“Nonetheless they became contentious and rebelled against You. They cast Your Torah behind their back. They killed Your prophets who warned them to return to You; they committed appalling blasphemies.
Jeremiah 4:17 - Tree of Life Version Like keepers of a field they surround her, because she has been rebellious against Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Like keepers of a field they are against her round about, because she has been rebellious against Me, says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) As keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she hath been rebellious against me, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible They hem her in like those guarding a field, because she has rebelled against me, declares the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version They have been stationed over her, like the guardians of fields, all around. For she has provoked me to wrath, says the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord. |
“Nonetheless they became contentious and rebelled against You. They cast Your Torah behind their back. They killed Your prophets who warned them to return to You; they committed appalling blasphemies.
You bore with them for many years and admonished them by Your Ruach through the hand of Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You handed them over to the peoples of the lands.
So the Daughter of Zion is left as a sukkah in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
For this is a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to obey the Torah of Adonai.
But this people have a stubborn and rebellious heart. They have turned aside and gone away.
It came to pass in the ninth year of his reign in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came—he and all his army—against Jerusalem, and besieged it. They built a siege wall all around it.
“Adonai is righteous, for I have rebelled against His word. Hear now, all peoples— look at my suffering! My maidens and my young men have gone into captivity.
Jerusalem has greatly sinned— therefore, she has become niddah . All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness. She herself groans, and turns away.
You have been rebellious against Adonai from the day that I knew you.