Jeremiah 21:13
ContextNETBible | Listen, you 1 who sit enthroned above the valley on a rocky plateau. I am opposed to you,’ 2 says the Lord. 3 ‘You boast, “No one can swoop down on us. No one can penetrate into our places of refuge.” 4 |
XREF | Ex 13:8,20; 2Sa 5:6,7; Ps 125:2; Isa 22:1; Jer 7:4; Jer 21:5; Jer 23:30-32; Jer 49:4,5,16; Jer 50:31; Jer 51:25; La 4:12; Ob 1:3,4; Mic 3:11 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Or “Listen, Jerusalem, you…”; Heb text of v. 21a-b reads, “Behold I am against you [fem. sg.], O inhabitant [fem. sg.] of the valley [and of] the rock of the plain, oracle of the 2 tn Heb “I am against you.” 3 tn Heb “oracle of the 4 tn Heb “Who can swoop…Who can penetrate…?” The questions are rhetorical and expect a negative answer. They are rendered as negative affirmations for clarity. sn What is being expressed here is the belief in the inviolability of Zion/Jerusalem carried to its extreme. Signal deliverances of Jerusalem such as those experienced under Jehoshaphat (2 Chr 20) and Hezekiah (Isa 37:36-37) in the context of promises to protect it (Isa 31:4-5; 37:33-35; 38:6) led to a belief that Zion was unconquerable. This belief found expression in several of Israel’s psalms (Pss 46, 48, 76) and led to the mistaken assumption that God would protect it regardless of how the people treated God or one another. Micah and Jeremiah both deny that (cf. Mic 3:8-12; Jer 21:13-14). |