耶利米书 22:6

Chinese Union (Simplified)

耶 和 华 论 到 犹 大 王 的 家 如 此 说 ： 我 看 你 如 基 列 ， 如 利 巴 嫩 顶 ； 然 而 ， 我 必 使 你 变 为 旷 野 ， 为 无 人 居 住 的 城 邑 。

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
因為耶和華論到猶大王的宮殿這樣說：“雖然在我看來，你好像基列，好像黎巴嫩的山峰；我卻要使你變為曠野，變為無人居住的城市。

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

unto: Jeremiah 22:24, Jeremiah 21:11, Genesis 37:25, Deuteronomy 3:25, Song of Solomon 5:15

Thou: Gilead was the most fertile part of the country, and renowned for its rich pastures; and Lebanon was the highest mountain in Israel, celebrated for its stately cedars; and both were, therefore, proper emblems of the reigning family. "But though thou art the richest and most powerful, I, who raised thee up, can bring thee down, and make thee a wilderness."

surely: Jeremiah 4:20, Jeremiah 7:34, Jeremiah 9:11, Jeremiah 19:7, Jeremiah 19:8, Jeremiah 21:14, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:10, Jeremiah 26:6-9, Jeremiah 26:18, Psalms 107:34, Isaiah 6:11, Isaiah 24:1-6, Isaiah 27:10, Ezekiel 33:27, Ezekiel 33:28

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 22:23 - Lebanon Hosea 2:3 - as Zechariah 10:10 - into Zechariah 11:1 - O Lebanon Romans 4:6 - imputeth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thus saith the Lord unto the king's house of Judah,.... That is, to the family of the king of Judah; though it may be rendered, "concerning the house of the king of Judah" z; and so refer to his palace as before:

thou [art] Gilead unto me, [and] the head of Lebanon; or, though like to Gilead (which was a very fruitful country) for wealth, riches, and all kind of valuable things; and like to the top of Mount Lebanon a, being set with tall cedars, for stateliness. So the Targum is,

"although thou art beloved before me more than the sanctuary, which is high upon the top of the mountains:''

or thou shall be as Gilead, and Mount Lebanon, which belonged to the ten tribes of Israel, and are put for the whole kingdom of Israel, which was wasted by the king of Assyria; and in like condition should the royal palace at Jerusalem be, notwithstanding all its riches and grandeur, and so the city and temple likewise; as follows:

[yet] surely I will make thee a wilderness, [and] cities [which] are not inhabited; though as fruitful as Gilead, yet shall become like a barren desert; and though full of children, courtiers, princes, and nobles, yet shall be like cities quite depopulated: or, "if I do not make thee" b, c. it is in the form of an oath, as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe and to be supplied thus, if I do not do as I have said, let me never be believed; let me be reckoned a liar, or not thought to be God, and the like. It shows the certain accomplishment of these things.

z על בית מלך "de domo regis", Cocceius, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. a גלעד אתה לי ראש הלבנון "velut Gilead, ut caput Libani", Junius & Tremellius. b אם לא אשיתך "si non posuero te", Vatablus, Pagninus, Montanus, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Omit and. “Thou art a Gilead unto me, a summit of Lebanon.”

Yet surely - literally, if not, the form of an oath with the imprecation omitted. For the full form see Numbers 14:23.

A wilderness, and cities - Omit and. The meaning is: If the house of David does not hear God’s words, though it be now grand as Lebanon, God will make it a wilderness, even uninhabited cities; the house of David being regarded as equivalent to the kingdom of Judah.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 22:6. Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon — Perhaps in allusion, says Dahler, to the oaks of Gilead, and the cedars of Mount Lebanon, of which the palace was constructed. Lebanon was the highest mountain in Israel, and Gilead the richest and most fertile part of the country; and were, therefore, proper emblems of the reigning family. Though thou art the richest and most powerful, I, who raised thee up, can bring thee down and make thee a wilderness.