Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 2:12
Be astonished - The King James Version uses this word as equivalent “to be stupefied.”
Desolate - Or, “be dry.” In horror at Israel’s conduct the heavens shrivel and dry up.
Be astonished - The King James Version uses this word as equivalent “to be stupefied.”
Desolate - Or, “be dry.” In horror at Israel’s conduct the heavens shrivel and dry up.
Verse Jeremiah 2:12. _BE ASTONISHED, O YE HEAVENS_] Or, _the heavens are_ _astonished_. The original will admit either sense. The conduct of this people was so altogether bad, that among all the iniqu...
CHAPTER S 2:1-3:5 Expostulation and Impeachment _ 1. His love and kindness to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:1) _ 2. The unfaithful people (Jeremiah 2:4) 3. The two evils and the results (Jeremiah 2:12)...
YAHWEH'S REPROACHES. Yahweh asks why His redeeming acts are forgotten and His (true) worship abandoned; other nations do not abandon their gods, though these are worthless, but Yahweh's people have fo...
BE ASTONISHED. Figure of speech _Apostrophe_. VERY DESOLATE. dried up, or, devoid of clouds and vapours....
_be ye very desolate_ lit. BE YE DRY. The heavens are bid to shrivel up in horror at the behaviour of the people. By a figure common in all poetry nature is called upon to adapt herself, as though a l...
DISCOURSE: 1027 THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS Jeremiah 2:12. _Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils...
BE HORRIBLY AFRAID, BE YE VERY DESOLATE— _Be amazed; marvel,_ or _tremble exceedingly._...
C. Penetrating Analysis Jeremiah 2:9-19 TRANSLATION (9) So yet I present My case against you (oracle of the LORD), and with your children I must contend. (10) For pass over to the isles of Kittim and...
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. BE ASTONISHED, O YE HEAVENS - impassioned personification (). HORRIBLY AFRAID - rather, 'be hor...
JEREMIAH'S SECOND PROPHECY (2:1-3:5) The prophet expostulates with Israel because of their unfaithfulness to Jehovah. 1-13. Under the figure of the marriage relation Jehovah reminds the people of Hi...
BE ASTONISHED, O YE HEAVENS. — The adjuration had been made familiar by a like utterance in Isaiah 1:2; Deuteronomy 32:1 “Astonished” — in the old sense, “thunder-stricken,” stupefied. The whole unive...
שֹׁ֥מּוּ שָׁמַ֖יִם עַל ־זֹ֑את וְ שַׂעֲר֛וּ חָ
CHAPTER II THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1 THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menace...
The first movement in commissioning the called man now commences. He was commanded to utter a great impeachment in the ears of Jerusalem. This impeachment was threefold. It first declared how Israel h...
Be astonished, O ye (s) heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. (s) He shows that the insensible creatures abhor this vile ingratitude, and as it were tremble f...
_Gates; angels, or the temple._...
Reader! this is not the first time that we meet with such appeals to heaven, and to other parts of the inanimate creation: for if man will not hear, to whom shall respect be had? Isaiah 50:2; Deuteron...
When the Prophet saw that he had to do with besotted men, almost void of all reason, he turned to address the heavens: and it is a way of speaking, common in the Prophets, — that they address the heav...
Chapter 2 contains a most touching appeal to the people at Jerusalem. It requires no explanation, but deserves the heart's serious attention. It testifies in the most striking manner to the kindness a...
BE ASTONISHED, O YE HEAVENS, AT THIS,.... Meaning either the angels in heaven, or the heavens themselves, by a personification: AND BE HORRIBLY AFRAID, BE YE VERY DESOLATE, SAITH THE LORD; all which...
_Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD._ Ver. 12. _Be astonished, O heavens!_] A poetic and pathetic expression. Compare Deu 32:1 Isaiah 1:...
_Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this_ A pathetical expression, in the poetic style, signifying that the wickedness of these apostates from God was so great, that the very inanimate creatures, could t...
ISRAEL'S LACK OF FAITHFULNESS...
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, at the unspeakable wickedness of their behavior, AND BE HORRIBLY AFRAID, be filled with shuddering loathing, BE YE VERY DESOLATE, SAITH THE LORD, exceedingly agha...
9-13 Before God punishes sinners, he pleads with them, to bring them to repentance. He pleads with us, what we should plead with ourselves. Be afraid to think of the wrath and curse which will be the...
BE ASTONISHED, O YE HEAVENS; angels, say some, but rather the visible heavenly bodies; a pathetical expression in a poetical prosopopoeia, as DEUTERONOMY 4:26, DEUTERONOMY 32:1, intimating that it is...
Jeremiah 2:12 astonished H8074 (H8798) heavens H8064 afraid H8175 (H8798) very H3966 desolate H2717 (H8798) says...
YHWH EXPRESSES HIS ASTONISHMENT AT THE INCREDIBLE WAY IN WHICH THEY HAVE BEHAVED (JEREMIAH 2:9). YHWH expresses His astonishment at the behaviour of His people, and calls on the heavens to witness wha...
Jeremiah 2:1. Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem saying, Thus saith the LORD: I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals...
Jeremiah 2:1. Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousal...
CONTENTS: First message to backslidden Judah concerning their ingratitude to God and wickedness against Him. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is a great affront to God to neglect Him and for...
Jeremiah 2:2. _I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth._ God now addressed them, that he might do the same to the children as he had done to the fathers, and rejoice over them as the bridegroom rej...
_Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods?_ CHRISTIAN CONTROVERSY The text may be put into other words, thus: “Go over to the islands of the Chittim, the isles and coast lands of the f...
JEREMIAH 2:1 Israel’s Covenantal Adultery. These five related messages were probably delivered during Josiah’s reign (Jeremiah 3:6). Jeremiah declares that God’s chosen people commit spiritual adulter...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 2:12 The HEAVENS, called as witnesses in the lawsuit (see note on v. 9), are shocked by Israel’s abandoning the FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS for...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY. Most probably in thirteenth Josiah, quickly after his call. Dr. Dahler (Stratsbourg) would interpose Chapter s 4, 5, 6; deferring this chapter till after...
EXPOSITION The second chapter forms the introduction of a group of discourses (Jeremiah 2-6), which should be read together. It is called By Ewald (and the position of the prophecy favors this view) t...
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD (Jeremiah 2:1-2); Now this is the first message that he has to deliver. As God is cal...
Deuteronomy 32:1; Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 22:29; Jeremiah 6:19; Micah 6:2
O ye heavens — A pathetical expression, intimating that it is such a thing, that the very inanimate creatures, could they be sensible of it, would be astonished. Be desolate — Lose your brightness, as...