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Jeremiah 14:5
Yea, the hind also calved in the field and forsook it, abandoning her offspring, although noted for her affection toward her young, because there was no grass, no green thing to sustain life.
Yea, the hind also calved in the field and forsook it, abandoning her offspring, although noted for her affection toward her young, because there was no grass, no green thing to sustain life.
II. THE PROPHET'S MINISTRY BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, THE PROPHECIES OF JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF JEREMIAH, HIS FAITHFULNESS AND HIS SUFFERING CHAPTER 14 The Great Drought...
JEREMIAH 14:1 TO JEREMIAH 15:9. THE DROUGHT IN JUDAH, AND JEREMIAH'S CONSEQUENT INTERCESSION. The date of this disaster is unknown, but some year in the latter half of Jehoiakim's reign is most probab...
YEA. For....
_the hind_ For her affection for her young cp. Proverbs 5:19, and for ancient writers" testimony to it see Bochart, _Hierozoicon_, Bk. 3 ch. 17....
CHAPTER TEN NATIONAL DISTRESS AND PROPHETIC DISCOURAGEMENT Jeremiah 14:1 to Jeremiah 17:27 Sometime during the ministry of Jeremiah a terrible drought or series of droughts (the Hebrew word is plura...
Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass. YEA, THE HIND ALSO CALVED IN THE FIELD, AND FORSOOK IT, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO GRASS - the brute creation is reduc...
1-6. Description of the drought....
YEA. — Better, _For,_ as the Hebrew is usually translated. What follows gives the reason of the terror which has come upon the people. Each region has its representative instance of misery. The hind o...
כִּ֤י גַם ־אַיֶּ֨לֶת֙ בַּ † שָּׂדֶ֔ה יָלְדָ֖ה...
CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
We now come to the second division of the Book, that containing the account of the prophet's ministry. This falls into three sections: prophecies before the fall of Jerusalem (14-39), prophecies after...
Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook (d) [it], because there was no grass. (d) Meaning, that the brute beasts for drought were compelled to forsake their young, contrary to nature, and...
_Field. They prefer places frequented by men. (Pliny, [Natural History?] viii. 32.)_...
We have here an account of the famine, which by the parallel history took place in the reign of Jehoiakim; probably just before the captivity. Jeremiah had mourned for the good king Josiah; see 2 Chro...
Jeremiah now comes to animals: he said before, that men would be visited with thirst, and then that the ground would become dry, so theft husbandmen would be ashamed; he now says that the wild asses a...
Chapter 14 refers to a famine which took place in the land. The desolation of Jerusalem by the sword and by famine is again declared. But observe here the touching intercession of Jeremiah 14:7-9; and...
YEA, THE HIND ALSO CALVED IN THE FIELD,.... Or brought forth her young in the field; of which see Job 39:1, and which they sometimes did through fear, particularly when frightened with thunder and lig...
Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass. Ver. 5. _Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it._] The loving hind; Pro 5:19 _Alioqui studiosa su...
_And their nobles_, &c. This scarcity of water afflicted not poor persons only, who had not such means of supplying their necessities as the rich; but the greatest among them, who sent _their little o...
1-9 The people were in tears. But it was rather the cry of their trouble, and of their sin, than of their prayer. Let us be thankful for the mercy of water, that we may not be taught to value it by f...
Hinds use not to get their food in fields, but upon the mountains and in wildernesses; but the drought was such, that these wild creatures came into the lower grounds, nearer the habitations of men th...
Jeremiah 14:5 deer H365 birth H3205 (H8804) field H7704 left H5800 (H8800) grass H1877...
THE DEPTHS OF THE SERIES OF DROUGHTS (JEREMIAH 14:1). The plural for ‘droughts' suggests that there had been a series of droughts, probably over a number of years. Such droughts did occur in Canaan fr...
THE LESSON OF THE GREAT DROUGHTS (JEREMIAH 14:1). As a preliminary warning of what is coming YHWH sends a great drought on Judah with the result that the cisterns are empty, the springs are dry, the p...
In some respects, Jeremiah is one of the greatest of the ancient prophets, for he had most sorrowful task to perform. He had not to deliver a message full of Evangelical comfort, like that of Isaiah;...
CONTENTS: Message on the drought. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Man's sins bring those judgments upon the earth which make even the inferior creatures to groan. There will come a time when...
Jeremiah 14:3. _They found no water._ The latter rain had been denied, as in Jeremiah 3:3; and as Moses had foretold. Deuteronomy 11:17;...
_They came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads._ THE DROUGHT OF NATURE, THE RAIN OF GRACE, AND THE LESSO...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY of the Chapter. This and chapter 15 form one prophecy (although Lange, Keil, and others connect Chapter s 14 to 17, regarding them as interwoven and synchr...
EXPOSITION This chapter must be read in connection with the following one. They describe chiefly Jeremiah's twofold attempt at intercession (see verses 7-9 and 19-22)—a tender and appealing attempt in...
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the deaRuth (Jeremiah 14:1). For a drought filled the land. Judah mourns, and the gates languish; they are black upon the ground; and the cry of...
Job 39:1; Psalms 29:9...
The hind — Hinds use not to get their food in fields, but upon mountains and in wildernesses, but the drought was such, that these creatures came into the lower grounds, and there brought forth their...