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Jeremiah 4:3

King James Version (KJV)

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Jeremiah 4:3

Verse 3 of 31

Scripture focus

For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

Jeremiah 4:3 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jeremiah 4:3

Theological / Devotional

Men of Judah. The exhortation to repent and reform is here specifically addressed to the southern kingdom.

And Jerusalem. A few Hebrew MSS, the LXX, Old Latin, Syriac, and Targums read “and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.”

Fallow ground. The Hebrew has a play on words which might be rendered “till the untilled ground.”

Sow not among thorns. Compare Jesus’ parable of the soils (Matt. 13:7, 22). Unless the thorns and weeds were removed, they would choke the seeds of reform (see Luke 8:7 ; 5T 53). It was necessary for Judah to make a clean work of ridding herself of idolatry and moral and social evil. No halfway reform, such as took place under Josiah, would suffice.

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