Jeremiah 20:9
King James Version
9 Jun 2026
“Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.”
עוֹד
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
זָכַר
I will remember/ him
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זָכַר
To remember, to be mindful. Zakar. What is man that You are mindful of him? God thinks about you. That is the miracle.
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דָבַר
I will speak
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דָבַר
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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כּוּל
to hold it in
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כּוּל
properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses)
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עָצָר
shut up
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עָצָר
to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble
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בָּעַר
burning
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בָּעַר
to kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); to be(-come) brutish
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יָכֹל
I will be able
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יָכֹל
to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
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