George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 16:21
CHAPTER XVI.
Power, in taking vengeance on idolatry. --- Lord. "He who is;" (Calmet) Jehova. (Haydock)
CHAPTER XVI.
Power, in taking vengeance on idolatry. --- Lord. "He who is;" (Calmet) Jehova. (Haydock)
Verse Jeremiah 16:21. _THEREFORE, BEHOLD, I WILL THIS ONCE_] I will not now change my purpose. They shall be visited and carried into captivity; nothing shall prevent this: and they shall know that my...
THIS ONCE - Whether we consider the greatness of the national disgrace and suffering caused by it, or its effect upon the mind of the Jews, the burning of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, followed by the...
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...
MY NAME. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 3:15; Exodus 15:3). App-92....
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...
Gi. considers this _v_. to be late, as being in the style of the second Is. (cp. Isaiah 42:6) and Ezek. (Ezekiel 36:23)....
I WILL THIS ONCE CAUSE THEM TO KNOW— Instead of _this once,_ Houbigant reads _by this turn,_ or _change;_ "that _is," s_ays he, "after the Jews are rendered unworthy to be called the people of God:" f...
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...
Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD. THEREFORE - in order that all may be turned...
1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
I WILL THIS ONCE CAUSE THEM TO KNOW... — The warning comes with all the emphasis of iteration, _this once._ As in a way without a parallel, once for all, they should learn that the name of the God the...
לָכֵן֙ הִנְנִ֣י מֹֽודִיעָ֔ם בַּ † פַּ֣עַם הַ...
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...
Therefore, behold, I will this once (l) cause them to know, I will cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name [is] JEHOVAH. (l) They will once again feel my power and m...
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...
REFLECTIONS My soul! gather from the Lord's precept, to his servant the Prophet; not to marry, nor mingle with the nations of the captivity; how much it concerns thee, to sit aloof, and as much detach...
The Prophet again threatens the Jews, because their impiety was inexcusable, especially when attended with so great an obstinacy, he therefore says that God was already present as a judge: _Behold I_,...
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...
THEREFORE, BEHOLD, I WILL THIS ONCE CAUSE THEM TO KNOW,.... Or, "at this time", as the Targum; when the Gentiles shall be convinced of the idolatry they have been brought up in, and of the vanity and...
Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name [is] The LORD. Ver. 21. _I will for this once._] And "this o...
_Therefore I will this once_ Or, as בפעם הזאת may be rendered, _at this time_, as the same expression is rendered, 2 Samuel 17:7. _Cause them to know my hand and my might_, &c. “The time alluded to is...
REASONS FOR THE CAPTIVITY...
Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, in the impending catastrophe, I WILL CAUSE THEM TO KNOW MINE HAND AND MY MIGHT, as it descends upon them in anger; AND THEY SHALL KNOW THAT MY N...
THE LORD: Or, JEHOVAH...
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...
Because all the goodness and mercy that I have showed them will not learn them to know me, my power and might, I will once for all make them to understand it by the dreadful strokes of my vengeance. T...
Jeremiah 16:21 once H6471 know H3045 (H8688) know H3045 (H8686) hand H3027 might H1369 know H3045 ...
THE LORD Or, JEHOVAH. (Psalms 83:18)....
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...
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...
Amos 5:8; Exodus 14:4; Exodus 15:3; Exodus 9:14; Ezekiel 24:24;...
Therefore — Because all the mercy I have shewed them, will not learn them to know my might, I will once for all make them to understand it, by the dreadful strokes of my vengeance. And — They shall kn...