George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 30:7
Great, and terrible for this city, the outer walls of which shall be demolished, (Berosus; Calmet) and all its glory perish. (Haydock) --- Of it. Cyrus liberated the Jews, 1 Esdras i.
Great, and terrible for this city, the outer walls of which shall be demolished, (Berosus; Calmet) and all its glory perish. (Haydock) --- Of it. Cyrus liberated the Jews, 1 Esdras i.
Verse Jeremiah 30:7. _ALAS! FOR THAT DAY_ IS _GREAT_] When the Medes and Persians with all their forces shall come on the Chaldeans, it will be _the day of Jacob's trouble_-trial, dismay, and uncerta...
THAT DAY - i. e., the day of the capture of Babylon. IT IS EVEN THE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE - Rather, and it is a time of trouble to Jacob, i. e., of anxiety to the Jews, for the usages of war were s...
THE GLORIOUS FUTURE OF THE NATION (30-31) CHAPTER 30 _ 1. The time of Jacob's trouble (Jeremiah 30:1) _ 2. Zion's desperate condition and the promise of deliverance (Jeremiah 30:12) 3. Restoration...
Description of the people's terror (Jeremiah 30:5 _mg._) at the Day of Yahweh (Amos 5:18); but this Day shall bring deliverance from the (heathen) yoke (Jeremiah 30:8), and Israel shall have (religiou...
THAT DAY. The interpretation here is of the day of Babylon's overthrow. The application is of the yet future Great Tribulation of Matthew 24. This is in contrast with the day of Restoration. GREAT, &...
See introd. note to section. For a parallel in the character of the description in Jeremiah 30:5, Dr. compares Isaiah 13:6-15 (the overthrow of Babylon) followed by Isaiah 14:1 f. (the deliverance of...
_that day_ The expression "the day of the Lord," in an eschatological sense, is found first in Amos (Jeremiah 5:18), and is adopted by later prophets. Its meaning is developed in two directions accord...
I. THE PROMISE OF RESTORATION Jeremiah 30:4-24 In Chapter 30 the focus is upon the promise of restoration to the homeland. Running throughout the chapter are four points of emphasis: (1) The yoke is...
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. THAT DAY IS GREAT - marked by great calamities (; ; ;...
1-9. When the gloom is deepest, deliverance shall come....
THAT DAY] the day of Babylon's overthrow....
הֹ֗וי כִּ֥י גָדֹ֛ול הַ יֹּ֥ום הַ ה֖וּא
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
Following this action of the prophet a word of Jehovah came to him which he was especially commanded to write in a book. In a remarkable way it first set forth two things side by side. The first and f...
Alas! for that (c) day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. (c) Meaning that the time of their captivity would be grievous...
I do not presume to decide, but I would humbly propose a subject of enquiry, and in answer to this question, whether a man doth travail with child, I would say, is not the miraculous conception and in...
The Prophet goes on in this verse to describe the grievousness of that punishment for which the people felt no concern, for they disregarded all threatenings, as I have already said, and had now for m...
THE DAY OF JACOB'S TROUBLE: PROMISED DELIVERANCE AND SURE JUDGMENT Some details of the circumstances that accompany its exercise deserve our attention, as well as the character which God displays in i...
ALAS! FOR THAT DAY [IS] GREAT,.... For sorrow and distress: SO THAT NONE [IS] LIKE IT; such were the times of Jerusalem's siege and destruction by the Romans; and which was an emblem of those times o...
Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. Ver. 7. _Alas! for that day is great,_] _i.e., _ Troublesome and t...
_And these are the words that the Lord spake_ And which God ordered to be written: and those promises, which were written by his order, are as truly his word as the ten commandments, which were writte...
THE PROMISE OF DELIVERANCE...
Alas! for that day, the Messianic period with its sifting process among the nations, IS GREAT, Luke 2:34, SO THAT NONE IS LIKE IT; IT IS EVEN THE TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE, a testing of hearts and minds...
1-11 Jeremiah is to write what God had spoken to him. The very words are such as the Holy Ghost teaches. These are the words God ordered to be written; and promises written by his order, are truly hi...
It is no wonder that there is such a trembling upon all hearts, such a consternation and great complaining; for it will be a time of no ordinary calamity, but of great evil and misery, in the same sen...
Jeremiah 30:7 Alas H1945 day H3117 great H1419 that H369 time H6256 Jacobs H3290 trouble H6869 saved H3467 ...
PART 1). ANGUISH AND RESTORATION (JEREMIAH 30:1 TO JEREMIAH 31:40). Part 1 is divided up into two Sub-parts (A and B) by the introductory words, ‘thus says YHWH (of hosts), the God of Israel' (Jeremia...
THE DARK DAYS ABOUT TO COME ON JUDAH, AND ALREADY BEING EXPERIENCED BY MANY FROM BOTH JUDAH AND ISRAEL IN EXILE, ARE VIVIDLY PORTRAYED (JEREMIAH 30:4). Jeremiah 30:4 ‘And these are the words that YH...
SECTION 2 (JEREMIAH 26:1 TO JEREMIAH 45:5). (CONTINUED). As we have seen this Section of Jeremiah from Jeremiah 26:1 to Jeremiah 45:5 di
Jeremiah 30:12. _For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous._ See here is the bass again. We have got down into the sorrowful notes all to make us sick of self and re...
Jeremiah 30:1. _The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book._ Too good to be lo...
Jeremiah 30:1. _The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book._ We believe in ver...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first writing. Summary of Israel in the coming great tribulation. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Israel, after many years of wandering among all nations, is to be finall...
Jeremiah 30:6. _Ask ye now whether a man doth travail with child._ The anguish of a people once lords in Judea, now servants in Babylon, was great. But they were happier weeping there than worshipping...
_It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it._ JACOB’S TROUBLE There is not a malady in human life, but we find its antidote in the Bible; not a wound, but we find its bal...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 30:1 Restoration for Judah and Israel. The book now turns to positive themes. At last Jeremiah may “build and plant” (Jeremiah 1:10). He cl
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 30:7 THAT DAY. The day of the Lord, the day of judgment (Isaiah 2:6; Amos 5:
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—Though without a date, yet the probability is that it was “_written in a book_” (see Jeremiah 30:2) in the tenth year of Zedekiah; and that th...
EXPOSITION This and the three next chapters form a kind of book in themselves, which contrasts admirably with Jermiah 27-29. In the latter Jeremiah aimed at casting down the delusive hope that the tim...
Now as we get into chapter 30, we enter into the future in these next four Chapter s. And this is now writing of the Great Tribulation period which is yet future. This is writing about this period of...
Acts 2:20; Amos 5:18; Daniel 12:1; Daniel 9:12; Ezekiel 7:6;...