Jeremiah 4:17

Enemies surround Jerusalem like keepers of a field because she has rebelled against God. It matters because the cause of the siege is named plainly: rebellion against the Lord.

Cross-references · 14

• Jer 5:23But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
• 2 Kgs 25:1–4So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
• Neh 9:26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
• Neh 9:30You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
• Luke 21:20–24But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
• Lam 1:8Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
• Jer 6:2–3Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.
• Dan 9:7–19To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.
• Luke 19:43–44For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.
• Isa 1:8And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.
• Ezek 2:3–7“Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me.
• Isa 30:9These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
• Lam 1:18The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
• Isa 1:20–23But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

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