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Judgment as Total Ruin
Commentators emphasize that this verse describes a comprehensive and total devastation. The invading army, acting as God's instrument of judgment, would consume everything: the harvest, the livestock, the vineyards, and even the people. This totality underscores the severity of the consequences for Judah's persistent rebellion and misplaced trust.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 5:17
18th Century
Theologian
Or,
It shall eat your harvest and your bread:
They shall eat your sons and your daughters.
It shall eat your…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 5:17
19th Century
Bishop
Which your sons and your daughters should eat. —There is no relative pronoun in the Hebrew, and the clause stands parallel with th…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 5:15–18
19th Century
Preacher
See how, in the midst of his wrath, God remembers mercy. He utters a terrible sentence concerning transgressors, and then he pauses, and says, "Nev…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 5:17
16th Century
Theologian
He continues to speak in a similar way of the cruelty of their enemies, as if to say that victory was already in their hands, for they were the sco…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 5:17
17th Century
Pastor
And they shall eat up your harvest
The standing corn in the fields, cut it down, and give it as fodder to their hors…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 5:10–18
17th Century
Minister
Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be so strict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind. Sinners are not w…