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Jeremiah 17:4

in Jeremiah 17

And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And thou, even of thyself, shalt discontinue from thy heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger which shall burn for ever.

KJV

And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.

This verse in Jeremiah 17

Commentary

8 notes on this verse
The verb rendered “discontinue” is that used of letting the land rest Exo 23:11, and of releasing creditors Deu 15:2 in the sabbatical year. As Judah had not kept these sabbatical years she must now discontinue the tillage of God’s inheritance until the land had had its rest. “Even thyself may mean and that through thyself,” through thine own fault.

This site's exposition

The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus

on Jeremiah 17:1-4

The sin is “written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point”, on their hearts and on the horns of their altars. The two places show idolatry fixed in the very heart that was meant to love the LORD. Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles.

This site's exposition

And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance

Albert Barnes notes that the Hebrew verb for relinquish is the one used of letting the land rest in the Sabbath year. Judah had failed to keep those rest years. The land will now get its rest while its people serve enemies in a strange country.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Observe, (1.) Sin works a discontinuance of our comforts and deprives us of the enjoyment of that which God has given us. Yet, (2.) A discontinuance of the possession is not a defeasance of the right, but it is intimated that upon their repentance they shall recover possession again.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Justly are men stripped of that which they have served their idols with and have made the food and the fuel of their lusts. My mountain (so the whole land was, Ps. lxxviii. 11 ) you have turned into your high places for sin, have worshipped your idols upon the high hills (

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And thou, even thyself,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

He shows them the folly of all their carnal confidences, which should stand them in no stead when God's time came to contend with them, and that this was one of the sins upon which his controversy with them was grounded,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

even thyself--rather, "owing to thyself," that is, by thy own fault (Jer 15:13). discontinue from--be dispossessed of. Not only thy substance, but thyself shall be carried off to a strange land (Jer 15:14).

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The words behind it

20 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.

  • וְשָׁמַטְתָּ֗הand you will let fall

    veshamatahH8058 →

  • וּבְךָ֙and in <the> you

    uvekha

  • מִנַּחֲלָֽתְךָ֙from inheritance your

    minachalatekhaH5159 →222 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • נָתַ֣תִּיI gave

    natatiH5414 →2011 times

  • לָ֔ךְto <the> you

    lakh

  • וְהַעֲבַדְתִּ֙יךָ֙and I will make serve you

    vehaavadtikhaH5647 →288 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אֹ֣יְבֶ֔יךָenemies your

    ʾoyeveikhaH341 →282 times

  • בָּאָ֖רֶץin <the> land

    baaretzH776 →2504 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יָדָ֑עְתָּyou know

    yadaetaH3045 →945 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • אֵ֛שׁa fire

    ʾeshH784 →378 times

  • קְדַחְתֶּ֥םyou have kindled

    kedachtemH6919 →

  • בְּאַפִּ֖יin anger my

    beapiH639 →276 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • עוֹלָ֥םperpetuity

    olamH5769 →438 times

  • תּוּקָֽד׃ סit will burn

    tukadH3344 →

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

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

    Isaiah 5:25

    Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Despite all…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 10:4

      Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

    • Isaiah 9:21

      Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; together they turn against Judah. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

    • Isaiah 9:17

      Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite…

    • 2 Kings 9:37

      And Jezebel’s body will lie like dung in the field on the plot of ground at Jezreel, so that no one can say: This is Jezebel.’”

  • Through

    Jeremiah 15:14

    Then I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for My anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.”

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 16:13

      So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you…

    • Deuteronomy 32:22

      For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 7:20

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 42:18

      For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out…

  • Through

    Lamentations 5:2

    Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 1:7

      Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.