_The word that came to Jeremiah_, &c. “There is no particular date annexed to this prophecy, whereby to ascertain the precise time of its delivery, but it may not unreasonably be presumed to have followed immediately after the preceding one, in which the restoration of the people from their Babyloni... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thus speaketh the Lord, Write thee all the words that I have spoken_, &c. The following words contain a promise of the restoration of God's people. These God commands to be committed to writing for the use of posterity, to be a support to the Jews, an encouragement to them to trust in God, and a pr... [ Continue Reading ]
_And these are the words that the Lord spake_ And which God ordered to be written: and those promises, which were written by his order, are as truly his word as the ten commandments, which were written with his finger. _We have heard a voice of trembling_ Such a one as discovers great fears and appr... [ Continue Reading ]
_It shall come to pass in that day_ In the day when Jacob shall be saved out of all his troubles, Jeremiah 30:7. The phrase _that day_ often denotes an extraordinary or remarkable time for some signal events of Providence: see Isaiah 4:2. _That I will break his yoke from off thy neck_ This promise w... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fear thou not, O my servant Jacob_ As if God had utterly forsaken thee or cast thee off. See the margin. _For, lo, I will save thee from afar_ I will restore you from your captivity, though you should be dispersed into the most distant countries. And though this be not accomplished in the Jews of t... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thy bruise is incurable_ In all human appearance. The state that the Jews should be in would be so miserable that it would be incurable from any hand except that of God. _There is none to plead thy cause_ There is none that, by the reformation of their lives, or their intercessions with God, endeav... [ Continue Reading ]
_Therefore_ Or rather, _yet surely_, as לכן should be rendered; (see note on Jeremiah 16:14;) _all they that devour thee shall be devoured_ The Egyptians, Philistines, Midianites, Ammonites, Edomites, Syrians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and others, who have afflicted and oppressed you, shall be extirpate... [ Continue Reading ]
_Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents_ The expression alludes to the ancient custom of dwelling in tents. This promise was, in some degree, fulfilled under Zerubbabel. _And the city shall be builded upon her own heap_ Upon her ruins, which were cleared away, that new houses migh... [ Continue Reading ]
_Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goeth forth with fury_ Rather, _with anger_, the word _fury_ being manifestly improper when applied to God. These two verses occur with some slight variations, Jeremiah 23:19, where see the notes. _In the latter days ye shall consider it The latter days_ here may s... [ Continue Reading ]