Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Jeremiah 8:18
When I would comfort myself— Comfort, or mirth flies from me: sorrow hangs over me, my heart is faint. Houb.
When I would comfort myself— Comfort, or mirth flies from me: sorrow hangs over me, my heart is faint. Houb.
Rather, “O my comfort in sorrow: my heart faints for me.” The word translated “comfort” is by some supposed to be corrupt. With these mournful ejaculations a new strophe begins, ending with Jeremiah 9...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _ 2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4) 3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13) 4. The prophet's lamentation ...
JEREMIAH 8:18 TO JEREMIAH 9:1. JEREMIAH'S SORROW OVER JUDAH'S SUFFERING. The prophet, in sorrowful sympathy with his people, hears in anticipation the cry of the exiles and Yahweh's answer. They repro...
I: i.e. the prophet again....
Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of sin The section may be thus summarized. (i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to change, but Israel...
_Oh that I could comfort myself_ lit. _brighten_myself. The Hebrew verb occurs here only, but is found in Arabic in this sense. See further in Dr., p. 352....
D. Unbearable Pain on the Part of the Prophet Jeremiah 8:18 to Jeremiah 9:1 TRANSLATION (18) O my Comfort against sorrow! My heart is faint within me! (19) Behold, the sound of the cry of the daughte...
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. WHEN I WOULD COMFORT MYSELF AGAINST SORROW, MY HEART IS FAINT IN ME - (Isaiah 22:4). The lamentation of the prophet for the imp...
1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....
WHEN I WOULD COMFORT MYSELF... — The word translated _comfort_ is not found elsewhere, and has been very differently understood. Taking the words as spoken after a pause, they come as a cry of sorrow...
מַבְלִ֥יגִיתִ֖י עֲלֵ֣י יָגֹ֑ון עָלַ֖י לִבִּ֥י דַוָּֽי׃...
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
FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the fight, so were the people set...
Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
[When] I would (n) comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me. (n) Read (Jeremiah 4:19)....
_Me. God, Jeremias, the people, or rather Jerusalem bewails her children. (Calmet)_...
I bring the whole of this beautiful Chapter, from this verse to the end into one view, for the sake of shortness, and from necessity; but otherwise nothing could be more desirable than to dwell upon e...
Interpreters explain differently the word מבלגיתי, _mebelgiti. _Some take מ, _mem, _in the sense of ב, _beth; _but others, with whom I agree, regard it as a servile, deriving the word from בלג, _belag...
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...
WHEN I WOULD COMFORT MYSELF AGAINST TERROR,.... Either naturally, by eating and drinking, the necessary and lawful means of refreshment; or spiritually, by reading the word of God, and looking over th...
Jeremiah 8:18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me. Ver. 18. _When I would comfort myself, &c._] Or, as some render it, O my comfort against sorrow, _i.e., _ O my G...
_When I would comfort myself_, &c. “When I would apply comfort to myself, my heart misgives me: I find great reason for my fears, and none for my hopes.” Blaney translates the verse, _sorrow is upon m...
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me, literally, "O my exhilaration in sorrow! My heart very ill!" His sorrow was so great that he despaired of finding consolation. He h...
FURTHER DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPENDING PUNISHMENT...
IN: _ Heb._ upon...
14-22 At length they begin to see the hand of God lifted up. And when God appears against us, every thing that is against us appears formidable. As salvation only can be found in the Lord, so the pre...
The language of the people, being long shut up in their cities, and finding no relief, at last faint, LAMENTATIONS 4:17. But more probably the prophet now seems to speak his own resentments, how great...
Jeremiah 8:18 comfort H4010 sorrow H3015 heart H3820 faint H1742 my - Jeremiah 6:24,...
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bo...
Jeremiah 8:1. At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bon...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments impending. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of man cannot serve to k...
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 8:18 In this exchange between Judah and God, the people claim that God has deserted them, but God notes their ongoing worship of idols. They reply that they ARE NOT SAVED (an...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 8:1 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. JEREMIAH 8:1 THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies remain unbur...
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inha...
Daniel 10:16; Daniel 10:17; Habakkuk 3:16; Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 1
Sorrow — The prophet now seems to speak, how greatly the calamity of this people affected him....