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Here, Jeremiah described the intensity and extent of the damage to be inflicted upon Israel by the Babylonians, whom he called \u201ca nation from afar\u201d (15). First, he warned of the countless deaths they would cause, saying, \u201cTheir quivers are like a yawning grave\u2014they are all mighty men\u201d (16). Then, he foretold the extent of the devastation they would wreak: \u201cThey will devour your harvest and food, they will devour your sons and daughters, they will devour your flocks and herds, they will devour your vines and fig trees. They will batter down with the sword the fortified towns on which you rely\u201d (17).<\/span><\/p>\n

Shadal\u2019s commentary assists us with two ingredients of these warnings. First, he accounted for the use of \u201cquiver\u201d as an emblem of impending death:<\/span><\/p>\n

Just as the grave and the netherworld are always open (cf. \u201cthe grave will swallow them alive,\u201d Prov. 1:12) because they are insatiable (cf. Prov. 30:15-16: \u201cThree things are insatiable\u2026\u201d), so will the quiver swallow the living by slaying them with its arrows.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next, by drawing attention to a grammatical anomaly in the second verse, Shadal managed to extract a shade of meaning that seems to have eluded most earlier exegetes. Indeed, the J.P.S. translation we have utilized obscures it entirely. A close reading indicates that with one exception the verbs in this verse are actually in the singular: \u201cHe will devour (<\/span>ve-\u2018akhal<\/span><\/em>) your harvest,\u201d \u201che will devour (<\/span>ve-yo\u2019khal<\/span><\/em>) your flocks,\u201d \u201che will devour (<\/span>ve-yo\u2019khal<\/span><\/em>) your vines,\u201d \u201che will batter down (<\/span>yeroshesh<\/span><\/em>) the fortified towns.\u201d The exception is \u201cthey will devour (<\/span>yo\u2019khlu<\/span><\/em>) your sons and daughters.\u201d Shadal, consistent with his \u201csecond foundation,\u201d* saw the\u00a0 discrepancy and commented:<\/span><\/p>\n

The entire verse uses the singular except for \u201cthey will devour (<\/span>yo\u2019khlu<\/span><\/em>) your sons and daughters.\u201d It is also inappropriate to mention sons and daughters in between the harvest and food, sheep and cattle. It appears to me to interpret it like Don Yitzhak [Abrabanel]: The enemy will devour the harvest and food of your sons and daughters; i.e., that which you had set aside for your children\u2019s consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, <\/span>see our introduction<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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