💧WEB · Jeremiah 4:17
What does Jeremiah 4:17 mean?
"As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says Yahweh."
— Jeremiah 4:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
“Tell the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says Yahweh.
“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.
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