George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 9:4
Deceitfully. A man must guard against his relations and domestics, Micheas vii. 5., and Matthew viii. 35. (Calmet)
Deceitfully. A man must guard against his relations and domestics, Micheas vii. 5., and Matthew viii. 35. (Calmet)
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...
TAKE YE HEED EVERY ONE OF HIS NEIGHBOUR. It would be difficult to choose language which would more strongly describe the ill will, the discord and violence that filled Judah at the period to which Jer...
NEIGHBOUR. friend. TRUST YE NOT. do not confide. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69. EVERY BROTHER... SUPPLANT. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 25:26; Genesis 27:36). App-92....
Cp. Micah 7:5 f. "The mutual distrust, which had already in the time of Hezekiah broken up families and divided the nearest friends, and made a man's worst enemies those of his own household, had now...
TAKE YE HEED, &C.— See Micah 7:5.Matthew 10:35....
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...
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. EVERY BROTHER WILL UTTERLY SUPPLANT...
1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
TAKE YE HEED... — The extreme bitterness of the prophet’s words is explained in part by what we read afterwards of his personal history (Jeremiah 12:6; Jeremiah 18:18). Then, as at other times, a man’...
_[Jeremiah 9:3]_ אִ֤ישׁ מֵ רֵעֵ֨הוּ֙ הִשָּׁמֵ֔רוּ וְ...
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...
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any (e) brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. (e) Meaning, that all were corrupt,...
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...
In this verse the Prophet describes the extreme wickedness of the people. For though sometimes thefts, robberies, frauds, slaughters, perjuries, sorceries prevail, yet some regard for near relations r...
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...
TAKE YE HEED EVERYONE OF HIS NEIGHBOUR,.... Take care of being imposed upon by them, since they are so given to lying and deceit; be not too credulous, or too easily believe what is said; or keep your...
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. Ver. 4. _Take ye heed every one of his...
_Take ye heed every one of his neighbour_ Or, _of his friend_, as רעהו rather signifies; of him who pretends friendship to him, or whom he has befriended. _And trust ye not in a brother_ Against whom...
THE DECEIT OF THE PEOPLE...
Take ye heed every, one of his neighbor, even of those who profess to be friends, AND TRUST YE NOT IN ANY BROTHER, the very ties of blood-relationship being insufficient to withstand the general perfi...
NEIGHBOUR: Or, friend...
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...
TAKE YE HEED EVERY ONE OF HIS NEIGHBOUR; better rendered friend, or companion, as 2 SAMUEL 16:17, and in the next verse; showing the general corruption will be so malignant, that one friend will betra...
Jeremiah 9:4 Everyone H376 heed H8104 (H8734) neighbor H7453 trust H982 (H8799) brother H251 brother H251 utterly...
TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
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...
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 Peter 2:1; 1 Peter 2:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:6; Ezekiel 22:9; Genesi