Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Jeremiah 14:6
They snuffed up the wind] RV 'They pant for air.' Dragons] RV 'jackals.'
7-22. Jeremiah's pleadings and God's replies.
They snuffed up the wind] RV 'They pant for air.' Dragons] RV 'jackals.'
7-22. Jeremiah's pleadings and God's replies.
Verse Jeremiah 14:6. _SNUFFED UP THE WIND LIKE DRAGONS_] תנים _tannim_ here probably means the _hippopotamus_, who, after feeding under the water, is obliged to come to the surface in order to take in...
LIKE DRAGONS - “Like jackals” Jeremiah 9:11. NO GRASS - The keen sight of the wild donkey is well known, but they look around in vain for herb....
II. THE PROPHET'S MINISTRY BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, THE PROPHECIES OF JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF JEREMIAH, HIS FAITHFULNESS AND HIS SUFFERING CHAPTER 14 The Great Drought...
JEREMIAH 14:1 TO JEREMIAH 15:9. THE DROUGHT IN JUDAH, AND JEREMIAH'S CONSEQUENT INTERCESSION. The date of this disaster is unknown, but some year in the latter half of Jehoiakim's reign is most probab...
WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. DRAGONS. jackals....
_bare heights_ See on ch. Jeremiah 3:2. _pant for air_ oppressed by heat and thirst. _jackals_ See on Jeremiah 9:11, but mg. (by the change of one Heb. letter) _the crocodile_(coming out of the wate...
CHAPTER TEN NATIONAL DISTRESS AND PROPHETIC DISCOURAGEMENT Jeremiah 14:1 to Jeremiah 17:27 Sometime during the ministry of Jeremiah a terrible drought or series of droughts (the Hebrew word is plura...
And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass. THE WILD DONKEYS DID STAND IN THE HIGH PLACES - they repair...
THE WILD ASSES. — From the field the prophet’s eye turns to the bare hill-tops of the “high places,” and sees a scene of like distress. The “wild asses” seem turned to beasts of prey, and stand gaping...
וּ פְרָאִים֙ עָמְד֣וּ עַל ־שְׁפָיִ֔ם שָׁאֲפ֥וּ...
CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
We now come to the second division of the Book, that containing the account of the prophet's ministry. This falls into three sections: prophecies before the fall of Jerusalem (14-39), prophecies after...
And the wild donkeys stood in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like (e) dragons; their eyes failed, because [there was] no grass. (e) Who are so hot by nature, that they cannot be cooled by...
_Wind, for refreshment. --- Failed, through want, though they be very piercing._...
We have here an account of the famine, which by the parallel history took place in the reign of Jehoiakim; probably just before the captivity. Jeremiah had mourned for the good king Josiah; see 2 Chro...
The same thing is said of the wild asses, _And the wild asses, _he says, _stood on the rocks: _and yet this animal, we know, can endure want for a long Lime. But the Prophet, as I have said, intended...
Chapter 14 refers to a famine which took place in the land. The desolation of Jerusalem by the sword and by famine is again declared. But observe here the touching intercession of Jeremiah 14:7-9; and...
AND THE WILD ASSES DID STAND IN THE HIGH PLACES,.... To see where any grass was to be had, or where the wind blows more freely and cooly, to draw it in; as follows. The Targum renders it, "by the broo...
And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because [there was] no grass. Ver. 6. _And the wild asses._] _Secretes alias vagae libidin...
_And their nobles_, &c. This scarcity of water afflicted not poor persons only, who had not such means of supplying their necessities as the rich; but the greatest among them, who sent _their little o...
THE PROPHET INTERCEDES FOR THE FIRST TIME...
And the wild asses did stand in the high places, the bare hills most exposed to the wind, THEY SNUFFED UP THE WIND LIKE DRAGONS, like jackals, eagerly seeking a breath of cooling air; THEIR EYES DID F...
1-9 The people were in tears. But it was rather the cry of their trouble, and of their sin, than of their prayer. Let us be thankful for the mercy of water, that we may not be taught to value it by f...
THE WILD ASSES, wanting water, got upon HIGH PLACES, where was the freest and coolest air, and sucked in the wind, and this it is said they did LIKE DRAGONS, of whom Aristotle and Pliny report, that b...
Jeremiah 14:6 donkeys H6501 stood H5975 (H8804) heights H8205 sniffed H7602 (H8804) wind H7307 jackals H8577 eyes
THE LESSON OF THE GREAT DROUGHTS (JEREMIAH 14:1). As a preliminary warning of what is coming YHWH sends a great drought on Judah with the result that the cisterns are empty, the springs are dry, the p...
THE DEPTHS OF THE SERIES OF DROUGHTS (JEREMIAH 14:1). The plural for ‘droughts' suggests that there had been a series of droughts, probably over a number of years. Such droughts did occur in Canaan fr...
In some respects, Jeremiah is one of the greatest of the ancient prophets, for he had most sorrowful task to perform. He had not to deliver a message full of Evangelical comfort, like that of Isaiah;...
CONTENTS: Message on the drought. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Man's sins bring those judgments upon the earth which make even the inferior creatures to groan. There will come a time when...
Jeremiah 14:3. _They found no water._ The latter rain had been denied, as in Jeremiah 3:3; and as Moses had foretold. Deuteronomy 11:17;...
_They came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads._ THE DROUGHT OF NATURE, THE RAIN OF GRACE, AND THE LESSO...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY of the Chapter. This and chapter 15 form one prophecy (although Lange, Keil, and others connect Chapter s 14 to 17, regarding them as interwoven and synchr...
EXPOSITION This chapter must be read in connection with the following one. They describe chiefly Jeremiah's twofold attempt at intercession (see verses 7-9 and 19-22)—a tender and appealing attempt in...
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the deaRuth (Jeremiah 14:1). For a drought filled the land. Judah mourns, and the gates languish; they are black upon the ground; and the cry of...
1 Samuel 14:29; Jeremiah 2:24; Job 39:5; Job 39:6; Joel 1:18;...
The wild asses — The wild asses wanting water, got upon high places, where was the coolest air, and sucked in the wind; and this it is said they did like dragons, of whom Aristotle and Pliny report, t...