Jeremiah 17:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In the word discontinue there is a secret promise that they should again come and possess and inherit their land; they should not lose their inheritance, but only discontinue their possession and occupation of it. Some learned authors considering that the same word is here used which is used Exodus 23:11, in the law concerning the sabbatical rest, when they were to let the land rest, and lie still, Leviticus 26:34, think this text hath a reference to that, and the meaning is, Thou shalt discontinue thy ploughing and tilling the land; and go into thine enemies country, and serve them in a land of which thou hast no knowledge; because by thine idolatry and other sins thou hast increased my wrath into such a fire, as shall burn for a long time, for so the word for ever is oft taken, Exodus 21:6 Deuteronomy 15:17 Psalms 89:1 Isaiah 34:10.