Jeremiah 14:1 to Jeremiah 15:9. Accumulation of calamities Jehovah rejects the prophet's intercession Du. considers that this section, as made up of very various elements, cannot have been put together by Jeremiah in its present form, and that it thus bears evident traces of modification by later... [ Continue Reading ]
_the gates_ put, as often in Hebrew, for cities, i.e. for the inhabitants, as being the place of general resort. _they sit in black upon the ground_ Cp. Jeremiah 8:21; Jeremiah 13:18; also Psalms 137:1; and Isaiah 47:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
_little ones_ rather, as mg. _inferiors_, i.e. servants. _pits_ cisterns, or tanks, where the water was kept till wanted for use. See on ch. Jeremiah 2:13. _ashamed_ See on Jeremiah 2:26. _cover their heads_ as a sign of the greatest grief or confusion. Cp. 2 Samuel 15:30; Esther 6:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Because of the ground, etc_.] rather, according to Du."s excellent emendation, with a slight change in MT., virtually supported by LXX, _The tillers of the ground are dismayed_. This enables us to restore (with mg.) to the verb rendered "chapt," but elsewhere used only of persons, its right sense,... [ Continue Reading ]
_the hind_ For her affection for her young cp. Proverbs 5:19, and for ancient writers" testimony to it see Bochart, _Hierozoicon_, Bk. 3 ch. 17.... [ Continue Reading ]
_bare heights_ See on ch. Jeremiah 3:2. _pant for air_ oppressed by heat and thirst. _jackals_ See on Jeremiah 9:11, but mg. (by the change of one Heb. letter) _the crocodile_(coming out of the water to breathe). _their eyes fail_ in place of their sharpness of sight. Cp. Job 11:20; Psalms 69:3;... [ Continue Reading ]
_for thy name's sake_ either (_a_) as the covenant God of Israel, as implied by the language of Jeremiah 14:8; cp. Exodus 34:6, or (_b_) for Thy honour, that the heathen may behold Thy might and faithfulness. This latter is much the more usual sense of the phrase. See Psalms 79:9; Psalms 106:8; Isai... [ Continue Reading ]
See summary at commencement of the section. Is the intercession (_a_) the prophet's own, or (_b_) put by him into the mouth of the people? Co. supports (_b_) as indicated by Jeremiah 14:10, where the Lord's reply is addressed to them. It is true that Jeremiah 14:11 implies (_a_), but see note there.... [ Continue Reading ]
_a sojourner in the land, etc_.] a passing traveller, with no interest in the country or in the people. _turneth aside_ mg., less well, _spreadeth_his tent.... [ Continue Reading ]
_astonied_ rather, by a very slight change in one Heb. letter, _asleep_. So LXX. For the thought cp. Psalms 35:23; Psalms 44:23; Psalms 78:65. _a mighty man_ a warrior. So in Jeremiah 20:11. _we are called by thy name_ See on Jeremiah 7:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Even so_ My withdrawal from them is merely the counterpart of their withdrawal from Me. _therefore, etc_.] See introductory note to section.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord's answer.... [ Continue Reading ]
These _vv_. (to "accept them") are very possibly (so Hitzig and Co.) an insertion by a later hand to connect the preceding passage relating to drought with that dealing with other woes. See introd. note. Gi. (_Metrik_) holding 11 14 to be only poetic prose, with Ḳinah "shining through," considers th... [ Continue Reading ]
See introductory summary to section.... [ Continue Reading ]
_oblation_ mg. _meal offering_, Heb. _minḥah_, sometimes, specially in the Levitical laws, in this narrower sense, as accompanying a sacrifice of animals, but also generally, of a present to procure the favour of a superior (Genesis 32:20; Genesis 43:11), and so used of an offering (including animal... [ Continue Reading ]
_assured peace_ mg. Heb. _peace of truth_(stability). They may have sought to support their reassuring assertions by reference to such utterances as those of Isaiah 37:33 ff.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the attitude of the false prophets and their relation to the true see Intr. pp. xxxii. f.; also xxiii. 9 ff.... [ Continue Reading ]
Gi. now (_Metrik_) omits these _vv_., apparently as failing to satisfy the metrical conditions which prevail elsewhere in the ch. (Ḳinah).... [ Continue Reading ]
_their wickedness_ This shall be itself their punishment. Cp. Jeremiah 2:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
_grievous_ Heb. _sick_. See on Jeremiah 10:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
_them that are sick with famine_ lit. as mg. _the sicknesses of famine_. _go about_ mg. _traffick_. Such is the sense of the Heb. verb elsewhere, e.g. Genesis 34:10; Genesis 34:21, but the corresponding consonants in Syriac are found, though rarely, with the meaning, _to go as a beggar_. In either... [ Continue Reading ]
In these _vv_. three pleas are urged on behalf of the people: (i) their contrition, (ii) God's honour, (iii) their hopelessness of any other aid.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the throne of thy glory_ Jerusalem, or more particularly the Temple, where the visible glory was enthroned above the Ark.... [ Continue Reading ]
A fragment, as shewn by its subject, of the former of the two utterances combined in the section. _art not thou he, O Lord our God_ rather, ART NOT THOU THE LORD OUR GOD?... [ Continue Reading ]