She hath been ashamed - Or, “is ashamed.” To a Hebrew mother to be childless was a disgrace. Many consider that Jeremiah 15:7 refer to the battle of Megiddo, and depict the consternation of Jerusalem at that sad event. If so, in the sun going down while it was day, there will be a reference to the eclipse on September 30, 610 b.c.
Verse Jeremiah 15:9. _SHE THAT HATH BORNE SEVEN_] She that hath had a numerous offspring; Jerusalem, the parent of so many cities, villages, and families in the land. _Seven_ signifies a _complete_ or...
CHAPTER 15 The Prophet's Deep Soul-Exercise _ 1. The answer (Jeremiah 15:1) _ 2. The prophet's grief and sorrow and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 15:10) Jeremiah 15:1. The preceding prayer is
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...
SEVEN. the seven. Not even these will suffice. GIVEN UP THE GHOST. breathed out her soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ DELIVER. give....
See introd. summary to section....
Co. considers the order of clauses to have suffered dislocation. He inserts "Their widows … the seas" after "… confounded" (Jeremiah 15:9), thus improving both sense and Ḳinah rhythm....
_She that hath borne seven_ and therefore, from the Jewish point of view, might have thought herself secure and prosperous. Seven was the perfect number. Cp. 1 Samuel 2:5. _hath given up the ghost_ h...
HER SUN IS GONE DOWN, &C.— See Amos 8:9. Isaiah 59:9. The expression is extremely strong, and denotes a sudden _change_ from the highest prosperity to the lowest distress....
E. The Final Rejection of Prophetic Intercession Jeremiah 15:1-9 TRANSLATION (1) And the LORD said unto me: If Moses and Samuel were standing before Me, I would have no affection for this people. Ca...
She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the swor...
1-9. The coming woes described....
SHE THAT HATH BORNE SEVEN. — In the picture of the previous verse the glory of the mother was found in the valour of her son, here in the number of her children. “Seven,” as the perfect number, repres...
אֻמְלְלָ֞ה יֹלֶ֣דֶת הַ שִּׁבְעָ֗ה נָפְחָ֥ה נַפְשָׁ֛הּ _בָּ֥א_
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...
To this great appeal Jehovah again replied by declaring mercy to be impossible, and judgment inevitable, and this on account of the sin of Manasseh which had been persisted in, namely, the rejection o...
She that hath borne (h) seven languisheth: she hath breathed her last; her sun is (i) gone down while [it was] yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the remnant of them will I deliver to...
_Seven: many. It is not common for a mother to lose so numerous a family; yet such shall be the misfortune of Jewish parents. The synagogues shall decrease. --- Day. Her prosperity shall end on a sudd...
These judgments had their accomplishment, in the captivity that followed, when the people were carried away to Babylon....
He proceeds with his narrative; he says, that fruitful women had been weakened, not as we see to be often the case, for by frequent child — bearing we know the strength of women is diminished; but her...
The beginning of chapter 15 is an answer to the close of chapter 14; but the instruction and the principles it contains are very remarkable. Jehovah declares that if Moses and Samuel (whose love for I...
SHE THAT HATH BORNE SEVEN LANGUISHETH,.... Either the mother that has borne many children, seven being put for a large number, now being able to bear no more, and being bereaved of what she had, and w...
She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the swo...
_She that hath borne seven languisheth Seven_ is put for many, (see 1 Samuel 2:5,) and the multitude of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the mother-city, is here alluded to; the prophet pursuing the meta...
She that hath borne seven, the woman usually in her best years and strength, LANGUISHETH, SHE HATH GIVEN UP THE GHOST, despairing because not one of her sons remained; HER SUN IS GONE DOWN WHILE IT WA...
THE LORD REFUSES HELP THE SECOND TIME...
1-9 The Lord declares that even Moses and Samuel must have pleaded in vain. The putting of this as a case, though they should stand before him, shows that they do not, and that saints in heaven do no...
SEVEN signifies many, 1 SAMUEL 2:5 JOB 5:19. The prophet complains that Jerusalem, or the country of Judah, that had been very numerous in people, now grew feeble, neither able to maintain those she h...
Jeremiah 15:9 languishes H535 (H8797) borne H3205 (H8802) seven H7651 last H5301 (H8804) H5315 sun...
YHWH'S RESPONSE TO JEREMIAH'S PLEA IS OF THE ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY AND AWFULNESS OF THE COMING JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 15:1). In the face of Jeremiah's plea YHWH now makes clear that nothing can now stop His...
CONTENTS: Message on the drought, concluded. The people abandoned to ruin. Jeremiah complains of his hardships. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Moses, Samuel. CONCLUSION: Miserable is the case of those w...
Jeremiah 15:1. _Though Moses and Samuel stood before me,_ as when Moses by his prayers saved the nation, Exodus 32:11, and Samuel in Mizpeh was heard, when the Lord terrified the Philistine armies by...
_Her sun is gone down while it is yet day._ BEAUTIFUL, BUT BRIEF I. Her life was like the sun in its shining. 1. Gloriously bright with faith and joy. 2. Blessedly useful in diffusing light. 3. C...
_Thou hast forsaken Me._ GOD FORSAKING AND GOD FORSAKEN I. A God-forsaking people. Conviction by God Himself of this great folly and sin. In Jeremiah 2:13, the charge is more complete. Creation is c...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 15:9 SHE WHO BORE SEVEN. A mother with the perfect number of sons losing all she has represents Judah’s reversal of fortunes. ⇐
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES—For _Chronology of the Chapter and Historical Facts_, see on chap. Jeremiah 10:5 _in loc_. 1. PERSONAL ALLUSIONS. Jeremiah 15:1. “_Moses and Samuel_,” here mentioned as h...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 15:1 Second rejection of Jeremiah's intercession; awfulness of the impending judgment. JEREMIAH 15:1 THOUGH MOSES AND SAMUEL, etc. It is a mere supposition which is here made; t...
Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go foRuth (Jeremiah 15:1). Now it is interesti...
1 Samuel 2:5; Amos 8:10; Amos 8:9; Ezekiel 5:12; Isaiah 47:9;...
Seven — Seven signifies many: the prophet complains, that the country of Judah, that had been very numerous in people, now grew feeble. While — In the midst of her prosperity. Confounded — A part of t...