Jeremiah 5:10

10. Go ye up upon her walls The word rendered “walls” occurs nowhere else in this form and in this sense. In Ezekiel 27:25, the same word is translated in the English Version, “did sing of thee.” Furst gives it here the meaning palms. But this sense is most unlikely, the palm being neither so common nor so characteristic as to justify its use in such a passage as this. There is, indeed, no sufficient reason for rejecting the sense of “walls,” indicated by all the important versions. This unusual form of the plural has several parallels, or at least analogous forms; as, for instance, the plurals of יום , day, ראשׁ , head, etc. The sense, however, is not walls, as of a city, but of a vineyard.

Battlements Rather, tendrils. The word is used in Isaiah 18:5. The stock of Judah’s vine was not to be destroyed, but only the branches which had degenerated out of their kind.