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Verse Jeremiah 18:17. _I WILL SCATTER THEM AS WITH AN EAST WIND_] It
is the property of this wind, almost every where, to parch up, blast,
and destroy grain and trees, and even cattle and men suffer f...
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I WILL SHEW THEM THE BACK - The hiding of God’s face is the sure
sign of His displeasure Isaiah 1:15; Isaiah 59:2....
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CHAPTER 18
The Potter and the Clay
_ 1. In the potter's house and the message (Jeremiah 18:1) _
2. The plot against the prophet and his prayer (Jeremiah 18:18)
Jeremiah 18:1. He was comm
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THE POTTER AND THE CLAY. The potter (Jeremiah 18:1) moulding his clay
on the upper stone, which he makes revolve by his feet resting on the
connected lower stone, is compared with Yahweh in His contro...
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AS. Some codices, with five early printed editions, read "with",
instead of "as".
WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9.
IN THE DAY. See App-18....
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_as with an east wind_ better, perhaps, _as an east wind_.
_look upon … their face_ mg. _shew them the back, and not the face_,
in answer to the people's own behaviour towards Him. See ch. Jeremiah
2:...
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E. The Devastation of the Land Jeremiah 18:16-17
TRANSLATION
(16) The result of this is that they will make their land a
desolation, an object of everlasting derision. Everyone who passes by
it shall...
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1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
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I WILL SHEW THEM THE BACK] God's countenance will be turned away.
18-23. Invocation of evil on the prophet's enemies....
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WITH AN EAST WIND. — MSS. vary, some giving “with” and some
“as an east wind.” The difference does not much affect the
meaning. The east wind blowing from the desert was the wind of storms,
tempests,...
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כְּ רֽוּחַ ־קָדִ֥ים אֲפִיצֵ֖ם לִ
פְנֵ֣י אֹויֵ
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CHAPTER XI
THE DIVINE POTTER
Jeremiah 18:1
JEREMIAH goes down into the Lower Town, or the valley between the
upper and lower city; and there his attention is arrested by a potter
sitting at work bef...
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We now come to the second series of messages before the fall of
Jerusalem (18-20), which consists of declarations of God's absolute
supremacy. In preparation for this, Jeremiah was sent to the house o...
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I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show
them the back, and (f) not the face, in the day of their calamity.
(f) I will show my anger and not my favour toward them....
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_Burning. Hebrew kadim, "eastern," (Haydock) coming from Desert
Arabia, Exodus x. 13. (Calmet) --- Back. Thus the Lord now treats the
synagogue. (St. Jerome)_...
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What a striking expostulation is in the opening of these verses? The
Lord sends his people to ask of the heathen, among whom it was never
known, of such apostasy from their dunghill gods, as Israel ma...
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Though no word of comparison is expressed, if we read ב, _beth_, and
not כ, _caph_, yet the Prophet employs a comparison, for God did not
drive away the Jews by an eastern wind, but as the force of th...
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In chapter 18 this principle is fully demonstrated before the people
(Jeremiah 18:1-10). But the people in despair as to God, in the midst
of their boldness in evil and in contempt of His marvellous p...
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I WILL SCATTER THEM AS WITH AN EAST WIND BEFORE THE ENEMY,.... As the
east wind, which is generally strong and boisterous, drives the chaff
and stubble, and anything that is light, before it, and scat...
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I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew
them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Ver. 17. _I will scatter them._] Whirry and whirl them up and dow...
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_Because my people have forgotten me The fountain of living waters;_
have forgotten what I am in myself, and what I have been, and am still
ready to be to them; have lost their knowledge of me, and th...
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THE PARABLE FURTHER APPLIED...
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I will scatter them as with an east wind, a violent wind from the
desert, BEFORE THE ENEMY; I WILL SHOW THEM THE BACK, AND NOT THE FACE,
IN THE DAY OF THEIR CALAMITY, this being done in just retributi...
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11-17 Sinners call it liberty to live at large; whereas for a man to
be a slave to his lusts, is the very worst slavery. They forsook God
for idols. When men are parched with heat, and meet with cool...
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The east wind is (or was at least in those parts) the fiercest wind.
As the east wind scatters the chaff, so, saith God, I will scatter
them. And when they shall be in great calamity and misery, I wil...
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Jeremiah 18:17 scatter H6327 (H8686) east H6921 wind H7307 before
H6440 enemy H341 (H8802) show H7200 ...
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BECAUSE OF THEIR REFUSAL TO RESPOND TO HIS ‘SHAPING' HE WILL NOW
‘SHAPE' EVIL AGAINST THEM UNLESS THEY NOW REPENT. HIS OFFER BEING
TURNED DOWN GOD CALLS ON THE NATIONS TO BE ASTONISHED WITNESSES OF
TH...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the potter's house. Declaration of God's ways of
dealing with nations. Jeremiah's complaint.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Jehovah has incontestable and irresistible abili...
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Jeremiah 18:6. _As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my
hand._ The sense is given in the next words; the exaltation, or the
degradation of a nation, is wholly with the Lord. If they, unde...
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_I win scatter them;.. . I will shew them the back._
THE SINNER’S DOOM
I. The cause of the evil threatened.
1. Rejecting the Divine government.
2. Guilty of idolatry.
3. Rejecting the mercy of Go...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early
in Jehoiakim’s reign (See _Chronological Note_ on Section 19–27 of
previous chapter). Probably about two years later than that messag...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending
to Jeremiah 25:1.) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not
been determined by chronological considerations. T...
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Now in chapter 18:
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go
down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my
words. Then I went down to the potter's house...
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Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 28:64; Deuteronomy 31:17; Deuteronomy
32:35;...
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East wind — The east wind was in those parts the fiercest wind. As
the east — wind scatters the chaff, so saith God, I will scatter
them. In their calamity — And when they shall be in great calamity,...