Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 6:26
Wallow thyself in ashes - Violent distress is accustomed to find relief in eccentric actions, and thus the wallowing in ashes shows that Jerusalem’s grief is unbearable.
The spoiler - Nebuchadnezzar.
Wallow thyself in ashes - Violent distress is accustomed to find relief in eccentric actions, and thus the wallowing in ashes shows that Jerusalem’s grief is unbearable.
The spoiler - Nebuchadnezzar.
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 FOE FROM THE NORTH is again described (_cf._ Jeremiah 5:15) in his advance against Jerusalem (Jeremiah 6:22). Its inhabitants utter their dismay (wax feeble, Jeremiah 6:24; Heb. are slack). The pr...
AND. Some codices, with five early printed editions, omit this "and"....
The last of the four divisions. See introd. note to the ch....
_daughter of my people_ collective, as in Jeremiah 4:11. _wallow thyself in_ more probably, _sprinkle thyself with_(so LXX), though the meaning of the Hebrew root is doubtful in all its occurrences (J...
GIRD THEE WITH SACKCLOTH— As the wearing of sackcloth girt round the body next the flesh (see 2 Kings 6:30.) is often mentioned in Scripture as usual in times of mourning and lamentation, and appears,...
5. _Description of the foe_ (Jeremiah 6:22-26) TRANSLATION (22) Thus said the LORD: Behold, a people is about to come from a north land, a great nation shall be aroused from the uttermost parts of th...
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side. He addresses "the daughter of Zion" (Jeremiah 6:23); caution to the citizens of Jerusalem not...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
WALLOW THYSELF IN ASHES. — So in Jeremiah 25:34; Ezekiel 27:30. The ordinary sign of mourning was to sprinkle dust or ashes on the head (2 Samuel 1:2;...
בַּת ־עַמִּ֤י חִגְרִי ־שָׂק֙ וְ הִתְפַּלְּשִׁ֣י...
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,...
_Only son. Let thy grief be extraordinary, Amos viii. 10., and Zacharias xii. 10._...
The last of these verses throws a light on the whole passage, by way of explanation, on the principles of the gospel of Christ. All men are as reprobate silver, until the Great Refiner and Purifier of...
The Prophet seems to use more words than necessary; for in a clear matter he appears to extend his discourse too far: but we must consider the design which has been mentioned; for he could not rouse 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...
O DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE, GIRD THEE WITH SACKCLOTH,.... Either as a token of repentance for sin; so the king of Nineveh and his subjects did, to show their repentance, Jonah 3:6 or as a sign of mournin...
O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. Ver....
_Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people_ I will suffer such things to be laid in their way as shall be the occasion of their destruction. Or, I will bring calamities upon them, by whic...
THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
O daughter of My people, the nation which the Lord has chosen for His own, GIRD THEE WITH SACKCLOTH, the garment of repentance, AND WALLOW THYSELF IN ASHES, in an excess of sorrow and grief; MAKE THEE...
18-30 God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator; but when offered to purchase a license to go on in sin, they p...
0 DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE, i.e. O my people, that art beloved as a _daughter_. GIRD THEE WITH SACKCLOTH, and wallow thyself in ashes: he calls upon them to mourning in the deepest manner wherein they ca...
Jeremiah 6:26 daughter H1323 people H5971 Dress H2296 (H8798) sackcloth H8242 about H6428 (H8690) ashes H665 Make...
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...
YHWH NOW DESCRIBES THE TOTAL INTRANSIGENCE OF HIS PEOPLE AND DISMISSES THEIR ATTEMPTS TO PACIFY HIM BY RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND OFFERINGS, CONFIRMING TO THEM THE JUDGMENT THAT IS INEVITABLY COMING ON THEM...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:26 DAUGHTER. Jerusalem represents the whole nation (see Jeremiah 4:31). AS FOR AN ONLY SON describes mourni
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...
Ezekiel 27:30; Ezekiel 27:31; Ezekiel 7:16; Isaiah 22:12; Isaiah 22:
Gird thee — The prophet calls upon them to mourn in the deepest manner....