Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 14:4
Is chapt - Rather, is dismayed. “The ground” is used metaphorically for the people who until the ground.
In the earth - i. e., “in the land.”
Is chapt - Rather, is dismayed. “The ground” is used metaphorically for the people who until the ground.
In the earth - i. e., “in the land.”
Verse Jeremiah 14:4. _THE GROUND IS CHAPT_] The cracks in the earth before the descent of the rains are in some places a cubit wide, and deep enough to receive the greater part of a human body....
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...
CHAPT. cleft, cracked, open in slits. From Old Dutch, "koppen", to cut off; "kappen", to cut, or chop (hence Eng. "chops", from Eng. "chapped" and "chip"). Gk. _koptein,_ to cut. Hebrew here, _hathath...
_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 re...
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...
_BECAUSE THE GROUND IS CHAPT, FOR THERE WAS NO RAIN IN THE EARTH, THE PLOWMEN WERE ASHAMED, THEY COVERED THEIR HEADS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
1-6. Description of the drought....
THE GROUND IS CHAPT. — The word is so vivid as describing the long fissures of the soil in a time of drought that one admits with reluctance that no such meaning is found in the Hebrew word, which sim...
בַּ עֲב֤וּר הָ אֲדָמָה֙ חַ֔תָּה כִּ֛י לֹא
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...
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 had said, that though the whole common people were sent to the waters, yet none would be found. He now adds the same firing respecting the husbandmen. _Ashamed, _he says, _shall be the hus...
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...
BECAUSE THE GROUND IS CHAPT,.... Through the violent heat of the sun, and want of rain; or, is broken y; and crumbles into dust. The Targum is, "because of sins, the inhabitants of the earth are brok...
Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. Ver. 4. _Because the ground is chapt._] As our hearts also are and will be, when t...
_And their nobles_, &c. This scarcity of water afflicted not poor persons only, who had not such means of supplying their necessities as the rich; but the greatest among them, who sent _their little o...
Because the ground is ed, literally, "dismayed," joining the people of Judah in their attitude of horror, FOR THERE WAS NO RAIN IN THE EARTH, so that apprehension and consternation seized the soil; TH...
THE PROPHET INTERCEDES FOR THE FIRST TIME...
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...
The Hebrew word signifieth more largely than _chapt_, broken, spoiled, turned into dust, as is usual in great droughts. The word also which we translate _ploughmen_, doth not strictly signify ploughme...
Jeremiah 14:4 ground H127 parched H2865 (H8804) rain H1653 land H776 plowmen H406 ashamed H954 (H8804) covered...
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...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 28:23; Deuteronomy 28:24; Deuteronomy 29:23; Joel 1:11;...