children. sons.
that are in the utmost corners: or, all that have the corners of their beard polled. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 19:27). App-92. Compare Jeremiah 49:32.
uncircumcised. Supply Ellipsis, from the next clause: "uncircumcised [in heart], and all", &c.
the house of Israel. See note on Jeremiah 2:4.
Verse Jeremiah 9:26. _ALL_ THAT ARE _IN THE UTMOST CORNERS_] כל קצוצי פאה _col_ _ketsutsey pheah_. These words have been variously understood. The _Vulgate_ translates: Omnes qui attonsi sunt in coma...
ALL THAT ARE IN THE UTMOST CORNERS - Really, all who have the corners of their hair shorn. The people meant are those Arabs who cut the hair close upon the forehead and temples, but let it grow long b...
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...
THE KNOWLEDGE OF YAHWEH: UNCIRCUMCISED ISRAEL. This paragraph contains two originally distinct prophecies, unrelated to their present context, though quite possibly Jeremianic. They teach the glory of...
See summary introducing the section. Piety alone is the source of true glory. Circumcision, as the mere external mark of the covenant, of itself brings no man, Jew or otherwise, favour with God. 23, 2...
_circumcised in their uncircumcision_ probably meaning circumcised in body but not in heart. "Judah cannot rely on a rite which she shares with the heathen, indeed the corresponding inward circumcisio...
AND ALL THAT ARE IN THE UTMOST CORNERS— _All having the angular tonsure, or, having the corners of their hair polled._ The reader will find a more particular account of these nations, who drank of the...
IV. THE UNCIRCUMCISED HEART Jeremiah 9:25-26 TRANSLATION (25) Behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when I will bring punishment upon all circumcised in their uncircumcision. (26) Upon Egypt a...
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Is...
9:26 off, (c-23) See Leviticus 19:27 ....
1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
_That are_ IN THE UTMOST CORNERS] RV 'that have the corners _of their hair_ polled': cp. Leviticus 19:27. The reference is to the tribes of Kedar: see Jeremiah 49:28; Jeremiah 49:32....
EGYPT, AND JUDAH... — The nations enumerated were all alike, the Egyptians certainly (Herod. ii. 36, 37), and the others, as belonging to the same race as Judah, probably, in the fact of circumcision,...
_[Jeremiah 9:25]_ עַל ־מִצְרַ֣יִם וְ עַל ־יְהוּדָ֗ה...
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...
Egypt. the uncircumcised shall be punished as well as Juda, if they transgress. Only the Jewish nation properly observed the right of circumcision generally, or at first. Others imitated them, but wit...
It is blessed to see the Old Testament truths corresponding with New Testament doctrines. Both the circumcised and the uncircumcised are all one in Christ Jesus. And without him, neither circumcision...
REFLECTIONS MY soul! look at the Prophet in his tender concern for Israel! Look at the Lord God of the Prophets in his unparalleled compassion over our nature, and then ask, what must be the hardened...
However this may be, the Prophet here denounces ruin, not only on the Jews, but also on the Egyptians and on other neighboring nations; but he yet speaks to his own people, for his word was not destin...
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...
EGYPT, AND JUDAH, AND EDOM, AND THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND MOAB,.... Places and people among which the Jews were dispersed, and whose punishment is predicted in Jeremiah Chapter s forty six through fo...
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all [that are] in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all [these] nations [are] uncircumcised, and all the house...
_Behold the days come_, &c. Blaney translates these two verses, “Behold, the days are coming, saith Jehovah, that I will punish all the circumcision with the uncircumcision; Egypt, &c., and all those...
THE WAY OF ESCAPE REJECTED...
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, the Jews with all the nations surrounding them, AND ALL THAT ARE IN THE UTMOST CORNERS, THAT DWELL IN THE WILDERNESS, literally, "all h...
IN THE UTMOST CORNERS: _ Heb._ cut off into corners, or having the corners of their hair polled...
23-26 In this world of sin and sorrow, ending soon in death and judgement, how foolish for men to glory in their knowledge, health, strength, riches, or in any thing which leaves them under the domin...
IN THE UTMOST CORNERS: some refer this to the place of their habitation, as in corners, and remote parts of the wilderness, as it were separated from other nations, and therefore might think themselve...
Jeremiah 9:26 Egypt H4714 Judah H3063 Edom H123 people H1121 Ammon H5983 Moab H4124 farthest H7112 (H8803) corners
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 9:25 In coming DAYS God will punish all people who are UNCIRCUMCISED IN HEART (see Jeremiah 4:3).
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...
Acts 7:51; Amos 1:1; Deuteronomy 30:6; Ezekiel 32:32; Ezekiel 44:7;...