What Does Jeremiah 44:29 Mean in the King James?
And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
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 sign is that a spoken warning rises into a reality that stands against you.
THE MEANING
The verse gives you no distance from its warning: the LORD says punishment is coming in this place, and that harm makes the words known. Those words rise and stand against the addressed “you” as an event, not only as a sentence.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that spoken warnings are only sound and carry no consequence: here, the words stand against you as harm.
THE ROOT
יָקוּמוּ
yāqūmû
GROWS FROM
קום
qûm
Rise, stand, be established.
English “stand” can sound like merely remaining in place, but קום (qûm) also carries the motion of rising. The words rise into a position against you; their force is not abstract, but takes effect as harm.
ALSO GROWS
qām: Rose, stood up.
קָם
This branch keeps the motion inside “stand”: a word rises into a position where it can be encountered.
hēqîm: Raised up, set up, established.
הֵקִים
The causative form brings the same root from rising to making something stand, showing how the words become an established reality.
פֹקֵד
pōqēd
GROWS FROM
פקד
pāqad
Attend to, visit, take account of.
The word translated “punish” belongs to a root of visiting and attending to. In this verse, that visitation bears harm: the reckoning arrives in a particular place, rather than remaining an abstract verdict.
ALSO GROWS
pĕquddāh: Oversight, charge, appointment, visitation.
פְּקֻדָּה
This noun carries the root’s sense of an assigned charge or visitation; here, that visitation brings the announced punishment.
miphqād: Muster, count, inspection.
מִפְקָד
This branch shows the root’s account-taking sense, illuminating the reckoning in the verse without softening its harm.
THE PATTERN
When a divine word is sent, its stated purpose takes form and holds its ground.
For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.THE THREAD
The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:Both verses use קום (qûm), “rise, stand.” Isaiah says the LORD’s purpose will stand; Jeremiah says the LORD’s words stand against you for harm, linking the shared verb to a purpose taking concrete effect.
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