George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 4:31
Child. Hebrew and Septuagint, "a first-born," when the pains are most acute. (Calmet)
Child. Hebrew and Septuagint, "a first-born," when the pains are most acute. (Calmet)
Verse Jeremiah 4:31. _BRINGETH FORTH HER FIRST CHILD_] In such a case the fear, danger, and pain were naturally the greatest. _SPREADETH HER HANDS_] The gesture indicated by nature to signify distres...
For a cry have I heard as of one writhing in vain: Anguish as of one that bringeth forth her first-born: The cry of the daughter of Zion. She gasps for breath: she stretches out her palms: Woe is...
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...
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 wiles shall have no effect; for already I hear thy cries of agony and dismay. _daughter of Zion_ denoting the inhabitants as a whole. Cp. Jeremiah 6:2, etc....
FOR I HAVE HEARD— The prophet here pathetically describes Jerusalem as a woman in travail, bewailing the loss of her children by the Chaldeans, and in vain imploring assistance. Houbigant renders the...
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...
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands,...
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....
A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL. — Literally, _writhing in pain,_ as in Jeremiah 4:19. BEWAILETH HERSELF. — Literally, _pants for breath._ The prophet draws his pictures with a terrible intensity. On the one side...
כִּי֩ קֹ֨ול כְּ חֹולָ֜ה שָׁמַ֗עְתִּי צָרָה֙ כ
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...
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, [and] the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, [that] bewaileth herself, [that] spreadeth her ha...
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...
REFLECTIONS STAND still my soul, and ponder over this Chapter, and look up for the divine teachings of God the Holy Ghost, that none of the words here contained may fall to the ground. Were there ever...
By these words Jeremiah confirms what the latter part of the preceding verse contains: nor was it for the sake of elucidating his subject that he enlarged on it; but when he saw his own nation so hard...
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...
FOR I HAVE HEARD A VOICE AS OF A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL,.... So the distress of the Jews, at the time of their destruction, is compared to the sorrows of a woman in travail; and a word, that signifies that...
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, [and] the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, [that] bewaileth herself, [that] spreadeth her ha...
_For I have heard a voice of a woman in travail_ Here Jerusalem is very pathetically described by the character of a woman under the pangs of her first child-bearing, when her pains as well as her fea...
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, heartrending wails and moans, THE VOICE OF THE DAUGHTER OF ZION, of the Lord's own chos...
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....
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...
A VOICE AS OF A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL: when the Scripture would express any exquisite sorrow, exceeding all other pains, it doth it by a woman in travail, ISAIAH 13:8,9 JER 6:24 30:6,7. _The anguish as of...
Jeremiah 4:31 heard H8085 (H8804) voice H6963 labor H2470 (H8802) anguish H6869 child H1069 (H8688) voice...
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....
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...
1 Corinthians 9:16; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Ezekiel 23:46; Ezekiel 23:47;...
In travail — When the scripture would express any exquisite sorrow, it doth it by a woman in travail. First child — Which is usually the most painful. Spreadeth her hands — According to the use of per...