Them. After the captivity many were converted, Esther viii., and 1 Esdras vi. 21. Edom was forced to receive circumcision. But this was nothing in comparison with the crowds which embraced the gospel.
Verse Jeremiah 16:19. _THE GENTILES SHALL COME_] Even the days shall come when the Gentiles themselves, ashamed of their confidence, shall renounce their idols, and acknowledge that their fathers had...
THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17) CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _ 2. The coming days of...
JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
STRENGTH. strength (for protection). Hebrew. _'azaz._ GENTILES. nations....
_my strength, and my strong hold_ The two Hebrew substantives are derivatives of the same root. _vanity … no profit_ See on Jeremiah 2:5; Jeremiah 2:8....
Du. rejects all these _vv_. Co. omits 9 13, suspects the genuineness of 14, 15 both here and in Jeremiah 23:7 f., and rejects 16, as well as portions of 17 21. Gi. retains of the whole series only Jer...
See introd. summary to section. For the thought in Jeremiah 16:19 cp. Jeremiah 12:15 f. and for the interest felt by Jeremiah in the religious life of the heathen, Jeremiah 2:11 _a_. Hence Co. with Gi...
O LORD, MY STRENGTH, AND MY FORTRESS— To demonstrate more emphatically the absurdity of idolatry, the prophet here foretels, that the time will come when the Gentiles themselves shall be ashamed of th...
D. Affirmation by the Prophet Jeremiah 16:19-21 TRANSLATION (19) O LORD my strength and my fortress and my refuge in the day of trouble: Unto You the nations shall come from the ends of the earth and...
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vani...
1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
O LORD, MY STRENGTH, AND MY FORTRESS. — The words speak of a returning confidence in the prophet’s mind, and find utterance in what is practically (though the Hebrew words are not the same) an echo of...
יְהוָ֞ה עֻזִּ֧י וּ מָעֻזִּ֛י וּ מְנוּסִ֖י בְּ
The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism, commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to say, h...
O LORD, my (i) strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited (k) lies,...
The prayer of the Prophet is a beautiful break in the subject; as if the man of God felt his mind instantly led out, so to look up and plead with the Lord, from what had been said. And the burden of h...
What the Prophet has said hitherto might appear contrary to the promises of God, and wholly subversive of the covenant which he had made with Abraham. God had chosen to himself one people from the who...
In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely br...
O LORD, MY STRENGTH AND MY FORTRESS,.... These are the words of the prophet, rising out of the temptation which beset him; casting off his impatience, diffidence, and unbelief; calling upon God, and e...
_O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vani...
_O Lord, my strength_ To support and comfort me; _my fortress_ To protect and shelter me; _and my refuge in the day of affliction_ To whom I may flee for deliverance and consolation; _the Gentiles, th...
O Lord, so the prophet now addresses Jehovah, the God of the covenant, in expressing his own hope and that of all true Israelites concerning the return of the people to the true God, MY STRENGTH AND M...
REASONS FOR THE CAPTIVITY...
14-21 The restoration from the Babylonish captivity would be remembered in place of the deliverance from Egypt; it also typified spiritual redemption, and the future deliverance of the church from an...
The prophet hearing God's resolution, before he showed this people any mercy, to be avenged on them for their sins, leaves off speaking to him upon that argument; but applieth himself to God for mercy...
Jeremiah 16:19 LORD H3068 strength H5797 fortress H4581 refuge H4498 day H3117 affliction H6869 Gentiles H1471 come...
THE SIN OF JUDAH IS ESPECIALLY HEINOUS IN THE LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT ONE DAY THE NATIONS WILL RECOGNISE THE FOLLY OF THEIR IDOLATRY. THIS MAKE JUDAH'S TURNING TO IDOLS TOTALLY REPREHENSIBLE (JEREMIAH...
CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming calamities. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the backslider in heart with his...
Jeremiah 16:2. _Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place._ The prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour giv...
_O Lord, my strength, and my fortress._ WHAT GOD IS TO HIS PEOPLE One of the Puritans was accustomed to describe prayer as the flight of the lonely man to the only God. There is such prayer here. Th...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 16:19 Jeremiah’s confession of faith indicates he has repented, as he was ordered to do (Jeremiah 15:19). The NATIONS will...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Chapter s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows that this message from God was delivered before the capture...
EXPOSITION With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...
Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21. Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16: The word of the LORD came also unto me...
1 Peter 1:18; Ezekiel 11:16; Habakkuk 2:18; Habakkuk 2:19; Habakkuk