Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 23:33
What is — The false prophets, and corrupt priests, would ordinarily mock the true prophets; and ask them what was the burden of the Lord.
What is — The false prophets, and corrupt priests, would ordinarily mock the true prophets; and ask them what was the burden of the Lord.
Verse Jeremiah 23:33. _WHAT_ IS _THE BURDEN OF THE LORD?_] The word משא _massa,_ here used, signifies _burden, oracle, prophetic discourse_; and is used by almost every prophet. But the persons in th...
BURDEN - Here a prophecy, either (1) as being something weighty: or (2) a something said aloud. Isaiah brought the word into general use: Jeremiah never used it, though his predictions were all of i...
CHAPTER 23:9-40 Condemnation of the False Prophets _ 1. Jeremiah's lament on account of the false prophets (Jeremiah 23:9) _ 2. The condemnation of these prophets (Jeremiah 23:15) 3. Forgotten and...
THE PROPHETS. Jeremiah is overcome by the stern message given him to deliver. The evil of the land is encouraged by prophet and priest (Jeremiah 6:13), even the Temple being dishonoured (2 Kings 21:5)...
WHAT BURDEN? Septuagint, Vulgate, and Rashi, read "Ye yourselves are the burden". Compare Jeremiah 23:36. FORSAKE. reject....
Jeremiah 23:9-40. Condemnation of the prophets Following on the prophecies relating to successive kings of Judah, we have a section dealing with the iniquities of a class who also grievously misled t...
_say unto them, What burden!_ mg. (less well) _tell them what the burden is_, but mg. also suggests that we read, with LXX and Vulg., _Ye are the burden_. The change requires only a different division...
See introd. summary to section. The original word means either a burden or a prophetic utterance. It would appear that those hostile to Jeremiah had taken to apply the word derisively to the prophet's...
WHAT IS THE BURDEN— See Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 13:22. As the scoffers and infidels make a derision of this term, they are forbidden to mention it any more as ambiguous; and, instead of inquiring, _What i...
4. _The mockery of the false prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:33-40) TRANSLATION (33) And when this people or the prophet or the priest shall ask you, What is the burden of the LORD? Then you shall say unto th...
And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD. WHEN...
23:33 What (a-26) Or 'Ye are the.'...
They ask jestingly of Jeremiah, What is thy latest message for us? what is the burdensome oracle of the Lord? 'Burden' was often used in this sense: cp. Nahum 1:1; Habakkuk 1:1; Zechariah 9. WHAT.. bu...
1-4. A remnant shall return....
THE BURDEN OF THE LORD. — The English expresses the literal meaning of the word, “something lifted up, or borne.” It passed, however, as the English equivalent has done, through many shades of meaning...
וְ כִי ־יִשְׁאָלְךָ֩ הָ עָ֨ם הַ זֶּ֜ה
CHAPTER VIII BAD SHEPHERDS AND FALSE PROPHETS Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 24:1 "Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!"- Jeremiah 23:1 "Of what avail is straw instead...
Having thus passed in review the predecessors of Zedekiah on the throne of Judah, the prophet proceeded to deal with those who had been responsible for the failure of the people, the false kings and p...
And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What [is] the (b) burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say to them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD. (b)...
_Burden, Massa, (Haydock) denotes a weight, or sometimes a prediction. (Calmet)_...
At the opening of this passage, we have the Lord's sentence upon them, and an awful one it is. Wormwood and gall are strong figures to set forth the awful bitterness in the close of such a life! Proph...
It appears sufficiently evident from this passage, — that the contumacy of the Jews was so great, that they sought from every quarter some excuse for their insensibility, as though they could with imp...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23. On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the Spir...
AND WHEN THIS PEOPLE, OR A PROPHET, OR A PRIEST, SHALL ASK THEE,.... Any of the people, who were grown very profane; or any of the false prophets, who encouraged them in their irreligion and impiety;...
And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD. Ver....
_When this people, or the prophet, &c., shall ask thee_, &c. “The remaining part of this chapter is directed against those who called the word of God, spoken by the true prophets, A BURDEN, by way of...
And when this people or the prophet or a priest, either the common people or one of their spiritual leaders, SHALL ASK THEE, SAYING, WHAT IS THE BURDEN OF THE LORD? according to a custom by which the...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
33-40 Those are miserable indeed who are forsaken and forgotten of God; and men's jesting at God's judgments will not baffle them. God had taken Israel to be a people near to him, but they shall now b...
The true prophets, to let the people know how little pleasing it was to them to be the messengers of God's threatenings, to denounce his judgments, usually thus began their prophecies of that nature,...
Jeremiah 23:33 people H5971 prophet H5030 priest H3548 ask H7592 (H8799) saying H559 (H8800) oracle H4853 LORD...
BOTH JEREMIAH AND THE FALSE PROPHETS ARE FORBIDDEN TO USE THE PHRASE, ‘THE BURDEN OF YHWH' (JEREMIAH 23:33). God now puts a blanket ban on speaking of a ‘burden' from YHWH. This is not just arguing ab...
JEREMIAH'S DIATRIBE AGAINST THE PROPHETS, HEADED AS ‘CONCERNING THE PROPHETS' (JEREMIAH 23:9). Having set right the vision of the future, Jeremiah now turns on those who had been distorting that visio...
CONTENTS: Future restoration and conversion of Israel. Message against the faithless shepherds. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Woe be to those who are commanded to feed God's people and preten...
Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep._ Princes are often called pastors, as Cyrus, Isaiah 44:28, because they enforce the laws and protect the people. Shallum, and...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The chapter is an epilogue to the denunciations of the three kings in chap. 22. It must have been written and proclaimed about the beginnin...
EXPOSITION The first eight verses form the necessary conclusion of the group of discourses summarized in Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 22:1. Like Isaiah, our prophet follows up denunciation with consolation...
Now in chapter 23 God speaks out against those Pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith the LORD (Jeremiah 23:1). God said, "They're My sheep, but these pastors are scattering...
2 Chronicles 15:2; Deuteronomy 31:17; Deuteronomy 31:18; Deuteronomy 32:19;...