George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 9:2
Men. Why cannot I retire (Menochius) from this scene of misery, or afford some consolation to the captives? Septuagint, "Who will give me the last station in the desert?" (Haydock)
Men. Why cannot I retire (Menochius) from this scene of misery, or afford some consolation to the captives? Septuagint, "Who will give me the last station in the desert?" (Haydock)
Verse Jeremiah 9:2. _O THAT I HAD IN THE WILDERNESS_] In the eastern countries there are no such _inns_ or _houses of entertainment_ as those in Europe. There are in different places public buildings...
From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins. Jeremiah 9:2 The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared his daily striving, and in some lone wilderness give way to his sorrow, wi...
CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The prophet's complaint and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 9:1) _ 2. The cause of desolation and destruction (Jeremiah 9:10) 3. The call for the mourning and wailing women (Jeremiah 9:17...
FAITHLESSNESS AND ITS RETRIBUTION: THE DIRGE OF DEATH. The humblest caravanserai would be preferable to life among these evil men, with their calumnies and the unfaithful use of power by those in auth...
OH THAT. HAD IN THE WILDERNESS. LODGING PLACE. The wilderness was an uninhabited region,. desert, where men were seldom seen. There were no hotels in those days, but lodging places were erected here a...
_a lodging place_ a caravanserai, hospice (khan). Shelter was all that they afforded. The most desolate spot is to the prophet's mind better than the sights which thrust themselves upon him in Jerusal...
A LODGING-PLACE OF WAYFARING MEN— Travellers in the East are not, nor ever were, accommodated at inns on the road, after the manner of the European nations. In some places, indeed, there are large pub...
II. NATIONAL CORRUPTION Jeremiah 9:2-26 Jeremiah does not allow himself to be overcome by his personal feelings regarding the gloomy future of his people. The destruction of Judah is a punishment well...
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. LODGING PLACE - a carav...
A LODGING PLACE, etc.] a caravanserai (khan), supplying a bare shelter, even the most desolate spot, if he may thereby escape the crimes of Jerusalem....
1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
OH, THAT I HAD...! — Literally, as before, _Who will give..._? A LODGING PLACE OF WAYFARING MEN. — i.e., a place of shelter, a _khan_ or _caravanserai,_ such as were built for travellers, such, _e.g.,...
_[Jeremiah 9:1]_ מִֽי ־יִתְּנֵ֣נִי בַ † מִּדְבָּ֗ר...
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
NATIONAL PERVERSITY Jeremiah 9:1-16 Jeremiah 9:1-6 Once the voice of joy and thanksgiving had been heard in Jerusalem, but now on every side there was bloodshed, and the patriot-prophet could only w...
In answer to his own question, Jeremiah sighed for some adequate means of expressing the anguish of his heart, and then for escape to some lonely place in the wilderness. All this was in the nature of...
O that I had in the wilderness a (b) lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [are] all (c) adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. (b) He shows th...
How blessed is it to behold faithful ministers, who enter into a deep concern for their people. What a beautiful portrait is here undesignedly drawn of Jeremiah. How endeared is that servant of the Lo...
Here the Prophet entertains another wish: He had before wished that his head were waters, that he might shed tears, and he had wished his eyes to be the fountains of tears; but now, after having duly...
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...
OH THAT I HAD IN THE WILDERNESS A LODGING PLACE OF WAYFARING MEN,.... Such as travellers take up with in a desert, when they are benighted, and cannot reach a town or village. This the prophet chose,...
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. Ver. 2. _Oh that I had...
_O that I had in the wilderness_, &c. The prophet here wishes that he had a lodging-place, or tent, such as travellers in this country were wont to lodge in when they travelled over the deserts, profe...
THE DECEIT OF THE PEOPLE...
Oh, that I had in the wilderness, far from the wicked capital and the haunts of men, A LODGING-PLACE OF WAYFARING MEN, a traveling lodge or caravansary, such as are found in the Orient, THAT I MIGHT L...
1-11 Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without communion with God, through Christ Jesus, and th...
He proceeds in his lamentation, which in the former verse he did, by way of compassion, in this in a way of indignation, Wishing for some retiring place, or sorry shed, or night cottage; SEE POOLE ON...
Jeremiah 9:2 Oh H5414 (H8799) wilderness H4057 place H4411 travelers H732 (H8802) leave H5800 (H8799) people...
Jeremiah 9:1. _Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!_ Jeremiah foresaw that the Chaldeans would c...
Jeremiah 9:1. _Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, then, I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!_ Matthew Henry well observes that, in the H...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Detestation of the sins of the people. The vanity of trusting in anything but God. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who will not know God...
Jeremiah 9:2. _Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodgingplace of wayfaring men._ In countries where the peasantry are very poor, travellers provide for themselves as they can. Even in Spain many of th...
_Oh that my head were waters._ CHRISTIAN ANGUISH OVER SPIRITUAL DESOLATION There is a solemn beauty in Jeremiah’s devotion to the welfare of his fellow countrymen. Blinded as they were by sin, they c...
_Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men._ TWO PRAYERS OF JEREMIAH (with Jeremiah 14:8):--In all the fellowship of, the prophets Jeremiah is by far the most unwilling and rel...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 9:2 Despite his compassion, Jeremiah understands the people ARE ALL ADULTERERS and TREACHEROUS MEN. They swear covenant faithfulness but sin against God and neighbor. He wish...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. For Chronology and History, see chap. 7. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 9:26. “_Egypt_.” sit. on N.E. angle of Africa; a vast plain; in general features it may be...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 9:1 The Hebrew more correctly attaches this verse to Jeremiah 8:1. OH THAT MY HEAD WERE WATERS, etc.! A quaint conceit, it may be said. But "if we have been going on pace for pace...
Now Jeremiah declares, Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes were as a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wildernes...
Ezekiel 22:10; Ezekiel 22:11; Hosea 4:2; Hosea 5:7; Hosea 6:7;...
A lodging place — Some retiring place, though it were but some mean hut in the wilderness....