Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. MOSES AND SAMUEL - eminent in intercessions (Moses, on the occasion of God's wrath on account of the golden calf, ; Samuel, at Mizpe... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivi... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. APPOINT - alluding to , "I will even appoint over you terror, consumption," etc. KINDS - of punishments.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. I WILL CAUSE THEM TO BE REMOVED INTO ALL KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH - (Deuteronomy 28:25; and Ezekiel 23:46). Rather, 'I will give them up to v... [ Continue Reading ]
For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? WHO SHALL GO ASIDE TO ASK HOW THOU DOEST? - Who will turn aside (in passing by) to salute thee? (to wish thee 'peace'-so the Hebrew means.)... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. I AM WEARY WITH REPENTING - (, "Repentance (change of purpose) shall be hid from mine eyes;" ). I have so often repented of the evil that... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways. I WILL FAN THEM WITH A FAN - tribulation (from tribulum, a threshing instrument), which separates the chaff from the wheat (). GATES OF THE... [ Continue Reading ]
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city. THEIR WIDOWS - my peoples (Jeremiah 15:7). I have brought-prophetic past: I will... [ Continue Reading ]
She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD. SHE THAT HATH BORN SEVEN - (, "The barren hath born seven... [ Continue Reading ]
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. (; , etc.) Jeremiah seems to have been of a peculiarly sensitive temperament; yet the Holy... [ Continue Reading ]
The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. VERILY - literally, Shall it not be? i:e., Surely it shall be well with. THY REMNANT - the final issue of thy life; thy life, which now... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? NORTHERN ... STEEL - rather, brass or copper, which, mixed with "iron" (by the Chalybes near the Euxine Pontus, far neigh of Palestine), formed the hardest metal, like our steel. Can the Jews, hardy like common iron though they be, break the stil... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. THY SUBSTANCE WILL I GIVE TO THE SPOIL, FOR ALL THY SINS - Judea's; not Jeremiah's. WITHOUT PRICE - God casts His people away as a thing worth nought (). So, on the contr... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you. THEE. Maurer, instead of thee, supplies them-namely, "thy treasures." Eichorn, needlessly, from Syriac and Septuagint, reads, 'I will make thee to s... [ Continue Reading ]
O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. THOU KNOWEST - namely, my case: what wrongs my adversaries have done me (). REVENGE ME - (note, ). The prophet in this had reg... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. THY WORDS ... I DID EAT - (; ; ; Revelation 10:9). As soon as thy words were found by me I eagerly laid hold of and appropriated them. "Found... [ Continue Reading ]
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation. I SAT NOT IN THE ASSEMBLY OF THE MOCKERS, NOR REJOICED - my "rejoicing" () was not that of the profane mockers (; Psalms 26:4; , "hypocritical mockers" who sell thei... [ Continue Reading ]
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail? WHY IS MY WOUND INCURABLE? Jeremiah's wound is incurable because his people's is so: so entirely does he identify himself with them. The answer to the... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them. God's reply to Jeremiah. IF THOU RETURN, THEN WILL... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD. I WILL MAKE THEE UNTO THIS PEOPLE A FENCED BRASEN WALL ... - the promise of Jeremiah 1:18,... [ Continue Reading ]