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Jeremiah 13:24
Therefore, on account of this sad state of affairs, will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness, the violent east wind which carried away the stubble like chaff.
Therefore, on account of this sad state of affairs, will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness, the violent east wind which carried away the stubble like chaff.
Verse Jeremiah 13:24. _THE WIND OF THE WILDERNESS._] Some strong tempestuous wind, proverbially severe, coming from the desert to the south of Judea....
STUBBLE - Broken straw separated from the wheat after the grain had been trampled out by the oxen. Sometimes it was burned as useless; at other times left to be blown away by the wind from the desert....
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
JERUSALEM'S SHAME. This prophecy, as perhaps others in this chapter, would suit the position of affairs under Jehoiakim, after Carchemish (605). Jerusalem is asked concerning the welfare of her people...
STUBBLE. (Hebrew. _kash),_ not crushed straw (Hebrew. _teben)._ WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....
Lament for the calamities brought about by Jerusalem's sin See, O Jerusalem, the northern foe descends on thee. What has become of thy goodly nation? How wilt thou endure those who were erst thy frie...
See on Jeremiah 4:11. _by the wina_ better, with mg. _unto the wind_....
BY THE WIND OF THE WILDERNESS— "The most vehement storms to which Judaea was subject came from the great desert country to the south of it." See Bishop Lowth's Note on Isaiah 21:1....
E. WARNING: Pride is Punished by Disgrace Jeremiah 13:20-27 TRANSLATION (20) Lift up your eyes and see them who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your glorious flock? (2...
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. THEREFORE WILL I SCATTER THEM AS THE STUBBLE ... - (, "The ungodly are ... like the chaff which the wi...
THE WIND OF THE WILDERNESS] see on Jeremiah 4:11....
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,...
STUBBLE. — Our English word means the “stalks of the corn left in the field by the reaper” (Johnson). The Hebrew word is applied to the broken straw left on the threshing-floor after the oxen had been...
וַ אֲפִיצֵ֖ם כְּ קַשׁ ־עֹובֵ֑ר לְ ר֖וּחַ
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...
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...
I interrupt not the reading of those verses, because they are connected. They contain the solemn expostulation of the Lord, in the view of their sins. They point out also the utter impossibility of th...
This is an inference which Jeremiah draws from the last verse. As long as there is any hope of repentance, there is also room for mercy; God often declares that he is long-suffering. Then the most wic...
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...
THEREFORE WILL I SCATTER THEM AS THE STUBBLE THAT PASSETH AWAY,.... Because of their many sins, and continuance in them, their habits and custom of sinning, they are threatened with being carried capt...
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. Ver. 24. _Therefore I will scatter them._] This was no small aggravation of their misery, that they shoul...
_Therefore will I scatter them_ Separate them from one another, and disperse them abroad in that strange and remote country to which they are carried captive; _as the stubble_, or _chaff_, rather, _th...
18-27 Here is a message sent to king Jehoiakim, and his queen. Their sorrows would be great indeed. Do they ask, Wherefore come these things upon us? Let them know, it is for their obstinacy in sin....
The words denote a great and clear dispersion, like that of the scattering of stubble by a fierce wind....
Jeremiah 13:24 scatter H6327 (H8686) stubble H7179 away H5674 (H8802) wind H7307 wilderness H4057 will -...
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...
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...
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...
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.,...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 28:64; Deuteronomy 32:26; Deuteronomy 4:27; Ezekiel 17:21;...