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Jeremiah 49:9

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If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, would they not destroy till they had enough?

KJV

If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

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This verse in Jeremiah 49

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?

on Jeremiah 49:7-11

The question whether wisdom is gone from Teman strikes at Edom’s fame for wisdom: Eliphaz of Job came from Teman. The judgment is complete: “I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places.” Yet verse 11 leaves an exception: “Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives.”

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

His brethren the Moabites, and his neighbours the Philistines, whom he might have expected succours from, or at least shelter with, are spoiled as well as he and disabled to do him any service. And he is not, or there is not he, there is none to him, none left him, that may say what follows (

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — unbalanced-parens

If grape gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?.... If gatherers of grapes, at the time of the vintage, should come into thy fields to gather the grapes, being ripe, would not they leave some for the poor to glean? certainly they would, and not take every cluster.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

If grape-gatherers - Both in vintage and harvest every grape and every stalk are not gathered; hence the gleaners get something for their pains: but your enemies shall not leave one of you behind; all shall be carried into captivity.

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אִם־if

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • בֹּֽצְרִים֙grape gatherers

    botzerimH1219 →37 times

  • בָּ֣אוּthey came

    bauH935 →2568 times

  • לָ֔ךְto <the> you

    lakh

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יַשְׁאִ֖רוּwill they leave?

    yashiruH7604 →133 times

  • עֽוֹלֵל֑וֹתgleanings

    olelotH5955 →

  • אִם־if

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • גַּנָּבִ֥יםthieves

    ganavimH1590 →17 times

  • בַּלַּ֖יְלָהin the night

    balaylahH3915 →233 times

  • הִשְׁחִ֥יתוּthey destroyed

    hishchituH7843 →146 times

  • דַיָּֽם׃sufficiency their

    daiyamH1767 →39 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Obadiah 1:5“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?5 worksJeremiah 6:9This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”3 worksIsaiah 17:6Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.2 worksLeviticus 19:10You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.2 worksNahum 2:2For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 17:6

    Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 24:13

      So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

    • Deuteronomy 4:27

      Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

    • Obadiah 1:5

      “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

    • Romans 11:4–6

      And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

    • Romans 9:27

      Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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