Jeremiah 4:17

Translations

Modern

They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.

Traditional

As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the Lord.

Literal

Like those guarding a field, they will be against her all around, because she has rebelled against Me!” A declaration of YHWH.

Latin

…quasi custodes agrorum facti sunt super eam in gyro, quia me ad iracundiam provocavit, dicit Dominus.

Original

Hebrew

English

They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.

Notes

Jeremiah 4:17–18

Foreign armies had already surrounded the capital city. The attack was coming because the people rebelled against the Lord.

Jeremiah 4:3–18

These verses focus on the kingdom of Judah and its capital, Jerusalem, in God's courtroom. The Lord declared he would judge Jerusalem through the Babylonians.

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 5:23
But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
2 Kings 25:1–4
So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
Nehemiah 9:30
You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
Ezekiel 2:3–7
“Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me.
Nehemiah 9:26
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
Lamentations 1:18
The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
Jeremiah 6:2–3
Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 1:20–23
But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
Luke 21:20–24
But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
Isaiah 1:8
And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.
Luke 19:43–44
For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.

Glossary

Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah (Person)

Topics

Condescension of God: Expostulates with Backsliding Israel Jeremiah: The Prophet: Over Jerusalem Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Blessing and Restoration Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Rebellion Against God: Punishment For

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