise as public voices from expanding life, and God gives that life weight.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that being small or overlooked is your permanent measure; here, smallness is answered by increase and weight.
THE ROOT
וְהִכְבַּדְתִּים
vehikhbadtim
GROWS FROM
כבד
Be heavy or weighty; carry honor and significance.
The word translated “glorify” grows from a root meaning weighty. Its pairing with “they shall not be small” makes the promise tangible: this people receive substance and standing.
ALSO GROWS
kavod: Weight or honor; commonly rendered “glory.”
כָּבוֹד
This noun keeps the sense of weight inside the English word “glory.”
kaved: Heavy or weighty.
כָּבֵד
It makes the honor in “glorify” concrete: the people are given weight.
תּוֹדָה
todah
GROWS FROM
ידה
Give thanks, praise, or acknowledge.
The thanksgiving term grows from a verb of acknowledgment and praise, so gratitude here is voiced recognition rather than an unspoken mood. It rises alongside the people’s glad voice, making restoration audible and shared.
ALSO GROWS
yadah: To give thanks, praise, or acknowledge.
יָדָה
The verb behind “thanksgiving” links gratitude with spoken acknowledgment, matching the voice that proceeds from the people.
Yehudah: Judah; in Genesis 29:35, the name is linked by wordplay with “I will praise.”
יְהוּדָה
The praise-root also appears in a people’s name, connecting voiced thanksgiving with communal identity.
THE PATTERN
Restoration becomes audible in shared praise and visible in a community’s growing life.
For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.THE THREAD
Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.The Hebrew root כבד (kabad, be heavy or weighty; honor) appears in both occurrences of “honour,” set against those who are “lightly esteemed.” Jeremiah uses that same weight-root for the people as a whole, giving their honor the sense of restored substance and standing.
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