The Meaning of Jeremiah 6:9 Explained

Jeremiah 6:9

KJV: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.

YLT: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They surely glean, as a vine, the remnant of Israel, Put back thy hand, as a gatherer to the baskets.

Darby: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean like a vine the remnant of Israel: turn back thy hand, as a grape-gatherer unto the baskets.

ASV: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again thy hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Thus saith  the LORD  of hosts,  They shall throughly  glean  the remnant  of Israel  as a vine:  turn back  thine hand  as a grapegatherer  into the baskets. 

What does Jeremiah 6:9 Mean?

Verse Meaning

The sovereign Lord promised that the coming enemy would remove the people of Judah from their land as a grape harvester removed the grapes from his vines (cf. Jeremiah 5:10; Isaiah 5:1-6). The harvest would be so thorough that even the small number of Israelites left in the land, that remnant, would be taken captive.
The Lord also commanded Jeremiah to assess the nation as carefully as a grape gatherer examined the branches of his grapevine (cf. Jeremiah 6:27; Jeremiah 5:1). What follows in this pericope is what he discovered.
"All of Jeremiah"s prophetic ministry, however fruitless it seemed, was a kind of grape harvesting, a gleaning of the vine of Israel. Jeremiah"s task was to glean Israel. Once more he must return (shub) to the task to make certain that there was none remaining who had not heard his message." [1]

Chapter Summary: Jeremiah 6

1  The enemies sent against Judah,
4  encourage themselves
6  God sets them on work because of their sins
9  The prophet laments the judgments of God because of their sins
18  He proclaims God's wrath
26  He calls the people to mourn for the judgment on their sins

What do the individual words in Jeremiah 6:9 mean?

Thus says Yahweh of hosts thoroughly they shall glean as a vine the remnant of Israel put back your hand as a grape-gatherer into the branches
כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהֹוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת עוֹלֵ֛ל יְעוֹלְל֥וּ כַגֶּ֖פֶן שְׁאֵרִ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל הָשֵׁב֙ יָדְךָ֔ כְּבוֹצֵ֖ר עַל־ סַלְסִלּֽוֹת

כֹּ֤ה  Thus 
Parse: Adverb
Root: כֹּה  
Sense: thus, here, in this manner.
אָמַר֙  says 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.
יְהֹוָ֣ה  Yahweh 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
צְבָא֔וֹת  of  hosts 
Parse: Noun, common plural
Root: צָבָא 
Sense: that which goes forth, army, war, warfare, host.
עוֹלֵ֛ל  thoroughly 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Infinitive absolute
Root: עָלַל 
Sense: to act severely, deal with severely, make a fool of someone.
יְעוֹלְל֥וּ  they  shall  glean 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: עָלַל 
Sense: to act severely, deal with severely, make a fool of someone.
כַגֶּ֖פֶן  as  a  vine 
Parse: Preposition-k, Article, Noun, common singular
Root: גֶּפֶן  
Sense: vine, vine tree.
שְׁאֵרִ֣ית  the  remnant 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: שְׁאֵרִית  
Sense: rest, residue, remainder, remnant.
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל  of  Israel 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יִשְׂרָאֵל  
Sense: the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel.
הָשֵׁב֙  put  back 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperative, masculine singular
Root: שׁוּב  
Sense: to return, turn back.
יָדְךָ֔  your  hand 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, second person masculine singular
Root: יָד  
Sense: hand.
כְּבוֹצֵ֖ר  as  a  grape-gatherer 
Parse: Preposition-k, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: בָּצַר 
Sense: to gather, restrain, fence, fortify, make inaccessible, enclose.
עַל־  into 
Parse: Preposition
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
סַלְסִלּֽוֹת  the  branches 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: סַלְסִלָּה  
Sense: basket.