George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 22:22
Pastors, or princes, whose expectations of aid will be frustrated, Osee xii. 1. Chaldean, "Thy leaders shall be scattered to all the winds."
Pastors, or princes, whose expectations of aid will be frustrated, Osee xii. 1. Chaldean, "Thy leaders shall be scattered to all the winds."
Verse Jeremiah 22:22. _THE WIND SHALL EAT UP ALL THY PASTORS_] A _blast_ from God's mouth shall carry off thy kings, princes, prophets, and priests....
SHALL EAT UP ALL THY PASTORS - literally, shall depasture (Jeremiah 2:16 note) thy pastors. Those who used to drive their flocks to consume the herbage shall themselves be the first prey of war. The “...
CONCERNING THE KINGS OF JUDAH (22:1-23:8) CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The message in the house of the king of Judah (Jeremiah 22:1) _ 2. Touching Shallum, the King of Judah (Jeremiah 22:11) 3. Concerning Jeho...
JEREMIAH 22:1 TO JEREMIAH 23:8. This section contains several distinct Jeremianic prophecies, relating to contemporary kings of Judah; they have been editorially collected, probably with some expansio...
WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. PASTORS. Put for rulers of all kinds. See notes on Jeremiah 2:8; Jeremiah 3:15, &c. WICKEDNESS. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause),...
See introd. summary to section. Jeremiah 22:20 have no direct connexion with those that follow and seem to have been introduced here on account of the reference to the rulers ("shepherds") in Jeremiah...
_feed_ mg. _feed upon_, but rather SHEPHERD, so as to preserve the play on words in the Heb. _shepherds_ See on Jeremiah 2:8. Thy leaders, in whom thou hast confidence, shall be driven like a flock i...
THE WIND SHALL EAT UP ALL THY PASTORS— "All thy pastors shall find themselves mere wind and smoke; they flattered themselves with succours which they shall not find." By _pastors_ he means _princes, k...
2. _The folly of Jehoiakim_ (Jeremiah 22:13-23) TRANSLATION (13) Woe to him that builds his house with unrighteousness and his upper chambers with injustice; who makes his neighbor serve for nothing...
The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. THE WIND - the Chaldees, as a parching wind t...
1-9. Call to amendment of life....
THE WIND SHALL EAT UP ALL THY PASTORS. — The word for “eat up” is the root of the noun rendered “pastors,” and the play of sound may be expressed in English by _shall feed on them that feed thee_ — _i...
כָּל ־רֹעַ֨יִךְ֙ תִּרְעֶה ־ר֔וּחַ וּֽ מְאַהֲבַ֖יִךְ...
CHAPTER VII JEHOIACHIN Jeremiah 22:20 "A despised broken vessel."- Jeremiah 22:28 "A young lion. And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion and he learned to catch the prey, he...
The message Jeremiah gave the deputation was not enough. He was commanded to go to the house of the king. This he did, and what he there said occupies the succeeding Chapter s up to and including chap...
The wind shall eat up all thy shepherds, (p) and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. (p) Both your governors and they that wou...
We have here a similar prediction against Coniah: and a very awful one it is. He is to be made a captive, and to die in a foreign land, even in a land of all others he most dreaded and hated. And what...
As the main fault was in the chief men, therefore God shews, that there would be no defense found in their prudence and wealth, when things came to an extremity: and it was a usual thing for the commo...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23. On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the Spir...
THE WIND SHALL EAT UP ALL THY PASTORS,.... King, nobles, counsellors, priests, prophets, and elders of the people; they shall be carried away as chaff before the wind, or perish as trees and fruits ar...
The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. Ver. 22. _The wind shall eat all thy pastors,_]...
_The wind shall eat up all thy pastors_ Thy kings, princes, priests, and false prophets, who have presided over thy civil and religious affairs, shall be destroyed by my judgments, as plants are blast...
PROPHECIES RELATING TO SHALLUM, JEHOIKIM, AND JEHOIACHIN...
The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, all their rulers and leaders, as the hot desert wind singed off the meadows, AND THY LOVERS SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY. SURELY THEN SHALT THOU BE ASHAMED AND CONFOU...
20-30 The Jewish state is described under a threefold character. Very haughty in a day of peace and safety. Very fearful on alarm of trouble. Very much cast down under pressure of trouble. Many never...
Either a vain hope and presumption shall destroy thy rulers and governors who flatter time with promises of prosperity; or a judgment shall seize them, that shall be like a violent wind, which present...
Jeremiah 22:22 wind H7307 up H7462 (H8799) rulers H7462 (H8802) lovers H157 (H8764) go H3212 ...
THE INADEQUACY OF JEHOIACHIN (JECHONIAH, CONIAH) (JEREMIAH 22:20). Finally Jeremiah brings out the unsuitability of Jehoiachin (Jechoniah), Jehoiakim's son, to be the promised coming son of David who...
THE INADEQUACY OF ALL THE CURRENT SONS OF DAVID TO DELIVER JUDAH (JEREMIAH 22:10). Having dealt with Zedekiah, Nebuchadrezzar'a appointee, in the opening passage of the subsection, and having shown th...
CONTENTS: Message to Zedekiah, concluded. The King exhorted to execute judgment. CHARACTERS: God, Zedekiah, Shallum, Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Coniah, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: God never casts one off...
Jeremiah 22:10. _Weep not for the dead,_ as you have wept bitterly for king Josiah, but weep for him who goes into captivity, for he shall return no more. Jeremiah 22:11. _Shallum the son of Josiah._...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early in Jehoiakim’s reign; contemporary with chap. 22. See Notes. Dr. _Payne Smith_ places this prophecy prior to Jehoiakim’s manifestatio...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah 22:1 and Jeremiah 23:1, are connected together by similarity of subject. The temporal and spiritual leaders of the people, who are mainly responsible for the national catastrophe,...
Now the Lord commanded Jeremiah to go down to the king's house and speak there at the king's house this word. The other, it was a message sent back to the king. Now go on down to his house and speak t...
Acts 7:51; Acts 7:52; Ezekiel 34:2; Hosea 13:15; Hosea 4:19;...
Pastors — Thy rulers and governors, they shall be blasted by my judgments, as plants are blasted by winds. Thy lovers — And those that have been thy friends, Syria and Egypt....