Verse 9
The sovereign Lord promised that the coming enemy would remove the people of Judah from their land as a grape harvester removed the grapes from his vines (cf. Jeremiah 5:10; Isaiah 5:1-6). The harvest would be so thorough that even the small number of Israelites left in the land, that remnant, would be taken captive.
The Lord also commanded Jeremiah to assess the nation as carefully as a grape gatherer examined the branches of his grapevine (cf. Jeremiah 6:27; Jeremiah 5:1). What follows in this pericope is what he discovered.
"All of Jeremiah’s prophetic ministry, however fruitless it seemed, was a kind of grape harvesting, a gleaning of the vine of Israel. Jeremiah’s task was to glean Israel. Once more he must return (shub) to the task to make certain that there was none remaining who had not heard his message." [Note: Thompson, p. 257.]
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