Jeremias 4:17

17 Como guardas de campo estão contra ela ao redor; porquanto ela se rebelou contra mim, diz o Senhor.

Jeremias 4:17 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 4:17

As keepers of a field, are they against her round about
As those that are set to watch a field, in which are fruit and corn of any sort, that thieves and robbers, and wild beasts, may not enter to waste and destroy, and are placed on all sides for that purpose; so the Chaldeans were round about Jerusalem, that none could make their escape out of it; see ( 2 Kings 25:4 ) : because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the Lord;
it was not without reason that the Lord suffered the Chaldeans to come against Jerusalem, besiege, and take it; the inhabitants of it had rebelled against him, their King and their God; and therefore he delivers them up into the hands of another lord, and a cruel one; they had provoked him to anger with their sins, and caused him to stir up his wrath against them in this way: rebellion against a prince, or against a parent, is a provoking sin; see ( 1 Samuel 15:23 ) ( Isaiah 1:2 ) .

Jeremias 4:17 In-Context

15 Porque uma voz anuncia desde Dã, e proclama a calamidade desde o monte de Efraim.

16 Anunciai isto �s nações; eis, proclamai contra Jerusalém que vigias vêm de uma terra remota; eles levantam a voz contra as cidades de Judá.

17 Como guardas de campo estão contra ela ao redor; porquanto ela se rebelou contra mim, diz o Senhor.

18 O teu caminho e as tuas obras te trouxeram essas coisas; essa e a tua iniquidade, e amargosa é, chegando até o coração.

19 Ah, entranhas minhas, entranhas minhas! Eu me torço em dores! Paredes do meu coração! O meu coração se aflige em mim. Não posso calar; porque tu, ó minha alma, ouviste o som da trombeta e o alarido da guerra.