Jeremiah 10:17

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ Gather your bundle from the ground, you who live under the siege.'" ¹⁸ For thus says Yahweh, "Look, I am about to sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress to them, so that they may feel it." ¹⁹ Woe to me, because of my wound. My wound is incurable. But I said, "Surely this is my sickness, and I must bear it." ²⁰ My tent is devastated, and all my tent cords are torn. My children have gone out from me, and they are not. There is no one who pitches my tent again, or one who puts up my tent curtains. ²¹ For the shepherds have become stupid, they do not seek Yahweh. Therefore they do not have insight, and all of their flock are scattered. ²² Listen, news: Look, it is coming, a great roar from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals. ²³ I know, O Yahweh, that to the human is not his own way, nor to a person is the walking and the directing of his own step. ²⁴ Chastise me, O Yahweh, but in moderation, not in your anger, lest you eradicate me. ²⁵ Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, and on the peoples that do not call on your name, for they have devoured Jacob, they have devoured and consumed him, and they have caused his settlement to be desolate.

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.

Cross-References

Genesis 34:2
And Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. And he took her and lay with her and raped her.

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,-