George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 2:31
See, or hear. The sword seems to be animated. (Calmet) --- Lateward. Hebrew, "darksome land." Have I not heaped blessings on my people? --- Revolted. Protestants, "Lords." (Haydock)
See, or hear. The sword seems to be animated. (Calmet) --- Lateward. Hebrew, "darksome land." Have I not heaped blessings on my people? --- Revolted. Protestants, "Lords." (Haydock)
Verse Jeremiah 2:31. _HAVE I BEEN A WILDERNESS UNTO ISRAEL?_] Have I ever withheld from you any of the blessings necessary for your support? _A LAND OF DARKNESS_] Have you, since you passed through...
Or, “O generation” that ye are! An exclamation Of indignation at their hardened resistance to God. A LAND OF DARKNESS - This word is written in Hebrew with two accents, as being a compound, signifyin...
CHAPTER S 2:1-3:5 Expostulation and Impeachment _ 1. His love and kindness to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:1) _ 2. The unfaithful people (Jeremiah 2:4) 3. The two evils and the results (Jeremiah 2:12)...
THE DESERVED PUNISHMENT. Israel's sorrows are well deserved, for Yahweh's love has been forgotten. In spite of wrong-doing, there is no penitence for sin. The help of Egypt will be as futile as that o...
GENERATION. Once. chosen generation (Psalms 22:30; Psalms 24:6; Psalms 112:2.Isaiah 53:8;...
Israel's disregard of Jehovah's past favours 31. _O generation, see ye_ O GENERATION THAT YE ARE, SEE. _a wilderness_ Have I been like a place where ye lacked sustenance? Not so. Cp. Hosea 2:8. _thi...
DISCOURSE: 1031 GOD’S COMPLAINT AGAINST THE REBELLIOUS Jeremiah 2:31. _O generation, see ye the word of the Lord; Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? Wherefore say my people, We...
E. Pungent Argument Jeremiah 2:29-37 TRANSLATION (29) Why do you continue to complain to Me? All of you have transgressed against Me (oracle of the LORD). (30) In vain I have smitten your sons; they...
O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? O GENERATION - The Hebre...
JEREMIAH'S SECOND PROPHECY (2:1-3:5) The prophet expostulates with Israel because of their unfaithfulness to Jehovah. 1-13. Under the figure of the marriage relation Jehovah reminds the people of Hi...
A WILDERNESS] i.e. fruitless, useless. WE ARE LORDS] RV'we are broken loose'; we are our own masters....
O GENERATION, SEE YE. — The pronoun occupies a different position in the Hebrew, “_O generation, you, I mean, see ye.”_ The prophet speaks to the men who are actually his contemporaries. _They_ are to...
הַ דֹּ֗ור אַתֶּם֙ רְא֣וּ דְבַר ־יְהוָ֔ה הֲ
CHAPTER II THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1 THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menace...
The first movement in commissioning the called man now commences. He was commanded to utter a great impeachment in the ears of Jerusalem. This impeachment was threefold. It first declared how Israel h...
O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a (s) wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why say my people, We are lords; (t) we will come no more to thee? (s) Have I not given them abu...
Never surely, was there afforded a more lively instance of the gracious purpose of God's unalterable love to his people, than what this Chapter affords, from beginning to end. The Lord sends the Proph...
The prophet assumes the character, no doubt, of one in astonishment, that he might render the sin of the people more detestable: for he speaks as one astonished, _generation! _The word, דור, _dur; _as...
Chapter 2 contains a most touching appeal to the people at Jerusalem. It requires no explanation, but deserves the heart's serious attention. It testifies in the most striking manner to the kindness a...
O GENERATION, SEE YE THE WORD OF THE LORD,.... Take notice of it, consider it; or, hear it, as the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions. Jarchi and Kimchi think i the pot of manna was brought out,...
O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? Ver. 31. _O generation, see...
_O generation_ O wicked generation; _see ye the word of the Lord_ Consider what I say to you from the mouth of God. _Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?_ Have ye not been plentifully provided for by...
THE GUILT ESTABLISHED...
O generation! Children of perverseness now living! SEE YE THE WORD OF THE LORD, which is hereby brought before them with the demand that they regard it. HAVE I BEEN A WILDERNESS UNTO ISRAEL, where all...
WE ARE LORDS: _ Heb._ we have dominion...
29-37 The nation had not been wrought upon by the judgements of God, but sought to justify themselves. The world is, to those who make it their home and their portion, a wilderness and a land of dark...
O GENERATION; or, O ye men of this generation, a note of admiration; or rather, O generation, a note of compellation: it is to you I speak, SEE YE THE WORD OF THE LORD, i.e. look well to it, consider...
Jeremiah 2:31 generation H1755 see H7200 (H8798) word H1697 LORD H3068 wilderness H4057 Israel H3478 land H776 dark
YHWH CHALLENGES HIS PEOPLE TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE BEHAVING AS THEY ARE (JEREMIAH 2:29). YHWH now asks them why they are troubling Him with arguments in their favour when all they had previously done...
Jeremiah 2:20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the har...
CONTENTS: First message to backslidden Judah concerning their ingratitude to God and wickedness against Him. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is a great affront to God to neglect Him and for...
Jeremiah 2:2. _I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth._ God now addressed them, that he might do the same to the children as he had done to the fathers, and rejoice over them as the bridegroom rej...
_Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?_ DIVINE QUESTIONS The people were required to answer two questions: “Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? have I been a land of darkness unto Israel?” Speak ou...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY. Most probably in thirteenth Josiah, quickly after his call. Dr. Dahler (Stratsbourg) would interpose Chapter s 4, 5, 6; deferring this chapter till after...
EXPOSITION The second chapter forms the introduction of a group of discourses (Jeremiah 2-6), which should be read together. It is called By Ewald (and the position of the prophecy favors this view) t...
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD (Jeremiah 2:1-2); Now this is the first message that he has to deliver. As God is cal...
1 Corinthians 4:8; 2 Chronicles 31:10; 2 Samuel 12:7; Amos 1:1;...
O generation — O ye men of this generation. See — You shall see the thing with your eyes, because your ears are shut against it. A wilderness — Have I been like the wilderness of Arabia, have not I ac...