Jérémie 6:7

7 Comme un puits fait sourdre ses eaux, ainsi fait-elle jaillir sa malice. On n'entend continuellement en elle, devant moi, que violence et ruine; on n'y voit que douleurs et que plaies.

Jérémie 6:7 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 6:7

As a fountain casteth out her waters
In great abundance, and continually: so she casteth out her wickedness;
this metaphor expresses the multitude of her sins, the frequent and constant commission of them, and the source and spring of them, the corrupt fountain of the heart; see ( Matthew 12:34 Matthew 12:35 ) ( 15:19 ) : violence and spoil is heard in her;
that is, the cry of those that are oppressed and spoiled is heard, and that by the Lord himself, whose ears are open to the cries of the oppressed, and will avenge them: before me continually is grief and wounds;
the poor, who were grieved and wounded by their oppressors; the Lord was an eye and ear witness of their grievances, and would redress them; nor could their enemies expect to escape his wrath, since they were all known to him; or else the sense is, that because of their violence and spoil of the poor, it was continually before the Lord, in his mind and purpose, and he was just ready to bring upon them, by way of punishment for these things, what would grieve and wound them; so Jarchi interprets it, which Kimchi mentions; and to it the Targum agrees,

``the voice of robbers and plunderers is heard in her before me continually, therefore will I bring upon her evil and smiting.''

Jérémie 6:7 In-Context

5 Allons! montons de nuit, et ruinons ses palais!

6 Car ainsi a dit l'Éternel des armées: Abattez les arbres, élevez des terrasses contre Jérusalem. C'est ici la ville qui doit être châtiée. Il n'y a qu'oppression au milieu d'elle.

7 Comme un puits fait sourdre ses eaux, ainsi fait-elle jaillir sa malice. On n'entend continuellement en elle, devant moi, que violence et ruine; on n'y voit que douleurs et que plaies.

8 Jérusalem, reçois l'instruction, de peur que mon âme ne se détache de toi; de peur que je ne fasse de toi un désert, une terre inhabitée!

9 Ainsi a dit l'Éternel des armées: On grappillera comme une vigne les restes d'Israël. Remets, comme un vendangeur, ta main aux paniers.