George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 9:21
For. This was the song. (Calmet) --- Streets. Death spares none. The least suspecting fall. (Haydock) --- It enters by the windows, if the doors be shut, Joel ii. 8.
For. This was the song. (Calmet) --- Streets. Death spares none. The least suspecting fall. (Haydock) --- It enters by the windows, if the doors be shut, Joel ii. 8.
Verse Jeremiah 9:21. _FOR DEATH IS COME UP INTO OUR WINDOWS_] Here DEATH is personified, and represented as scaling their wall; and after having slain the _playful children_ without, and the _vigorous...
The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length. Jeremiah 9:10 THE HABITATIONS I. E - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see Jeremiah...
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...
CHILDREN. infant. STREETS......
See summary introducing the section....
_is come up_ Cp. Joel 2:9. _palaces_ See on Jeremiah 6:5. _from without_ Cp. Zechariah 8:5....
2. _Death throughout the land_ (Jeremiah 9:17-22) TRANSLATION (17) Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider and call for the mourning women that they might come and unto the wise women send that they mi...
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. DEATH IS COME UP INTO OUR WINDOWS - the death-infl...
1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
DEATH IS COME UP INTO OUR WINDOWS. — “Death” stands here, as in Jeremiah 15:2, specifically for the pestilence, which is to add its horrors to those of the famine and the sword, and which creeps in wi...
_[Jeremiah 9:20]_ כִּֽי ־עָ֤לָה מָ֨וֶת֙ בְּ חַלֹּונֵ֔ינוּ...
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
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...
For death hath come up into our (q) windows, [and] hath entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets. (q) Signifying that there is no means to...
Perhaps these mourning women means true weepers, and the cunning women those which were counterfeit. And the counterfeit would have found cause to change their cries into real sorrow, had they foresee...
And by way of explanation he adds, _For death has ascended into our windows _There is here a kind of derision; for the Jews, as it has been said, had falsely promised to themselves a perpetual impunit...
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...
FOR DEATH IS COME UP INTO OUR WINDOWS,.... Their doors being shut, bolted, and barred, they thought themselves safe, but were not; the Chaldeans scaled their walls, broke in at the tops of their house...
For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets. Ver. 21. _For death is come up into our windows,_...
THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND...
For death is come up into our windows, unexpectedly, stealthily, like a thief in the night, and is entered into our palaces, for the soldiers of the invading army, finding the doors barred, would gain...
12-22 In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the voice of lamentation. Unhumbled hearts lament their calami...
DEATH IS COME UP; the unavoidableness of the ruin is expressed metaphorically, EZEKIEL 21:14 JEREMIAH 6:5, most likely alluding to the violent and universal storming of a city, JEREMIAH 5:10, wherein...
Jeremiah 9:21 death H4194 come H5927 (H8804) windows H2474 entered H935 (H8804) palaces H759 off H3772 ...
THOSE WHO ARE TRULY WISE WILL KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD AND WILL THUS UNDERSTAND WHY HE ACTS LIKE HE DOES IN BRINGING FINAL JUDGMENT ON JUDAH (JEREMIAH 9:12). The passage commences by asking who the tr...
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...
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...
_For death is come up into our windows._ DEATH AN INVADING ENEMY I. Cruel. 1. Strikes at the dearest objects of our affection. 2. Robs us of our most useful men. 3. Drags us from the dearest thin...
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...
2 Chronicles 36:17; Amos 6:10; Amos 6:11; Ezekiel 21:14; Ezekiel 21:1
Death — The unavoidableness of the ruin is expressed metaphorically, alluding to the storming of a city, wherein there is no respect had to sex, youth, or age....