Jeremiah 45:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 45

⁴Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

Jeremiah 45:4 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 18:7-10
At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; …
Jeremiah 31:28
And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 1:10
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Isaiah 5:2-7
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. …
Genesis 6:6-7
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. …

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-5)

How Baruch was employed in writing Jeremiah’s prophecies, and reading them, we had an account Jer. 36:1-32, and how he was threatened for it by the king, warrants being out for him and he forced to abscond, and how narrowly he escaped under a divine protection, to which story this chapter should have been subjoined, but that, having reference to a private person, it is here thrown into the latter…

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

(vv. 4)

4. that which I have built ... planted I will pluck up--(Is 5:5). This whole nation (the Jews) which I founded and planted with such extraordinary care and favor, I will overthrow.