What Does Jeremiah 50:11 Mean in the King James?
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
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 verse makes the plunderer’s joy part of the violence: celebration over what is taken becomes the sound of taking itself.
THE MEANING
When you delight in another’s loss, this verse sets that joy beside the ease of a heifer at pasture and the loud force of bulls. The scene exposes how abundance can accompany the trampling of what belongs to God.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that flourishing proves innocence dissolves: the verse places the plunderer’s joy and ease beside the trampling of God’s inheritance.
THE ROOT
תִּשְׂמְחִי
tismechi
GROWS FROM
שׂמח
Be glad, rejoice.
The verse pairs תִּשְׂמְחִי (tismechi, you are glad) with תַעֲלֹזִי (taalozi, you exult), drawing on two distinct Hebrew roots for celebration. שׂמח (samach, be glad) is also the root behind Proverbs 24:17’s warning about rejoicing over another’s fall.
ALSO GROWS
simchah: Joy, gladness.
שִׂמְחָה
The noun shows that the act of being glad and the state of joy grow from the same root.
mesameach: One who gladdens, makes glad.
מְשַׂמֵּחַ
This causative form shows the root can describe not only feeling joy but also producing it.
תִדְשִׁי
tidshi
GROWS FROM
דּוּשׁ
Thresh or tread grain.
The verb behind “grown fat” belongs to דּוּשׁ (dush, thresh or tread grain), bringing the motion of threshing into the heifer’s image. The plunderer’s exuberance carries the physical force of trampling within it.
ALSO GROWS
dush: Thresh, tread grain.
דּוּשׁ
This verb names the treading motion that gives the heifer’s image its force.
dish: Threshing.
דִּישׁ
The related noun names the threshing process, keeping pressure and trampling within the image of apparent abundance.
THE PATTERN
Joy over another’s ruin reveals how the heart participates in the harm.
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;THE THREAD
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:Jeremiah’s “were glad” and Proverbs’ “be glad” share the Hebrew root שׂמח (samach, be glad or rejoice). Proverbs places that same joy at the moment another falls, making the plunderer’s gladness part of the harm the verse reveals.
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