Geremia 21:14

14 io vi punirò secondo il frutto delle vostre azioni, dice l’Eterno; e appiccherò il fuoco a questa selva di Gerusalemme, ed esso divorerà tutto quello che la circonda.

Geremia 21:14 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 21:14

But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings,
saith the Lord
The situation of their city, and the strength of its fortifications, however sufficient they might be thought to keep out an enemy from annoying them; yet it was impossible to hinder the Lord's coming among them, as he here threatens to do; and "visit" them, as the word signifies, in a way of wrath and justice, according to the demerit of their sins, expressed by "the fruit of their doings"; their punishment was the reward of their unrighteousness, the effect of their sinful practices; and, though this was dreadful and terrible, they could not but own it was just and equitable: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof;
not in the forest of Lebanon, but in the city of Jerusalem; whose houses stood as thick as trees in a forest, and which many of them, at least the most stately, might be built or ceiled with cedars from Mount Lebanon and its forest; though some understand this of the cities and towns about Jerusalem; and so the Targum renders it, "in its cities"; and the Syriac version, "its towns"; but these seem rather meant in the following clause: and it shall devour all things round about it;
the mountains and trees upon them, the cities and towns adjacent.

Geremia 21:14 In-Context

12 O casa di Davide, così dice l’Eterno: Amministrate la giustizia fin dal mattino, e liberate dalla mano dell’oppressore, colui a cui è tolto il suo, affinché l’ira mia non divampi a guisa di fuoco, e arda sì che nessuno la possa spengere, per la malvagità delle vostre azioni.

13 Eccomi contro te, o abitatrice della valle, roccia della pianura, dice l’Eterno. Voi che dite: "Chi scenderà contro di noi? Chi entrerà nelle nostre dimore?"

14 io vi punirò secondo il frutto delle vostre azioni, dice l’Eterno; e appiccherò il fuoco a questa selva di Gerusalemme, ed esso divorerà tutto quello che la circonda.