Jeremiah 4:17
They are as keepers of a field against her round about, because she has been rebellious against me, says LORD.
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2 Kings 25:1And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it. And they built forts
Nehemiah 9:30Yet many years thou bore with them, and testified against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore thou gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
Isaiah 1:20But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword, for the mouth of LORD has spoken it.
Jeremiah 5:23But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
Jeremiah 6:3Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her. They shall pitch their tents against her round about. They shall feed every one in his place.
Lamentations 1:8Jerusalem has grievously sinned, therefore she has become as an unclean thing. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yea, she sighs, and turns backward.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 4:6-19
Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 620.) 5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. 6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. 7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste,… Read the whole commentary →