Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 6:2
The whole verse is difficult, but should probably be translated; “to a pasturage, yea a luxuriant pasturage, have I likened (or, have reduced to silence, i. e., destroyed) the daughter of Zion.”
The whole verse is difficult, but should probably be translated; “to a pasturage, yea a luxuriant pasturage, have I likened (or, have reduced to silence, i. e., destroyed) the daughter of Zion.”
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _ 2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9) 3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)...
THE SIEGE OF THE SINFUL CITY. The prophet bids his kinsfolk (Anathoth, his birthplace, being in Benjamin) to abandon the capital, and to gather in the southern mountains; the northern peril is now nea...
DAUGHTER. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for the helpless inhabitants. WOMAN. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:56). App-92....
_The comely … cut off_ So the MT., but it is open to suspicion, and the Versions differ much from it. With some emendation the sense may be that Zion is compared to a pasturage, upon which shepherds b...
I HAVE LIKENED THE DAUGHTER OF ZION— There seems to be nothing in the simile in this verse, that can at all suit with the continuation of it in the third; and therefore I cannot but approve the interp...
D. Approach of Judgment Jeremiah 6:1-30 Chapter 6 contains a dramatic description of the advance of the foe against Jerusalem (Jeremiah 6:1-5) and the subsequent siege of that city (Jeremiah 6:6-8). T...
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. LIKENED - rather, 'I lay waste,' [ daamaah (H1819)] - literally, "O comely and delicate one, I lay waste the LIKENED - rather, 'I...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
RV 'The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion will I cut off,' a tenderly worded lament over the ill-fated city. DAUGHTER] is used for the inhabitants collectively....
TO A COMELY AND DELICATE WOMAN. — “Woman” is not in the Hebrew, and the word translated “comely” is elsewhere (Isaiah 65:10; Jeremiah 23:3; Exodus 15:13) rendered “fold” or “habitation;” and the passa...
הַ נָּוָה֙ וְ הַ מְּעֻנָּגָ֔ה דָּמִ֖יתִי בַּת
Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would under
This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe, acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...
I have likened the daughter of Zion to (d) a comely and delicate [woman]. (d) I have intreated her gently, and given her abundance of all things....
I venture to think, that if we read these verses with an eye to the Church in Jesus, they will be found very interesting. Who is the speaker here, that likens Zion to a comely and delicate woman? May...
As the place, where the Prophet was born, was pastoral, he retained many expressions derived from his education; for God did not divest his servants of every natural endowment when he appointed them t...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...
I HAVE LIKENED THE DAUGHTER OF ZION TO A COMELY AND DELICATE WOMAN. That dwells at home and lives in pleasure, and deliciously, in great peace and quietness, in entire ease and security, in no fear of...
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate [woman]. Ver. 2. _I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman._] _Certatim amatae bucolicae puellae; _ some fair sh...
_I have likened_, &c. There being nothing for _woman_ in the Hebrew text, and the word נוה, here rendered _comely_, frequently signifying a _pasture_, a _sheep-fold_, and _a habitation_, the verse is...
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman, literally, "The comely and delicate one! I destroy the daughter of Zion," laying waste the city and the entire country, as a rich an...
THE ADVICE TO FLEE FROM JERUSALEM...
COMELY: Or, dwelling at home...
1-8 Whatever methods are used, it is vain to contend with God's judgments. The more we indulge in the pleasures of this life, the more we unfit ourselves for the troubles of this life. The Chaldean a...
WOMAN: this supplement is not in the text; they that approve it render the epithet _comely_ variously, for one dwelling at home, as the Hebrew nays doth also signify, HABAKKUK 2:5; and so the word _de...
Jeremiah 6:2 likened H1820 (H8804) daughter H1323 Zion H6726 lovely H5116 delicate H6026 (H8794) daughter -...
IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1). Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had given the reas...
HIS PEOPLE ARE TO PREPARE FOR ACTION BECAUSE THE INVASION IS UPON THEM (JEREMIAH 6:1). As the enemy approached from the north the tribe of Benjamin (his own tribe), who were to the north of Jerusalem,...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that should come because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking people,...
Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_ [of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem, ac...
_Arise, and let us go up at noon._ CHRISTIAN EFFORT That spirit-stirring call of the text, so needful to arouse the Chaldeans on their march to the ancient, is as needful for us on our pilgrimage to...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.) 2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small town of defenc...
EXPOSITION A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance. JEREMIAH 6:1 Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...
Isaiah 1:8; Isaiah 3:16; Isaiah 3:17; Jeremiah 4:31; Lamentations 2:1;...