Jeremiah 4:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 4:26 —

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Psalms 107:34
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Deuteronomy 29:23-28
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: …
Jeremiah 12:4
How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
Jeremiah 14:2-6
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. …
Psalms 76:7
Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

Topics

Anger Archery Armies Battle Condescension of God Israel, Prophecies Concerning Nation Strife

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 19-31)

The prophet is here in an agony, and cries out like one upon the rack of pain with some acute distemper, or as a woman in travail. The expressions are very pathetic and moving, enough to melt a heart of stone into compassion: My bowels! my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; and yet well, and in health himself, and nothing ails him. Note, A good man, in such a bad world as this is, cannot but be…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. fruitful place--Hebrew, Carmel. a wilderness--Hebrew, “the wilderness,” in contrast to “the fruitful place”; the great desert, where Carmel was, there is now the desert of Arabia [Maurer]. cities--in contrast to the fruitful place or field.