--- title: Jeremiah 9:8 — Shall I not punish them for these things? saith the LORD; Shall not… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Shall I not punish them for these things? saith the LORD; Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Who acts: I, LORD. Jeremiah 9:8 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Jeremiah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/) / [chapter 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER/9/) / 9:8 # Jeremiah 9:8 יִרְמְיָהוּ **Who acts:** I, LORD · **What happens:** not punish, say, not avenge · **To what, where:** people, soul, nation · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Jeremiah 9:8 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — I, LORD — and what happens in the verse to people, soul, nation, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 52 chapters of Jeremiah on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. הַעַל־אֵ֥לֶּה לֹֽא־אֶפְקָד־בָּ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה אִ֚ם בְּג֣וֹי אֲשֶׁר־כָּזֶ֔ה לֹ֥א תִתְנַקֵּ֖ם נַפְשִֽׁי׃ס [Shall I not punish them for these things? saith the LORD; Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.275/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:JER:237 # text = הַעַל־אֵ֥לֶּה לֹֽא־אֶפְקָד־בָּ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה אִ֚ם בְּג֣וֹי אֲשֶׁר־כָּזֶ֔ה לֹ֥א תִתְנַקֵּ֖ם נַפְשִֽׁי׃ס # verse = JER.9.8 1-2 הַעַל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 הַ הֲ PART _ _ 5 advmod _ Gloss=?|Ref=JER_9:8!1|MId=o240090080011|Strong=1886b|Type=interrogative 2 עַל־ עַל ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=JER_9:8!1|MId=o240090080012|Strong=5921 3 אֵ֥לֶּה אֵלֶּה PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 5 obl _ Gloss=these.[things]|Ref=JER_9:8!2|MId=o240090080021|Strong=0428|Type=demonstrative 4 לֹֽא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 5 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=JER_9:8!3|MId=o240090080031|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 5 אֶפְקָד־ פָּקַד VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 0 root _ Gloss=will.I.visit|Ref=JER_9:8!4|MId=o240090080041|Strong=6485|Frame=A0:240090060041;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 6-7 בָּ֖ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 בּ בְּ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=(in)|Ref=JER_9:8!5|MId=o240090080051|Strong=0871a 7 ָ֖ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ Gloss=them|Ref=JER_9:8!5|MId=o240090080052|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 8 נְאֻם־ נְאֻם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Gloss=the.utterance|Ref=JER_9:8!6|MId=o240090080061|Strong=5002|SpaceAfter=No 9 יְהוָ֑ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 8 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.Yahweh|Ref=JER_9:8!7|MId=o240090080071|Strong=3068 10 אִ֚ם אִם SCONJ _ _ 17 mark _ Gloss=or?|Ref=JER_9:8!8|MId=o240090080081|Strong=0518 11-12 בְּג֣וֹי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 בְּ בְּ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=JER_9:8!9|MId=o240090080091|Strong=0871a 12 ג֣וֹי גּוֹי NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 17 obl _ Gloss=a.nation|Ref=JER_9:8!9|MId=o240090080092|Strong=1471 13 אֲשֶׁר־ אֲשֶׁר SCONJ _ _ 15 mark _ Gloss=which|Ref=JER_9:8!10|MId=o240090080101|Strong=0834|Type=relative|SpaceAfter=No 14-15 כָּזֶ֔ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14 כָּ כְּ ADP _ _ 15 case _ Gloss=[is].like|Ref=JER_9:8!11|MId=o240090080111|Strong=3509a 15 זֶ֔ה זֶה PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 acl:relcl _ Gloss=this.[one]|Ref=JER_9:8!11|MId=o240090080112|Strong=2088|Type=demonstrative 16 לֹ֥א לֹא ADV _ _ 17 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=JER_9:8!12|MId=o240090080121|Strong=3808|Type=negative 17 תִתְנַקֵּ֖ם נָקַם VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=HITHPAEL|Number=Sing|Person=3 5 parataxis _ Gloss=will.it.avenge.itself|Ref=JER_9:8!13|MId=o240090080131|Strong=5358|Frame=A0:240090080141;|Type=yiqtol 18-19 נַפְשִֽׁי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 נַפְשׁ נֶפֶשׁ NOUN _ Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Gloss=self|Ref=JER_9:8!14|MId=o240090080141|Strong=5315 19 ִֽי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=JER_9:8!14|MId=o240090080142|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=JER_9:8!14|SpaceAfter=No 21 ס ס PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=JER_9:8!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **not** אֶפְקָד־ *will I visit* | yiqtol · qal | | | | | | **not** תִתְנַקֵּם *will it avenge itself* | yiqtol · hithpael | נַפְשׁ *self* | | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos} הַעַל אִילֵין לָא אַסְעַר לְאַיְתָאָה עֲלֵיהוֹן בִּישְׁתָּא אֲמַר יְיָ אִם מִן עַמָא דִכְדֵין עוֹבָדוֹהִי לָא אִתְפְּרַע מִנְהוֹן כִּרְעוּתִי: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [Shall I not punish them for these things? saith the LORD; Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.275/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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