Glory. This is repeated from Psalm lxxviii. 6. (Menochius) --- The prophet supposes that these nations will not repent, and that their sins are more enormous. To see God's people treated with greater severity, might scandalize the weak, while infidels would take occasion to abuse their own impunity. (Calmet)
Verse Jeremiah 10:25. _POUR OUT THY FURY UPON THE HEATHEN_] Even those who are now the executors of thy justice upon us will, in their turn, feel its scourge; for if judgment begins at us, who have b...
The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy. Jeremiah 10:19 GRIEVOUS - Rather, “mortal,” i. e., fatal, incurabl...
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...
FAMILIES. Some codices read "kingdoms". Compare Psalms 79:6. THY NAME. Thee (emphatic). See note on Psalms 20:1....
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...
See summary before Jeremiah 10:17. Stade, Du. and others (so Gi. in 1905, see his _Metrik_, p. 23) consider the passage to be the work of a supplementer. Gi. already in his Commentary (1894) surrender...
_yea, they have devoured him_ Plainly by an error of repetition in MT. In the Ps. (see above) the words are not found....
D. A Prophetic Prayer Jeremiah 10:23-25 TRANSLATION (23) I know, O LORD, that a man's way is not his own and that a man in walking cannot direct his step (24) Chastise me, O LORD, but in measure, not...
O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. Since I (my nation) must be corrected (justice requiring it because of the deep guilt of the nation), I do...
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...
POUR OUT THY FURY. — The words are identical with those of Psalms 79:6, but it is more probable that the Psalmist borrowed from the Prophet. By many critics the Psalm is referred to the time of the Ma...
שְׁפֹ֣ךְ חֲמָתְךָ֗ עַל ־הַ גֹּויִם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר ל
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...
Pour out (r) thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitati...
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...
REFLECTIONS READER! let you and I not fail to gather improvement from such views as these scriptures afford of the low and abject state to which men are reduced by the fall. Did not the word of God pr...
The Prophet confirms his prayer by this reason — that God had sufficient ground for executing his vengeance on the wicked and ungodly heathens who were alienated from him; and there is no doubt but th...
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...
POUR OUT THY FURY UPON THE HEATHEN THAT KNOW THEE NOT,.... Make a difference between thy people that know thee, and make a profession of thy name, and worship thee, and the Heathen, the nations of the...
_Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation...
_Pour out thine indignation upon the heathen_, &c. Let thy justice be made known, by bringing an exemplary punishment upon the Chaldeans and their allies, (see Jeremiah 1:15,) who do not acknowledge t...
Pour out Thy fury upon the heathen that know Thee not, although they are now God's instruments in the punishment of Israel, AND UPON THE FAMILIES THAT CALL NOT ON THY NAME, all the nations which have...
The Prophet's Lamentation and Prayer...
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...
POUR OUT THY FURY UPON THE HEATHEN: this may imply both petition, that God would do so, and prediction, that God will certainly do so, which toward the close of the prophecy we find was fulfilled, God...
Jeremiah 10:25 out H8210 (H8798) fury H2534 Gentiles H1471 know H3045 (H8804) families H4940 call H7121 ...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 10:23 Jeremiah turns to God for wisdom (vv. Jeremiah 10:11), for he needs God TO DIRECT HIS STEPS. He knows God can...
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 Corinthians 15:34; 1 Thessalonians 4:5; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Acts 17:23;...
The Heathen — Such as do not acknowledge thee for their God. Call not — One part of worship put for the whole. If thou wilt pour out thy fury, let the effects of it be to thine enemies, not unto thine...