fields. Hebrew text reads "dry places", but the margin, with some codices and seven early printed editions, Authorized Version and Revised Version, read "fields".
holy. See note on Exodus 3:6.
for ever. for times age-abiding: for aye.
Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 31:40
Jeremiah 31:40
40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.