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Verse Jeremiah 13:17. _MY SOUL SHALT WEEP IN SECRET PLACES_] If you
will not hearken to the Lord, there is no remedy: destruction must
come; and there is nothing left for me, but to go in secret, and...
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THE LORD’S FLOCK - The people carried away captive with Jeconiah
formed the Jewish Church, as we are expressly told, whereas Zedekiah
and the people of Jerusalem possessed only the externals of the Ch...
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CHAPTER 13
Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations
_ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _
2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15)
3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremi
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ISRAEL'S PRIDE. The prophet warns against the arrogancy that
persistently refuses to obey (_i.e._ give glory to; _cf._ 1 Samuel
6:5) Yahweh, and compares the disobedient with travellers on mountain
pa...
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MY SOUL. Me (emphatic). Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. Figure of speech
_Anthropopatheia._
WEEP... WEEP SORE... RUNDOWN. Figure of speech _Anabasis._ App-6.
RUN DOWN, &C. Compare Matthew 26:38; Luke 19:...
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Let Judah beware while there is time
The prophet bids them acknowledge Jehovah, by submission and
obedience, before they are overtaken by the blackness of national
overthrow. Otherwise (says Jeremiah...
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_the Lord's flock_ As the rulers are called elsewhere (Jeremiah 2:8
mg., Jeremiah 3:15; Jeremiah 6:3) shepherds (pastors), so the ruled
are the flock. Cp. Psa
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DISCOURSE: 1048
A CALL TO REPENTANCE [Note: Preached February, 1801.]
Jeremiah 13:15. Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the Lord hath
spoken. Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause da...
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BUT IF YE WILL NOT HEAR IT— The prophet declares, that after having
done all he could to cause the people to return to their duty, without
success, nothing farther would remain for him, but to lay asi...
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C. WARNING: Pride Brings On Darkness Jeremiah 13:15-17
TRANSLATION
(15) Hear and give ear! Do not be so high and mighty; for the LORD has
spoken. (16) Give to the LORD your God glory before He causes...
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But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for
your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears,
because the LORD's flock is carried away captive.
HEAR IT - m...
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JEREMIAH'S SEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN). THE LINEN GIRDLE
The date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word 'queen'
(Jeremiah 13:18), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehushta,...
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IN SECRET PLACES] The prophet will mourn apart, as he did in
Jehoiakim's reign....
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MY SOUL SHALL WEEP IN SECRET PLACES FOR YOUR PRIDE. — The words
present no difficulty that requires explanation, but deserve to be
noted in their exquisite tenderness as characteristic of the
prophet’...
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וְ אִם֙ לֹ֣א תִשְׁמָע֔וּהָ בְּ
מִסְתָּרִ֥ים ת
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CHAPTER VIII
THE FALL OF PRIDE
Jeremiah 13:1
THIS discourse is a sort of appendix to the preceding; as is indicated
by its abrupt and brief beginning with the words "Thus said Iahvah
unto me," witho...
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The account of this time of communion between Jeremiah and Jehovah
ends with the story of how Jehovah gave him two signs, one for himself
and one for the people. That for himself was the sign of the g...
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But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall (f) weep in secret places
for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with
tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
(f) Yo...
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_My soul. Jeremias can do no more. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "your
soul,...your eyes," &c. (Haydock)_...
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Who can read this account of the mournful prophet, but must revere his
memory? Oh! how delightful is it to behold a faithful pastor, taking
interest in all that concerns his people! But while the memo...
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The Prophet had indirectly threatened them; but yet there was some
hope of pardon, provided the Jews anticipated God’s judgment in time
and humbled themselves before him. He now declares more clearly...
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Chapter 13, bringing to mind how God had bound Israel to His heart,
announces the terrible judgment with which the people shall, as it
were, be drunken; and, on the ground of this judgment, calls them...
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BUT IF YE WILL NOT HEAR IT,.... The advice and exhortation now given,
to repent of sin, be humble before God, and glorify him:
MY SOUL SHALL WEEP IN SECRET PLACES FOR YOUR PRIDE; he would no more
act...
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But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for
[your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears,
because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
Ver. 17. _My...
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_Hear ye_, &c. The prophet proceeds to give them good counsel, which,
if it had been taken, the desolation and destruction threatened would
have been prevented. _Be not proud_ Pride was one of the sin...
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12-17 As the bottle was fitted to hold the wine, so the sins of the
people made them vessels of wrath, fitted for the judgments of God;
with which they should be filled till they caused each other's...
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That is, if you will not listen to what I say, take heed to what I
say, and obey the counsel which I give you, I shall seriously and
secretly mourn for your rebellion and obstinacy, which is rooted in...
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Jeremiah 13:17 hear H8085 (H8799) soul H5315 weep H1058 (H8799) secret
H4565 for H6440 pride H1466 eyes...
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A FINAL APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, FOR IF THEY DO
FAIL TO RESPOND THEIR FINAL JUDGMENT WILL COME UPON THEM (JEREMIAH
13:15).
The people are called on to look to YHWH while there is s...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the linen girdle and sign of the bottles filled with
wine.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Those who persist in sin, ignoring God's Word, make
themselves vessels of wrath fi...
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Jeremiah 13:1. _Get thee a linen girdle,_ or “buy thee,” as the
Chaldaic reads; which this priest and prophet wore unwashed till it
became offensive, and began to excite attention and talk. The priest...
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_Give glory to the Lord your God._
I. Counsel. “Give glory to the Lord.”
1. Because the Lord’s glory is man’s good.
2. Because in them that glory might appear.
3. Because by them that glory might...
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_Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the Lord hath spoken._
JEHOVAH HATH SPOKEN: WILL YE NOT HEAR?
I. There is a revelation. “For the Lord hath spoken.”
1. The voice which we are bidden to hea...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 13:15 BE NOT PROUD. Jeremiah urges Judah
to repent. DARKNESS. A common ancient Near Eastern symbol of judgment.
MY EYES WILL WEEP. Once again, Jeremi
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The
reference in Jeremiah 13:18 to the “queen” is regarded as
determining the date of this chapter. Ewald, Hitzig, Umbreit, Dahler,
Hend.,...
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EXPOSITION
The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely
commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching
rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal...
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Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go down and buy a linen girdle, and put
it on, but don't wash it. So I got a girdle according to the word of
the LORD, and I put it on. And the word of the LORD came unto...
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1 Samuel 15:11; 1 Samuel 15:35; Ezekiel 34:31; Ezekiel 36:38;...