Jeremiah compares the tents of the besiegers on guard around Jerusalem to the booths erected by shepherds or farmers for the protection of their fl…

Field. —With the meaning, as in all early English, of “open,” not “enclosed,” country (Leviticus 14:7; [Reference Levi…

How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you? For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes affliction from Mount Ephraim. Make mention to…

He suggests here that there would be no escape for the Jews when God brought the Chaldeans, because every way out, all the paths, would be closed u…

As keepers of a field, are they against her round about
As those that are set to watch a field, in which are fruit a…

The fierce conqueror of the neighboring nations was to make Judah desolate. The prophet was afflicted to see the people lulled into security by fal…

Here, he predicts the siege: