What Does Jeremiah 50:4 Mean in the King James?
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
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 return begins when the divided come together, carrying their tears straight into the search for God.
THE MEANING
The parts of you that have been separated can turn toward God together. Grief travels with the seeking: your tears do not prove you are far away, and wholeness does not have to precede your return.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that grief disqualifies you from seeking God: here, weeping and seeking belong to the same movement.
THE ROOT
יַחְדָּו
yachdav
GROWS FROM
יחד
Join, unite, or be together.
The form יַחְדָּו (yachdav, together) makes unity the manner of return: Israel and Judah move as one in their seeking. The related verb יַחֵד (yached, unite) carries the same root’s sense of joining, so togetherness is part of the restoration itself.
ALSO GROWS
yachad: Together, jointly.
יַחַד
It names the shared movement in the verse, rather than two separate returns.
yached: Unite, join together.
יַחֵד
This verbal form makes the root’s joining sense active: what was divided can become one.
יְבַקְשׁוּ
yevaqshu
GROWS FROM
בקש
Seek, search for, or request.
“seek” in this verse is yevaqshu. The root holds searching and asking together, so seeking is more than moving in God’s direction; it also carries a request toward God. The verse lets grief and that reaching coexist in one return.
ALSO GROWS
biqqesh: Sought, searched for, asked for.
בִּקֵּשׁ
Its range shows that the seeking here can carry both a search and a request.
baqqashah: Request, petition.
בַּקָּשָׁה
This branch reveals the asking held within the act of seeking.
THE PATTERN
Return to God takes shape as movement toward him, with grief and shared seeking carried along.
Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.THE THREAD
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.The Hebrew root בקש (baqash, seek or search for) appears in both verses: Jeremiah 50:4 uses it for seeking the LORD, and Jeremiah 29:13 uses it for seeking and searching. The shared root opens the first verse further: the return’s seeking reaches toward finding God with the whole heart.
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