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Jeremiah 6:9

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This 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.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again thy hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets.

KJV

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.

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This verse in Jeremiah 6

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

(Verse 9) Thus says the Lord of hosts, they will gather the remnants of Israel like grapes in a vineyard. Turn your hand like a grape harvester into the basket. LXX: For thus says the Lord of hosts: Gather, gather the remnants of Israel like grapes in a vineyard. Return like a grape harvester to your basket. Some interpret these words in a positive way, others in a negative way. In a positive way, when Jerusalem has been devastated, the remnants will be saved.

This site's exposition

glean the remnant of Israel as a vine

on Jeremiah 6:9-11

The gleaning figure pictures the invasion as a second, more thorough harvest after the first, nothing left on the vine the way a careful grapegatherer leaves nothing in the field. Jeremiah's question, to whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear, answers itself in the next clause, their ear is uncircumcised, the same heart language chapter 4 used for the nation now applied to its hearing. His own confession, I am full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with holding in, is the licensed grief the book allows its prophet, the message costing the messenger before it costs anyone else.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice
They ... - Each word indicates the completeness of Judah’s ruin. Turn back thine hand - Addressed perhaps to Nebuchadnezzar as God’s servant Jer 25:9. He is required to go over the vine once again, that no grapes may escape. Into the baskets - Better, “upon the tendrils.” While the Jews carried captive to Babylon escaped, misery gleaned the rest again and again.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • כֹּ֤הthus

    kohH3541 →577 times

  • אָמַר֙he says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • יְהֹוָ֣הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • צְבָא֔וֹתof hosts

    tzevaotH6635 →485 times

  • עוֹלֵ֛לthoroughly <glean>

    olelH5953 →20 times

  • יְעוֹלְל֥וּpeople will glean

    yeoluH5953 →20 times

  • כַגֶּ֖פֶןlike <the> vine

    khagefenH1612 →55 times

  • שְׁאֵרִ֣ית[the] remnant of

    sheeritH7611 →66 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • הָשֵׁב֙return

    hashevH7725 →1056 times

  • יָדְךָ֔hand your

    yadekhaH3027 →1618 times

  • כְּבוֹצֵ֖רlike a grape gatherer

    kevotzerH1219 →37 times

  • עַל־over

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • סַלְסִלּֽוֹת׃branches

    salsilotH5552 →

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

Related verses

7 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.

Jeremiah 16:16But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.3 worksObadiah 1:5–6“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?3 worksJeremiah 49:9If 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?3 worksJeremiah 52:28–30These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;2 worksRevelation 14:18Still another angel, with authority over the fire, came from the altar and called out in a loud voice to the angel with the sharp sickle, “Swing your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the vine of the earth, because its grapes are ripe.”2 worksJeremiah 11:23There will be no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Jeremiah 52:30in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews. So in all, 4,600 people were taken away.2 works

The walk

8 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

    Jeremiah 16:16

    But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain…

    it leads to

    • Habakkuk 1:14–15

      You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.

    • Amos 4:2

      The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

    • Micah 7:2

      The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

    • Revelation 6:15–17

      Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

    • 1 Samuel 26:20

      So do not let my blood fall to the ground far from the presence of the LORD. For the king of Israel has come out to look for a flea, like one who hunts…

  • Through

    Revelation 14:18

    Still another angel, with authority over the fire, came from the altar and called out in a loud voice to the angel with the sharp sickle, “Swing your sharp sickle and gather the clusters…

    it leads to

    • Joel 3:13

      Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.

    • Revelation 16:8

      Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire.

    • Revelation 14:15–16

      Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest; for…

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About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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