The Meaning of Jeremiah 16:17 Explained

Jeremiah 16:17

KJV: For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

YLT: For Mine eyes are upon all their ways, They have not been hidden from My face, Nor hath their iniquity been concealed from before Mine eyes.

Darby: For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not concealed from my face, neither is their iniquity hidden from before mine eyes.

ASV: For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from mine eyes.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

For mine eyes  [are] upon all their ways:  they are not hid  from my face,  neither is their iniquity  hid  from  mine eyes. 

What does Jeremiah 16:17 Mean?

Verse Meaning

The Lord saw everyone and everything. His people were not able to hide from Him even though many of them tried to do so.

Chapter Summary: Jeremiah 16

1  The prophet, under the types of abstaining from marriage,
8  from houses of mourning and feasting, foreshows the utter ruin of the Jews;
10  because they were worse than their fathers
14  Their return from captivity shall be stranger than their deliverance out of Egypt
16  God will doubly recompense their idolatry

What do the individual words in Jeremiah 16:17 mean?

For My eyes [are] on all their ways not they are hidden from My face nor is hidden their iniquity from My eyes
כִּ֤י עֵינַי֙ עַל־ כָּל־ דַּרְכֵיהֶ֔ם לֹ֥א נִסְתְּר֖וּ מִלְּפָנָ֑י וְלֹֽא־ נִצְפַּ֥ן עֲוֺנָ֖ם מִנֶּ֥גֶד עֵינָֽי

עֵינַי֙  My  eyes  [are] 
Parse: Noun, cdc, first person common singular
Root: עֹונָה 
Sense: eye.
דַּרְכֵיהֶ֔ם  their  ways 
Parse: Noun, common plural construct, third person masculine plural
Root: דֶּרֶךְ  
Sense: way, road, distance, journey, manner.
נִסְתְּר֖וּ  they  are  hidden 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: סָתַר  
Sense: to hide, conceal.
מִלְּפָנָ֑י  from  My  face 
Parse: Preposition-m, Preposition-l, Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: לִפְנֵי 
Sense: face.
וְלֹֽא־  nor 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
נִצְפַּ֥ן  is  hidden 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: צָפַן 
Sense: to hide, treasure, treasure or store up.
עֲוֺנָ֖ם  their  iniquity 
Parse: Noun, common singular construct, third person masculine plural
Root: עָוֹן  
Sense: perversity, depravity, iniquity, guilt or punishment of iniquity.
עֵינָֽי  My  eyes 
Parse: Noun, cdc, first person common singular
Root: עֹונָה 
Sense: eye.