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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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See summary introducing the section....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
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WE HAVE FORSAKEN. — Better, _we have left._ The English version
suggests a voluntary abandonment, which is not involved in the Hebrew....
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_[Jeremiah 9:18]_ כִּ֣י קֹ֥ול נְהִ֛י
נִשְׁמַ֥ע מִ...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND...
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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 CONF...
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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...
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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...
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Jeremiah 9:19 voice H6963 wailing H5092 heard H8085 (H8738) Zion H6726
plundered H7703 (H8795) greatly H3966 asham
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 28:29; Ezekiel 7:16; Jeremiah 2:14; Jeremiah 4:13;...