Verse Jeremiah 17:8. _AS A TREE PLANTED BY THE WATERS_] Which is sufficiently supplied with _moisture_, though the heat be intense, and there be no rain; for the roots being spread out by the river, t...
In the rest of the prophecy Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judah’s ruin. Jeremiah 17:6 LIKE THE HEATH - Or, “like a destitute man” Psalms 102:17. The verbs “he shall see” (or...
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Judah's sin (Jeremiah 17:1) _ 2. The curse and the blessing (Jeremiah 17:5) 3. The worship of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 17:12) 4. Concerning the Sabbath ...
JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
AS. TREE. Reference to an earlier book (Psalms 1:1). RIVER. stream. Hebrew. _yubal_, from _yabal_, to flow....
See introd. summary to section. The antithesis in these verses is sharply defined, the two courses of human conduct making the men who practise them respectively to fade and to flourish. Cp. Psalms 1:...
_fear_ to be preferred, as is shewn by the parallelism, "shall not be careful," to the mg. _see_, which is the reading proposed in MT. mg. The latter was doubtless suggested to the Mass. by "see" in J...
DISCOURSE: 1055 THE DUTY OF TRUSTING IN GOD Jeremiah 17:5. Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall...
SHALL NOT SEE— _Is not sensible when heat cometh,_ &c....
B. The Desert Shrub and the Flourishing Tree Jeremiah 17:5-8 TRANSLATION (5) Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart departs from the LOR...
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year o...
17:8 see (d-25) According to others, 'fear.'...
1-4. The sin of Judah is indelible. Hence the severity of the punishment....
SEE] RV 'fear.' CAREFUL] i.e. anxious. 9-11. God searches out and punishes evil....
SHALL NOT SEE WHEN HEAT COMETH. — Another reading, followed by the LXX. and Vulgate, gives _shall not fear;_ there is, however, more force in the repetition of the same word as in Jeremiah 17:6. The m...
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CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
HUMAN AND DIVINE HELP CONTRASTED Jeremiah 17:1-14 The Jews were always seeking alliance either with Egypt or Babylon. What was true of them applies to us all; but we cannot depend upon human aid, wit...
Once again Jehovah declared His determination to deal with the people in judgment, because of the defiant definiteness of their sin. That sin was "written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a d...
(h) For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that] spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be anxious in the y...
_Fruit. See Psalm i. 3. (Pindar, Nem. viii.) How different from the wicked! (Calmet)_...
What a beautiful contrast do these verses contain, to those which were before; and in what a lovely manner is that well founded trust in the Lord pointed out, under the similitude of a tree planted by...
_MINISTERIAL FRESHNESS_ ‘As a tree planted by the waters.’ Jeremiah 17:8 In this picture, likening a man who trusts in the Lord to a tree planted by the waters, we have a description, with six part...
He then adds a comparison, answerable to that in the former clause, _He shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which sends its roots upon_, or nigh _the river, which shall not see when heat comes...
The great thing, amidst all that was going on, was to trust in Jehovah. He who, failing in this, made flesh his arm, should not see when good came. Meantime the fire of God's anger was kindled and sho...
FOR HE SHALL BE AS A TREE PLANTED BY THE WATERS,.... Not as a "heath or shrub", but as a "tree", a green olive tree, a palm tree, a cedar in Lebanon, a fruitful flourishing tree; and he is one that re...
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that] spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year...
_Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord_ That lives in continual obedience to him, and relies entirely upon him for every blessing he wants for his body or soul, for himself or others who, under...
For he, utterly unlike the man whose description has just been given, SHALL BE AS A TREE PLANTED BY THE WATERS, where a plentiful supply of moisture insures a luxuriant growth, AND THAT SPREADETH OUT...
The Depth of the Nation's Corruption...
DROUGHT: Or, restraint...
5-11 He who puts confidence in man, shall be like the heath in a desert, a naked tree, a sorry shrub, the product of barren ground, useless and worthless. Those who trust to their own righteousness a...
The sum is, he shall be prosperous and successful in his counsels and undertakings; like a tree planted by the side of a river, which is not affected with drought, but in a time when the leaves of tre...
Jeremiah 17:8 tree H6086 planted H8362 (H8803) waters H4325 out H7971 (H8762) roots H8328 river H3105 fear...
THE CURSINGS AND THE BLESSINGS ON INDIVIDUALS (JEREMIAH 17:5). But not all of Judah will come under YHWH's anger. Only those (the huge majority) who have turned from Him and forsaken Him and are under...
Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond:_ It is so ingrained in their very nature that you might as well try to erase an inscription that is wr...
CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, concluded. Message in the gates concerning the Sabbath. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The heart of man, out of communion with God, is wicked and dece...
Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron._ Yea, it is deeply written on the heart, as the diamond will write on polished stones, on tablets of brass, or on the brazen altars of B...
_Shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green._ VERDURE IN THE MIDST OF DESOLATION I. The fact itself. Meets us everywhere in the natural world. So also in the kingdom of grace. Spirit...
_Cursed be the man that trusteth in man._ THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUSTING IN THE CREATURE AND THE CREATOR I. The folly and evil of trusting in man. To “trust in man,” in the sense of our text, is to...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Jeremiah 17:1 continue the prophecy of chap. 16. A distinct break in the continuity of the book is noticeable at Jeremiah 17:19. [_Keil_ se...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah 17:1 are closely connected with the preceding chapter. We have just been pointed to the striking contrast between the conduct of the heathen and that of the backsliding men of Juda...
Chapter 17 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond (Jeremiah 17:1): Interesting that they were using diamonds for pens in those days, isn't it? Diamonds set in...
Ezekiel 31:4; Ezekiel 47:12; Isaiah 58:11; Jeremiah 14:1; Job 8:16;...