(And) I will make Jerusalem heaps, a shapeless ruin, and a den of dragons, or jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant, the standing expression for the very height of desolation. The application of the prophet now follows.
Verse Jeremiah 9:11. _A DEN OF DRAGONS_] תנים _tannim_ is supposed to mean here _jackals_; the _chakal_ is a beast frequent in the east, an attendant on the lion, the refuse of whose prey he devours....
The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length. Jeremiah 9:10 THE HABITATIONS I. E - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see Jeremiah...
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...
WILL MAKE JERUSALEM HEAPS. About twenty years later this was fulfilled. The city was left in ruins, and for. period of seventy years was not inhabited. A DEN OF DRAGONS. Supposed to be jackals,. be...
DRAGONS. jackals....
See introd. summary to the section....
_jackals_ mentioned again chs. Jeremiah 10:22 [Jeremiah 14:6], Jeremiah 49:33 [Jeremiah 51:37]....
B. Impending Destruction Jeremiah 9:9-21 Because of the national corruption, destruction is necessary and imminent. The land will become desolate (Jeremiah 9:9-15) and death will reign supreme through...
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. AND - omit And. Yahweh here resumes His speech from . HEAPS - (remark,...
1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
DRAGONS] RV 'jackals'; so in Jeremiah 49:33....
A DEN OF DRAGONS. — Better, here and in Jeremiah 10:22; Isaiah 13:22, _jackals._ The word means, literally, _a howler._ The English version follows the LXX. and Vulgate versions; but even taking “drag...
_[Jeremiah 9:10]_ וְ נָתַתִּ֧י אֶת ־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֛ם לְ...
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...
_Sand. The stones were burnt to dust, 2 Esdras iv. 2. (Calmet)_...
It is blessed to remark, that in all the Lord's chastisements, he hath one uniform object in view for their reform. All his dispensations are to bring his people back to himself. Hence the wise among...
The Prophet comes now toJerusalem and the neighhouring cities. He said before, that ruin would reach the mountains and the farthest recesses; but he says now, _I will turn Jerusalem into heaps _This s...
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...
AND I WILL MAKE JERUSALEM HEAPS,.... That is, the walls and houses of it shall be thrown down, and become heaps of stones and rubbish: AND A DEN OF DRAGONS; only inhabited by wild beasts: AND I WILL...
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Ver. 11. _And I will make Jerusalem heaps._] So small a distance is there...
_For the mountains will I take up a weeping_ “These words,” says Houbigant, “as they now lie, must belong either to Jeremiah or the daughter of Zion; and yet it follows in the next verse, _And I will...
DESOLATE: _ Heb._ desolation...
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...
HEAPS, viz. of stones and rubbish. A DEN OF DRAGONS; noting a desolate place, not any longer fit for fine habitation of mankind, as the next words do speak; but for hideous beasts; as they had made us...
Jeremiah 9:11 make H5414 (H8804) Jerusalem H3389 ruins H1530 den H4583 jackals H8577 make H5414 (H8799) cities...
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...
Isaiah 13:22; Isaiah 25:2; Isaiah 34:13; Isaiah 44:26; Jeremiah 10:22