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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 49:9

If grapegatherers come to thee... — The words are reproduced in Obadiah 1:5. Vine-gatherers leave some bunches for the gleaner; robbers are at last satiated with plunder; but the destroyers of Edom would be insatiable (comp. Isaiah 17:6). Esau (the name stands for Edom) should be laid bare, and perish utterly. It is significant that there is no promise to Edom that her captivity should be brought back.

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See also Jeremiah 49:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 49:9. _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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Edom stretched along the south of Judah from the border of Moab on the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and the Arabian deserts, and held the same relation to Judah which Moab held toward the kingdom of...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 49 Concerning Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, and Elam _ 1. Concerning the Ammonites (Jeremiah 49:1) _ 2. Concerning Edom (Jeremiah 49:7) 3. Concerning Damascus (Jeremiah 49:23)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EDOM. For the land, and the relations of this people to Israel, see on Obadiah, from Jeremiah 49:1 of which the present prophecy has taken verbally Jeremiah 49:9; Jeremiah 49:14. This does not, in its...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GRAPEGATHERERS. Compare Obadiah 1:5....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _would they not leave some gleaning grapes_?] The _v_. is based on Obadiah 1:5, but while the general sense is the same, Obadiah contrasts the extremities to which the foe proceeds with the comparativ...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IF GRAPE-GATHERERS COME, &C.— _When the grape-gatherers shall come to thee, they will have no grapes; when nightly thieves, they will plunder as much as seems good to them;_ Jeremiah 49:10. _So will I...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    VI. AN ORACLE AGAINST EDOM Jeremiah 49:7-22 Beyond the brook Zered, the southern boundary of Moab, lay Edom. Edom was an exceedingly mountainous country rich in copper and iron ore. Because of its min...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough. IF GRAPE-GATHERERS COME TO THEE, WOULD THEY NOT LEAVE SOME G...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WOULD THEY NOT LEAVE _some?_] RM 'they will leave no,' etc. In Obadiah 1:6 the words are interrogative, but probably not so here. The enemy, under the simile of grapegatherers and of thieves, will bri...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CONCERNING EDOM] The bitterness of the tone in which Edom is addressed in this prophecy is doubtless to be ascribed to the affinity between them and the Jews, which made the unnatural exultation of Ed...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AGAINST AMMON, EDOM, AND OTHER NATIONS 1-6. The territory of Ammon was N. of Moab, and the two peoples were connected by descent. The carrying away of the tribes on the E. of Jordan by Tiglath-pileser...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אִם ־בֹּֽצְרִים֙ בָּ֣אוּ לָ֔ךְ לֹ֥א יַשְׁאִ֖רוּ...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Against the children of Ammon Jeremiah raised a protest because their king was in possession of Gad. He declared that by the fierce judgment of war, they were to be dispossessed and driven forth. The...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    If (l) grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave [some] gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough. (l) Meaning that God would utterly destroy them and not...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Edomites, the descendants of Esau, are here brought to account. Long grudge, and an old hatred to Jacob and his seed, marked this race: and to this hour the enmity hath not ceased. Galatians 4:29....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Interpreters have not only obscured, but also perverted this verse, and only said what is to no purpose, and have gone far from the meaning of the Prophet. (37) How so? because it did not occur to the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IF GRAPE GATHERERS COME TO THEE, WOULD THEY NOT LEAVE [SOME] GLEANING GRAPES?.... If gatherers of grapes, at the time of the vintage, should come into thy fields to gather the grapes, being ripe, woul...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave [some] gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough. Ver. 9. _If grape gatherers, &c._] See on Obadiah 1:5 ....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _If grape-gatherers come to thee_, &c. The vintage is not usually gathered so clean but there will be a gleaning left, Isaiah 17:6; and house-breakers, or thieves, commonly leave something behind. _Bu...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AGAINST EDOM...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    If grape-gatherers, the usual vintagers, COME TO THEE, WOULD THEY NOT LEAVE SOME GLEANING GRAPES? according to the custom of the Orient to leave a few berries for the poor; IF THIEVES BY NIGHT, THEY W...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TILL THEY HAVE ENOUGH: _ Heb._ their sufficiency...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-22 The Edomites were old enemies to the Israel of God. But their day is now at hand; it is foretold, not only to warn them, but for the sake of the Israel of God, whose afflictions were aggravated b...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    We have much the same OB 5. The scope of the prophet in this place is only to show that Edom should be totally destroyed; their destruction should not be like the gleaning of grapes, where the gathere...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 49:9 grape-gatherers H1219 (H8802) came H935 (H8804) leave H7604 (H8686) grapes H5955 thieves H1590 night

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDGMENT AGAINST EDOM (JEREMIAH 49:7). Edom lay to the south east of Judah stretching from the borders of Judah down to the Gulf of Aqabah, a distance of 100 miles. Its importance generally lay in the...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT ON THE NATIONS CONTINUED (JEREMIAH 49:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:64). Having learned that judgment was coming on Egypt, Philistia and Moab, we now go on to learn that it will also visit Am...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecies against the Ammonites, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, kingdoms of Hazor, Elam. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadrezzar, Zedekiah. CONCLUSION: Nations that despise and persecute God's...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 49:1. _Hath Israel no sons; hath he no heir?_ In this bold and striking manner the prophet commences his elegy on Ammon. The king of Ammon had in times of war, seized the cities of Gad. By ev...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The prophecies against _Ammon, Edom, Damascus,_ and _Kedar._ Jeremiah 49:1 are synchronous with the previous chapter, but the section (Jere...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION On Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar and Hazer, and Elam. JEREMIAH 49:1 The violence of the Ammonites shall be severely punished. JEREMIAH 49:1 HATH ISRAEL NO SONS! The violent seizure, perp...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 49, he speaks first of the Ammonites. Now, the Ammonites were those people who were north of Moab and east of the Jordan in the upper Jordan area, east of the Sea of Galilee and the Gol...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 17:6; Obadiah 1:5; Obadiah 1:6...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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