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Verse Jeremiah 2:31. _HAVE I BEEN A WILDERNESS UNTO ISRAEL?_] Have I
ever withheld from you any of the blessings necessary for your
support?
_A LAND OF DARKNESS_] Have you, since you passed through...
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Or, “O generation” that ye are! An exclamation Of indignation at
their hardened resistance to God.
A LAND OF DARKNESS - This word is written in Hebrew with two accents,
as being a compound, signifyin...
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CHAPTER S 2:1-3:5
Expostulation and Impeachment
_ 1. His love and kindness to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:1) _
2. The unfaithful people (Jeremiah 2:4)
3. The two evils and the results (Jeremiah 2:12)...
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THE DESERVED PUNISHMENT. Israel's sorrows are well deserved, for
Yahweh's love has been forgotten. In spite of wrong-doing, there is no
penitence for sin. The help of Egypt will be as futile as that o...
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GENERATION. Once. chosen generation (Psalms 22:30; Psalms 24:6; Psalms
112:2.Isaiah 53:8;...
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Israel's disregard of Jehovah's past favours
31. _O generation, see ye_ O GENERATION THAT YE ARE, SEE.
_a wilderness_ Have I been like a place where ye lacked sustenance?
Not so. Cp. Hosea 2:8.
_thi...
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DISCOURSE: 1031
GOD’S COMPLAINT AGAINST THE REBELLIOUS
Jeremiah 2:31. _O generation, see ye the word of the Lord; Have I been
a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? Wherefore say my people,
We...
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E. Pungent Argument Jeremiah 2:29-37
TRANSLATION
(29) Why do you continue to complain to Me? All of you have
transgressed against Me (oracle of the LORD). (30) In vain I have
smitten your sons; they...
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O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness
unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are
lords; we will come no more unto thee?
O GENERATION - The Hebre...
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JEREMIAH'S SECOND PROPHECY (2:1-3:5)
The prophet expostulates with Israel because of their unfaithfulness
to Jehovah.
1-13. Under the figure of the marriage relation Jehovah reminds the
people of Hi...
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A WILDERNESS] i.e. fruitless, useless. WE ARE LORDS] RV'we are broken
loose'; we are our own masters....
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O GENERATION, SEE YE. — The pronoun occupies a different position in
the Hebrew, “_O generation, you, I mean, see ye.”_ The prophet
speaks to the men who are actually his contemporaries. _They_ are to...
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הַ דֹּ֗ור אַתֶּם֙ רְא֣וּ דְבַר
־יְהוָ֔ה הֲ
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CHAPTER II
THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT
Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1
THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon
which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menace...
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The first movement in commissioning the called man now commences. He
was commanded to utter a great impeachment in the ears of Jerusalem.
This impeachment was threefold. It first declared how Israel h...
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O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a (s)
wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why say my people, We are
lords; (t) we will come no more to thee?
(s) Have I not given them abu...
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_See, or hear. The sword seems to be animated. (Calmet) --- Lateward.
Hebrew, "darksome land." Have I not heaped blessings on my people? ---
Revolted. Protestants, "Lords." (Haydock)_...
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Never surely, was there afforded a more lively instance of the
gracious purpose of God's unalterable love to his people, than what
this Chapter affords, from beginning to end. The Lord sends the
Proph...
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The prophet assumes the character, no doubt, of one in astonishment,
that he might render the sin of the people more detestable: for he
speaks as one astonished, _generation! _The word, דור, _dur; _as...
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Chapter 2 contains a most touching appeal to the people at Jerusalem.
It requires no explanation, but deserves the heart's serious
attention. It testifies in the most striking manner to the kindness
a...
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O GENERATION, SEE YE THE WORD OF THE LORD,.... Take notice of it,
consider it; or, hear it, as the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic
versions. Jarchi and Kimchi think i the pot of manna was brought out,...
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O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness
unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are
lords; we will come no more unto thee?
Ver. 31. _O generation, see...
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_O generation_ O wicked generation; _see ye the word of the Lord_
Consider what I say to you from the mouth of God. _Have I been a
wilderness unto Israel?_ Have ye not been plentifully provided for by...
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THE GUILT ESTABLISHED...
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O generation! Children of perverseness now living! SEE YE THE WORD OF
THE LORD, which is hereby brought before them with the demand that
they regard it. HAVE I BEEN A WILDERNESS UNTO ISRAEL, where all...
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WE ARE LORDS:
_ Heb._ we have dominion...
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29-37 The nation had not been wrought upon by the judgements of God,
but sought to justify themselves. The world is, to those who make it
their home and their portion, a wilderness and a land of dark...
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O GENERATION; or, O ye men of this generation, a note of admiration;
or rather, O generation, a note of compellation: it is to you I speak,
SEE YE THE WORD OF THE LORD, i.e. look well to it, consider...
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Jeremiah 2:31 generation H1755 see H7200 (H8798) word H1697 LORD H3068
wilderness H4057 Israel H3478 land H776 dark
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YHWH CHALLENGES HIS PEOPLE TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE BEHAVING AS THEY
ARE (JEREMIAH 2:29).
YHWH now asks them why they are troubling Him with arguments in their
favour when all they had previously done...
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Jeremiah 2:20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy
bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high
hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the har...
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CONTENTS: First message to backslidden Judah concerning their
ingratitude to God and wickedness against Him.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: It is a great affront to God to neglect Him and for...
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Jeremiah 2:2. _I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth._ God now
addressed them, that he might do the same to the children as he had
done to the fathers, and rejoice over them as the bridegroom rej...
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_Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?_
DIVINE QUESTIONS
The people were required to answer two questions: “Have I been a
wilderness unto Israel? have I been a land of darkness unto Israel?”
Speak ou...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY. Most probably in
thirteenth Josiah, quickly after his call. Dr. Dahler (Stratsbourg)
would interpose Chapter s 4, 5, 6; deferring this chapter till after...
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EXPOSITION
The second chapter forms the introduction of a group of discourses
(Jeremiah 2-6), which should be read together. It is called By Ewald
(and the position of the prophecy favors this view) t...
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Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the
ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD (Jeremiah 2:1-2);
Now this is the first message that he has to deliver. As God is
cal...
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1 Corinthians 4:8; 2 Chronicles 31:10; 2 Samuel 12:7; Amos 1:1;...