Jeremiah 17:3

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

O my mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures to the spoil, and your high places for sin, throughout all your borders.

American King James Version (AKJV)

O my mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures to the spoil, and your high places for sin, throughout all your borders.

American Standard Version (ASV)

O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

I will give your wealth and all your stores to be taken away in war without a price, because of your sins in every part of your land.

Webster's Revision

O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.

World English Bible

My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a spoil, [and] your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.

English Revised Version (ERV)

O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.

Definitions for Jeremiah 17:3

Spoil - Booty; prey.

Clarke's Jeremiah 17:3 Bible Commentary

O my mountain in the field - The prophet here addresses the land of Judea, which was a mountainous country, Deuteronomy 3:25; but Jerusalem itself may be meant, which is partly built upon hills which, like itself, are elevated above the rest of the country.

Barnes's Jeremiah 17:3 Bible Commentary

O my mountain in the field - i. e., Jerusalem or Zion, called the Rock of the Plain in Jeremiah 21:13. "The field" is the open unenclosed country, here contrasted with the privileged height of Zion.

Or sin - i. e., because of thy sin.

Wesley's Jeremiah 17:3 Bible Commentary

17:3 My mountain - Jerusalem stood at the foot of an hill, and part of it on the side of it, upon the top of which hills, were many pleasant fields.