Jeremías 4:17

17 Como los guardas de las heredades, estuvieron sobre ella en derredor, porque se rebeló contra mí, dice el SEÑOR

Jeremías 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 ) .

Jeremías 4:17 In-Context

15 Porque la voz se oye del que trae las nuevas desde Dan, y del que hace oír la calamidad desde el monte de Efraín

16 Decid de los gentiles; he aquí, haced oír sobre Jerusalén: Guardas vienen de tierra lejana, y darán su voz sobre las ciudades de Judá

17 Como los guardas de las heredades, estuvieron sobre ella en derredor, porque se rebeló contra mí, dice el SEÑOR

18 Tu camino y tus obras te hicieron esto, ésta tu maldad, por lo cual amargura penetrará hasta tu corazón

19 ¡Mis entrañas, mis entrañas! Me duelen las telas de mi corazón; mi corazón ruge dentro de mí; no callaré; porque voz de shofar has oído, oh alma mía, alarma de guerra