RETURN. Note the Figure of speech _Cycloides._ App-6. ISRAEL. Now referring to the northern kingdom. SAITH THE LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. THEN SHALT THOU NOT REMOVE. and stray not [from Jehovah]. Compare Jeremiah 2:22; Jeremiah 3:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT SWEAR. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 10:20). IN TRUTH, IN JUDGMENT, AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. Figure of speech _Hendiatris_ (App-6). truly, yea, justly and righteously, the three referring to the one thing, "shalt swear".... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JERUSALEM. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and the inhabitants of Jerusalem", as in Jeremiah 4:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
CIRCUMCISE. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 30:6). Spiritual circumcision in the O.T. is confined to these three passages.... [ Continue Reading ]
DECLARE... PUBLISH... SAY. Compare Jeremiah 46:14; Jeremiah 50:2. JUDAH. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), for Judah and Benjamin. BLOW YE. Hebrew text reads, "And blow ye": but Hebrew margin, and some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read... [ Continue Reading ]
SET... RETIRE... STAY. All plural. standard. EVIL. calamity. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. DESTRUCTION: or, breaking up.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LION. A lion. Figure of speech _Hypocatastasis_, not _Simile_ or _Metaphor._ Put thus for the king of Babylon. Contrast Jeremiah 49:19. See note there. GENTILES. nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEART. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), for courage. KING... PRINCES... PRIESTS... PROPHETS. All had become false and corrupt since Josiah's day.... [ Continue Reading ]
GREATLY DECEIVED. Hebrew idiom for declaring that they would be deceived: i.e. by the false prophets who prophesied peace. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
WIND. Hebrew. _ruach_. App-9.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEM _._. special various reading called _"Sevir"_ (App-34) reads "her".... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM DAN... EPHRAIM. The enemy would enter the Land from the north, as he afterward did. MOUNT. hill country of.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY BOWELS. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6), for emphasis. Note the Figure of speech _Hypotyposis, verses:_ 19-31. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), for the emotions which produce and affect their movement. BOWELS... VERY HEART... HEART. Note the Figure of speech _Anabasis._ App-6... [ Continue Reading ]
CURTAINS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for tents, in which. large proportion of the people lived (2 Samuel 18:17; 1 Kings 8:66). Compare Jeremiah 10:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOWN. acknowledged. SOTTISH. stupid. Probably from Celtic. Breton _sot,_ or _sod =_ stupid. CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
I BEHELD. Note the Figure of speech _Anaphora_ (App-6), commencing this and the three following verses. LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID. Hebrew. _tohu va-bohu._ Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 1:2). Occurs only here. App-92. In Isaiah 34:11, the two words are in a... [ Continue Reading ]
AT. because of. AND BY. Some cod ices, with five early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and because of".... [ Continue Reading ]
YET WILL. NOT MAKE. FULL END. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:44). App-92. Compare Jeremiah 5:10; Jeremiah 5:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE PURPOSED IT, AND, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 23:19). App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
CITY. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), for its inhabitants. EVERY. all, as in preceding clause.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_, Put for idolatrous Israel. An adulterous woman. RENTEST. enlargest (with paint). FACE. eyes. LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._... [ Continue Reading ]