Jeremiah 50:24
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.

Young's Literal Translation
I have laid a snare for thee, And also—thou art captured, O Babylon, And thou—thou hast known, Thou hast been found, and also art caught, For against Jehovah thou hast stirred thyself up.

King James Bible
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

Hebrew
I laid a snare
יָקֹ֨שְׁתִּי (yā·qō·šə·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3369: To lay a bait or lure

for you,
לָ֤ךְ (lāḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

O Babylon,
בָּבֶ֔ל (bā·ḇel)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 894: Babylon -- an eastern Mediterranean empire and its capital city

and you
וְגַם־ (wə·ḡam-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

were caught
נִלְכַּדְתְּ֙ (nil·kaḏt)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 3920: To catch, to capture, occupy, to choose, to cohere

before you
וְאַ֖תְּ (wə·’at)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person feminine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

knew it.
יָדָ֑עַתְּ (yā·ḏā·‘at)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

You were found
נִמְצֵאת֙ (nim·ṣêṯ)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

and captured
נִתְפַּ֔שְׂתְּ (niṯ·paśt)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 8610: To manipulate, seize, chiefly to capture, wield, to overlay, to use unwarrantably

because
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you challenged
הִתְגָּרִֽית׃ (hiṯ·gā·rîṯ)
Verb - Hitpael - Perfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 1624: To stir up (strife), engage in strife

the LORD.
בַֽיהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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