Jeremiah 4:26

4:26 I looked and saw that the fruitful land had become a desert

and that all of the cities had been laid in ruins.

The Lord had brought this all about

because of his blazing anger. ¹ 

Jeremiah 2:7

2:7 I brought you ²  into a fertile land

so you could enjoy ³  its fruits and its rich bounty.

But when you entered my land, you defiled it; ⁴ 

you made the land I call my own ⁵  loathsome to me.

Jeremiah 48:33

48:33 Joy and gladness will disappear

from the fruitful land of Moab. ⁶ 

I will stop the flow of wine from the winepresses.

No one will stomp on the grapes there and shout for joy. ⁷ 

The shouts there will be shouts of soldiers,

not the shouts of those making wine. ⁸ 

[4:26]  ¹ tn Heb “because of the Lord, because of his blazing anger.”

[2:7]  ² sn Note how contemporary Israel is again identified with her early ancestors. See the study note on 2:2.

[2:7]  ³ tn Heb “eat.”

[2:7]  ⁴ sn I.e., made it ceremonially unclean. See Lev 18:19-30; Num 35:34; Deut 21:23.

[2:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “my inheritance.” Or “the land [i.e., inheritance] I gave you,” reading the pronoun as indicating source rather than possession. The parallelism and the common use in Jeremiah of the term to refer to the land or people as the Lord’s (e.g., 12:7, 8, 9; 16:18; 50:11) make the possessive use more likely here.

[48:33]  ³ tn Heb “from the garden land, even from the land of Moab.” Comparison with the parallel passage in Isa 16:10 and the translation of the Greek text here (which has only “the land of Moab”) suggest that the second phrase is appositional to the first.

[48:33]  ⁴ tn Heb “no one will tread [the grapes] with shout of joy.”

[48:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “shouts will not be shouts.” The text has been expanded contextually to explain that the shouts of those treading grapes in winepresses will come to an end (v. 33a-d) and be replaced by the shouts of the soldiers who trample down the vineyards (v. 32e-f). Compare 25:30 and 51:41 for the idea.