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The whole verse is difficult, but should probably be translated; “to
a pasturage, yea a luxuriant pasturage, have I likened (or, have
reduced to silence, i. e., destroyed) the daughter of Zion.”...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _
2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9)
3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)...
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THE SIEGE OF THE SINFUL CITY. The prophet bids his kinsfolk (Anathoth,
his birthplace, being in Benjamin) to abandon the capital, and to
gather in the southern mountains; the northern peril is now nea...
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DAUGHTER. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for the
helpless inhabitants.
WOMAN. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:56). App-92....
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_The comely … cut off_ So the MT., but it is open to suspicion, and
the Versions differ much from it. With some emendation the sense may
be that Zion is compared to a pasturage, upon which shepherds b...
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I HAVE LIKENED THE DAUGHTER OF ZION— There seems to be nothing in
the simile in this verse, that can at all suit with the continuation
of it in the third; and therefore I cannot but approve the
interp...
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D. Approach of Judgment Jeremiah 6:1-30
Chapter 6 contains a dramatic description of the advance of the foe
against Jerusalem (Jeremiah 6:1-5) and the subsequent siege of that
city (Jeremiah 6:6-8). T...
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1-8. The hostile army approaches....
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RV 'The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion will I cut off,'
a tenderly worded lament over the ill-fated city. DAUGHTER] is used
for the inhabitants collectively....
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TO A COMELY AND DELICATE WOMAN. — “Woman” is not in the Hebrew,
and the word translated “comely” is elsewhere (Isaiah 65:10;
Jeremiah 23:3; Exodus 15:13) rendered “fold” or “habitation;”
and the passa...
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הַ נָּוָה֙ וְ הַ מְּעֻנָּגָ֔ה
דָּמִ֖יתִי בַּת
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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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This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe,
acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against
Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...
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I have likened the daughter of Zion to (d) a comely and delicate
[woman].
(d) I have intreated her gently, and given her abundance of all
things....
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I venture to think, that if we read these verses with an eye to the
Church in Jesus, they will be found very interesting. Who is the
speaker here, that likens Zion to a comely and delicate woman? May...
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As the place, where the Prophet was born, was pastoral, he retained
many expressions derived from his education; for God did not divest
his servants of every natural endowment when he appointed them t...
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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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I HAVE LIKENED THE DAUGHTER OF ZION TO A COMELY AND DELICATE WOMAN.
That dwells at home and lives in pleasure, and deliciously, in great
peace and quietness, in entire ease and security, in no fear of...
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I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate [woman].
Ver. 2. _I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate
woman._] _Certatim amatae bucolicae puellae; _ some fair sh...
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_I have likened_, &c. There being nothing for _woman_ in the Hebrew
text, and the word נוה, here rendered _comely_, frequently
signifying a _pasture_, a _sheep-fold_, and _a habitation_, the verse
is...
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THE ADVICE TO FLEE FROM JERUSALEM...
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I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman,
literally, "The comely and delicate one! I destroy the daughter of
Zion," laying waste the city and the entire country, as a rich an...
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COMELY:
Or, dwelling at home...
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1-8 Whatever methods are used, it is vain to contend with God's
judgments. The more we indulge in the pleasures of this life, the more
we unfit ourselves for the troubles of this life. The Chaldean a...
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WOMAN: this supplement is not in the text; they that approve it render
the epithet _comely_ variously, for one dwelling at home, as the
Hebrew nays doth also signify, HABAKKUK 2:5; and so the word
_de...
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Jeremiah 6:2 likened H1820 (H8804) daughter H1323 Zion H6726 lovely
H5116 delicate H6026 (H8794)
daughter -...
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IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES
THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1).
Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had
given the reas...
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HIS PEOPLE ARE TO PREPARE FOR ACTION BECAUSE THE INVASION IS UPON THEM
(JEREMIAH 6:1).
As the enemy approached from the north the tribe of Benjamin (his own
tribe), who were to the north of Jerusalem,...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that
should come because of sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking
people,...
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Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of
Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_
[of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem,
ac...
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_Arise, and let us go up at noon._
CHRISTIAN EFFORT
That spirit-stirring call of the text, so needful to arouse the
Chaldeans on their march to the ancient, is as needful for us on our
pilgrimage to...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.)
2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small
town of defenc...
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EXPOSITION
A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the
judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance.
JEREMIAH 6:1
Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...
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Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and
know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be
any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...
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Isaiah 1:8; Isaiah 3:16; Isaiah 3:17; Jeremiah 4:31; Lamentations 2:1;...