George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 7:34
Bride. None shall think of marrying, (chap. xvi. 9., and xxv. 10.; Calmet) all being filled with lamentation. (Menochius)
Bride. None shall think of marrying, (chap. xvi. 9., and xxv. 10.; Calmet) all being filled with lamentation. (Menochius)
Verse Jeremiah 7:34. _THEN WILL I CAUSE TO CEASE - THE VOICE OF MIRTH_] There shall no longer be in Jerusalem any _cause of joy_; they shall neither marry nor be given in marriage, for the land shall...
Silence and desolation are to settle upon the whole land....
THE PROPHET'S TEMPLE ADDRESS (7-9) CHAPTER 7 _ 1. Amend your ways and your doings (Jeremiah 7:1) _ 2. No prayer-answer to be expected (Jeremiah 7:16) 3. Sacrifices rejected; Obedience demanded (J
JEREMIAH 7:29 TO JEREMIAH 8:3. MOURNING FOR JUDAH'S DEAD. Let Jerusalem mourn, and raise a dirge on the heights (where she sinned by her idolatry), because of the near approach of the punishment for t...
THE VOICE OF MIRTH, &C. This refrain is peculiar to Jeremiah. Occurs four times (here; Jeremiah 16:9; Jeremiah 25:10; Jeremiah 33:11) ("joy"). FOR THE LAND SHALL BE DESOLATE. Reference to Pentateuch ...
_the voice of the bridegroom, etc_.] Cp. Jeremiah 16:9; Jeremiah 25:10....
THEN WILL I CAUSE TO CEASE, &C.— "There shall be no more marriages; no more shall the voice of mirth and rejoicing be heard; or the sound of musical instruments, which usually attends this sort of fes...
B. The Future Destruction Jeremiah 7:32 to Jeremiah 8:3 TRANSLATION (32) Therefore behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when it shall no longer be called the Topheth or the valley of the son...
Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
THEN WILL I CAUSE TO CEASE... THE VOICE OF MIRTH. — The special imagery of the picture of desolation is characteristic of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 16:9; Jeremiah 25:10; Jeremiah 33:11). No words could paint...
וְ הִשְׁבַּתִּ֣י ׀ מֵ עָרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֗ה וּ מֵֽ
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
With this section the second movement in commissioning the prophet commences. It deals first with the sins of worship. These are first denounced. At the gate of the Temple the prophet rebuked the peop...
Tophet had been a remarkable place on several occasions. It was called Tophet because it had been a place of slaughter. And it had been a charnel house, or sepulchre for burying in; and also a place o...
REFLECTIONS I PASS by every other consideration in this Chapter (though there are many which would be highly profitable to regard) to attend to one, yet more eminently striking, suggested in meeting t...
He still continues the same subject; for he denounces on the Jews the punishment which they had deserved. He more fully expresses what he mentioned in the last verse respecting the shameful and dreadf...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
THEN WILL I CAUSE TO CEASE FROM THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AND FROM THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM,.... Signifying that the devastation should not only be in and about Jerusalem, but should reach all over the lan...
Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the...
_It shall be no more called Tophet, but The valley of Slaughter_ King Josiah first of all _defiled_ this place, as the text speaks, 2 Kings 23:10; that is, polluted it by burying dead bodies in it, by...
THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the referenc...
29-34 In token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be degraded, and separated from God, as she had been separated to him. The heart is the place in which God has chosen to put his name; but...
All kind and degrees of mirth shall cease, REVELATION 18:23, all places shall be filled with lamentations and woe; their singing shall be turned into sighing; they shall lay aside all things that are...
Jeremiah 7:34 cease H7673 (H8689) cities H5892 Judah H3063 streets H2351 Jerusalem H3389 voice H6963 mirth H8342 v
CONTENTS: The message in the gate of the Lord's house. Coming desolations because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is common for those who are furthest from God to boast themselves...
Jeremiah 7:2. _Stand in the gate of the Lord's house,_ and call the people to repentance by arguments arrayed in all the glory and force of truth. This was the chief gate of entrance. The temple had t...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:34 I WILL SILENCE... THE VOICE OF THE BRIDEGROOM. Normal joy will end, so weddings will not occur (Jeremiah 16:9;...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. 1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. _Keil_ regards chaps. 7 to 10 as later addresses, delivered during Josiah’s reign. _Bagster_ places an interval of merely two years between...
EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10.—Severe rebukes of idolatry alternating with announcements of the impending judgment. The circumstances connected with this discourse, or part thereof, appear to be detailed in Jer...
So chapter 7. King Josiah, who was reigning at the beginning of Jeremiah's ministry, in the eighteenth year of his reign, ordered the temple restored. It had fallen into disrepair. It sort of lay in r...
Ezekiel 26:13; Hosea 2:11; Isaiah 1:7; Isaiah 24:7; Isaiah 24:8;...