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My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a spoil, [and] your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.
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God's Privileged City Judged
Scholars overwhelmingly identify "my mountain in the field" as a poetic name for Jerusalem or Zion. Its status as God's special city, set apart from the common "field," did not protect it from judgment. This serves as a powerful reminder that a privileged position or heritage offers no immunity when sin is present; God's holiness demands obedience from all.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
O my mountain in the field - that is, Jerusalem or Zion, called the Rock of the Plain in Jeremiah 21:13. “The field” is the open unenclosed …
19th Century
Anglican
My mountain in the field. —As in Jeremiah 21:13; Isaiah 2:2; Micah 4:2, a poetic phrase for Jerusalem or Zio…
Baptist
Oh, the blessedness of confidence in God! You see it here set out in contrast with the misery of trusting in men. Drought comes even to this tree, …
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet again repeats that punishment was near the Jews, and that it was useless for them to seek hiding places for themselves, because God wou…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
O my mountain in the midst of the fieldMeaning either the temple, called the mountain of the house, and of the Lord'…
The sins which men commit make little impression on their minds, yet every sin is marked in the book of God; they are all so engraved upon the tabl…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, the prophet explicitly shows the stubbornness of the people, which is the cause of their rejection. From this, he first shows their…
