Jeremiah 21:13

Hineni, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the emek (valley), 1 and tzur (rock) of the plain, saith Hashem; 1 which say, Who shall come down against us? 1 Or who shall enter into our me'onot (dwelling places, homes)? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

In Context

12O Bais Dovid, thus saith Hashem: 1 Execute mishpat in the boker, 1 and save him that is robbed 1 out of the yad oshek (hand of the oppressor), 1 lest My chemah (fury) go out like eish, 1 and burn that none can quench it, 1 because of the wickedness of your deeds. 1

14But I will visit you in punishment according to the p'ri (fruit) of your deeds, saith Hashem; 1 and I will kindle an eish in the ya'ar (forest) thereof, 1 and it shall devour all things round about it.

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Cross References

Exodus 13:20And they took their journey from Sukkot, and encamped in Etam, at the edge of the midbar.

Psalms 125:2As harim (the mountains) surround Yerushalayim, 1 so Hashem surrounds His people 1 from henceforth v'ad olam (and to forever). 1

Jeremiah 7:4Trust ye not in divrei hasheker (lying words, words of falsehood), saying, This is the Heikhal Hashem, the Heikhal Hashem, the Heikhal Hashem.

Jeremiah 21:5And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched yad (hand) and with a zero'a chazakah (strong arm), even in anger, and in chemah, and in ketzef gadol (great wrath).

Jeremiah 49:4Why gloriest thou in the valleys, 1 thy flowing emek (valley), O Bat hashovevah (backsliding Daughter)? 1 That trusted in her otzarot, saying: 1 Who shall come unto Me? 1

Jeremiah 50:31Hineni, I am against thee, O thou zadon (proud one), saith Adonoi Hashem Tzva'os; 1 for thy day is come, 1 the time that I will visit thee [for punishment]. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 21:9-14

Answer to Zedekiah's Message; Advice to the King and the People. ( b. c. 590.) 8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. 9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. 10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the Lord :… Read the whole commentary →

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