What Does Jeremiah 50:28 Mean in the King James?
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
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 temple’s ruin does not end in silence: the escaped carry its claim into Zion and name the LORD’s vengeance.
THE MEANING
A person can escape a force that has held them and still name the harm it has done. Here, those who reach Zion give voice to the LORD’s vengeance and the temple’s violated place; escape does not make the violence disappear.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that surviving means the harm must be forgotten or left unnamed.
THE ROOT
פְּלֵטִים
peletim
GROWS FROM
פלט
p-l-ṭ
To escape, slip away, or deliver.
The word names people who have escaped, while the same root also gives language for escape and deliverance. Their survival is not separate from the deliverance being declared: they themselves are its living evidence.
ALSO GROWS
palit: One who escapes; a survivor.
פָּלִיט
The fugitives are not merely people on the move; they are survivors who have come through.
peletah: Escape; deliverance.
פְּלֵטָה
The people who reach Zion embody the escape the root names.
לְהַגִּיד
lehaggid
GROWS FROM
נגד
n-g-d
To make known, declare, or bring into view.
“declare” in this verse is lehaggid. The escapees’ journey ends in making the vengeance known in Zion. What might have remained a private survival becomes a public report.
ALSO GROWS
higgid: He declared or made known.
הִגִּיד
This verb form carries the same act of making known that the escapees perform.
haggadah: A telling or declaration.
הַגָּדָה
The root links their spoken report to the act of telling a story into the open.
נִקְמַת
niqmat
GROWS FROM
נקם
n-q-m
To avenge; to exact retribution.
The same word is repeated for the vengeance of the LORD and the vengeance of his temple. The repetition binds divine judgment to the desecrated sanctuary itself; its ruin is not left unnamed.
ALSO GROWS
naqam: To avenge or exact retribution.
נָקַם
The verbal form names the act carried by the repeated noun in this verse.
neqamah: Vengeance; retribution.
נְקָמָה
This noun shares the root and keeps the focus on the judgment the fugitives declare.
THE PATTERN
Those who come out from an oppressive power give voice to their deliverance, while its harm is named before God.
Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.THE THREAD
Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.Isaiah repeats Jeremiah’s sequence: leave Babylon, then declare. Both declarations use נגד (nagad, make known), so escape becomes public testimony spoken from Zion.
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