Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face,.... Turn them up, or throw them over the head or face; that is, expose to public shame and disgrace; which was done when their city and temple were…
Barnes' Notes
Stubble - Broken straw separated from the wheat after the grain had been trampled out by the oxen. Sometimes it was burned as useless; at other times left to be blown away by the wind from the desert.
Here is, I. Ruin threatened as before, that the Jews shall go into captivity, and fall under all the miseries of beggary and bondage, shall be stripped of their clothes, their skirts discovered for…
Cambridge Bible
See on Jer 4:11.
by the wina better, with mg. unto the wind.
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