Jeremiah 13:24 - Exposition

As the stubble . "The word means not what we call stubble, but the broken straw which had to be separated from the wheat after the corn had been trampled out by the oxen. Sometimes it was burnt as useless; at other times left to be blown away by the wind coming from the desert, on which see Jeremiah 4:11 ; Job 1:19 " (Payne Smith).