George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 10:18
Found by the enemy. Hebrew also, "find" me, being taught by affliction, chap. xxix. 13. (Calmet) --- Entering into sentiments of penance, they shall say, Woe, &c. (Haydock)
Found by the enemy. Hebrew also, "find" me, being taught by affliction, chap. xxix. 13. (Calmet) --- Entering into sentiments of penance, they shall say, Woe, &c. (Haydock)
Verse Jeremiah 10:18. _I WILL SLING OUT THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND_] I will _project_ you with _violence_ from your country. I will send you all into captivity. This discourse, from Jeremiah 10:17, i...
SLING OUT - A similar metaphor for violent ejection occurs in Isaiah 22:18 (see the note). AT THIS ONCE - Or, “at this time.” Previous invasions had ended either in deliverance, or at most in tempora...
CHAPTER 10 The Vanity of Idols _ 1. Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven (Jeremiah 10:1) _ 2. The contrast: The vanity of idols and the Lord, the King of Nations (Jeremiah 10:6) 3. The afflictio...
THE DEPARTURE INTO EXILE. The personified community is told to pick up its bundle (_mg.),_ and prepare for the inevitable exile. She bewails her hurt and her spoilt dwelling. These troubles, says the...
I WILL SLING. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for all that is signified by it. Compare Isaiah 22:17; Isaiah 22:18. FIND IT SO. discover the truth of it....
Du. and Co. omit these _vv_., Du. rejecting 20, 21 also, while Gi. omits Jeremiah 10:18. See note on it....
Exile is at hand. Appeal to Jehovah in His wrath to remember mercy The utterances, interrupted by Jeremiah 9:23-26, and Jeremiah 10:1-16, are now continued. The passage has apparently suffered both b...
_sling out_ Cp. 1 Samuel 25:29; also Isaiah 22:18. _feel_ See the mg. The clause is suspicious in form, the verb having no expressed object. It is just possible, but hardly likely, that it may be corr...
BEHOLD, I WILL SLING, &C.— _Behold, I will inclose as in a net the inhabitants of this land; and will surround them with a siege, that they may perceive me to be their avenger._ Houb. _That they may f...
C. The Folly of Forsaking God Jeremiah 10:17-22 TRANSLATION (17) Gather your bundle from the land, you who dwell in the siege. (18) For thus says the LORD! Behold, I am about to hurl out the inhabita...
For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so. SLING OUT - expressing the violence and suddenness of t...
1-16. The folly of idolatry. This section of the prophecy is of doubtful authorship. For (_a_) it introduces a break in the sense; (_b_) there is less smoothness between the parts than we generally fi...
FIND _it_ so] RV 'feel _it_'. 19F. The lament of Jerusalem....
I WILL SLING OUT. — The same bold metaphor, though not the same word, for violent expulsion, is found in the prophecy of the fate of Shebna (Isaiah 22:18). THAT THEY MAY FIND IT SO. — In the Hebrew, t...
כִּֽי ־כֹה֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הִנְנִ֥י קֹולֵ֛עַ...
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
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY Jeremiah 10:1-10; Jeremiah 19:1-15; Jeremiah 20:1-18; Jeremiah 21:1-14; Jeremiah 22:1-30; Jeremiah 23:1-40; Jeremiah 24:1-10; Jeremiah 25:1-38...
Here begins the third movement in the commissioning of the prophet. In it the sin of idolatry is first dealt with. The prophet revealed the unutterable folly of idolatry in a powerful contrast between...
The Prophet gets back again to his old subject. The prospect of the Babylonish captivity so affected the Prophet's heart, that he could harp upon no other string. And observe, how the man of God gives...
Then follows the reason, _For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will with a sling cast out the inhabitants of the land _Land here is to be taken in another sense, even for the whole country. Wherever then...
In chapter 10 the idols and the vanities of the nations are put in contrast with Jehovah. In Verses 19-25 (Jeremiah 10:19-25) we have the affliction of the prophet, speaking of the desolation of Jerus...
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... This is a reason enforcing the exhortation in the preceding verse, and shows that the same people that are spoken of here are addressed there. BEHOLD, I WILL SLING OUT TH...
_For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find [it so]._ Ver. 18. _BehoId, I will sling out the inhabitants of...
_Gather up thy wares_, &c. That is, as some explain it, “Collect to Jerusalem all that you have valuable in the country; flee thither for refuge with your best effects; for the enemy will soon extend...
The Prophet's Lamentation and Prayer...
For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, both the suddenness and the violence of their removal to Babylon being brought out, AND WILL DISTRESS THEM,...
17-25 The Jews who continued in their own land, felt secure. But, sooner or later, sinners will find all things as the word of God has declared, and that its threatenings are not empty terrors. Submi...
I WILL SLING OUT; it notes with how much violence, and speed, and with ease the Chaldeans shall hurry away the people into Babylon, as the stone doth swiftly and violently pass which is thrown out of...
Jeremiah 10:18 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 out H7049 (H8802) time H6471 inhabitants H3427 (H
YHWH NOTIFIES JUDAH OF HIS INTENTION TO SLING THEM OUT OF HIS LAND AND PUNISH THEM, AND THEY EXPRESS THEIR GRIEF AS THEY LOOK PROPHETICALLY AT HIS HAVING DONE SO. THE SOUND OF THE INVADERS IS HEARD AN...
Jeremiah 10:1. _Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, concluded. Greatness of the true God. Coming distresses in the land because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah is the one only living and tr...
Jeremiah 10:2. _Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;_ at the position of revolving planets on which the augurs found predictions, and discover their ignorance. Be not dismayed at solar eclipses, at...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Section 1–16 has been declared spurious (by De Wette, Movers, and Hitzig), its authenticity disputed, a late interpolation by either the ps...
EXPOSITION Whoever wrote the prophecy in Jeremiah 10:1 of this chapter, it was not Jeremiah; but of course, as the passage forms part of a canonical book, its claims to the character of a Scripture re...
Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven [or the Zodiac]; for the heathen...
1 Samuel 25:29; Deuteronomy 28:63; Deuteronomy 28:64; Ezekiel 6:10;...
Sing out — It denotes with how much violence and ease the Chaldeans shall hurry away the people into Babylon. And therefore it is said at this once, I will make one thorough quick work of it. May find...