Jer 4:17, 5:6, 16:6, 39:1 | ESV | STEP | Like keepers of a field are they against her all around , because she has rebelled against me, declares the Lord .

f[See ver. 4 above]

iFor ver. 1-10, see ch. 52:4-16; 2 Kgs. 25:1-12

Jeremiah 4:17

17 Like keepers of a field ^aare they against her all around,
because she has rebelled against me,

declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:6

6 Therefore ^ba lion from the forest shall strike them down;
a ^cwolf from the desert shall devastate them.
^dA leopard is watching their cities;
everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
their ^eapostasies are great.

Jeremiah 16:6

6 Both great and small shall die in this land. ^fThey shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or ^gcut himself ^hor make himself bald for them.

Jeremiah 39:1

The Fall of Jerusalem

1 ⁱIn the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it.