Jeremiah 10:17

THE MESSAGE

Grab your bags, all you who are under attack. God has given notice: "Attention! I'm evicting Everyone who lives here, And right now—yes, right now! I'm going to press them to the limit, squeeze the life right out of them."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Gather up your belongings from the ground,you who live under siege.

Hebrew Names Version
Gather up your wares out of the land, you who abide in the siege.

King James Version
Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

English Standard Version
Gather up your bundle from the ground, O you who dwell under siege!

New American Standard Bible
Pick up your bundle from the ground, You who live under siege!

New Century Version
Get everything you own and prepare to leave, you people who are trapped by your enemies.

Amplified Bible
Gather up your bundle [of goods] from the ground, You who live under siege.

World English Bible
Gather up your wares out of the land, you who abide in the siege.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Gather vp thy wares out of the land, O thou that dwellest in the strong place.

Legacy Standard Bible
Gather up your bundle from the ground,You who inhabit a land under siege!

Berean Standard Bible
Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege.

Contemporary English Version
I said to the people of Judah, "Gather your things; you are surrounded.

Complete Jewish Bible
You who are living under the siege, gather your belongings off the ground,

Darby Translation
Gather up thy baggage out of the land, O inhabitress of the fortress.

Easy-to-Read Version
Get everything you own and prepare to leave. People of Judah, you are trapped in the city, and the enemy is all around it.

George Lamsa Translation
Gather up your disgrace from the land, O inhabitant who dwells in distress.

Good News Translation
People of Jerusalem, you are under siege! Gather up your belongings.

Lexham English Bible
Gather your bundle from the ground, you who live under the siege.'"

Literal Translation
Gather up your bundle from the ground, you who live under the siege.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Put awaye thy vnclennesse out of the londe, thou that art in the stronge cities.

American Standard Version
Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou that abidest in the siege.

Bible in Basic English
Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Gather up thy wares from the ground, O thou that abidest in the siege.

King James Version (1611)
Gather vp thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortresse.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Gather vp thy wares out of the land, thou that art in the strong place.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He has gathered thy substance from without the lodged in choice vessels.

English Revised Version
Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou that abidest in the siege.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou that dwellist in bisegyng, gadere fro the lond thi schenschipe;

Update Bible Version
Gather up your wares out of the land, O you that abide in the siege.

Webster's Bible Translation
Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

New English Translation
Gather your belongings together and prepare to leave the land, you people of Jerusalem who are being besieged.

New King James Version
Gather up your wares from the land, O inhabitant of the fortress!

New Living Translation
Pack your bags and prepare to leave; the siege is about to begin.

New Life Bible
Pick up your load from the ground, you who are shut in by armies!

New Revised Standard
Gather up your bundle from the ground, O you who live under siege!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Fold up, from the ground thy travelling carpet, - O inhabitress of the fortress;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Gather up thy shame out of the land, thou that dwellest in a siege.

Revised Standard Version
Gather up your bundle from the ground, O you who dwell under siege!

Young's Literal Translation
Gather from the land thy merchandise, O dweller in the bulwark,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Pick up your bundle from the ground, You who dwell under siege!

Contextual Overview

¹⁷Grab your bags, all you who are under attack. God has given notice: "Attention! I'm evicting Everyone who lives here, And right now—yes, right now! I'm going to press them to the limit, squeeze the life right out of them." ¹⁹But it's a black day for me! Hopelessly wounded, I said, "Why, oh why did I think I could bear it?" My house is ruined— the roof caved in. Our children are gone— we'll never see them again. No one left to help in rebuilding, no one to make a new start! ²¹ It's because our leaders are stupid. They never asked God for counsel, And so nothing worked right. The people are scattered all over. ²² But listen! Something's coming! A big commotion from the northern borders! Judah's towns about to be smashed, left to all the stray dogs and cats! ²³I know, God , that mere mortals can't run their own lives, That men and women don't have what it takes to take charge of life. So correct us, God , as you see best. Don't lose your temper. That would be the end of us. Vent your anger on the godless nations, who refuse to acknowledge you, And on the people who won't pray to you— The very ones who've made hash out of Jacob, yes, made hash And devoured him whole, people and pastures alike.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3404, bc 600

thy wares: Jeremiah 6:1, Ezekiel 12:3-12, Micah 2:10, Matthew 24:15

inhabitant: Heb. inhabitress, Jeremiah 21:13, *marg.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Gather up thy wares out of the land,.... Or thy merchandise, as the Targum; or thy substance, as the Septuagint; all valuable effects and goods that are movable, which might be carried from place to place. The meaning is, that the Jews would gather up their riches from the several parts of the land of Judea, and bring them to Jerusalem, a fortified place; or they would be in danger of falling into the hands of the enemy. Kimchi interprets the words as if spoken of Babylon, and directed to the Chaldeans, not to be elated with the captivity of Israel; and because the word כנע signifies "to humble and subdue" he takes the sense to be,

"gather in or contract thine humiliation or subjection;''

that is, of other nations; refrain thyself, or cease from subduing kingdoms; that is now at an end, it shall be no more so; but the words manifestly respect the people of the Jews, as is clear from the next verse.

O inhabitant of the fortress; of the fortress of Zion, or the fortified city, Jerusalem. The Targum is,

"O thou that dwellest in the strong place, in the fortified cities.''

It may be rendered, "that dwellest in the siege" y; in the besieged city, Jerusalem.

y יושבתי במצור "quae habitas in obsidione", V. L. Cocceius, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophet now returns to the main subject of his sermon, the conquest of Judaea.

Thy wares - Rather, thy bundle, which could contain a few articles for necessary use, and be carried in the hand. They are going into exile.

O inhabitant of the fortress - i. e., thou that art besieged, that inhabitest a besieged town.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 10:17. Gather up thy wares — Pack up your goods, or what necessaries of life your enemies will permit you to carry away; for,-