3. mountain--Jerusalem, and especially Zion and the temple.
in the field--As Jerusalem was surrounded by mountains
(Ps 125:2),
the sense probably is, Ye rely on your mountainous position
(Jer 3:23),
but I will make "My mountain" to become as if it were in a plain
(field), so as to give thy substance an easy prey to the enemy [CALVIN]. "Field" may, however, mean all Judea; it
and "My mountain" will thus express the country and its capital.
(GESENIUS translates, "together with," instead of
"in"; as the Hebrew is translated in
Jer 11:19;
Ho 5:6;
but this is not absolutely needed), "the substance" of both of which
God "will give to the spoil."
thy high places--corresponding in parallelism to "My mountain"
(compare
Isa 11:9),
as "all thy borders," to "the field" (which confirms the view that
"field" means all Judea).
for sin--connected with high places" in English Version, namely,
frequented for sin, that is, for idolatrous sacrifices. But
Jer 15:13
makes the rendering probable, "I will give thy substance
. . . to . . . spoil . . . on account
of thy sin throughout all thy borders."
JFB.
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