“Therefore I will scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.
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“Therefore I will scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.
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Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
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Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
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Passages linked to Jeremiah 13:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 1:4 The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
- Leviticus 26:33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
- Ezekiel 5:2 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
- Ezekiel 5:12 A third part of you will die with the pestilence, and they will be consumed with famine within you. A third part will fall by the sword around you. A third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
- Hosea 13:3 Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
- Deuteronomy 4:27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away.
- Deuteronomy 28:64 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
- Deuteronomy 32:26 I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
- Psalms 83:13-15 My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind. As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire, so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.
- Isaiah 17:13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
- Isaiah 41:16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
- Jeremiah 4:11-12 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse; a full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them.”
- Ezekiel 6:8 “ ‘ “Yet I will leave a remnant, in that you will have some that escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.
- Ezekiel 17:21 All his fugitives in all his bands will fall by the sword, and those who remain will be scattered toward every wind. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’
- Zephaniah 2:2 before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.
- Luke 21:24 They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain This is an inference which Jeremiah draws from the…
This is an inference which Jeremiah draws from the last verse. As long as there is any hope of repentance, there is also room for mercy; God often declares that he is long-suffering. Then the most wicked might object and say, that God is too rigid, because he waits not until they return to a sound mind. Now the Prophet had said that it was all over with the people: here therefore he meets the objection, and shews that extreme calamity was justly brought on them by God, because the Jews had obstinately hardened themselves in their vices and wickedness.
After having shewn, therefore, that corruption was inherent in them, as blackness in the skin of an Ethiopian, and as spots in panthers, he now comes to this conclusion — I will scatter them as stubble which passes away by the wind of the desert This scattering denotes their exile; as though he had said, “I will banish them, that they may know that they are deprived of the inheritance in which they place their safety and their happiness.” For the Jews gloried in this only — that they were God’s people, because the Temple was built among them, and because they dwelt in the land promised to them. They then thought that God was in a manner tied to them, while they possessed that inheritance. Hence Jeremiah declares, that they would become like stubble carried away by the wind.
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He mentions the wind of the desert, that is, the wind of the south, which was the most violent in that country. The south wind, as we know, was also pestilential; the air also was more disturbed by the south wind than by any other, for it raised storms and tempests. Therefore the Scripture, in setting forth any turbulent movement, often adopts this similitude. Some think that Jeremiah alludes to the Egyptians; but I see no reason to seek out any refined explanation, when this mode of speaking is commonly adopted. Then by this similitude of south wind God intimates the great power of his vengeance; as though he had said, “Even if the Jews think that they have a firm standing in the promised land, they are wholly deceived, for God will with irresistible force expel them.” And he compares them to stubble, while yet they boasted that they were like trees planted in that land; and we have before seen that they had been planted as it were by the hand of God; but they wanted the living root of piety, they were therefore to be driven far away like stubble.
Let us then learn from this passage not to abuse the patience of God: for though he may suspend for a time the punishment we deserve, yet when he sees that we go on in our wickedness, he will come to extreme measures, and will deal with us without mercy as those who are past remedy. It follows —
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jer 13:24 Therefore will I scatter them as the…
Jer 13:24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
Ver. 24. Therefore I will scatter them.] This was no small aggravation of their misery, that they should be thus severed one from another. So the persecutors of the primitive times relegated and confined the poor Christians to isles and mines, where they could not have access one to another for mutual comfort and support, as Cyprian complaineth. {a}
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{a} Cyprian. Epist.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The words denote a great and clear dispersion, like…
The words denote a great and clear dispersion, like that of the scattering of stubble by a fierce wind.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face,....…
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 burnt, and they were carried captive; hence it follows:
that thy shame may appear; that their sins might appear to themselves and others, of which they had reason to be ashamed. The allusion is to the treatment which captive women sometimes meet with, or adulterous women, to which the Jews are here compared. The Targum is,
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"and I also will reveal the confusion of thy sin upon thy face, and thy shame shall be seen.''
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 24. The wind of the wilderness.] Some strong…
Verse 24. The wind of the wilderness.] Some strong tempestuous wind, proverbially severe, coming from the desert to the south of Judea.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Jer 13:24-25. Therefore will I scatter them — Separate…
Jer 13:24-25. Therefore will I scatter them — Separate them from one another, and disperse them abroad in that strange and remote country to which they are carried captive; as the stubble, or chaff, rather, that passeth away by the wind — That is dissipated and carried far away by a fierce wind: he adds, of the wilderness, to render the declaration the more emphatical, the chaff being more easily and effectually scattered by the wind in an open place, where there are no houses. This is the portion of thy measures from me — What thou wilt receive of my hand; because thou hast forgotten me — The favours I have bestowed upon thee, and the obligations thou art under to me: of these thou hast no sense, no remembrance; and trusted in falsehood — In idols, in an arm of flesh, in the self-flatteries of a deceitful heart.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Stubble - Broken straw separated from the wheat after…
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.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain (Psa 1:4).
(Psa 1:4).
by the wind--before the wind.
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of the wilderness--where the wind has full sweep, not being broken by any obstacle.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 24. Stubble — The broken straw which has to…
24. Stubble — The broken straw which has to be separated from the wheat after the threshing.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 24. See on Jer_4:11.
24. See on Jer_4:11.
by the wina] better, with mg. unto the wind.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (24) Stubble.—Our English word means the “stalks of the…
(24) Stubble.—Our English word means the “stalks of the corn left in the field by the reaper” (Johnson). The Hebrew word is applied to the broken straw left on the threshing-floor after the oxen had been driven over the corn, which was liable to be carried away by the first gale (Isa_40:24; Isa_41:2).
The wind of the wilderness.—i.e., the simoom blowing from the Arabian desert (Jer_4:11; Job_1:19).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain As the stubble. "The word means not what we…
As the stubble. "The word means not what we call stubble, but the broken straw which had to be separated from the wheat after the corn had been trampled out by the oxen. Sometimes it was burnt as useless; at other times left to be blown away by the wind coming from the desert," on which see Jer_4:11Jo Jer_1:19 (Payne Smith).
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 13:24-27 The divine Judge decreed condemnation.
13:24-27 The divine Judge decreed condemnation.
13:24 I will scatter you like chaff: This word-picture represented the exile of the people of Judah. Cp. Ps 1:4-5.
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