Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 25:38
Yahweh has risen up, like a lion that leaves its covert, eager for prey, that He may execute judgment upon the wicked.
Yahweh has risen up, like a lion that leaves its covert, eager for prey, that He may execute judgment upon the wicked.
Verse Jeremiah 25:38. _AS THE LION_] Leaving the banks of Jordan when overflowed, and coming with ravening fierceness to the champaign country....
CHAPTER 25 The Seventy Years' Captivity and the Judgment of the Nations _ 1. The retrospect (Jeremiah 25:1) _ 2. The seventy years' captivity announced (Jeremiah 25:8) 3. The punishment of Babylon...
JEREMIAH 25. THE SUPREMACY OF BABYLON OVER JUDAH AND THE NATIONS. Jeremiah 25:1. In the year 604 (after the Babylonian victory over Egypt at Carchemish, 605 B.C., _cf._ Jeremiah 46:2), Jeremiah public...
AS THE LION. Figure of speech _Simile_ (App-6). Compare Jeremiah 25:30. THE FIERCENESS OF THE OPPRESSOR. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, and Septuagint, read "the (Septuagint ...
_He hath forsaken his covert_ a repetition of the figure with which the section opened. As the lion seeks other shelter, when that which he has dwelt in hitherto is destroyed, so Jehovah forsakes his...
The judgement to come upon all the peoples of the earth. The description is characterized by Oriental hyperbole. A considerable amount is adapted from elsewhere, and the eschatological character of th...
HE HATH FORSAKEN HIS COVERT, &C.— For who would have dared to approach it, if he had thought good to protect it? if Jerusalem, if the temple, if Judaea, are delivered into the hand of the Chaldeans, i...
D. Judgment on the World Jeremiah 25:30-38 TRANSLATION (30) But as for you, prophesy unto them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD from on high will roar, and from His holy habitation He wil...
He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger. HE HATH FORSAKEN HIS COVERT - the temple, where he...
25:38 fierceness (b-19) Possibly 'sword,' as chs. 46.16; 50.16....
JEREMIAH'S FOURTEENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM). THE WINE CUP OF GOD'S FURY We have here the first closely dated prophecy, taking us back from Zedekih's reign to the fourth year of Jehoiakim, betw...
AS THE LION] The Lord IS gone forth in wrath to lay waste....
HE HATH FORSAKEN HIS COVERT... — The image of Jeremiah 25:30 is reproduced. The thunder of Jehovah’s wrath is as the roaring of the lion (Amos 3:8). He is as the lion leaving its hiding-place in the f...
עָזַ֥ב כַּ † כְּפִ֖יר סֻכֹּ֑ו כִּֽי ־הָיְתָ֤ה...
CHAPTER XVI JEHOVAH AND THE NATIONS Jeremiah 25:15 "Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations."- Jeremiah 25:31 As the son of a king only learns very gradually that his father's authority and act...
Still speaking to Zedekiah, Jeremiah reminded him of the word which came in the fourth year of Jehoiakim. It was a message announcing the judgment of God against Judah, Babylon, the nations, the world...
The dove. This is commonly understood of Nabuchodonosor, whose military standard, they say, was a dove. But the Hebrew word Jonah, which is here rendered a dove, may also signify a waster or oppressor...
REFLECTIONS DEAREST Lord Jesus! who can read the sad requital thy faithful servants met with in all ages of the Church, when rising early and speaking to the people, without calling to mind the awful...
In these verses is described, the sad consequence of divine judgments. The King of Babylon and his confederates, may seemingly for a time triumph: but their end shall be, like Moab of old, to perish f...
The Prophet in the last verse reminds us, that the Jews in vain trusted in God’s protection, for he would forsake his own Temple as well as the city. It was as it were a common saying among them, “He...
Chapter 25 closes, so to say, this part of the prophecy with a general summary of God's judgments on the earth, giving it into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. The immediate application to events already a...
HE HATH FORSAKEN HIS COVERT AS A LION,.... Which some understand of God leaving Jerusalem, or the temple, where he dwelt; who, while he made it his residence, protected it; but when he forsook it, it...
He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger. Ver. 38. _He hath forsaken his covert, as a lion._] G...
_A voice of the cry of the shepherds_ Those are great calamities indeed that strike such a terror upon great men, and put them into this mighty consternation. _For the Lord hath spoiled their pasture_...
He hath forsaken His covert as the lion, leaving the thicknesses where his den is located; FOR THEIR LAND IS DESOLATE BECAUSE OF THE FIERCENESS OF THE OPPRESSOR, before the fury of the destroyer sent...
THE JUDGMENT UPON THE WORLD...
DESOLATE: _ Heb._ a desolation...
30-38 The Lord has just ground of controversy with every nation and every person; and he will execute judgment on all the wicked. Who can avoid trembling when God speaks in displeasure? The days are...
God had before compared himself to a lion, JEREMIAH 25:30; here he declares himself to be about to move like a lion, who when he goeth out to seek his prey, leaveth his covert: see JEREMIAH 50:44. The...
Jeremiah 25:38 left H5800 (H8804) lair H5520 lion H3715 land H776 desolate H8047 Because H6440 fierceness...
SUBSECTION 8). JEREMIAH SUMMARISES HIS MINISTRY BEFORE THE PEOPLE AND AFTER DECLARING WHAT IS TO COME ON JUDAH PROCLAIMS THE JUDGMENT OF YHWH THAT IS COMING ON ALL NATIONS (JEREMIAH 25:1). This final...
YHWH WILL ROAR FROM HEAVEN AND THE EARTH WILL FACE ITS JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 25:30). What is coming on the world is pictured in terms of ‘universal' catastrophe, as so often in the prophets. The idea is...
CONTENTS: Prophecy of seventy years' captivity. Sign of the wine cup of fury. CHARACTERS: Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: Men would never receive from God the desolating pu...
Jeremiah 25:1. _In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the first year of Nebuchadrezzar._ Daniel says the third year, Daniel 1:1. The campaign could not be less than a year; the variation arises from the per...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 25:38 The SWORD OF THE OPPRESSOR (Babylon) is the result of God’s FIERCE ANGER. This lion will devour his prey completely....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER: “_Fourth year of Jehoiakim_” (Jeremiah 25:1). It is stated the _third_ year in Daniel 1:1; but Hales (“Sacred Chron.”) shows that Jehoiakim...
EXPOSITION This chapter may be illustrated by a comparison of it with Jeremiah 46:1. There Jeremiah exults ever the destruction of a nation (Egypt) which was one of the chief enemies of God's people,...
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 25:1). So now we're going back in time. This was before Zedekiah was king. This was when Jeh...
Amos 8:8; Hosea 11:10; Hosea 13:7; Hosea 13:8; Hosea 5:14;...
Because — The effects of this rising up of God out of his covert is the desolation of the land through the fierceness of the enemy, caused by the fierce anger of God....