George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 4:30
Stone, or antimony, like Jazabel, (4 Kings ix. 30.) to darken and enlarge the eye-lids. --- Lovers. Infidel nations of Egypt, &c.
Stone, or antimony, like Jazabel, (4 Kings ix. 30.) to darken and enlarge the eye-lids. --- Lovers. Infidel nations of Egypt, &c.
Verse Jeremiah 4:30. _THOUGH THOU RENTEST THY FACE WITH PAINTING_] This probably refers to the custom of introducing _stibium_, a preparation of antimony, between the eye and the lids, in order to pr...
Translate, And thou, O plundered one, what effectest thou, that “thou clothest thyself with” scarlet, that “thou deckest” thyself “with ornaments of gold,” that thou enlargest thine eyes with antimony...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. True repentance and what it means (Jeremiah 4:1) _ 2. The alarm sounded: judgment comes (Jeremiah 4:5) 3. The doom of the rebellious people (Jeremiah 4:14) 4. The desolation of I
THE VISION OF DESOLATION (Jeremiah 4:23) most impressively describes the Divine visitation of Judah. The earth becomes like the chaos before creation (_mg._) under a sky that has lost its lamps; the v...
THOU. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_, Put for idolatrous Israel. An adulterous woman. RENTEST. enlargest (with paint). FACE. eyes. LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._...
Jeremiah 4:5-31. Impending judgements. National disaster This section and the two that follow it (viz. chs. 5 and 6) are somewhat later than the preceding, as presenting a more definite description o...
Embellishments of the person are of no avail. Zion cries out in vain before an implacable foe. See summary at commencement of section....
Thy harsh captors will scorn thy feminine arts to make thyself attractive in their eyes. But the anomalous gender (masc.) of the Hebrew participle suggests that it is a gloss. _And thou, when thou art...
THOUGH THOU RENTEST THY FACE WITH PAINTING— See 2 Kings 9:30. The prophet here carries on the idea wherewith he began, describing Jerusalem under the figure of a harlot, dressing herself up to captiva...
3. _Inevitable judgment_ (Jeremiah 4:27-31) TRANSLATION (27) For thus says the LORD: All the land shall become a desolation; but I will not make a full end of it. (28) On account of this the land sha...
And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt tho...
4:30 rendest (g-26) By an irony for 'enlargest.'...
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...
5-10. Destruction approaches Jerusalem....
AND _when_ THOU _art_ SPOILED] better, 'and thou, spoiled one,' i.e. Jerusalem. RENTEST THY FACE WITH PAINTING] RV 'enlargest thine eyes with paint.' The Eastern custom was to paint black the border o...
AND WHEN THOU ART SPOILED... — The sentence is clearer without the insertion of the words in italics: _Thou spoiled one, what dost thou work, that thou clothest..._ _that thou deckest..._ _that thou r...
_וְ_†_אַ֨תְּ_† שָׁד֜וּד מַֽה ־תַּעֲשִׂ֗י כִּֽי ־תִלְבְּשִׁ֨י...
Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would under
Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in exte...
And [when] thou [art] laid waste, what wilt thou do? Though thou (x) clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou enlarge thy eyes with painting, in vain...
There is somewhat uncommonly solemn and striking, when the Lord by his servants, as in many parts of scripture, calls upon the heavenly bodies, and the inanimate parts of nature, to lament by their ap...
The Prophet boldly ridicules the Jews, in order to cast down their pride and haughtiness. It was indeed his object to check that pride with which they were elated against God. The Prophet could not ha...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...
AND WHEN THOU ART SPOILED, WHAT WILT THOU DO?.... Or, "O thou spoiled" k, wasted, and undone creature, how wilt thou help thyself? by what means dost thou think thou canst be delivered? it suggests th...
And [when] thou [art] spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt...
_And when thou art spoiled_ When this destruction shall come upon thee, which is very near; _what wilt thou do?_ When thou, O daughter of Zion, art besieged by the Babylonians, what course wilt thou t...
And when thou art spoiled, rather, "But thou, O destroyed one," WHAT WILT THOU DO? How escape the threatened destruction? THOUGH THOU CLOTHEST THYSELF WITH CRIMSON, in garments of the most expensive m...
The Desolation Following the Lord's Judgment. The prophet here, in a most dramatic manner, introduces Israel as lamenting over the calamity which has struck the nation....
FACE: _ Heb._ eyes...
19-31 The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion. Compared with what it was, every thing is out of order; but the ruin of the Jew...
WHEN THOU ART SPOILED; which will certainly come upon thee; or when this destruction shall come upon thee, which is very near thee. WHAT WILT THOU DO? viz. when thou, O daughter of Zion, as JEREMIAH 4...
Jeremiah 4:30 plundered H7703 (H8803) do H6213 (H8799) clothe H3847 (H8799) crimson H8144 adorn H5710 ...
JEREMIAH'S VISION OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE INVASION (JEREMIAH 4:23). In chilling tones Jeremiah now pictures the land after its destruction, as he, as it were, looks around and sees all the devastation...
YHWH WARNS JUDAH THAT IF THEY WILL NOT REPENT FOR THEM TOO INVASION BY A FIERCE ADVERSARY IS THREATENING AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY COME BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS (JEREMIAH 4:3). If Judah will not respond to th...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. Warning of the consequences of sin and exhortation to return to God. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is the evil of men's doings that kindle...
Jeremiah 4:3. _Break up your fallow ground._ Hebrews ניר _nir, novale;_ make _new_ land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12. Our old phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the word....
_Though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair._ HYPOCRISY DISCOVERED This renting of the face is, literally, enlarging of the eyes through kohl or antimony--a tric...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Chronology_ of the chapter, _Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History_ as in chap. 3. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 4:5. “_Defenced cities_....
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 4:1, JEREMIAH 4:2 The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render, _If thou wilt return_,_ O Israel_,_ saith Jehovah_,_ wilt return unto me_;_ and if thou wilt...
But if you will return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if you will put away thine abominations out of my sight, then you will no longer be [moved or] removed. And thou shalt swear, The...
2 Kings 9:30; Ezekiel 16:36; Ezekiel 23:10; Ezekiel 23:22;...