Jeremiah 6:9
in Jeremiah 6This 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
10 notes on this verse(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 thoroughly as a vine
on Jeremiah 6:9-11
The gleaning figure pictures the invasion as a second and more thorough harvest, a hand passed “once more like a grape gatherer over the branches”. His confession, “I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back”, shows the message costing the messenger first.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
God invites us to knowledge also, when he says by Jeremiah, "If you had walked in the way of God, you would have dwelled forever in peace." … God grants pardon to those who have erred. He says, "Turn, turn, as a grape gatherer returns to his basket." Do you see the goodness of justice in that it advises us to repent?
A commentator
Theophilus of AntiochTheophilus to Autolycus, Book III, Chapter XI · Written before 185.
proposed
And another prophet, Jeremiah, says, "Turn to the Lord your God, as a grape gatherer to his basket, and you shall find mercy." The sayings in the Holy Scriptures regarding repentance are many, yes, countless. God always desires that the human race turn from all …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds. 8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. Judgment threatened against Judah and Jerusalem.
quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — scripture-overlap:94%@v6-8
): They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine; as the grape-gatherer, who is resolved to leave none behind, still turns back his hand into the baskets, to put more in, till he has gathered all, so that they be picked up by the enemy, though dispersed, though hid, and none of them shall escape their eye and hand.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-punctuation+unbalanced-parens
Thus saith the Lord of hosts,....
3 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century3 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
The Jews are the grapes, their enemies the unsparing gleaners. turn back . . . hand--again and again bring freshly gathered handfuls to the baskets; referring to the repeated carrying away of captives to Babylon (Jer 52:28-30;
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — unbalanced-parens
They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand - The Chaldeans are here exhorted to turn back and glean up the remnant of the inhabitants that were left after the capture of Jerusalem; for even that remnant did not profit by the Divine judgments that fell on the inhabitants at large.
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כֹּ֤ה | koh | thus | H3541 → | 577 times |
| אָמַר֙ | ʾamar | he says | H559 → | 5305 times |
| יְהֹוָ֣ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| צְבָא֔וֹת | tzevaot | of hosts | H6635 → | 485 times |
| עוֹלֵ֛ל | olel | thoroughly <glean> | H5953 → | 20 times |
| יְעוֹלְל֥וּ | yeolu | people will glean | H5953 → | 20 times |
| כַגֶּ֖פֶן | khagefen | like <the> vine | H1612 → | 55 times |
| שְׁאֵרִ֣ית | sheerit | [the] remnant of | H7611 → | 66 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| הָשֵׁב֙ | hashev | return | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| יָדְךָ֔ | yadekha | hand your | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| כְּבוֹצֵ֖ר | kevotzer | like a grape gatherer | H1219 → | 37 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | over | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| סַלְסִלּֽוֹת׃ | salsilot | branches | H5552 → |
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.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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 16:16But 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…
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…
- Habakkuk 1:14–15
Through
Revelation 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…
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…
- Joel 3:13
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About Jeremiah
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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; Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor Book 1; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Theophilus of Antioch, Theophilus to Autolycus, Book III, Chapter XI.