Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 2:37
Yea — All the help thou canst procure shall not prevent thy captivity, but from hence thou shalt go. Thy hands — An usual posture of mourning.
Yea — All the help thou canst procure shall not prevent thy captivity, but from hence thou shalt go. Thy hands — An usual posture of mourning.
Verse Jeremiah 2:37. _THOU SHALT GO FORTH FROM HIM, AND THINE HANDS UPON_ _THINE HEAD_] Thou shalt find all thy confidence in vain, - thy hope disappointed; - and thy state reduced to desperation. _T...
FROM HIM - From it, from this Egypt, which though fem. as a land, yet as a people may be used as a masc. (compare Jeremiah 46:8). Now that Nineveh is trembling before the armies of Cyaxares and Nabopa...
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)...
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...
THINE HANDS UPON THINE HEAD. The Eastern custom of expressing grief. Compare 2 Samuel 13:19....
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...
_From him also shalt thou go forth_ The king of Egypt shall repulse thy advances, and thou shalt return mourning. _thine hands upon thine head_ in disgrace and disappointment; cp. 2 Samuel 13:19. _t...
THINE HANDS UPON THINE HEAD— As _Tamar_ went forth from her brother Amnon, _her garments torn, and her hands upon her head;_ insulted and despised, and in the deepest grief and misery. REFLECTIONS.—1s...
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...
Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them. HIM - Egypt. HANDS UPON THINE HEAD - expressiv...
2:37 in, (b-21) Lit. 'thy confidences.'...
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...
THINE HANDS UPON THINE HEAD] clasped in disgrace. JEREMIAH 3:1. THAT LAND] an allusion to the law (Deuteronomy 24:1) that under such circumstances the reunion of husband and wife would pollute the la...
FROM HIM. — Better, _from it, sc.,_ from Egypt as a people. THINE HANDS UPON THINE HEAD. — The outward sign of depression and despair (2 Samuel 13:19). THY CONFIDENCES. — _i.e.,_ the grounds or obje...
גַּ֣ם מֵ אֵ֥ת זֶה֙ תֵּֽצְאִ֔י וְ יָדַ֖יִךְ
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...
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...
Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thy hands upon (z) thy head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them. (z) In sign of lamentation, as in (2 Samuel 13:19)....
_Head, like the violated Thamar, 2 Kings xiii. 19. The king of Egypt was routed, when coming to assist Sedecias, chap. xxxvii. 3, 10. (Calmet)_...
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...
REFLECTIONS PAUSE my soul over the Prophet's sermon, and remark how graciously the Lord pleads with his people for their good; how reluctant the Lord seemeth to give them up, and with what gentle exp...
He expresses more clearly what he had said of the shameful character of his own nation, — that the Jews, who thought that their safety would be secured by the Egyptians, were seeking their own entire...
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...
YEA, THOU SHALT GO FORTH FROM HIM,.... From the Egyptian, without any help, and with shame; or, "from this" u; that is, from this place, from Jerusalem, and from the land of Judea, into captivity; not...
Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them. Ver. 37. _Yea, thou shalt go from him._] Or, From h...
_Yea, thou shalt go forth from him_ The ambassadors thou sendest to Egypt shall return with disappointment and confusion; _and their hands on their heads_ Condoling the desperate condition of their pe...
THE GUILT ESTABLISHED...
Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, from all heathen allies, AND THINE HANDS UPON THINE HEAD, as a sign of deep mourning; FOR THE LORD HATH REJECTED THY CONFIDENCES, the heathen nations in whom Israel...
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...
THOU SHALT GO FORTH FROM HIM: some apply it to the sad and ineffectual return of the ambassadors, being disappointed in their expectation from the king of Egypt; but rather, All the help thou canst pr...
Jeremiah 2:37 forth H3318 (H8799) hands H3027 head H7218 LORD H3068 rejected H3988 (H8804) allies H4009 prosper...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_Thou sayest, I have not sinned._ OBSTINATE IMPENITENCE 1. Blind to its own guilt. 2. Blasphemes God by accusing Him of unjust anger. 3. Will not escape just punishment. (_Naegelsbach._) DENIAL O...
_The Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them._ THE DANGER OF FALSE CONFIDENCES In the state and conduct of Judah we have a picture of the state and conduct of the world...
_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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 2:36 Israel changes her political course of action (v. Jeremiah 2:18) very easily, but whoever she chooses (whether EGYPT or...
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...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 13:12; 2 Samuel 13:19; Ezekiel 17:15; Isaiah 10:4;...