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Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

Nor their fathers have known - alluding to , "Their fathers taught them" idolatry; therefore the children shall be scattered to a land which "neither their fathers nor they have known."

Send a sword after them - not even in flight shall they be safe.

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See also Jeremiah 9:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length. Jeremiah 9:10 THE HABITATIONS I. E - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see Jeremiah...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The prophet's complaint and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 9:1) _ 2. The cause of desolation and destruction (Jeremiah 9:10) 3. The call for the mourning and wailing women (Jeremiah 9:17...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    FAITHLESSNESS AND ITS RETRIBUTION: THE DIRGE OF DEATH. The humblest caravanserai would be preferable to life among these evil men, with their calumnies and the unfaithful use of power by those in auth...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    WILL SCATTER THEM AMONG THE HEATHEN. The events that happened before that generation ended serve to explain the meaning. The city was destroyed, the temple leveled, and the people carried away captiv...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    I WILL SCATTER. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:33.Deuteronomy 28:64; Deuteronomy 28:64). HEATHEN. nations....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to the section....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Du. and Gi. consider this passage to be condemned by prosaic wording and the vagueness or absence of metre. Co. thinks it to contain Jeremianic elements, worked up later. It certainly forms a remarkab...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. Impending Destruction Jeremiah 9:9-21 Because of the national corruption, destruction is necessary and imminent. The land will become desolate (Jeremiah 9:9-15) and death will reign supreme through...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Jeremiah 9:15]_ וַ הֲפִֽצֹותִים֙ בַּ † גֹּויִ֔ם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    NATIONAL PERVERSITY Jeremiah 9:1-16 Jeremiah 9:1-6 Once the voice of joy and thanksgiving had been heard in Jerusalem, but now on every side there was bloodshed, and the patriot-prophet could only w...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In answer to his own question, Jeremiah sighed for some adequate means of expressing the anguish of his heart, and then for escape to some lonely place in the wilderness. All this was in the nature of...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Consumed. Chap. xliv. 27. No country shall afford them protection. (Calmet) --- The richer sort were made captives, and most of the people destroyed, but not all, chap. iv. 25. (Worthington)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It is blessed to remark, that in all the Lord's chastisements, he hath one uniform object in view for their reform. All his dispensations are to bring his people back to himself. Hence the wise among...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    As he had said that the Jews were following what theyhad received from their fathers,so he says now that God would _scatter them among nations, _which had been unknown to them and to their fathers. He...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I WILL SCATTER THEM ALSO AMONG THE HEATHEN,.... Besides the bitter judgments of famine and pestilence during the siege, what remained of them should be carried captive out of their own land into forei...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. Ver. 16. _And I will scatter them also among...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I will feed them, &c., with wormwood_ See on Deuteronomy 29:18. The word rendered _wormwood_ here, it seems, had better be rendered _wolfsbane_, as signifying an herb which is not only bitter and nau...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I will scatter them also among the heathen, in shameful captivity and exile, WHOM NEITHER THEY NOR THEIR FATHERS HAVE KNOWN, as an adequate punishment for their transgression; AND I WILL SEND A SWORD...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-22 In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the voice of lamentation. Unhumbled hearts lament their calami...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I WILL SCATTER THEM ALSO AMONG THE HEATHEN; either you shall wander up and down among strangers, like Cain's curse; or rather, you shall have no friend abroad, but be sold as so many slaves from perso...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 9:16 scatter H6327 (H8689) Gentiles H1471 fathers H1 known H3045 (H8804) send H7971 (H8765) sword...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THOSE WHO ARE TRULY WISE WILL KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD AND WILL THUS UNDERSTAND WHY HE ACTS LIKE HE DOES IN BRINGING FINAL JUDGMENT ON JUDAH (JEREMIAH 9:12). The passage commences by asking who the tr...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 9:1. _Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!_ Jeremiah foresaw that the Chaldeans would c...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Detestation of the sins of the people. The vanity of trusting in anything but God. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who will not know God...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 9:2. _Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodgingplace of wayfaring men._ In countries where the peasantry are very poor, travellers provide for themselves as they can. Even in Spain many of th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Because they have forsaken My law. .. give them water of gall to drink._ THE WAGES OF SIN A quaint preacher, addressing miners, drew a picture of two mines. He represented payday at one of the mines...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. For Chronology and History, see chap. 7. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 9:26. “_Egypt_.” sit. on N.E. angle of Africa; a vast plain; in general features it may be...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 9:1 The Hebrew more correctly attaches this verse to Jeremiah 8:1. OH THAT MY HEAD WERE WATERS, etc.! A quaint conceit, it may be said. But "if we have been going on pace for pace...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Jeremiah declares, Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes were as a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wildernes...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 28:36; Deuteronomy 28:64; Deuteronomy 32:26;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    A sword — But I will follow them with the sword, 'till they be destroyed, such of them as were appointed for destruction; for otherwise, they were not all consumed, a full end was not to be made....

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