Verse 4
The Judeans would voluntarily let the inheritance that God had given them, namely, their land, drop into their enemy’s hands (cf. Jeremiah 15:14; 2 Kings 25:13-17). They would serve this enemy in a strange land because they had aroused the Lord’s anger by their sin.
"The irony is clear: Judah has forsaken or abandoned her covenantal inheritance. Therefore Yahweh will abandon Judah to her enemies, and she will find herself exiled from her inheritance in a land that she had not known." [Note: Joel F. Drinkard Jr., Jeremiah 1-25, p. 224. Drinkard wrote the commentary on chapters 17-25 in this volume of the Word Biblical Commentary, which is listed under Craigie, et al., in the bibliography.]
Jeremiah 17:5-8 seem to be proverbs (or psalm verses), that the writer cited and grouped to make his own point. They contrast the wickedness of trusting man with the blessedness of trusting God.
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