Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 14:7
Do thou it - Rather, “deal thou, act thou for Thy Name’s sake, i. e., not according to the strict measure of right and wrong, but as a God merciful and gracious.
Do thou it - Rather, “deal thou, act thou for Thy Name’s sake, i. e., not according to the strict measure of right and wrong, but as a God merciful and gracious.
Verse Jeremiah 14:7. _O LORD, THOUGH OUR INIQUITIES TESTIFY AGAINST US_] We deeply acknowledge that we have sinned, and deserve nothing but death. Yet _act for thy name's sake_-work in our behalf, tha...
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...
TESTIFY: or, answer. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ SINNED. Hebrew. _chata._...
_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 faith...
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...
DISCOURSE: 1052 A PATTERN FOR NATIONAL HUMILIATION [Note: For a Fast-Day—Drought, &c.] Jeremiah 14:7. O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslid...
DISCOURSE: 1051 GOD’S NAME THE SINNER’S PLEA Jeremiah 14:7. _O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake_. PRAYER is both our duty and our privilege: and God ofte...
DO THOU IT FOR THY NAME'S SAKE— _Do thou act with a regard to thine own name._ That is, deal not with us according to our deserving, but so as not to give occasion to strangers to speak evil of thy na...
B. The Prophet's Intercession Rejected Jeremiah 14:7-12 TRANSLATION (7) If our iniquities testified against us act, O LORD, for the sake of Your name; for our backsliding are many, against You we hav...
O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. THOUGH OUR INIQUITIES TESTIFY AGAINST US, DO THOU IT -...
1-6. Description of the drought....
DO THOU _it_] RV 'work thou.'...
O LORD... — From the picture of suffering the prophet turns to a prayer for pardon and a confession of sins. He is sure that the drought has not come without cause, and that it calls men to repentance...
אִם ־עֲוֹנֵ֨ינוּ֙ עָ֣נוּ בָ֔נוּ יְהוָ֕ה עֲשֵׂ֖ה...
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...
(f) O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou [it] for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. (f) He shows the only way to remedy God's plagues,...
_Sake. We have the honour to be called thy people. We urge no merit of our own._...
Nothing can be more beautiful and expressive, than this prayer of the Prophet. First, he confesses sin: Leviticus 26:1. Secondly, he takes hold of the best and only argument for forgiveness; God's cov...
The Prophet, no doubt, intended here to exhort the Jews by his own example to seek pardon; nor does he so assume the character of others, as though he was free himself from guilt; for he was not more...
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...
O LORD, THOUGH OUR INIQUITIES TESTIFY AGAINST US,.... That we deserve such judgments to be inflicted on us; and that God is righteous in bringing them; and we are altogether undeserving of the favour...
_O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou [it] for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee._ Ver. 7. _O Lord, though our iniquities testify agains...
_O Lord_, &c. The prophet, having described their misery both in its cause, the drought, and the effects produced thereby, here applies himself to God, who alone could remove it, confessing that their...
O Lord, so the prophet now makes his appeal for his countrymen, THOUGH OUR INIQUITIES TESTIFY AGAINST US, serving as a most serious obstacle to the assistance and salvation of the Lord, DO THOU IT FOR...
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 prophet having described their misery, both in the cause of it, the drought for want of rain, and the effects of it, he applieth himself to that God who he knew was he who alone could give the for...
Jeremiah 14:7 LORD H3068 iniquities H5771 testify H6030 (H8804) Do H6213 (H8798) names H8034 backslidings H4878 ma
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 PEOPLE CRY TO YHWH IN THEIR DISTRESS (JEREMIAH 14:7). Things had come to such a pass with the effects of the droughts that the people began to visit the Temple in droves and call on YHWH. Of cours...
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;...
_O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do Thou it for Thy name’s sake._ THE PRAYER OF CONTRITE ISRAEL I. A mournful fact acknowledged. 1. Even in the case of God’s own people, sin does...
_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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 14:7 Jeremiah intercedes, recognizing Judah’s rebellion and spiritual unfaithfulness (see Amos 7:1)....
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...
Daniel 9:18; Daniel 9:19; Daniel 9:5; Daniel 9:9; Deuteronomy 32:27;...
Testify — That thou art righteous in what thou hast done. Do thou it — Do thou what we stand in need of; give us rain, though not for our sake, we deserve no such kindness from thee, yet for thy names...