O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
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Gill's Exposition
O my mountain in the midst of the field,.... Meaning either the temple, called the mountain of the house, and of the Lord's house, Mic 3:12, or else Jerusalem, which stood on a hill in the midst of a…
Barnes' Notes
O my mountain in the field - i. e., Jerusalem or Zion, called the Rock of the Plain in Jer 21:13. “The field” is the open unenclosed country, here contrasted with the privileged height of Zion. Or sin…
The people had asked (Jer 16:10), What is our iniquity, and what is our sin? as if they could not be charged with any thing worth speaking of, for which God should enter into judgment with them; their…
Cambridge Bible
See on Jer 17:17 for amended reading, which is adopted by Du. and Co. The rendering in the text makes the "mountain" to apply to Jerusalem. But as a designation for the city it has a strange…
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