George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 9:3
Lies. They are bent on deceit (Calmet) and murder, (Haydock) ver. 8., and Psalm lxiii. 4., and cxix. 2.
Lies. They are bent on deceit (Calmet) and murder, (Haydock) ver. 8., and Psalm lxiii. 4., and cxix. 2.
Verse Jeremiah 9:3. _THEY BEND THEIR TONGUES_ LIKE THEIR _BOW_ FOR _LIES_] And their lies are such that they as fully _take away life_ as the _keenest arrow_ shot from the best strung bow. The false...
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...
THEY BEND THEIR TONGUES LIKE THEIR BOW FOR LIES. As the bent bow hurls the arrow and wounds or slays, so the lies of the deceivers and slanderers are shot forth to hurt the innocent. Jeremiah as the...
BEND: or, prepare. TRUTH. veracity....
_falsehood_ as the arrow. For the figure cp. Psalms 64:3 f. _truth_ mg. _faithfulness_. See on Jeremiah 5:1....
DISCOURSE: 1045 FORTITUDE RECOMMENDED ON THE SIDE OF TRUTH Jeremiah 9:3. _They are not valiant for the truth upon the earth_. IT is by no means uncommon to see men valiant in their country’s cause, o...
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...
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. THEY BEND THEIR T...
1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
LIKE THEIR BOW FOR LIES. — The inserted words turn the boldness of the metaphor into a comparatively tame simile. _They bend their tongue to be their bow of lies._ The same figure meets us in Psalms 5...
_[Jeremiah 9:2]_ וַֽ יַּדְרְכ֤וּ אֶת ־לְשֹׁונָם֙ קַשְׁתָּ֣ם...
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...
And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] (d) lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. (d) To be...
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...
Jeremiah confirms what he had said of the near destruction of the people; for, as we have said, the Jews ridiculed threatenings while they thought themselves far from every danger. But the Prophet she...
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...
AND THEY BEND THEIR TONGUES LIKE THEIR BOW FOR LIES,.... Their tongues were like bows, and their lying words like arrows, which they directed against persons to their injury; see Psalms 11:2, or, "lik...
And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. Ver. 3. _And...
_They bend their tongues like their bow_ With a great deal of craft, their tongues are fitted for lying, as a bow which is bent is for shooting. Thus the psalmist compares the tongue to a bow and word...
THE DECEIT OF THE PEOPLE...
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies, so that lies are the arrows which they send to their mark, BUT THEY ARE NOT VALIANT FOR THE TRUTH UPON THE EARTH, they do not make adequate and pro...
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...
BEND, Heb. _tread_, because bows are usually kneeled or trod upon when they are bent, JER 1 14 51:3. LIKE THEIR BOW; their tongues are here compared to a bow, and lies to arrows, because as a bow shoo...
Jeremiah 9:3 bow H7198 bent H1869 (H8686) tongues H3956 lies H8267 valiant H1396 (H8804) truth H530 earth...
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...
_They are not valiant for the truth._ VALIANT FOR THE TRUTH I. Inquire what is the truth. It is “the glorious Gospel of the blessed God.” Without a knowledge of this, oh! how ignorant is the wisest...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 9:3 The Israelites have no saving knowledge of God (Jeremiah 2:8; Jeremiah 8:7; see...
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...
1 Samuel 2:12; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 2 Timothy 3:13; Hosea 4:1;...