Jeremiah 5:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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they shall eat up. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:16). App-92. Repeated three times by Figure of speech Anaphora, for great emphasis.

harvest, &c. Note the similar enumeration in Habakkuk 3:17.

impoverish. beat down. Only again in Malachi 1:4.

trustedst. confidedst. Hebrew. batah. App-69.

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Jeremiah 5:17

17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.