The Bible — notes and cross-references in Jeremiah | Interpretation and commentary to chapter 4

4:1^a Return

Jer. 3:1, 22; Joel 2:12
4:2^a bless

Gen. 22:18; Psa. 72:17; Isa. 65:16; Gal. 3:8
4:3¹ fallow

Israel should sow everything in the presence of God, with God, and for God. This is to use the land properly. Instead they worshipped idols and sowed among thorns. Thus, God advised them to stop that kind of sowing and return to the fallow ground in which they should have been sowing.
4:3^a sow

Matt. 13:7; Mark 4:7; Luke 8:7
4:4^a Circumcise

Deut. 10:16; 30:6; Jer. 9:26; Rom. 2:28-29; Phil. 3:3; Col. 2:11
4:6^a do

Luke 21:21
4:6^1b north

Jer. 1:13-15; 6:1, 22

Referring to Babylon.
4:7¹ lion

Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon.
4:12¹ from

Or, for Me; i.e., for My sake.
4:13^a eagles

Deut. 28:49; Lam. 4:19; Hosea 8:1; Hab. 1:8
4:14^a Wash

Isa. 1:16; James 4:8
4:19^a heart

Isa. 15:5; 16:11; Jer. 9:1, 10
4:19^b trumpet

Num. 10:9; Amos 3:6; Zeph. 1:16; cf. 1 Cor. 14:8
4:23^a earth

Isa. 24:19
4:23^b waste

Gen. 1:2
4:25^a no

Isa. 41:28
4:27^a full

Jer. 5:10, 18; 30:11; 46:28
4:30^a eyes

2 Kings 9:30; Ezek. 23:40
4:31^a woman

Isa. 26:17-18; Jer. 6:24; 13:21; 30:6; Micah 4:9-10; 5:3