Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 14:2
They are black unto the ground - The people assembled at the gates, the usual places of concourse, are in deep mourning and sit humbly on the ground.
They are black unto the ground - The people assembled at the gates, the usual places of concourse, are in deep mourning and sit humbly on the ground.
Verse Jeremiah 14:2. _THE GATES THEREOF LANGUISH_] The _gates_ being the places of public resort, they are put here for the _people_. _THEY ARE BLACK UNTO THE GROUND_] Covered from head to foot with...
II. THE PROPHET'S MINISTRY BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, THE PROPHECIES OF JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF JEREMIAH, HIS FAITHFULNESS AND HIS SUFFERING CHAPTER 14 The Great Drought...
JEREMIAH 14:1 TO JEREMIAH 15:9. THE DROUGHT IN JUDAH, AND JEREMIAH'S CONSEQUENT INTERCESSION. The date of this disaster is unknown, but some year in the latter half of Jehoiakim's reign is most probab...
JUDAH... JERUSALEM. Country and city. GATES. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for the people assembling there. ARE BLACK. sit in black. Compare Jeremiah 8:21; Jeremiah 13:18; Job 2:8;...
_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:...
JUDAH MOURNETH— The prophet represents Jerusalem as a mother who has lost her children, and who is oppressed with grief. The _gates_ are put for the city. Instead of, _Its gates languish,_ &c. Houbiga...
CHAPTER TEN NATIONAL DISTRESS AND PROPHETIC DISCOURAGEMENT Jeremiah 14:1 to Jeremiah 17:27 Sometime during the ministry of Jeremiah a terrible drought or series of droughts (the Hebrew word is plura...
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. JUDAH MOURNETH, AND THE GATES THEREOF LANGUISH - "the gates," the place of publ...
THE GATES THEREOF LANGUISH] Figurative of the people who collect there. THEY ARE BLACK UNTO] RV 'They sit in black (mourning) upon.'...
1-6. Description of the drought....
THE GATES THEREOF LANGUISH. — The “gates” of the cities, as the chief places of concourse, like the _agora_ of Greek cities, are taken figuratively for the inhabitants, who in the “black” garments of...
אָבְלָ֣ה יְהוּדָ֔ה וּ שְׁעָרֶ֥יהָ אֻמְלְל֖וּ קָדְר֣וּ...
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...
We now come to the second division of the Book, that containing the account of the prophet's ministry. This falls into three sections: prophecies before the fall of Jerusalem (14-39), prophecies after...
Judah mourneth, and her gates languish; they are (b) black to the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. (b) The word signifies extreme sorrow....
We have here an account of the famine, which by the parallel history took place in the reign of Jehoiakim; probably just before the captivity. Jeremiah had mourned for the good king Josiah; see 2 Chro...
The Prophet intimates in these words, that so great would be the scarcity as to appear to be a manifest and remarkable evidence of God’s vengeance; for when God punishes us in a common way, we for the...
Chapter 14 refers to a famine which took place in the land. The desolation of Jerusalem by the sword and by famine is again declared. But observe here the touching intercession of Jeremiah 14:7-9; and...
JUDAH MOURNETH,.... That is, the inhabitants of Judah; those of the house of Judah, as the Targum; these mourned because of the drought and famine that were upon the land: AND THE GATES THEREOF LANGU...
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. Ver. 2. _Judah mourneth._] The prophet's pitiful complaint, bitterly bewailing the...
_Judah mourneth_ The people of Judah and Jerusalem, here considered collectively, and represented as a mother oppressed with grief for the miseries which have come upon her children. _And the gates la...
THE PROPHET INTERCEDES FOR THE FIRST TIME...
Judah mourneth, the entire nation being plunged in grief, AND THE GATES THEREOF LANGUISH, the people who usually assembled in this public meeting-place being in trouble; THEY ARE BLACK UNTO THE GROUND...
1-9 The people were in tears. But it was rather the cry of their trouble, and of their sin, than of their prayer. Let us be thankful for the mercy of water, that we may not be taught to value it by f...
By JUDAH is meant the men and women in the whole country of Judah. The GATES is put for their cities; or the men of their cities languished, for want of moisture for themselves or their beasts. They a...
Jeremiah 14:2 Judah H3063 mourns H56 (H8804) gates H8179 languish H535 (H8797) mourn H6937 (H8804) land...
THE LESSON OF THE GREAT DROUGHTS (JEREMIAH 14:1). As a preliminary warning of what is coming YHWH sends a great drought on Judah with the result that the cisterns are empty, the springs are dry, the p...
THE DEPTHS OF THE SERIES OF DROUGHTS (JEREMIAH 14:1). The plural for ‘droughts' suggests that there had been a series of droughts, probably over a number of years. Such droughts did occur in Canaan fr...
In some respects, Jeremiah is one of the greatest of the ancient prophets, for he had most sorrowful task to perform. He had not to deliver a message full of Evangelical comfort, like that of Isaiah;...
CONTENTS: Message on the drought. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Man's sins bring those judgments upon the earth which make even the inferior creatures to groan. There will come a time when...
Jeremiah 14:3. _They found no water._ The latter rain had been denied, as in Jeremiah 3:3; and as Moses had foretold. Deuteronomy 11:17;...
_They came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads._ THE DROUGHT OF NATURE, THE RAIN OF GRACE, AND THE LESSO...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY of the Chapter. This and chapter 15 form one prophecy (although Lange, Keil, and others connect Chapter s 14 to 17, regarding them as interwoven and synchr...
EXPOSITION This chapter must be read in connection with the following one. They describe chiefly Jeremiah's twofold attempt at intercession (see verses 7-9 and 19-22)—a tender and appealing attempt in...
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the deaRuth (Jeremiah 14:1). For a drought filled the land. Judah mourns, and the gates languish; they are black upon the ground; and the cry of...
1 Samuel 5:12; 1 Samuel 9:16; Exodus 2:24; Hosea 4:3; Isaiah 15:5;...