Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 18:16
Desolate — Not that this was the end they aimed at, but it was the end these courses would certainly issue in.
Desolate — Not that this was the end they aimed at, but it was the end these courses would certainly issue in.
Verse Jeremiah 18:16. _A PERPETUAL HISSING_] שריקות _sherikoth_, a _shrieking,_ _hissing_; an expression of contempt....
HISSING - Not derision, but the drawing in of the breath quickly as men do when they shudder. WAY HIS HEAD - Or, “shake his head,” a sign among the Jews not of scorn but of pity. The desolation of th...
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
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...
HISSING. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), for the contempt felt....
E. The Devastation of the Land Jeremiah 18:16-17 TRANSLATION (16) The result of this is that they will make their land a desolation, an object of everlasting derision. Everyone who passes by it shall...
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. TO MAKE THEIR LAND DESOLATE, AND A PERPETUAL HISSING - which the Lord for...
18:16 astonishment, (c-6) Or 'a desolation.'...
1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
HISSING] not in contempt, but amazement....
DESOLATE... ASTONISHED. — Better, _desolate_ in both clauses. The Hebrew verb is the same, and there is a manifest emphasis in the repetition which it is better to reproduce in English. A PERPETUAL H...
לָ שׂ֥וּם אַרְצָ֛ם לְ שַׁמָּ֖ה _שְׁרִיקֹ֣ת_† עֹולָ֑ם
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...
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...
_Head, through contempt (Calmet) and pity, Lamentations ii. 15._...
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...
The Prophet again denounces the punishment which they deserved, that desolation awaited the land. It would be, he says, their reward to have the land reduced to a solitude, and also to _perpetual hiss...
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...
TO MAKE THEIR LAND DESOLATE,.... Not that this was the intention either of those that led them out of the right way into those wrong paths, or of them that went into them; but so it was eventually; th...
To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. Ver. 16. _To make their land desolate._] Not intentionally so; but yet ev...
_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...
THE PARABLE FURTHER APPLIED...
to make their land desolate and a perpetual hissing, an object of eternal derision and loathing; EVERY ONE THAT PASSETH THEREBY, taking note of the desolation which had come upon the former rich land,...
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...
Not that this was _finis operantis_, their end which they aimed at, none wisheth ill or doth any thing designedly to bring evil upon himself; but it was _finis operis_ the end these courses would cert...
Jeremiah 18:16 make H7760 (H8800) land H776 desolate H8047 perpetual H5769 hissing H8292 (H8675) H8292 passes...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Kings 9:8; 2 Chronicles 7:20; 2 Chronicles 7:21; Deuteronomy 28:59;...