Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Jeremiah 30:5
F or thus saith the Lord, We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace, or, "A cry of terror have we heard: fear and no deliverance. "
F or thus saith the Lord, We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace, or, "A cry of terror have we heard: fear and no deliverance. "
Verse Jeremiah 30:5. _WE HAVE HEARD A VOICE OF TREMBLING_] This may refer to the state and feelings of the people during the war which Cyrus carried on against the Babylonians. _Trembling_ and _terro...
Better, as in the margin. The prophet places his hearers in the center of Babylon, and describes it as convulsed with terror as the armies of Cyrus draw near. The voice of trembling is the war-cry of...
THE GLORIOUS FUTURE OF THE NATION (30-31) CHAPTER 30 _ 1. The time of Jacob's trouble (Jeremiah 30:1) _ 2. Zion's desperate condition and the promise of deliverance (Jeremiah 30:12) 3. Restoration...
Description of the people's terror (Jeremiah 30:5 _mg._) at the Day of Yahweh (Amos 5:18); but this Day shall bring deliverance from the (heathen) yoke (Jeremiah 30:8), and Israel shall have (religiou...
_We have heard … of peace_ Jehovah is quoting the words of consternation which He hears the people uttering; but more probably the words "Thus saith the Lord" are the insertion of a scribe, and it is...
See introd. note to section. For a parallel in the character of the description in Jeremiah 30:5, Dr. compares Isaiah 13:6-15 (the overthrow of Babylon) followed by Isaiah 14:1 f. (the deliverance of...
I. THE PROMISE OF RESTORATION Jeremiah 30:4-24 In Chapter 30 the focus is upon the promise of restoration to the homeland. Running throughout the chapter are four points of emphasis: (1) The yoke is...
For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. WE HAVE HEARD A VOICE OF TREMBLING. God introduces the Jews speaking that which they will be reduced to at la...
1-9. When the gloom is deepest, deliverance shall come....
OF FEAR, AND NOT OF PEACE] RM 'There is fear and no peace,' and the present circumstances are evil. There is nothing but fear and terror in the hearts and on the faces of men....
THUS SAITH THE LORD; WE HAVE HEARD A VOICE OF TREMBLING... — There is a strange mingling of the divine and human elements in these words. The prophet speaks with the sense that the words are not his o...
כִּי ־כֹה֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה קֹ֥ול חֲרָדָ֖ה שָׁמ
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
Following this action of the prophet a word of Jehovah came to him which he was especially commanded to write in a book. In a remarkable way it first set forth two things side by side. The first and f...
For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a (b) voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. (b) He shows that before this deliverance will come, the Chaldeans would be extremely afflicted by their en...
_We. Jeremias is ordered to express the alarms of the captives, at the news of the destruction of Jerusalem, or rather of the Chaldean empire, by Cyrus. They were naturally afraid that they would also...
I do not presume to decide, but I would humbly propose a subject of enquiry, and in answer to this question, whether a man doth travail with child, I would say, is not the miraculous conception and in...
Now he says, _Thus saith Jehovah, A cry, _or, _the voice of trembling_, or _of fear_, _have we heard. _The word חרדה, _cherede, _is thought to mean properly that dread which makes the whole body to tr...
THE DAY OF JACOB'S TROUBLE: PROMISED DELIVERANCE AND SURE JUDGMENT Some details of the circumstances that accompany its exercise deserve our attention, as well as the character which God displays in i...
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... Yet what follows are the words of others; wherefore some supply it, "for thus saith the Lord, the nations shall say" p; so Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it as what the G...
For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ver. 5. _We have heard a voice of trembling._] We were at first in a pitiful plight, _scil., _ when the city wa...
_And these are the words that the Lord spake_ And which God ordered to be written: and those promises, which were written by his order, are as truly his word as the ten commandments, which were writte...
OF FEAR, AND NOT OF PEACE: Or, there is fear, and not peace...
1-11 Jeremiah is to write what God had spoken to him. The very words are such as the Holy Ghost teaches. These are the words God ordered to be written; and promises written by his order, are truly hi...
God here speaketh, but whether personating other nations or the Jewish nation is not agreed, nor yet whether this text refers to the times of the Messiah, when the nations should tremble, or the time...
Jeremiah 30:5 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 heard H8085 (H8804) voice H6963 trembling H2731 fear H6343 peace...
THE DARK DAYS ABOUT TO COME ON JUDAH, AND ALREADY BEING EXPERIENCED BY MANY FROM BOTH JUDAH AND ISRAEL IN EXILE, ARE VIVIDLY PORTRAYED (JEREMIAH 30:4). Jeremiah 30:4 ‘And these are the words that YH...
PART 1). ANGUISH AND RESTORATION (JEREMIAH 30:1 TO JEREMIAH 31:40). Part 1 is divided up into two Sub-parts (A and B) by the introductory words, ‘thus says YHWH (of hosts), the God of Israel' (Jeremia...
SECTION 2 (JEREMIAH 26:1 TO JEREMIAH 45:5). (CONTINUED). As we have seen this Section of Jeremiah from Jeremiah 26:1 to Jeremiah 45:5 di
Jeremiah 30:12. _For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous._ See here is the bass again. We have got down into the sorrowful notes all to make us sick of self and re...
Jeremiah 30:1. _The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book._ We believe in ver...
Jeremiah 30:1. _The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book._ Too good to be lo...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first writing. Summary of Israel in the coming great tribulation. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Israel, after many years of wandering among all nations, is to be finall...
Jeremiah 30:6. _Ask ye now whether a man doth travail with child._ The anguish of a people once lords in Judea, now servants in Babylon, was great. But they were happier weeping there than worshipping...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 30:1 Restoration for Judah and Israel. The book now turns to positive themes. At last Jeremiah may “build and plant” (Jeremiah 1:10). He cl
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—Though without a date, yet the probability is that it was “_written in a book_” (see Jeremiah 30:2) in the tenth year of Zedekiah; and that th...
EXPOSITION This and the three next chapters form a kind of book in themselves, which contrasts admirably with Jermiah 27-29. In the latter Jeremiah aimed at casting down the delusive hope that the tim...
Now as we get into chapter 30, we enter into the future in these next four Chapter s. And this is now writing of the Great Tribulation period which is yet future. This is writing about this period of...
Amos 5:16; Amos 8:10; Isaiah 5:30; Isaiah 59:11; Jeremiah 25:36;...