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 5:23“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.
• 2 Kgs 25:1–4In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.
• Neh 9:26“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
• Neh 9:30Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet would they not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
• Luke 21:20–24“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.
• Lam 1:8Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she has become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
• Jer 6:2–3I will cut off the comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion.
• Dan 9:7–19Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
• Luke 19:43–44For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
• Isa 1:8The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.
• Ezek 2:3–7He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.
• Isa 30:9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;
• Lam 1:18“Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
• Isa 1:20–23but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

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