B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 9:9
Shall not my soul be avenged on such. nation?
God's wrath may be delayed but the nation that sins will not escape. The fall of every nation is due to national sins.
Shall not my soul be avenged on such. nation?
God's wrath may be delayed but the nation that sins will not escape. The fall of every nation is due to national sins.
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...
MY SOUL. I myself (emphatic). Hebrew. _nephesh._ Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ AVENGED. Compare Jeremiah 5:9; Jeremiah 5:29....
Here repeated from ch. Jeremiah 5:9; Jeremiah 5:29....
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...
Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? (; )....
1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
SHALL I NOT VISIT...? — The previous use of the same warning in Jeremiah 5:9; Jeremiah 5:29 gives these words also the emphasis of iteration....
_[Jeremiah 9:8]_ הַ עַל ־אֵ֥לֶּה לֹֽא ־אֶפְקָד...
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...
We have already met with this verse; it will therefore be enough briefly to refer to what it contains. God shews here, that except he denied himself he must necessarily punish the Jews. How so? He tak...
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...
SHALL I NOT VISIT THEM FOR THESE THINGS? SAITH THE LORD,.... The Targum adds, "to bring evil upon them.'' SHALL NOT MY SOUL BE AVENGED ON SUCH A NATION AS THIS? the Targum is, "or of a people whose...
Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Ver. 9. _Shall I not visit them?_] See on Jeremiah 5:9 ....
THE DECEIT OF THE PEOPLE...
Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord, letting His punishment come upon them for their treacherous and deceitful behavior. SHALL NOT MY SOUL BE AVENGED ON SUCH A NATION AS THIS? Cf....
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...
See JEREMIAH 5:9,29....
Jeremiah 9:9 punish H6485 (H8799) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 I H5315 avenge H5358 (H8691) nation...
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...
Isaiah 1:24; Jeremiah 5:29; Jeremiah 5:9...