George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 3:11
Soul, and appeared comparatively innocent, ver. 6., and Ezechiel xvi. 51. (St. Jerome) --- Yet neither of them was excusable. (Worthington)
Soul, and appeared comparatively innocent, ver. 6., and Ezechiel xvi. 51. (St. Jerome) --- Yet neither of them was excusable. (Worthington)
Verse Jeremiah 3:11. _BACKSLIDING ISRAEL HATH JUSTIFIED HERSELF MORE_] She was less offensive in my eyes, and more excusable, than treacherous Judah. So it is said, Luke 18:14, the humbled _publican_...
HATH JUSTIFIED HERSELF - Judah had had the benefit of the warning given by Israel’s example. Both abandon Yahweh’s service for idolatry, but Israel is simply “apostate,” Judah is also false. The vers...
THE CALL TO REPENTANCE AND JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED (3:6-6:30) CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The contrast between backslidden Israel and treacherous Judah (Jeremiah 3:6) _ 2. The call to return and the promised glory ...
ISRAEL'S SIN LESS THAN JUDAH'S. This passage interrupts the continuity of Jeremiah 3:19 with Jeremiah 3:5 (note also the interruptive introductory formula, Jeremiah 3:6), and seems to be a separate pr...
JUSTIFIED HERSELF. Compare Ezekiel 16:51; Ezekiel 16:52....
Dr. (with Co. and others) points out that here the word "Israel" is used in its restricted sense for the ten tribes, whereas in Jeremiah 2:1 to Jeremiah 3:5 it meant the people as a whole, and he infe...
Jeremiah 3:6 to Jeremiah 4:4. Conditional offers of restoration We may subdivide thus. (1) Jeremiah 3:6-18. The ten tribes as less guilty than Judah are invited to repent and return. (2)...
In spite of (i) greater privileges, (_a_) succession of kings of the same family, (_b_) the Temple, (_c_) Levites; (ii) the warning example of Israel, Judah has proved faithless and hypocritical as we...
DISCOURSE: 1032 COMPARATIVE CRIMINALITY Jeremiah 3:11. _And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah_. THE subject of comparative criminality i...
THE BACKSLIDING ISRAEL HATH JUSTIFIED HERSELF— _Backsliding Israel hath appeared just in comparison of perfidious Judah._ The crimes of the latter greatly surpassed those of the former. See Ezekiel 16...
C. The Call to Repentance Jeremiah 3:11-14 TRANSLATION (11) And the LORD said unto me, More righteous is Backsliding Israel than Treacherous Judah. (12) Go and call these words to the north and say,...
And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. JUSTIFIED HERSELF - has been made to appear almost just (i:e., comparatively innocent) by the s...
THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6) This section furnishes us with the g...
JEREMIAH'S THIRD PROPHECY. THE FATE OF THE TEN TRIBES A WARNING TO JUDAH In this prophecy, as in the last, idolatry is denounced under the figure of unfaithfulness to the marriage vow. But as a marke...
JUSTIFIED HERSELF MORE] for Judah had even more warning than Israel....
HATH JUSTIFIED HERSELF. — Literally, _hath justified her soul,_ has put in a better plea in her defence. The _renegade_ was better than the _traitress._ Even open rebellion was better than hypocrisy,...
וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י צִדְּקָ֥ה נַפְשָׁ֖הּ...
CHAPTER III ISRAEL AND JUDAH: A CONTRAST Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 4:1 THE first address of our prophet was throughout of a sombre cast, and the darkness of its close was not relieved by a single ray o...
PLEADING WITH FAITHLESS CHILDREN Jeremiah 3:11-25; Jeremiah 4:1-2 The people of the northern kingdom, to whom this appeal is especially addressed, were more excusable than Judah, because their privil...
Following the impeachment, the prophet appealed to the people to return. This appeal commenced with a declaration that Jehovah's love was greater than man's in that He was willing to receive back the...
And the LORD said to me, The backsliding Israel hath (n) justified herself more than treacherous Judah. (n) Israel has not declared herself as wicked as Judah, who yet has had more admonitions and ex...
Nothing can more highly illustrate the riches of grace, than what is here said, on the subject of divine mercy. Israel was about to go into Babylon, and there the Prophet is particularly directed to p...
We now see more clearly for what purpose Jeremiah compared the ten tribes with the kingdom of Judah; it was done in order to shew that the Jews, who wished to be deemed far more holy than others, were...
Chapter 3 has the same character; indeed it is the continuation of the same address; but it contains details of Israel's and Judah's behaviour, and proclaims the restoration of Israel by sovereign goo...
AND THE LORD SAID UNTO ME,.... To the Prophet Jeremiah, as in Jeremiah 3:6 and at or about the same time: THE BACKSLIDING ISRAEL HATH JUSTIFIED HERSELF MORE THAN TREACHEROUS JUDAH; that is, was compa...
And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. Ver. 11. _The backsliding Israel hath justified herself._] That is, she is less guilty and faulty...
_And the Lord said unto me_, &c. The case of these sister kingdoms is here compared, and judgment given upon the comparison. _Israel hath justified herself more than Judah_ Hebrew, צדקה נפשׁה, _hath j...
THE CALL TO RETURN...
And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah, she was righteous by comparison with the overwhelming guilt of the latter, who possessed the unusu...
6-11 If we mark the crimes of those who break off from a religious profession, and the consequences, we see abundant reason to shun evil ways. It is dreadful to be proved more criminal than those who...
Was less vile, hath more to say for herself; Judah's sin being greatly aggravated compared with Israel, EZEKIEL 16:51, EZEKIEL 23:11. See LUKE 18:14. For though Israel's sins were more, and their idol...
Jeremiah 3:11 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Backsliding H4878 Israel H3478 herself H5315 righteous H6663 (H8765) tre
YHWH CALLS ON JUDAH TO CONSIDER WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO ISRAEL, HER NORTHERN NEIGHBOUR, WHEN SHE HAD FAILED TO TURN BACK TO HIM, SOMETHING THAT JUDAH IS ALSO FAILING TO DO (JEREMIAH 3:6). YHWH here refer...
Let us read part of the 3 rd chapter of Jeremiah where God brings a solemn accusation against the two nations of Israel and Judah because they forsook the living God, and went after idols neglected hi...
In this chapter, the sin of God's people is put in the strongest possible light. The figure used may be even said to be a coarse one, but man's sin is itself a coarse thing. The thoughts suggested in...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's message concerning the impenitence of Judah. Encouragement to backsliders to return and repent. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those will justly be divorced from God tha...
Jeremiah 3:3. _Therefore the showers,_ of the former and the latter rain, _have been withheld._ Other prophets make the same remark. God is not obliged to give luxuriant harvests to furnish feasts to...
_Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also._ COMPARATIVE CRIMINALITY I. State this decision of the Lord. 1. Israel, from the time they became a distinct nation, cast off God; therefore,...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_1. Chronology._ Exact date of chapter uncertain. It naturally divides itself at Jeremiah 3:5, although Dahler, Umbriet, and Neuman contend for the unity of the chapter...
EXPOSITION That this chapter (to which the first four verses of Jeremiah 4:1. ought to have been attached) belongs to the time of Josiah seems to be proved by Jeremiah 3:6, and the years immediately f...
They say (Jeremiah 3:1), That is, in quoting the law and in speaking of the law, Deuteronomy. If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's wife, shall he return unto...
Ezekiel 16:47; Ezekiel 16:51; Ezekiel 16:52; Ezekiel 23:11; Hosea 11