Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 9:12
Who is — Is there not a wise man among you, that will search into the cause of all these threatened judgments.
Who is — Is there not a wise man among you, that will search into the cause of all these threatened judgments.
Verse Jeremiah 9:12. _WHO_ IS _THE WISE MAN_] To whom has God revealed these things? He is the truly wise man. But it is to his prophet alone that God has revealed these things, and the speedy fulfilm...
The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length. Jeremiah 9:10 THE HABITATIONS I. E - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see Jeremiah...
CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The prophet's complaint and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 9:1) _ 2. The cause of desolation and destruction (Jeremiah 9:10) 3. The call for the mourning and wailing women (Jeremiah 9:17...
FAITHLESSNESS AND ITS RETRIBUTION: THE DIRGE OF DEATH. The humblest caravanserai would be preferable to life among these evil men, with their calumnies and the unfaithful use of power by those in auth...
WHO IS THE WISE MAN? The one to whom the Lord hath revealed this impending calamity and who prepares for it....
WHO... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ WHO... ? The Ellipsis is thus correctly supplied....
See introd. summary to the section....
Du. and Gi. consider this passage to be condemned by prosaic wording and the vagueness or absence of metre. Co. thinks it to contain Jeremianic elements, worked up later. It certainly forms a remarkab...
_Who is the wise man_ meaning that there are none such found, with a hint at the would-be wise, the false prophets. Cp. Hosea 14:9, where however there is no suggestion of sarcasm....
B. Impending Destruction Jeremiah 9:9-21 Because of the national corruption, destruction is necessary and imminent. The land will become desolate (Jeremiah 9:9-15) and death will reign supreme through...
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that no...
1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
FOR WHAT, etc.] rather (with RV), a new question, 'Wherefore is?' etc. Why this heavy chastisement?...
WHO IS THE WISE MAN...? — Sage (comp. Jeremiah 8:9) and prophet are alike called on to state why the misery of which Jeremiah speaks is to come upon the people. But they are asked in vain, and Jehovah...
_[Jeremiah 9:11]_ מִֽי ־הָ אִ֤ישׁ הֶֽ חָכָם֙...
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
NATIONAL PERVERSITY Jeremiah 9:1-16 Jeremiah 9:1-6 Once the voice of joy and thanksgiving had been heard in Jerusalem, but now on every side there was bloodshed, and the patriot-prophet could only w...
In answer to his own question, Jeremiah sighed for some adequate means of expressing the anguish of his heart, and then for escape to some lonely place in the wilderness. All this was in the nature of...
Who [is] the (k) wise man, that may understand this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up like a wilderness...
It is blessed to remark, that in all the Lord's chastisements, he hath one uniform object in view for their reform. All his dispensations are to bring his people back to himself. Hence the wise among...
Here the Prophet reproves more sharply the insensibility of the people, because none attended to the judgments of God; for though they were apparent, no one considered them. The question arose from as...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
WHO IS THE WISE MAN THAT MAY UNDERSTAND THIS?.... Not the calamity, but the cause of it; a man of wisdom would inquire into it, find it out, and understand it; but the intimation is, that there was no...
Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up like a wilderness, th...
_Who is the wise man_ Or, _Is there not a wise man, who understands this?_ Is there none of you so well acquainted with the will of God and the methods of his providence, as to be able to declare the...
Who is the wise man that may understand this? Who will heed and apply this lesson, this warning, in a proper manner? AND WHO IS HE TO WHOM THE MOUTH OF THE LORD HATH SPOKEN THAT HE MAY DECLARE IT, exp...
THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND...
12-22 In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the voice of lamentation. Unhumbled hearts lament their calami...
WHO IS THE WISE MAN, THAT MAY UNDERSTAND THIS, viz. the ground of all these evils? q.d. Is there not a wise man among you, that will concern himself and search into the cause of all these threatened j...
Jeremiah 9:12 wise H2450 man H376 understand H995 (H8799) mouth H6310 LORD H3068 spoken H1696 (H8765) declare...
THOSE WHO ARE TRULY WISE WILL KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD AND WILL THUS UNDERSTAND WHY HE ACTS LIKE HE DOES IN BRINGING FINAL JUDGMENT ON JUDAH (JEREMIAH 9:12). The passage commences by asking who the tr...
Jeremiah 9:1. _Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!_ Jeremiah foresaw that the Chaldeans would c...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Detestation of the sins of the people. The vanity of trusting in anything but God. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who will not know God...
Jeremiah 9:2. _Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodgingplace of wayfaring men._ In countries where the peasantry are very poor, travellers provide for themselves as they can. Even in Spain many of th...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 9:12 The WISE MAN knows THE LAND is RUINED because the people of Judah have forsaken God’s law, followed their own hearts
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. For Chronology and History, see chap. 7. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 9:26. “_Egypt_.” sit. on N.E. angle of Africa; a vast plain; in general features it may be...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 9:1 The Hebrew more correctly attaches this verse to Jeremiah 8:1. OH THAT MY HEAD WERE WATERS, etc.! A quaint conceit, it may be said. But "if we have been going on pace for pace...
Now Jeremiah declares, Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes were as a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wildernes...
1 Kings 9:8; 1 Kings 9:9; Deuteronomy 29:22; Deuteronomy 32:29;...