Jeremiah 17:4

Jeremiah 17:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
• New International Version (NIV)Through your own fault you will lose the inheritance I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for you have kindled my anger, and it will burn forever.”
• New King James Version (NKJV)And you, even yourself, Shall let go of your heritage which I gave you; And I will cause you to serve your enemies In the land which you do not know; For you have kindled a fire in My anger which shall burn forever.”
• New Living Translation (NLT)The wonderful possession I have reserved for you will slip from your hands. I will tell your enemies to take you as captives to a foreign land. For my anger blazes like a fire that will burn forever.”

Context of Jeremiah 17:4

2while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills, 3on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory. You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever." 5Thus says the Lord: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. 6He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.

Jeremiah 17:4 word by word

וְשָׁמַטְתָּ֗ה וּבְךָ֙ מִנַּחֲלָֽתְךָ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר נָתַ֣תִּי לָ֔ךְ וְהַעֲבַדְתִּ֙יךָ֙ אֶת־אֹ֣יְבֶ֔יךָ בָּאָ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא־יָדָ֑עְתָּ כִּֽי־אֵ֛שׁ קְדַחְתֶּ֥ם בְּאַפִּ֖י עַד־עוֹלָ֥ם תּוּקָֽד׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinueשָׁמַטshâmaţ · to releaseH8058
• from thine heritageנַחֲלָהnachălâh · inheritanceH5159
• that I gaveנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• thee; and I will cause thee to serveעָבַד‛âbad · to serveH5647
• thine enemiesאֹיֵב'ôyêb 'ôyêb · enemyH341
• in the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• which thou knowestיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• not: for ye have kindledקָדַחqâdach · to kindleH6919
• a fireאֵשׁ'êsh · fireH784
• in mine angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639
• shall burnיָקַדyâqad · to burnH3344
• forעַד‛ad · tillH5704
• everעוֹלָם‛ôlâm ‛ôlâm · forever: enduringH5769

Cross-references for Jeremiah 17:4

• Jeremiah 16:13Therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.'
• Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
• Leviticus 26:31And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.
• Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.
• Deuteronomy 28:25"The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
• Joshua 23:15But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the Lord your God has given you,
• 1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
• 2 Kings 25:21And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.
• Jeremiah 5:29Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
• Jeremiah 27:12To Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people and live.
• Deuteronomy 28:47Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,
• Nehemiah 9:28But after they had rest they did evil again before you, and you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, and many times you delivered them according to your mercies.
• Isaiah 14:3When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,
• Jeremiah 7:20Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched."
• Jeremiah 15:14I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever."
• Deuteronomy 29:26and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 17:4

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4The verb rendered “discontinue” is that used of letting the land rest Exodus 23:11, and of releasing creditors Deuteronomy 15:2 in the sabbatical year. As Judah had not kept these sabbatical years she must now discontinue the tillage of God‘s inheritance until the land had had its rest. “Even thyself may mean and that through thyself,” through thine own fault.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4The wonderful possession, the Promised Land, would be lost by Judah when the people were taken captive to Babylon.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. even thyself--rather, "owing to thyself," that is, by thy own fault (Jr 15:13). discontinue from--be dispossessed of. Not only thy substance, but thyself shall be carried off to a strange land (Jr 15:14).Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 17:4

• Anger
• Idolatry
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning

In the dictionaries

• Discontinue
• Hallow
• Hatch
• Salt
• Sit

Commentaries on Jeremiah 17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings