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Verse Jeremiah 4:20. _DESTRUCTION UPON DESTRUCTION_] Cities burnt, and
their inhabitants destroyed.
_MY TENTS SPOILED_] Even the solitary dwellings in the fields and open
country do not escape....
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DESTRUCTION ... - Or, breaking upon breaking Jeremiah 4:6. The news of
one breaking, one violent calamity, follows close upon another.
MY CURTAINS - The curtains of the tent, put here for the tents
t...
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CHAPTER 4
_ 1. True repentance and what it means (Jeremiah 4:1) _
2. The alarm sounded: judgment comes (Jeremiah 4:5)
3. The doom of the rebellious people (Jeremiah 4:14)
4. The desolation of I
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THE PROPHET'S GRIEF for his country finds characteristic expression:
My bowels! my bowels! Let me writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart
moaneth within me! (Driver). His soul hears (_mg._ with LXX) t...
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CURTAINS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for tents, in
which. large proportion of the people lived (2 Samuel 18:17; 1 Kings
8:66). Compare Jeremiah 10:20....
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_is cried_ better, _one destruction_(lit. _breach) meeteth_(followeth
upon) _another_. The Hebrew verb is ambiguous.
_curtains_ tent-hangings. Cp. Jeremiah 10:20; Ca. Jeremiah 1:5; Isaiah
54:2....
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The prophet is racked with grief at the noise of war and the thought
of its horrors and all through the mad folly of his people.
See summary at commencement of section....
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Jeremiah 4:5-31. Impending judgements. National disaster
This section and the two that follow it (viz. chs. 5 and 6) are
somewhat later than the preceding, as presenting a more definite
description o...
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MY BOWELS, &C.— _My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the centre,_
or, _in the midst, of my heart; my heart is tumultuous within me._
This terrific vision is full of the divinest enthusiasm. The
calam...
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B. Description of Coming Judgment Jeremiah 4:19-31
In the last half of chapter four Jeremiah describes the coming
judgment. He emphasizes that this judgment will be (1) terrifying
(Jeremiah 4:19-22);...
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THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE
INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF
THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6)
This section furnishes us with the g...
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5-10. Destruction approaches Jerusalem....
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DESTRUCTION UPON DESTRUCTION IS CRIED. — Literally, _Breaking upon
breaking,_ or _crash upon crash, is reported._
SUDDENLY ARE MY TENTS SPOILED. — The tent dwelling retained its
position even amid the...
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שֶׁ֤בֶר עַל ־שֶׁ֨בֶר֙ נִקְרָ֔א כִּ֥י
שֻׁדְּדָ֖ה...
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Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1
CHAPTER IV
THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD
Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30
IF we would under
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Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be
established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined
on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in exte...
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Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid
waste: suddenly are my (r) tents ruined, [and] my curtains in a
moment.
(r) Meaning, the cities which were as easily cast down as a t...
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_Moment. The cities are destroyed as easily as a tent._...
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I hope the Reader will pause over these verses, and remark the concern
of the Prophet. And when he hath done this, let him ask himself what
ought to be the concern of the Lord's prophets: I mean his m...
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He pursues the same subject, but amplifies the dread by a new
circumstance, — that God would heap evils on evils, so that the Jews
would in vain hope for an immediate relief. By saying, _A calamity
up...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6.
Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at
that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be
unto th...
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DESTRUCTION UPON DESTRUCTION IS CRIED;.... Or, "breach upon breach" g;
as soon as one affliction is over, another comes on; and upon the news
of one calamity, tidings are brought of another, as in Job...
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Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled:
suddenly are my tents spoiled, [and] my curtains in a moment.
Ver. 20. _Destruction upon destruction._] _Fluctus fluctum trudit;...
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_My bowels_, &c. Or, as Dr. Waterland renders it, _My bowels, my
bowels! I am pained at the centre, or in the midst, of my heart; my
heart is tumultuous within me!_ It is an exclamation of the prophet...
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The Desolation Following the Lord's Judgment.
The prophet here, in a most dramatic manner, introduces Israel as
lamenting over the calamity which has struck the nation....
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Destruction upon destruction is cried, blow upon blow is reported; FOR
THE WHOLE LAND IS SPOILED, rendered desolate by the enemy; SUDDENLY
ARE MY TENTS SPOILED AND MY CURTAINS, those out of which the...
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19-31 The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He
is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion. Compared with what
it was, every thing is out of order; but the ruin of the Jew...
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DESTRUCTION UPON DESTRUCTION; a further expression of his bitter
lamentation, redoubling his complaint; the end of one, but the
beginning of another; q.d. worse and worse, DEUTERONOMY 32:23 EZEKIEL
7:...
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Jeremiah 4:20 Destruction H7667 destruction H7667 cried H7121 (H8738)
land H776 plundered H7703 (H8795) Suddenly H6597
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JUDAH ARE CALLED TO REPENTANCE AS WELL AS ISRAEL FOR THEY ARE STILL IN
THEIR LAND, AND, IF THEY WILL ONLY TRULY TURN TO HIM WITH GENUINELY
CHANGED HEARTS, CAN STILL LOOK FORWARD TO THE FUTURE IN HOPE....
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YHWH WARNS JUDAH THAT IF THEY WILL NOT REPENT FOR THEM TOO INVASION BY
A FIERCE ADVERSARY IS THREATENING AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY COME BECAUSE OF
THEIR SINS (JEREMIAH 4:3).
If Judah will not respond to th...
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Jeremiah 4:1. _If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return
unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight,
then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The LORD l...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. Warning of the
consequences of sin and exhortation to return to God.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: It is the evil of men's doings that kindle...
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Jeremiah 4:3. _Break up your fallow ground._ Hebrews ניר _nir,
novale;_ make _new_ land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12. Our old
phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the word....
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_Suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment._
SUDDEN SORROW
Jeremiah was describing the havoc of war, a war which was devastating
his country and bringing untold miseries upon the peo...
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_I am pained at my very heart._
THE PROPHET’S LAMENTATIONS OVER HIS PEOPLE’S DOOM
I. The complaint or lamentation itself.
1. The parts affected. The soul and inward man.
(1) The secrecy of it, the...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Chronology_ of the chapter,
_Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History_ as in
chap. 3. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 4:5. “_Defenced
cities_....
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 4:1, JEREMIAH 4:2
The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render,
_If thou wilt return_,_ O Israel_,_ saith Jehovah_,_ wilt return unto
me_;_ and if thou wilt...
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But if you will return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and
if you will put away thine abominations out of my sight, then you will
no longer be [moved or] removed. And thou shalt swear, The...
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2 Thessalonians 1:9; Exodus 33:5; Ezekiel 14:21; Ezekiel 7:25;...
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Destruction — Good Josiah slain, and four of his successors carried
away, or slain. My tents — The enemy makes no more of overthrowing
my stately cities, than if he were overturning tents made of curt...