Jeremiah 4:17 KJV — MannaFest

Jeremiah 4:17

As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the Lord.

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ASV

As keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she hath been rebellious against me, saith Jehovah.

WEB

They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.

YLT

As the keepers of a field They have been against her round about, For with Me she hath been rebellious, An affirmation of Jehovah.'

DBT

As keepers of a field are they against her round about; for she hath been rebellious against me, saith Jehovah.

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Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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Jeremiah 5:23
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
2 Kings 25:1–4
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
Isaiah 30:1
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
Isaiah 1:20–23
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

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To affect them the more with the greatness of the desolation that was coming, the prophet does himself bitterly lament it, and sympathize with his people in the calamities it brought upon them, and the plunge it brought them to, representing it as a reduction of the world to its first chaos,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Their enemies surrounded them as keepers of a field, because they had taken up arms against their rightful Lord and sovereign, and were to be seized as rebels. The Chaldeans were breaking in upon them, and it was sin that opened the gap at which they entered: Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The lamentable cause of this judgment. How is it that Judah and Jerusalem come to be thus abandoned to ruin? They sinned against God; it was all owing to themselves: She has been rebellious against me, saith the Lord,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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