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From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.
Jeremiah 9:2
The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared his daily
striving, and in some lone wilderness give way to his sorrow, wi...
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CHAPTER 9
_ 1. The prophet's complaint and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 9:1) _
2. The cause of desolation and destruction (Jeremiah 9:10)
3. The call for the mourning and wailing women (Jeremiah 9:17...
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FAITHLESSNESS AND ITS RETRIBUTION: THE DIRGE OF DEATH. The humblest
caravanserai would be preferable to life among these evil men, with
their calumnies and the unfaithful use of power by those in auth...
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THEIR TONGUE IS AS AN ARROW.
It darts forth, wounds and hurts. It injures by slanders, lies and
deceit. "It is. world of iniquity....
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SHOT OUT. Hebrew. piercing. But some codices, with two early printed
editions, and Syriac, read "pointed"....
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LXX, by a different arrangement of the words forming the second and
third clauses, have _the words of their mouth are deceitful_, an
improvement in symmetry, to which the original easily lends itself....
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THEIR TONGUE IS AS AN ARROW SHOT OUT— _Their tongue is the arrow of
a murderer._...
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II. NATIONAL CORRUPTION Jeremiah 9:2-26
Jeremiah does not allow himself to be overcome by his personal
feelings regarding the gloomy future of his people. The destruction of
Judah is a punishment well...
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Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one
speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he
layeth his wait.
THEIR TONGUE IS AS AN ARROW SHOT OUT, [ cheets (H2...
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9:8 neighbour (b-16) Or 'friend,' as ver. 4. see ch. 3.1....
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1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
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HIS WAIT] RV 'wait for him.'...
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AN ARROW SHOT OUT. — Better, _an arrow that pierceth,_ or _slayeth._
IN HEART. — More literally, _inwardly.
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_[Jeremiah 9:7]_ חֵ֥ץ _שָׁח֛וּט_† לְשֹׁונָ֖ם
מִרְמָ֣ה דִבֵּ֑ר...
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Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1
In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is
plainly a fin
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NATIONAL PERVERSITY
Jeremiah 9:1-16
Jeremiah 9:1-6
Once the voice of joy and thanksgiving had been heard in Jerusalem,
but now on every side there was bloodshed, and the patriot-prophet
could only w...
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In answer to his own question, Jeremiah sighed for some adequate means
of expressing the anguish of his heart, and then for escape to some
lonely place in the wilderness. All this was in the nature of...
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It is blessed to remark, that in all the Lord's chastisements, he hath
one uniform object in view for their reform. All his dispensations are
to bring his people back to himself. Hence the wise among...
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The Prophet again complains of the deceitfulness of their tongues; and
he compares them to deadly, or drawn out arrows. Gold is said to be
drawn out, when refined by repeated meltings; so also arrows,...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9.
Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple,
which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without
conscience, wo...
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THEIR TONGUE IS AS AN ARROW SHOT OUT,.... As an arrow out of a bow,
which moves swiftly, and comes with great force; or, "drawn out" u; as
out of a quiver. The word is used of gold, and rendered "beat...
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Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one]
speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he
layeth his wait.
Ver. 8. _Their tongue is as an arrow shot out._]...
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_Behold, I will melt them and try them_ I will cast them into the
furnace of affliction, that I may purify them from their dross. See
note on Jeremiah 6:29, and on Isaiah 1:25. _For how shall I do_, &...
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THE DECEIT OF THE PEOPLE...
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Their tongue is as an arrow shot out, a sharp and deadly missile; IT
SPEAKETH DECEIT, that being the burden of the Lord's complaint
throughout this passage; ONE SPEAKETH PEACEABLY TO HIS NEIGHBOR WITH...
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IN HEART:
_ Heb._ in the midst of him
HIS WAIT:
Or, wait for him...
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1-11 Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might
rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the
desert, without communion with God, through Christ Jesus, and th...
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THEIR TONGUE IS AS AN ARROW: before, JEREMIAH 9:3, it was compared to
a bow, i.e. ready prepared, and furnished with materials contriving
their wickedness, PSALMS 11:2; and here to an arrow shot out,...
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Jeremiah 9:1. _Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain
of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the
daughter of my people!_
Jeremiah foresaw that the Chaldeans would c...
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CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Detestation of the
sins of the people. The vanity of trusting in anything but God.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Those who will not know God...
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Jeremiah 9:2. _Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodgingplace of
wayfaring men._ In countries where the peasantry are very poor,
travellers provide for themselves as they can. Even in Spain many of
th...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. For Chronology and History, see chap.
7.
1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 9:26. “_Egypt_.” sit. on N.E.
angle of Africa; a vast plain; in general features it may be...
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 9:1
The Hebrew more correctly attaches this verse to Jeremiah 8:1. OH THAT
MY HEAD WERE WATERS, etc.! A quaint conceit, it may be said. But "if
we have been going on pace for pace...
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Now Jeremiah declares,
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes were as a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my
people! Oh that I had in the wildernes...
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2 Samuel 20:10; 2 Samuel 20:9; 2 Samuel 3:27; Jeremiah 9:3; Jeremiah