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This chastisement arises not from caprice, but is decreed upon full
knowledge and examination of their doings....
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THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT
OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17)
CHAPTER 16
_ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _
2. The coming days of...
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JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR
SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming
sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
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See introd. summary to section....
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Du. rejects all these _vv_. Co. omits 9 13, suspects the genuineness
of 14, 15 both here and in Jeremiah 23:7 f., and rejects 16, as well
as portions of 17 21. Gi. retains of the whole series only Jer...
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C. Explanation on Behalf of the Prophet Jeremiah 16:14-18
TRANSLATION
(14) Therefore behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when it
shall no more be said, As the LORD lives who brought us up fr...
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1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
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MINE EYES ARE UPON ALL THEIR WAYS. — The context shows that here
also the thought is presented on its severer side. The sins of Israel
have not escaped the all-seeing eye of Jehovah....
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כִּ֤י עֵינַי֙ עַל ־כָּל ־דַּרְכֵיהֶ֔ם
לֹ֥א נִ
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The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the
prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism,
commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to
say, h...
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Are not those fishers in allusion to what Christ said of his Apostles,
Matthew 4:19. And is not the recompense the Lord is here said to make
to their sin, that wound of the spirit, which the Holy Ghos...
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The Prophet now shews that the grievous calamity of which he had
spoken would be a just reward for the wickedness of the people; for we
know that the prophets were endued with the Spirit of God not me...
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In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family
relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of
interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely
br...
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FOR MINE EYES ARE UPON ALL THEIR WAYS,.... Not only which they may
take to hide themselves from their enemies, and where they should be
directed to find them; but their evil ways in which they walked,...
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For mine eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not hid from my
face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
Ver. 17. _For mine eyes are upon all their ways._] And though they
hide me from t...
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_Behold, I will send_, &c. This may be better rendered, _But now I
will send_, &c. Because here the prophet returns to denounce
threatenings; _many fishers, and they shall fish them_ “It is common
wit...
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For Mine eyes are upon all their ways, observing their entire conduct;
THEY ARE NOT HID FROM MY FACE, NEITHER IS THEIR INIQUITY HID FROM MINE
EYES, they are unable to conceal it before His omniscient...
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REASONS FOR THE CAPTIVITY...
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14-21 The restoration from the Babylonish captivity would be
remembered in place of the deliverance from Egypt; it also typified
spiritual redemption, and the future deliverance of the church from
an...
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God is of purer eyes than that he can behold iniquity in any so as to
approve it, and therefore though he be long patient, yet he will at
last punish evil-doers; for his eyes behold them, their sins a...
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Jeremiah 16:17 eyes H5869 ways H1870 hidden H5641 (H8738) face H6440
iniquity H5771 hidden H6845 (H8738) from...
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WHAT JEREMIAH IS TO ANSWER ONCE HE HAS GIVEN HIS EXPLANATION AS TO WHY
HE IS ABSTAINING FROM MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE, FROM ALL FORMS OF
MOURNING, AND FROM ALL CELEBRATORY FEASTS (JEREMIAH 16:10).
Wit...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming
calamities.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the
backslider in heart with his...
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Jeremiah 16:2. _Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place._ The
prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it
respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour giv...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Chapter
s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows
that this message from God was delivered before the capture...
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EXPOSITION
With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of
Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses
the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...
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Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21.
Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called
him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16:
The word of the LORD came also unto me...
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1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Ezekiel 8:12; Ezekiel 9:9;...