Jeremiah 19:7

7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those that seek their souls and I will give their carcasses to be food for the fowls of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 19:7 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 19:7

And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in
this place
The counsel which they took in this place and agreed to, in offering their sons and daughters to idols; and which they took with these idols and their priests, from whom they expected assistance and relief; and all their schemes and projects for their deliverance; these were all made to spear to be mere empty things, as empty as the earthen bottle he had in his hand, to which there is an allusion; there being an elegant paronomasia between the word ^F16 here used and that: and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies:
such as sallied out from the city, or attempted to make their escape: and by the hands of them that seek their lives;
and so would not spare them, when they fell into them: and their carcasses will I give to be meat for the fowls of the
heaven, and for the beasts of the earth:
signifying that they should have no burial, but their slain bodies should lie upon the earth, and be fed upon by fowls and beasts.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 (qbqb) & (ytqbw) .

Jeremiah 19:7 In-Context

5 and have built high places unto Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto this same Baal, which I did not command, nor speak, neither did it come into my mind.

6 Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that this place shall no longer be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of the slaughter.

7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those that seek their souls and I will give their carcasses to be food for the fowls of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

8 And I will make this city desolate and a hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and each one shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, with which their enemies and those that seek their souls shall straiten them.