Jer 17:3 | JFB | STEP | 3. mountain-- Jerusalem, and especially Zion and the temple. in the field-- As Jerusalem was surrounded by mountains ( ), the sense probably is, Ye rely on your mountainous position ( ), but I will make "My mountain" to become as if it were in a plain (field), so as to give thy substance an easy prey to the enemy [Calvin]. "Field" may, however, mean all Judea; it and "My mountain" will thus express the country and its capital. (Gesenius translates, "together with," instead of "in"; as the Hebrew is translated in ; ; but this is not absolutely needed), "the substance" of both of which God "will give to the spoil." thy high places-- corresponding in parallelism to "My mountain" (compare ), as "all thy borders," to "the field" (which confirms the view that "field" means all Judea). for sin-- connected with high places" in English Version, namely, frequented for sin, that is, for idolatrous sacrifices. But makes the rendering probable, "I will give thy substance ... to ... spoil ... on account of thy sin throughout all thy borders."

‏ Jeremiah 17:3

3. mountain--Jerusalem, and especially Zion and the temple.

in the field--As Jerusalem was surrounded by mountains (Psa 125:2), the sense probably is, Ye rely on your mountainous position (Jr 3:23), but I will make "My mountain" to become as if it were in a plain (field), so as to give thy substance an easy prey to the enemy [Calvin]. "Field" may, however, mean all Judea; it and "My mountain" will thus express the country and its capital. (Gesenius translates, "together with," instead of "in"; as the Hebrew is translated in Jr 11:19; Ho 5:6; but this is not absolutely needed), "the substance" of both of which God "will give to the spoil."

thy high places--corresponding in parallelism to "My mountain" (compare Is 11:9), as "all thy borders," to "the field" (which confirms the view that "field" means all Judea).

for sin--connected with high places" in English Version, namely, frequented for sin, that is, for idolatrous sacrifices. But Jr 15:13 makes the rendering probable, "I will give thy substance ... to ... spoil ... on account of thy sin throughout all thy borders."