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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Jeremiah 9:19

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, in a lamentation over the city's pitiful fate, but without a true repentance of the heart. How are we spoiled, laid waste by the enemy! We are greatly confounded, heaped with shame and disgrace, because we have forsaken the land, having been compelled to leave it, because our dwellings have cast us out, or, "because the enemy has driven us out. "

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See also Jeremiah 9:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HOW.! Supply _Ellip_ sis: "[saying], How is it", &c. BECAUSE. Some codices, with three early printed editions (one Rabbinic), read "yea, for", or "for indeed". OUR DWELLINGS, &C.: or, they have cast...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See summary introducing the section....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Co. considers that the _v_. is a gloss as breaking the connexion between the summons to the wailers and the words which they are bidden to use. _have forsaken_ a prophetic perfect, meaning _must fors...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. _Death throughout the land_ (Jeremiah 9:17-22) TRANSLATION (17) Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider and call for the mourning women that they might come and unto the wise women send that they mi...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. HOW ARE WE SPOILED! - the cry...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WE HAVE FORSAKEN. — Better, _we have left._ The English version suggests a voluntary abandonment, which is not involved in the Hebrew....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Jeremiah 9:18]_ כִּ֣י קֹ֥ול נְהִ֛י נִשְׁמַ֥ע מִ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we laid waste! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings (o) have cast [us] out. (o) As though they were...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Perhaps these mourning women means true weepers, and the cunning women those which were counterfeit. And the counterfeit would have found cause to change their cries into real sorrow, had they foresee...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    We have said before, that when Jeremiah addressed the people in these words, they were still in a tolerably good condition, so that the king had confidence in his own resources; and his counsellors al...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR A VOICE OF WAILING IS HEARD OUT OF ZION,.... Out of the fortress of Zion, out of the city of Jerusalem, which was thought to be inexpugnable, and could never be taken; but now a voice is heard out...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out. Ver. 19. _For a voice of waili...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-22 In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the voice of lamentation. Unhumbled hearts lament their calami...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IS HEARD OUT OF ZION, i.e. Jerusalem, spoken in the present tense, after the prophetical style, being a frequent way of the prophet's expressing the certainty of a thing. _How are we spoiled_ ! how gr...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 9:19 voice H6963 wailing H5092 heard H8085 (H8738) Zion H6726 plundered H7703 (H8795) greatly H3966 asham

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THOSE WHO ARE TRULY WISE WILL KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD AND WILL THUS UNDERSTAND WHY HE ACTS LIKE HE DOES IN BRINGING FINAL JUDGMENT ON JUDAH (JEREMIAH 9:12). The passage commences by asking who the tr...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 28:29; Ezekiel 7:16; Jeremiah 2:14; Jeremiah 4:13;...

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