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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 49:9 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 49:9 |
Strong Concordance |
If grapegatherers [01219] come [0935] to thee, would they not leave [07604] some gleaning grapes [05955]? if thieves [01590] by night [03915], they will destroy [07843] till they have enough [01767]. |
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King James |
If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| (Oba 1:5). Grape gatherers, yea even thieves, leave something behind them; but the Chaldeans will sweep Idumea clean of everything. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| If - Edom shall be totally destroyed; their destruction should not be like the gleaning of grapes, where the gatherers content themselves with taking the principal clusters: nor yet like the robbings of thieves, who take for their hunger, and when they have got enough leave the rest. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| If grape-gatherers - Both in vintage and harvest every grape and every stalk are not gathered; hence the gleaners get something for their pains: but your enemies shall not leave one of you behind; all shall be carried into captivity. |
5 If thieves [01590] came [0935] to thee, if robbers [07703] by night [03915], (how art thou cut off [01820] would they not have stolen [01589] till they had enough [01767]? if the grapegatherers [01219] came [0935] to thee, would they not leave [07604] some grapes [05955]?