Jeremías 15:3

3 »Enviaré contra ellos cuatro clases de calamidades —afirma el SEÑOR—: la espada para matar, los perros para arrastrar, las aves del cielo para devorar, y las bestias de la tierra para destruir.

Jeremías 15:3 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 15:3

And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord
Or four families ^F24, and these very devouring ones; that is, four sorts of punishment; and so the Targum,

``four evil punishments;''

which are after mentioned. These are represented as under God, and at his beck and command; servants of his, that go and come at his pleasure, and do his will; and as being over men, and having power and authority to kill and to destroy by a divine commission: the sword to slay:
the first and chief of the four families or punishments, which had a commission from the Lord to sheath itself in his people, the Jews; even the sword of the enemy, the Chaldeans, drawn against them by a divine order and appointment: and the dogs to tear;
the carcasses of those that are slain with the sword: or "to draw" ^F25; as the word signifies; it being the usual way of dogs to draw and drag the flesh about they are feeding on; this is another of the four families, and a very voracious one it is: and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and
destroy;
or "to eat, and to corrupt", the bodies of those that are slain by the sword. The meaning is, that such should not have a burial, but should be the food of fowls and wild beasts: these are the other two destroying families, which have their commission from the Lord for such service.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 (twxpvm ebra) "quatuor familias, [sive] cognationes", Vatablus, Tigurine version, Calvin.
F25 (bwxol) "ad trahendum", Calvin, Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Schmidt; so Ben Melech,

Jeremías 15:3 In-Context

1 El SEÑOR me dijo: «Aunque Moisés y Samuel se presentaran ante mí, no tendría compasión de este pueblo. ¡Échalos de mi presencia! ¡Que se vayan!

2 Y si te preguntan: “¿A dónde iremos?”, adviérteles que así dice el SEÑOR:»“Los destinados a la muerte, a la muerte;los destinados a la espada, a la espada;los destinados al hambre, al hambre;los destinados al cautiverio, al cautiverio”.

3 »Enviaré contra ellos cuatro clases de calamidades —afirma el SEÑOR—: la espada para matar, los perros para arrastrar, las aves del cielo para devorar, y las bestias de la tierra para destruir.

4 Los haré motivo de espanto para todos los reinos de la tierra, por causa de lo que Manasés hijo de Ezequías, rey de Judá, hizo en Jerusalén.

5 »¿Quién tendrá compasión de ti, Jerusalén?¿Quién llorará por ti?¿Quién se detendrá a preguntar por tu salud?