Jeremiah 4:17
As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says the LORD.
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2 Kings 25:1In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.
Nehemiah 9:30Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
Isaiah 1:20but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the LORD’s mouth has spoken it.”
Jeremiah 5:23“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
Jeremiah 6:3Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”
Lamentations 1:8Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yes, 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 →