Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 17:3
My mountain — Jerusalem stood at the foot of an hill, and part of it on the side of it, upon the top of which hills, were many pleasant fields.
My mountain — Jerusalem stood at the foot of an hill, and part of it on the side of it, upon the top of which hills, were many pleasant fields.
Verse Jeremiah 17:3. _O MY MOUNTAIN IN THE FIELD_] The prophet here addresses the _land of Judea_, which was a _mountainous_ country, Deuteronomy 3:25; but _Jerusalem_ itself may be meant, which is p...
O MY MOUNTAIN IN THE FIELD - i. e., Jerusalem or Zion, called the Rock of the Plain in Jeremiah 21:13. “The field” is the open unenclosed country, here contrasted with the privileged height of Zion....
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Judah's sin (Jeremiah 17:1) _ 2. The curse and the blessing (Jeremiah 17:5) 3. The worship of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 17:12) 4. Concerning the Sabbath ...
JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
MOUNTAIN IN THE FIELD. Figure of speech _Periphrasis_, put for Jerusalem. Compare "rock of the plain" (Jeremiah 21:13). I WILL GIVE. By Figure of speech _Hyperbaton_, these words come at the end of t...
Jeremiah 17:1. See introd. summary to section. The _vv_. are omitted in LXX, either (as St Jerome suggests) from unwillingness that the lasting condemnation here expressed should be put on permanent...
The text is difficult, and pretty certainly contains some error. Du. and Co. omit from "whilst their" to "Asherim," as a gloss, introduced to shew how indelible was Judah's guilt, to be remembered by...
See on Jeremiah 17:2 for amended reading, which is adopted by Du. and Co. The rendering in the text makes the "mountain" to apply to Jerusalem. But as a designation for the city it has a strange appea...
O MY MOUNTAIN— Houbigant, following the Vulgate, reads thus, _Thy high places are in all thy borders; I will therefore for all thy sins cause thy riches and treasures to be spoiled._ According to our...
IV. PROPHETIC SAYINGS Jeremiah 17:1-11 The first eleven verses of chapter 17 contain three independent sayings of the prophet probably from three different sermons. These sayings do not seem to have a...
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders. MY MOUNTAIN - Jerusalem, and especially Zion and...
1-4. The sin of Judah is indelible. Hence the severity of the punishment....
O MY MOUNTAIN IN THE FIELD] The hill on which Jerusalem is built rises high above the plain. On the other hand, it is lower than the surrounding mountains, hence can be spoken of as a 'valley' in Jere...
MY MOUNTAIN IN THE FIELD. — As in Jeremiah 21:13; Isaiah 2:2; Micah 4:2, a poetic phrase for Jerusalem or Zion, its greatness consisting not in its material elevation above the “field” or surrounding...
הֲרָרִי֙ בַּ † שָּׂדֶ֔ה חֵילְךָ֥ כָל ־אֹוצְרֹותֶ֖יךָ...
CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
HUMAN AND DIVINE HELP CONTRASTED Jeremiah 17:1-14 The Jews were always seeking alliance either with Egypt or Babylon. What was true of them applies to us all; but we cannot depend upon human aid, wit...
Once again Jehovah declared His determination to deal with the people in judgment, because of the defiant definiteness of their sin. That sin was "written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a d...
(e) O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance [and] all thy treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders. (e) Zion that was my mountain, will now be l...
_Sin of idolatry, chap. xv. 13._...
Observe when the Lord threatens punishment, he still speaks of his mountain and his people. Israel and Judah are still the Lord's, though chastened with the chastisement of a man. Jeremiah 31:20....
The Prophet again repeats, that punishment was nigh the Jews, and that it availed them nothing to seek for themselves recesses and lurking-places, for God would draw them forth from the mountains and...
The great thing, amidst all that was going on, was to trust in Jehovah. He who, failing in this, made flesh his arm, should not see when good came. Meantime the fire of God's anger was kindled and sho...
O MY MOUNTAIN IN THE MIDST OF THE FIELD,.... Meaning either the temple, called the mountain of the house, and of the Lord's house, Micah 3:12, or else Jerusalem, which stood on a hill in the midst of...
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance [and] all thy treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders. Ver. 3. _O my mountain in the field._] Or, O my...
_O my mountain in the field_ By this expression the prophet is thought, by many interpreters, to intend the temple, which stood on a mountain, called elsewhere, _the mountain of the Lord's house_, (Is...
THE REASON FOR JUDAH'S REJECTION...
O my mountain in the field, Jerusalem, and especially Zion and the Temple, I WILL GIVE THY SUBSTANCE AND ALL THY TREASURES TO THE SPOIL, into the possession of the enemies, AND THY HIGH PLACES FOR SIN...
1-4 The sins which men commit make little impression on their minds, yet every sin is marked in the book of God; they are all so graven upon the table of the heart, that they will all be remembered b...
O MY MOUNTAIN IN THE FIELD; O Mount Zion; for though Jerusalem stood in a plain, yet it was at the foot of a hill, and part of it was built upon the side of the hill, upon the top of which hills Were...
Jeremiah 17:3 mountain H2042 field H7704 give H5414 (H8799) plunder H957 wealth H2428 treasures H214 places H1116 si
THE DEPTHS OF JUDAH'S SIN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (JEREMIAH 17:1). The thought of what YHWH is going to do in the future brings Jeremiah back to the present to consider Judah's current state and its con...
Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond:_ It is so ingrained in their very nature that you might as well try to erase an inscription that is wr...
CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, concluded. Message in the gates concerning the Sabbath. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The heart of man, out of communion with God, is wicked and dece...
Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron._ Yea, it is deeply written on the heart, as the diamond will write on polished stones, on tablets of brass, or on the brazen altars of B...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 17:1 PEN OF IRON... POINT OF DIAMOND. These were tools for carving on stone, which is what THEIR HEART has become. BESIDE EVERY GREEN TREE,...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Jeremiah 17:1 continue the prophecy of chap. 16. A distinct break in the continuity of the book is noticeable at Jeremiah 17:19. [_Keil_ se...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah 17:1 are closely connected with the preceding chapter. We have just been pointed to the striking contrast between the conduct of the heathen and that of the backsliding men of Juda...
Chapter 17 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond (Jeremiah 17:1): Interesting that they were using diamonds for pens in those days, isn't it? Diamonds set in...
2 Kings 24:13; 2 Kings 25:13; Ezekiel 16:39; Ezekiel 6:3; Ezekie