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Verse Jeremiah 9:22. _AND AS THE HANDFUL AFTER THE HARVESTMAN_] The
reapers, after having cut enough to fill their hand, threw it down;
and the binders, following after, collected those handfuls, and...
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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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Speak. This shows that Jerome's Hebrew text was unpointed, for he read
d-b-r as _deber =_ pestilence, instead of _dabar =_ word, or _dabber
=_ speak.
OPEN FIELD. Some codices, with one early printed...
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See summary introducing the section....
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_Speak, Thus saith the Lord_ The words are not found in LXX and they
break the connexion....
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SPEAK, THUS, &C.— _For it shall come to pass, saith the Lord, that
the carcases,_ &c. Houb.
_AND AS THE HANDFUL AFTER THE HARVEST-MAN_— _Behind the reaper._
This alludes to the manner of reaping corn...
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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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Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as
dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and
none shall gather them.
THUS SAITH THE LORD - continuing t...
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9:22 men (a-9) The _ Adam_ ....
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1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
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SPEAK, THUS SAITH THE LORD. — The abrupt opening indicates a new
prediction, coming to him unbidden, which he is constrained to utter
as a message from Jehovah.
AS THE HANDFUL. — The reaper gathered i...
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_[Jeremiah 9:21]_ דַּבֵּ֗ר כֹּ֚ה נְאֻם
־יְהוָ֔ה וְ...
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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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CHAPTER IX.
_ Speak. Our editions of the Septuagint omit this word, though St.
Jerome found it in his copies, (Calmet) and in Theodotion, expressed
by "death;" while others rendered it, "speak," as t...
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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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Though Jeremiah continues the same subject, he yet introduces a
preface, — that he had been commanded to declare what he says here;
for on account of the strangeness of the event, the prophecy seemed...
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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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SPEAK, THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... These are the words of the Lord to
Jeremiah, to go on with his prophecy in his name; so the Targum,
"prophesy, thus saith the Lord:''
EVEN THE CARCASSES OF MEN SHALL...
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THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND...
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Speak, this being addressed to the prophet, in continuing the command
of verse 20, THUS SAITH THE LORD, EVEN THE CARCASSES OF MEN SHALL FALL
AS DUNG UPON THE OPEN FIELD, there to rot away, and as the...
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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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SPEAK, THUS SAITH THE LORD; lest they should think these things would
never be, cease not to tell them from me that they shall certainly
come to pass, viz. what was said before, and what is said now i...
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Jeremiah 9:22 Speak H1696 (H8761) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068
carcasses H5038 men H120 fall H5307 ...
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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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2 Kings 9:37; Isaiah 5:25; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 25:33; Jeremiah 7:
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As the handful — They shall be no more regarded than a few scattered
ears that drop out of the reapers hand, which either lie on the ground
and are eaten by birds, or trod to dirt by beasts. None — No...