Verse Jeremiah 11:14. _THEREFORE PRAY NOT THOU FOR THIS PEOPLE_] I am determined to give them up into the hands of their enemies; I will neither hear thy intercession, nor regard their prayers. Their...
A parenthesis. As in Jeremiah 7:16, all intercession is forbidden, and for this reason. Prayer for others for the forgiveness of their sins avails only when they also pray. The cry of the people now w...
CHAPTER 11 The Broken Covenant and the Plot Against Jeremiah _ 1. The broken covenant (Jeremiah 11:1) _ 2. The plot revealed and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 11:18) Jeremiah 11:1. Jehovah
PRAY NOT, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Ex, Jeremiah 32:10). Compare Jeremiah 7:16; Jeremiah 14:11. App-92. FOR. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate,...
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Judah has fallen back into apostasy. It is now clear that Josiah's reforms have had no lasting results. The passage may therefore be placed in Jehoiakim's reign....
_Therefore pray not thou_ Cp. ch. Jeremiah 7:16....
B. Exposure of the Conspiracy Jeremiah 11:9-17 TRANSLATION (9) And the LORD said unto me: Conspiracy is found among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. (10) They have returned to the i...
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble. THEREFORE PRAY NOT FOR THIS PEOPLE ....
11:14 trouble. (a-31) Lit. 'evil.'...
1-14. Punishment must follow faithlessness....
THEREFORE PRAY NOT. — The words imply, as in Jeremiah 7:16, that the prophet’s human feelings had led him to pour his soul in passionate intercession that the penalty might be averted. He is told that...
וְ אַתָּ֗ה אַל ־תִּתְפַּלֵּל֙ בְּעַד ־הָ עָ֣ם
CHAPTER VII THE BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 11:1 and Jeremiah 12:1 THERE is no visible break between these two Chapter s. They seem to summarise the history of a particular episode in the prophet's car...
THE PENALTY OF A BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 11:1-20 This and the following two Chapter s belong to the earlier ministry of Jeremiah, when he still dwelt in his native home of Anathoth. The prophet refe...
He then proceeded to deal with the broken Covenant. There came to him from the Lord a special word commissioning him to pronounce a curse on "the man that heareth not the words of this covenant." To t...
Therefore (i) pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear [them] in the time when they cry to me for their trouble. (i) Read (Jeremiah 7:16; Jeremiah...
We have here a renewed command to restrain prayer. An awful precept, Jeremiah 7:16....
That the Jews might understand that a sore calamity was nigh, and that God would not be appeasable, the Prophet himself is forbidden to intercede for them. There is no doubt but that even when he repr...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12. Chapter 11 suggests some observations. God addresses Himself again to Israel on the ground of their responsibility, reminding them of the call to o...
THEREFORE PRAY NOT THOU FOR THIS PEOPLE,.... If for a remnant among them, yet not for the body of the people; and if for their spiritual and eternal good, yet not for their temporal salvation; their t...
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear [them] in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble. Ver. 14. _Therefore pray not thou fo...
_Then shall the cities of Judah cry unto the gods_, &c. “When great calamities threaten men, their fears suggest all possible ways of seeking for succour. Thus, when the Jews found themselves forsaken...
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them, any supplication asking deliverance for them; FOR I WILL NOT HEAR THEM, He would pay no attention to the prophet's in...
Israel's Conspiracy Against the Lord and its Punishment...
TROUBLE: _ Heb._ evil...
11-17 Evil pursues sinners, and entangles them in snares, out of which they cannot free themselves. Now, in their distress, their many gods and many altars stand them in no stead. And those whose own...
Once before, and we shall find once after this, JEREMIAH 14:11, God forbiddeth the prophet to _pray for this people_; hence ariseth a question how the prophet is excused from sin, in praying for them...
Jeremiah 11:14 pray H6419 (H8691) people H5971 up H5375 (H8799) cry H7440 prayer H8605 hear H8085 ...
YHWH CALLS ON HIS PEOPLE TO HEAR THE WORD OF HIS COVENANT AND REMINDS THEM OF THE COVENANT CURSE WHICH FALLS ON ALL WHO FAIL TO OBSERVE IT, BUT THEN DRAWS ATTENTION TO THEIR FAILURE TO OBSERVE IT, IND...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's message on the broken covenant. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who enter into solemn covenant with God must expect on their part to fulfill the conditions, else He...
Jeremiah 11:14. _Pray not thou for this people._ The Chaldaic and the LXX, Deprecate not the scourge of war coming upon them. We find the same sentiments more fully expressed in Ezekiel 14., confirmin...
_Therefore pray not thou for this people._ FUTILE PRAYERS It is futile to pray for those who have deliberately cast off the covenant of Jehovah and made a covenant with His adversary. Prayer cannot s...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The “covenant” summarised in Jeremiah 11:2 refers to the nation’s renewal of vows with Jehovah upon the Book of the Law being discovered du...
EXPOSITION The superscription in Jeremiah 11:1 evidently belongs to the three chapters 11-13, though Jeremiah 11:1 and Jeremiah 12:1 are more closely connected with each other than with...
Shall we turn to Jeremiah the eleventh chapter as we continue our study through the book of Jeremiah. Chapter 11 begins a new section of the book, not a whole new division, but it's a new message, and...
1 John 5:16; Exodus 32:10; Hosea 5:6; Jeremiah 11:11; Jeremiah 14:11;...