Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 4:28
Mourn — Expressions to set forth the dreadfulness of the judgment; he makes the elements to personate mourners.
Mourn — Expressions to set forth the dreadfulness of the judgment; he makes the elements to personate mourners.
FOR ... - Because of this doom upon Judah. I HAVE PURPOSED IT - The Septuagint arrangement restores the parallelism: For I have spoken, and will not repent, I have purposed, and will not turn back...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. True repentance and what it means (Jeremiah 4:1) _ 2. The alarm sounded: judgment comes (Jeremiah 4:5) 3. The doom of the rebellious people (Jeremiah 4:14) 4. The desolation of I
THE VISION OF DESOLATION (Jeremiah 4:23) most impressively describes the Divine visitation of Judah. The earth becomes like the chaos before creation (_mg._) under a sky that has lost its lamps; the v...
I HAVE PURPOSED IT, AND, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 23:19). App-92....
Jeremiah 4:5-31. Impending judgements. National disaster This section and the two that follow it (viz. chs. 5 and 6) are somewhat later than the preceding, as presenting a more definite description o...
In vision he beholds the earth a void waste, the hills reeling at the blast of God's anger, the heavens black, all bird life fled, cities in ruins. Jehovah's resolve is an abiding one. See summary at...
_be black_ be in mourning from sympathy. The following clauses should read I HAVE SPOKEN IT AND HAVE NOT REPENTED; I HAVE PURPOSED IT, AND WILL NOT TURN BACK FROM IT. So LXX. The verbs in the Hebrew w...
3. _Inevitable judgment_ (Jeremiah 4:27-31) TRANSLATION (27) For thus says the LORD: All the land shall become a desolation; but I will not make a full end of it. (28) On account of this the land sha...
For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it. FOR THIS - on account of the de...
THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6) This section furnishes us with the g...
5-10. Destruction approaches Jerusalem....
FOR THIS SHALL THE EARTH MOURN... — As with all true poets, the face of nature seems to the prophet to sympathise with human suffering. (Comp. Amos 8:9; Matthew 24:29.)...
עַל ־זֹאת֙ תֶּאֱבַ֣ל הָ אָ֔רֶץ וְ קָדְר֥וּ
Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would under
Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in exte...
_Repented. Only a finite being can do this. God's resolution is here unconditional and fixed._...
There is somewhat uncommonly solemn and striking, when the Lord by his servants, as in many parts of scripture, calls upon the heavenly bodies, and the inanimate parts of nature, to lament by their ap...
Jeremiah proceeds here with the same subject, and still introduces God as the speaker, that what is said might produce a greater effect. _For this_, he says, _the land shall mourn_. The mourning of th...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...
FOR THIS SHALL THE EARTH MOURN,.... That is, for the full end that will be made hereafter, though not now; the earth may be said to mourn when the inhabitants of it do; or when it is destroyed, and is...
For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken [it], I have purposed [it], and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it. Ver. 28. _Because I have spoke...
_For this shall the earth mourn_, &c. More expressions to set forth the dreadfulness of the judgment: he makes the elements to personate mourners. _And the heavens above be black_ Under sad calamities...
The Desolation Following the Lord's Judgment. The prophet here, in a most dramatic manner, introduces Israel as lamenting over the calamity which has struck the nation....
For this shall the earth mourn, lamenting on account of the desolations just described, which destroyed its fruitfulness, AND THE HEAVENS ABOVE BE BLACK, wearing the garment of mourning, BECAUSE I HAV...
19-31 The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion. Compared with what it was, every thing is out of order; but the ruin of the Jew...
FOR THIS SHALL THE EARTH MOURN, AND THE HEAVENS ABOVE BE BLACK; expressions to set forth the dreadfulness of the judgment; he makes the elements to personate mourners, a sad face of things above and b...
Jeremiah 4:28 earth H776 mourn H56 (H8799) heavens H8064 above H4605 black H6937 (H8804) spoken H1696 ...
JEREMIAH'S VISION OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE INVASION (JEREMIAH 4:23). In chilling tones Jeremiah now pictures the land after its destruction, as he, as it were, looks around and sees all the devastation...
YHWH WARNS JUDAH THAT IF THEY WILL NOT REPENT FOR THEM TOO INVASION BY A FIERCE ADVERSARY IS THREATENING AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY COME BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS (JEREMIAH 4:3). If Judah will not respond to th...
REPENT (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 8:14). _...
Jeremiah 4:1. _If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The LORD l...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. Warning of the consequences of sin and exhortation to return to God. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is the evil of men's doings that kindle...
Jeremiah 4:3. _Break up your fallow ground._ Hebrews ניר _nir, novale;_ make _new_ land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12. Our old phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the word....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Chronology_ of the chapter, _Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History_ as in chap. 3. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 4:5. “_Defenced cities_....
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 4:1, JEREMIAH 4:2 The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render, _If thou wilt return_,_ O Israel_,_ saith Jehovah_,_ wilt return unto me_;_ and if thou wilt...
But if you will return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if you will put away thine abominations out of my sight, then you will no longer be [moved or] removed. And thou shalt swear, The...
1 Samuel 15:29; Ephesians 1:11; Ephesians 1:9; Ezekiel 24:14; He