What Does Jeremiah 50:31 Mean in the King James?
Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
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 one who boils over in presumption meets the Lord’s direct attention as opposition when the appointed day arrives.
THE MEANING
Where pride rises into presumption, this verse speaks plainly: the Lord stands against it. The day arrives, and God’s visitation brings the proud posture into direct reckoning.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that pride can make itself untouchable: the moment it rises above all judgment, its day is already arriving.
THE ROOT
זֵד
zēḏ
GROWS FROM
זוד
z-w-d
To boil up; by extension, to act presumptuously or arrogantly.
English “proud” can sound like an inward opinion, while זֵד carries the sense of something rising up and overreaching. The root’s boiling image gives the verse’s accusation a sharper edge: this is presumption swelling beyond its bounds.
ALSO GROWS
zûḏ: To boil; to act presumptuously.
זוּד
The verb holds the physical image of boiling and the figurative sense of overreaching conduct in one root.
nāzîḏ: A boiled dish or stew.
נָזִיד
Genesis 25:29 uses this word for the pottage Jacob cooks, making the root’s boiling image audible beneath “proud.”
פְּקַדְתִּיךָ
peqaḏtîḵā I will
GROWS FROM
פקד
p-q-d
To attend to, oversee, appoint, muster, or visit.
“visit” in this verse is peqaḏtîḵā I will. The Hebrew root carries attentive oversight and direct engagement. Here, God’s visitation is an appointed encounter that brings the proud into account.
ALSO GROWS
pāqaḏ: To attend to, visit, muster, or appoint.
פָּקַד
This is the verb rendered “visit” in the verse; it presents God’s action as direct attention.
pequddāh: Oversight, charge, appointment, or visitation.
פְּקֻדָּה
This related noun carries the language of oversight and appointment, deepening the sense of an encounter that has come due.
THE PATTERN
Presumption that lifts itself beyond limit is brought down when the Lord meets it directly.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.THE THREAD
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.The verb for “visit” in both verses comes from פקד (paqad), meaning to attend to or visit. Genesis links that attention with being brought out; Jeremiah links it with confrontation, revealing visitation as decisive divine engagement whose outcome the passage names.
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