Jeremiah 4:17
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They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.

keepers.

Jeremiah 6:2,3 I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman. . . .

2 Kings 25:1-4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it: and raised works round about it. . . .

Isaiah 1:8 And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste.

Luke 19:43,44 For the days shall come upon thee: and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and straiten thee on every side, . . .

Luke 21:29-24 And he spoke to them a similitude. See the fig tree and all the trees: . . .

because.

Jeremiah 5:23 But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.

Nehemiah 9:26,30 But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great blasphemies. . . .

Isaiah 1:20-23 But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. . . .

Isaiah 30:9 For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children that will not hear the law of God.

Lamentations 1:8,18 Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is she become unstable; all that honoured her, have despised her, because they have seen her shame; but she sighed, and turned backward. . . .

Ezekiel 2:3-7 And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people, that hath revolted from me, they, and their fathers, have transgressed my covenant even unto this day. . . .

Daniel 9:7 To thee, O Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as at this day to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, for their iniquities, by which they have sinned against thee.

Context
Disaster from the North
16Say ye to the nations: Behold it is heard in Jerusalem, that guards are coming from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Juda. 17They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.18Thy ways, and thy devices have brought these things upon thee: this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it hath touched thy heart.…
Cross References
2 Kings 25:1
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it: and raised works round about it.

2 Kings 25:4
And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled in the night between the two walls by the king's garden (now the Chaldees besieged the city round about), and Sedecias fled by the way that leadeth to the plains of the wilderness.

Isaiah 1:20
But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.

Jeremiah 5:23
But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.

Jeremiah 6:3
The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have pitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them that are under his hand.

Lamentations 1:18
Sade. The Lord is just, for I have provoked his mouth to wrath: hear, I pray you, all ye people, and see my sorrow: my virgins, and my young men are gone into captivity.

Lexicon
They surround her
מִסָּבִ֑יב (mis·sā·ḇîḇ)
Preposition-m | Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around

like men guarding
כְּשֹׁמְרֵ֣י (kə·šō·mə·rê)
Preposition-k | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

a field,
שָׂדַ֔י (śā·ḏay)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7704: Field, land

because
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

she has rebelled against Me,
מָרָ֖תָה (mā·rā·ṯāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4784: To be contentious or rebellious

declares
נְאֻם־ (nə·’um-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5002: An oracle

the LORD.
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3069: YHWH


Additional Translations
They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me, declares the LORD.As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she has been rebellious against me, said the LORD.

As keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she hath been rebellious against me, saith Jehovah.

As keepers of a field, they have surrounded her; because thou, saith the Lord, has neglected me.

As keepers of a field are they against her round about; for she hath been rebellious against me, saith Jehovah.

As keepers of a field are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.

As keepers of a field they are against her on all sides; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.

As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,'" says Yahweh.

As the keepers of a field They have been against her round about, For with Me she hath been rebellious, An affirmation of Jehovah.'
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