Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 20:16
The cities — Sodom and Gomorrah; by the cry in the morning and shouting at noon, he means the shouts and noises that enemies make when they break in upon a place.
The cities — Sodom and Gomorrah; by the cry in the morning and shouting at noon, he means the shouts and noises that enemies make when they break in upon a place.
Verse Jeremiah 20:16. _AND LET HIM HEAR THE CRY_] Let him be in continual alarms....
In the rest of the chapter we have an outbreak of deep emotion, of which the first part ends in a cry of hope Jeremiah 20:13, followed nevertheless by curses upon the day of his birth. Was this the re...
CHAPTER 20 Pashur.-Jeremiah's Perplexity and Complaint _ 1. Pashur and Jeremiah (Jeremiah 20:1) _ 2. Jeremiah's great perplexity and complaint (Jeremiah 20:7) Jeremiah 20:1. A great scene now
THE PROPHET'S TROUBLES, HOPES, AND DARK DESPAIR. In passionate protest against his lot (possibly occasioned by the incident just related) Jeremiah complains that Yahweh has beguiled him into the work...
AS THE CITIES, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 19:24). CRY: of the besieged for help. Compare Exodus 32. shouting: of the besiegers for victory Jeremiah 17:18....
Jeremiah 20:7-18. The prophet bitterly complains to God of his lot The passage opens to us the depths of the prophet's soul, and we see him in intimate converse with God, and possessed now by the emo...
See summary at commencement of section. Cp. Job 3:3-12. The latter passage is even more vehement than this and also bears traces of artificiality as compared with this natural and spontaneous outburst...
_let that man, etc_.] Du. and Co. object to so much being made of the messenger, and therefore consider that for "man" we should substitute, or at any rate understand, "day" of the previous _v_. The m...
LET HIM HEAR THE CRY.—AND THE SHOUTING— _An outcry—and the alarm of war,_ &c. Houbigant reads, _Let him hear a cry in the morning, and vociferations_ or _howlings at mid-day._...
C. Curse Jeremiah 20:14-18 TRANSLATION (14) Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day on which my mother bore me, let it not be blessed! (15) Cursed is the man who brought the good news to my fa...
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. The contrast between the spirit of this passage and the preceding thanksgiving to be explained thus: to s...
1-6. Pashur's act and Jeremiah's reply....
THE CRY.. THE SHOUTING] of war and trouble. JEREMIAH'S ELEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM). PROPHECIES ILLUSTRATED FROM THE WORK OF THE POTTER Jeremiah 18 gives and explains the figure of the pott...
THE CITIES WHICH THE LORD OVERTHREW. — The verb is the same as that used in Genesis 19:29, and the reference is clearly to the “cities of the plain,” whose destruction is there described. The referenc...
וְ הָיָה֙ הָ אִ֣ישׁ הַ ה֔וּא כֶּֽ
CHAPTER XIII JEREMIAH UNDER PERSECUTION Jeremiah 20:1 THE prophet has now to endure something more than a scornful rejection of his message. "And Pashchur ben Immer the priest" (he was chief officer...
The story of the persecution which this action stirred up against him follows. Pashur heard the prophecy, and, smiting the prophet, arrested and imprisoned him. On the following day Jeremiah, being br...
And let that man be as the (i) cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noon; (i) Alluding to the destruction of Sodom and Gomor...
_Repented, is decree for the ruin of Sodom being fixed. --- Noon. This is more extraordinary than at midnight. Let him always be terrified with dismal sounds. (Calmet)_...
So great a contrast there is between the last verse of the preceding paragraph and the beginning of this, that I cannot but suppose the Prophet is not speaking these things of himself. And I the rathe...
And he adds, _Who with joy made him joyful _We see, as it is commonly said, how he mingles heaven and earth; for had it been in his power, when this frenzy possessed his mind, he would have certainly...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20. Chapter s 19 and 20 shew us the judgment of Jerusalem announced in terms that require little explanation; and we have in chapter 20 a sample of the...
AND LET THAT MAN BE AS THE CITIES WHICH THE LORD OVERTHREW,.... In his fury, as the Targum and Septuagint add. Meaning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, who were utterly destroyed, and were never reco...
And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; Ver. 16. _And let that man be._] A most bitter cur...
_Cursed be the man_, &c. As in the forms of rejoicing upon a birth-day they blessed every person and thing concerned in the birth, and said, _Blessed be the womb that bare thee_, and the like, and he...
The Prophet's Joy and Sorrow...
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee, making him very glad, for the birth of a boy was a very happy event. And let that man be as the cities which...
14-18 When grace has the victory, it is good to be ashamed of our folly, to admire the goodness of God, and be warned to guard our spirits another time. See how strong the temptation was, over which...
By THE CITIES he means those cities mentioned GENESIS 19:25, Sodom and Gomorrah; by THE CRY IN THE MORNING AND SHOUTING AT NOON, he means the shouts and noises that enemies make when they break in upo...
Jeremiah 20:16 man H376 cities H5892 LORD H3068 overthrew H2015 (H8804) relent H5162 (H8738) hear H8085 ...
JEREMIAH CURSES THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH (JEREMIAH 20:14). This passage closes off the section with a heart rending call by Jeremiah that the day of his birth be cursed, along with all who assisted in ens...
REPENTED (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 8:14)_. _...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first persecution. His complaint to God and encouragement in God. CHARACTERS: God, Pashur, Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: Those who declare the whole counsel of God may ex...
Jeremiah 20:3. _The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur,_ which signifies security or increase; _but Magormissabib,_ a terror on every side, or terrors of a captivity. Pashur believed the prophet, ye...
_An my familiars watched for my halting._ PATHETIC EXPERIENCES In these verses we have two distinct aspects of human experience. Within this brief section Jeremiah is on the hill top and in the deepe...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. With chap. 20 the first section of this book closes. Probably this was Jeremiah’s last public prophecy in Jehoiakim’s reign, and formed the...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 20:1 The continuation of the preceding narrative. PASHUR THE SON OF TRAINER. This man belonged to the sixteenth of the sacerdotal families or classes (1 Chronicles 24:14). Another...
Now Pashur (Jeremiah 20:1). And the name means "prosperity all around." Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah had prophesie...
2 Peter 2:6; Amos 1:14; Amos 2:2; Amos 4:11; Deuteronomy 29:23;...