Jeremías 33:4

4 Pues esto dice el Señor
, Dios de Israel: ustedes derribaron las casas de esta ciudad y hasta el palacio real a fin de conseguir materiales para fortalecer las murallas contra las rampas de asalto y contra la espada del enemigo.

Jeremías 33:4 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 33:4

For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel
The destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, which was now fulfilling, is here mentioned as a pledge of the accomplishment of spiritual blessings after spoken of; and to assure the prophet, that as he would with his own eyes see the fulfilment of the prophecies he had delivered out in the name of the Lord concerning that, so likewise as certainly would the other be brought to pass: concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the
kings of Judah, which were thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
by "the mounts", which the Chaldeans raised without the city; or by the engines they placed there, by which they cast out stones into the city, to the demolishing of the houses in it; not in common only, but particularly the houses of the king and nobles, which they especially directed their shot at; and by "the sword", hammers, axes, and mattocks, for which sometimes this word is used, when they entered into the city. Though some render the words, "which are thrown down for mounts, and for the sword" ^F18; that mounts might be made of them within, on which the Jews might fight and defend themselves against the Chaldeans. So the Targum,

``which they pulled down, and threw up mounts to strengthen the wall, against those that kill with the sword;''

and so Jarchi interprets it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 (brxh law twlloh la) "ad aggeres et vastitatem", Tigurine version; "in missilia catapultaria, et in gladium", Junius & Tremellius; "ad catapultas, et ad gladium", so some in Calvin.

Jeremías 33:4 In-Context

2 «Esto dice el Señor
, el Señor
que hizo la tierra, que la formó y la estableció, cuyo nombre es el Señor
:

3 pídeme y te daré a conocer secretos sorprendentes que no conoces acerca de lo que está por venir.

4 Pues esto dice el Señor
, Dios de Israel: ustedes derribaron las casas de esta ciudad y hasta el palacio real a fin de conseguir materiales para fortalecer las murallas contra las rampas de asalto y contra la espada del enemigo.

5 Ustedes esperan luchar contra los babilonios
pero los hombres de esta ciudad ya están como muertos, porque en mi terrible enojo he decidido destruirlos. Los abandoné debido a toda su perversidad.

6 »Sin embargo, llegará el día en que sanaré las heridas de Jerusalén y le daré prosperidad y verdadera paz.