George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 46:5
CHAPTER XLVI.
Seen. The prophets usually speak as if things were already past. (Worthington)
CHAPTER XLVI.
Seen. The prophets usually speak as if things were already past. (Worthington)
Verse Jeremiah 46:5. _WHEREFORE HAVE I SEEN THEM DISMAYED_] What! such a numerous, formidable, and well-appointed army panic-struck? So that they have _turned back-fled apace_, and _looked not round_;...
Literally, “Why have I seen? They are terror-stricken! they are giving way back!” The Egyptian host feels that the battle is lost, and overborne by the enemy loses heart, and in despair, yet not witho...
IV. THE PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE GENTILE NATIONS CHAPTER 46 Concerning Egypt _ 1. Prophecy about Pharaoh-Necho (Jeremiah 46:1) _ 2. Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of Egypt (Jeremiah 46:13) 3. A messa...
JEREMIAH 46-51. THE FOREIGN PROPHECIES. These form the third principal division of the Book of Jeremiah. As already seen (Jeremiah 1:5; Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 25:15), Jeremiah's prophetic horizon nat...
BEATEN DOWN. crushed. FLED APACE. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_. Hebrew fled. flight. Well rendered "fled apace". FEAR WAS ROUND ABOUT. Hebrew. _magor missabib_. terror round about. See note on Jere...
Oracles against foreign nations Many recent commentators, in particular Schwally (Stade's _Zeitschrift für Alttestamentl. Wissenschaft_for 1888), maintain that the whole or a considerable part of the...
_Wherefore … dismayed_ The LXX rightly omit the first Hebrew verb, and render, "Wherefore are they dismayed?" _terror is on every side_ Jeremiah's characteristic expression. See on ch. Jeremiah 6:25....
Co. declines to accept objections which have been brought by some recent commentators to the substantial genuineness of these _vv_., and Gi. on the whole agrees, but considers the passage to have been...
These verses give us a lively description of the preparation and the advance, which were followed by the disastrous defeat at Carchemish....
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND THE NATIONS Jeremiah 46:1 to Jeremiah 49:39 With the exception of the Book of Hosea, every prophetic book of the Old Testament contains at least one oracle concer...
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD. WHEREFORE HAVE I SE...
46:5 side, (a-29) See ch. 6.25....
SEEN THEM DISMAYED] RV 'seen it? They are dismayed.'...
AGAINST EGYPT 1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around....
WHEREFORE HAVE I SEEN THEM DISMAYED...? — The prophet speaks as seeing already in his mind’s eye the confusion of the defeated army, with no way to escape, driven back on the Euphrates. In the “fear r...
מַדּ֣וּעַ רָאִ֗יתִי הֵ֣מָּה חַתִּים֮ נְסֹגִ֣ים אָחֹור֒...
CHAPTER XVII EGYPT Jeremiah 43:8, Jeremiah 44:30, Jeremiah 46:1 "I will visit Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their kings: even Pharaoh and all them that trust in him....
The third and last section of the division containing the account of the prophet's ministry is occupied with his messages concerning the nations. The first of these has to do with Egypt, and consists...
(d) Why have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and look not back: [for] fear [was] on all sides, saith the LORD. (d) The prophet...
At this Chapter begins the judgments of God against the enemies of Israel. The Lord hath had a long controversy with his people; but now in the midst of it, he will reckon with their foes. And first f...
For it immediately follows, _Why, _or how, _have I seen them broken? _Here the Prophet, on the other hand, disregards all the things which he before enumerated in such high terms, for he spoke, as it...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...
WHEREFORE HAVE I SEEN THEM DISMAYED [AND] TURNED AWAY BACK?.... The Egyptians, after all this preparation for war, and seeming ardent to engage in battle; and yet, when they came to it, were seized wi...
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: [for] fear [was] round about, saith the LORD. Ver. 5. _Wheref...
_Order ye the buckler_, &c. In these verses the mighty preparations of the Egyptians for war are described, which causes the prophet, who foresees the defeat, to express, as he does in the next two ve...
THE FIRST PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT...
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? the soldiers who set out so confidently for the attack being overcome with terror at their defeat. AND THEIR MIGHTY ONES ARE BEATEN DOWN, brok...
BEATEN DOWN: _ Heb._ broken in pieces FLED APACE: _ Heb._ fled a flight...
1-12 The whole word of God is against those who obey not the gospel of Christ; but it is for those, even of the Gentiles, who turn to Him. The prophecy begins with Egypt. Let them strengthen themselve...
God had either in a vision showed Jeremiah this army of the Egyptians flying, or else had revealed to him that they should be put to flight, which the prophet here publisheth. God made a fear to fall...
Jeremiah 46:5 seen H7200 (H8804) dismayed H2844 turned H5472 (H8737) back H268 ones H1368 down H3807 ...
UTTER DEFEAT (JEREMIAH 46:5). In deliberately stark contrast we are now given the picture of this once proud army fleeing in tatters. It is as though it was written by an onlooker behind the lines wh...
A). ORACLE CONCERNING NEBUCHADREZZAR'S DEFEAT OF THE EGYPTIAN ARMY AT CARCHEMISH IN 605 BC (JEREMIAH 46:2). The importance of this prophesy to a people reeling under the unexpected death of their good...
CONTENTS: Prophecies against Egypt. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Pharaoh-Necho, Nebuchadrezzar. CONCLUSION: When men think to magnify themselves by pushing on unrighteous enterprises, let them expect...
Jeremiah 46:1. _The Gentiles._ The succeeding six Chapter s ought to have followed the twenty fifth chapter of this book, as they do in the Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint. Jeremiah 4...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 46:1 God’s Judgment on the Nations. Jeremiah has already declared God’s sovereignty over the nations (Jeremiah 27:1). Here he describes God
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—_FIRST PART:_ Jeremiah 46:1, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim; written _at Jerusalem,_ immediately before the battle of Charchemish. This se...
EXPOSITION This chapter, the first of a series, consists of two prophecies united, though it is probable enough that the latter was intended to supplement the former, for Jeremiah 46:2 are clearly inc...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Jeremiah 46:1-28. Beginning with chapter 45 we came into the sixth part or section of the book of Jeremiah. And this sixth section is comprised of miscellaneous prophec...
2 Kings 7:6; 2 Kings 7:7; Ezekiel 32:10; Genesis 19:17; Isaiah 19:16;...