Speak. This shows that Jerome's Hebrew text was unpointed, for he read d-b-r as deber = pestilence, instead of dabar = word, or dabber = speak.
open field. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "ground".
none shall gather them. Compare Psalms 79:3.
Verse Jeremiah 9:22. _AND AS THE HANDFUL AFTER THE HARVESTMAN_] The reapers, after having cut enough to fill their hand, threw it down; and the binders, following after, collected those handfuls, and...
The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length. Jeremiah 9:10 THE HABITATIONS I. E - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see Jeremiah...
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...
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...
See summary introducing the section....
_Speak, Thus saith the Lord_ The words are not found in LXX and they break the connexion....
SPEAK, THUS, &C.— _For it shall come to pass, saith the Lord, that the carcases,_ &c. Houb. _AND AS THE HANDFUL AFTER THE HARVEST-MAN_— _Behind the reaper._ This alludes to the manner of reaping corn...
2. _Death throughout the land_ (Jeremiah 9:17-22) TRANSLATION (17) Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider and call for the mourning women that they might come and unto the wise women send that they mi...
Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them. THUS SAITH THE LORD - continuing t...
9:22 men (a-9) The _ Adam_ ....
1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
SPEAK, THUS SAITH THE LORD. — The abrupt opening indicates a new prediction, coming to him unbidden, which he is constrained to utter as a message from Jehovah. AS THE HANDFUL. — The reaper gathered i...
_[Jeremiah 9:21]_ דַּבֵּ֗ר כֹּ֚ה נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֔ה וְ...
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
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...
CHAPTER IX. _ Speak. Our editions of the Septuagint omit this word, though St. Jerome found it in his copies, (Calmet) and in Theodotion, expressed by "death;" while others rendered it, "speak," as t...
Perhaps these mourning women means true weepers, and the cunning women those which were counterfeit. And the counterfeit would have found cause to change their cries into real sorrow, had they foresee...
Though Jeremiah continues the same subject, he yet introduces a preface, — that he had been commanded to declare what he says here; for on account of the strangeness of the event, the prophecy seemed...
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...
SPEAK, THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... These are the words of the Lord to Jeremiah, to go on with his prophecy in his name; so the Targum, "prophesy, thus saith the Lord:'' EVEN THE CARCASSES OF MEN SHALL...
Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather [them]. Ver. 22. _Speak, Thus saith the Lor...
THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND...
Speak, this being addressed to the prophet, in continuing the command of verse 20, THUS SAITH THE LORD, EVEN THE CARCASSES OF MEN SHALL FALL AS DUNG UPON THE OPEN FIELD, there to rot away, and as the...
12-22 In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the voice of lamentation. Unhumbled hearts lament their calami...
SPEAK, THUS SAITH THE LORD; lest they should think these things would never be, cease not to tell them from me that they shall certainly come to pass, viz. what was said before, and what is said now i...
Jeremiah 9:22 Speak H1696 (H8761) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 carcasses H5038 men H120 fall H5307 ...
THOSE WHO ARE TRULY WISE WILL KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD AND WILL THUS UNDERSTAND WHY HE ACTS LIKE HE DOES IN BRINGING FINAL JUDGMENT ON JUDAH (JEREMIAH 9:12). The passage commences by asking who the tr...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2 Kings 9:37; Isaiah 5:25; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 25:33; Jeremiah 7:
As the handful — They shall be no more regarded than a few scattered ears that drop out of the reapers hand, which either lie on the ground and are eaten by birds, or trod to dirt by beasts. None — No...