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BECAUSE - “For.” Jeremiah returns to, and continues the words of,
Jeremiah 18:13.
VANITY - A word meaning “falsehood,” which signifies that the
worship of idols is not merely useless but injurious.
T...
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CHAPTER 18
The Potter and the Clay
_ 1. In the potter's house and the message (Jeremiah 18:1) _
2. The plot against the prophet and his prayer (Jeremiah 18:18)
Jeremiah 18:1. He was comm
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THE POTTER AND THE CLAY. The potter (Jeremiah 18:1) moulding his clay
on the upper stone, which he makes revolve by his feet resting on the
connected lower stone, is compared with Yahweh in His contro...
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FORGOTTEN. Showing that the emphasis is on the leaving and forsaking
of Jeremiah 18:14.
VANITY. Used of idols. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject)....
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_For_ This continues the thought of the 13th _v_., Jeremiah 18:14
being parenthetic.
_vanity_ lit. _unreality_, meaning idols, but a different word from
that used in Jeremiah 2:5, where see notes. Her...
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TO VANITY, AND THEY HAVE CAUSED THEM, &C.— _To idols, which have
caused them,_ &c.]...
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D. The Accusation Against the Nation Jeremiah 18:13-15
TRANSLATION
(13) Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask now among the nations who has
heard such things. An exceedingly horrible thing has the virgin...
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Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to
vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the
ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
BECAUSE...
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1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
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VANITY] i.e. idols....
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VANITY. — The word is not that commonly so translated (as in
Jeremiah 2:5; Jeremiah 10:8; Ecclesiastes 1:2, _et al., q. 5_)_,_ but
that which had been used of idols in...
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כִּֽי ־שְׁכֵחֻ֥נִי עַמִּ֖י לַ †
שָּׁ֣וְא יְקַטֵּ֑רוּ...
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CHAPTER XI
THE DIVINE POTTER
Jeremiah 18:1
JEREMIAH goes down into the Lower Town, or the valley between the
upper and lower city; and there his attention is arrested by a potter
sitting at work bef...
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We now come to the second series of messages before the fall of
Jerusalem (18-20), which consists of declarations of God's absolute
supremacy. In preparation for this, Jeremiah was sent to the house o...
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Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to
vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the
(e) ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;
(e)...
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_Ancient; followed by the patriarchs, chap. vi. 16._...
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What a striking expostulation is in the opening of these verses? The
Lord sends his people to ask of the heathen, among whom it was never
known, of such apostasy from their dunghill gods, as Israel ma...
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We now perceive the meaning of this passage. It is doubtless natural
for all to be satisfied with present blessings, especially when
nothing better can anywhere else be found. When one has a fountain...
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In chapter 18 this principle is fully demonstrated before the people
(Jeremiah 18:1-10). But the people in despair as to God, in the midst
of their boldness in evil and in contempt of His marvellous p...
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BECAUSE MY PEOPLE HATH FORGOTTEN ME,.... Or, "that they have forgotten
me" z; this is the horrible thing they have done, which was unheard of
among the Gentiles, who were always tenacious of their god...
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_Because my people have forgotten me The fountain of living waters;_
have forgotten what I am in myself, and what I have been, and am still
ready to be to them; have lost their knowledge of me, and th...
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THE PARABLE FURTHER APPLIED...
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Because My people hath forgotten Me, they have burned incense to
vanity, to the idols, which are nothing in the sight of God, AND THEY
HAVE CAUSED THEM TO STUMBLE IN THEIR WAYS FROM THE ANCIENT PATHS,...
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11-17 Sinners call it liberty to live at large; whereas for a man to
be a slave to his lusts, is the very worst slavery. They forsook God
for idols. When men are parched with heat, and meet with cool...
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FORGOTTEN and _forsaken_ are much the same thing, differing only as
the cause and the effect; for if men remembered God as they ought to
do, they would not forsake him. By VANITY he means idols; which...
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Jeremiah 18:15 people H5971 forgotten H7911 (H8804) incense H6999
(H8762) idols H7723 stumble H3782 (H8686) way
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BECAUSE OF THEIR REFUSAL TO RESPOND TO HIS ‘SHAPING' HE WILL NOW
‘SHAPE' EVIL AGAINST THEM UNLESS THEY NOW REPENT. HIS OFFER BEING
TURNED DOWN GOD CALLS ON THE NATIONS TO BE ASTONISHED WITNESSES OF
TH...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the potter's house. Declaration of God's ways of
dealing with nations. Jeremiah's complaint.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Jehovah has incontestable and irresistible abili...
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Jeremiah 18:6. _As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my
hand._ The sense is given in the next words; the exaltation, or the
degradation of a nation, is wholly with the Lord. If they, unde...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 18:14 DOES THE SNOW OF LEBANON LEAVE... DO
THE MOUNTAIN WATERS RUN DRY? Both questions expect a negative answer.
In contrast, Judah has done the unnatural thing and deserted...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early
in Jehoiakim’s reign (See _Chronological Note_ on Section 19–27 of
previous chapter). Probably about two years later than that messag...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending
to Jeremiah 25:1.) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not
been determined by chronological considerations. T...
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Now in chapter 18:
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go
down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my
words. Then I went down to the potter's house...
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Hosea 11:2; Hosea 2:13; Isaiah 3:12; Isaiah 41:29; Isaiah 57:14;...
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Vanity — Idols. Ancient paths — The ways wherein Noah, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, and all the ancient patriarchs walked. To walk —
In a way not cast up, not fit for God's people to walk in....