B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is as an arrow.
It darts forth, wounds and hurts. It injures by slanders, lies and deceit. "It is. world of iniquity."
Their tongue is as an arrow.
It darts forth, wounds and hurts. It injures by slanders, lies and deceit. "It is. world of iniquity."
From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins. Jeremiah 9:2 The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared his daily striving, and in some lone wilderness give way to his sorrow, wi...
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...
SHOT OUT. Hebrew. piercing. But some codices, with two early printed editions, and Syriac, read "pointed"....
LXX, by a different arrangement of the words forming the second and third clauses, have _the words of their mouth are deceitful_, an improvement in symmetry, to which the original easily lends itself....
THEIR TONGUE IS AS AN ARROW SHOT OUT— _Their tongue is the arrow of a murderer._...
II. NATIONAL CORRUPTION Jeremiah 9:2-26 Jeremiah does not allow himself to be overcome by his personal feelings regarding the gloomy future of his people. The destruction of Judah is a punishment well...
Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. THEIR TONGUE IS AS AN ARROW SHOT OUT, [ cheets (H2...
9:8 neighbour (b-16) Or 'friend,' as ver. 4. see ch. 3.1....
1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
HIS WAIT] RV 'wait for him.'...
AN ARROW SHOT OUT. — Better, _an arrow that pierceth,_ or _slayeth._ IN HEART. — More literally, _inwardly. _...
_[Jeremiah 9:7]_ חֵ֥ץ _שָׁח֛וּט_† לְשֹׁונָ֖ם מִרְמָ֣ה דִבֵּ֑ר...
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...
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...
The Prophet again complains of the deceitfulness of their tongues; and he compares them to deadly, or drawn out arrows. Gold is said to be drawn out, when refined by repeated meltings; so also arrows,...
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...
THEIR TONGUE IS AS AN ARROW SHOT OUT,.... As an arrow out of a bow, which moves swiftly, and comes with great force; or, "drawn out" u; as out of a quiver. The word is used of gold, and rendered "beat...
Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. Ver. 8. _Their tongue is as an arrow shot out._]...
_Behold, I will melt them and try them_ I will cast them into the furnace of affliction, that I may purify them from their dross. See note on Jeremiah 6:29, and on Isaiah 1:25. _For how shall I do_, &...
Their tongue is as an arrow shot out, a sharp and deadly missile; IT SPEAKETH DECEIT, that being the burden of the Lord's complaint throughout this passage; ONE SPEAKETH PEACEABLY TO HIS NEIGHBOR WITH...
THE DECEIT OF THE PEOPLE...
IN HEART: _ Heb._ in the midst of him HIS WAIT: Or, wait for him...
1-11 Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without communion with God, through Christ Jesus, and th...
THEIR TONGUE IS AS AN ARROW: before, JEREMIAH 9:3, it was compared to a bow, i.e. ready prepared, and furnished with materials contriving their wickedness, PSALMS 11:2; and here to an arrow shot out,...
Jeremiah 9:8 tongue H3956 arrow H2671 out H7819 (H8803) speaks H1696 (H8765) deceit H4820 speaks H1696 ...
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...
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...
2 Samuel 20:10; 2 Samuel 20:9; 2 Samuel 3:27; Jeremiah 9:3; Jeremiah