Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Jeremiah 4:23
The multitude of mountains] RV 'the tumult' (RM 'the noisy throng') 'on the mountains': the orgies and clamorous supplications of idolatrous crowds at the high places.
The multitude of mountains] RV 'the tumult' (RM 'the noisy throng') 'on the mountains': the orgies and clamorous supplications of idolatrous crowds at the high places.
Verse Jeremiah 4:23. _I BEHELD THE EARTH_, (the land,) _AND LO_ IT WAS _WITHOUT_ _FORM AND VOID_] תהו ובהו _tohu vabohu_; the very words used in Genesis to denote the formless state of the chaotic mas...
In four verses each beginning with “I beheld,” the prophet sees in vision the desolate condition of Judaea during the Babylonian captivity. Jeremiah 4:23 WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID - Desolate and void (s...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. True repentance and what it means (Jeremiah 4:1) _ 2. The alarm sounded: judgment comes (Jeremiah 4:5) 3. The doom of the rebellious people (Jeremiah 4:14) 4. The desolation of I
THE VISION OF DESOLATION (Jeremiah 4:23) most impressively describes the Divine visitation of Judah. The earth becomes like the chaos before creation (_mg._) under a sky that has lost its lamps; the v...
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._ Refer...
Jeremiah 4:5-31. Impending judgements. National disaster This section and the two that follow it (viz. chs. 5 and 6) are somewhat later than the preceding, as presenting a more definite description o...
_waste_ formless, unsubstantial. Cp. Genesis 1:2. "And void" is not rendered by LXX either here or in Is., and is therefore probably a gloss from Genesis. _no light_ as though a return to chaos befor...
In vision he beholds the earth a void waste, the hills reeling at the blast of God's anger, the heavens black, all bird life fled, cities in ruins. Jehovah's resolve is an abiding one. See summary at...
I BEHELD THE EARTH, &C.— The images, under which the prophet represents the approaching desolation as foreseen by him, are such as are familiar to the Hebrew poets on the like occasions. (See Lowth De...
_2. Devastating judgment_ (Jeremiah 4:23-26) TRANSLATION (23) I looked at the land, and behold, it was waste and void; and unto the heavens, but there was no light. (24) I looked at the mountains, an...
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. Graphic picture of the utter desolation about to visit Palestine. "I beheld, and, lo!" four times...
4:23 empty; (c-11) See Isaiah 34:11 ....
I BEHELD THE EARTH. — In words of terrible grandeur the prophet speaks, as if he had already seen the consummated destruction; and repeating the words “I beheld,” as if he had passed through four dist...
רָאִ֨יתִי֙ אֶת ־הָ אָ֔רֶץ וְ הִנֵּה ־תֹ֖הוּ
Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would under
Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in exte...
I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and (t) void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light. (t) By this manner of speech he shows the horrible destruction that would come on the land a...
_Void. Hebrew, " Thohu and bohu, " like chaos, Genesis i. 2. (Haydock)_...
There is somewhat uncommonly solemn and striking, when the Lord by his servants, as in many parts of scripture, calls upon the heavenly bodies, and the inanimate parts of nature, to lament by their ap...
The Prophet in this passage enlarges in a language highly metaphorical on the terror of God’s vengeance, that he might rouse the Jews, who were stupid and careless: nor is the repetition in vain, when...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...
I BEHELD THE EARTH,.... The land of Judea, not the whole world; and this the prophet says, either in spirit, as Jerom; or in prophecy, as Kimchi; or in a visionary way; for these are not the words of...
I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light. Ver. 23. _I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void._] _Tohu vabohit_ _as _ Ge...
_I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form and void_ “The images under which the prophet here represents the approaching desolation, as foreseen by him, are such as are familiar to the Hebrew po...
The Desolation Following the Lord's Judgment. The prophet here, in a most dramatic manner, introduces Israel as lamenting over the calamity which has struck the nation....
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form and void, as in the beginning of creation, the prophet thus picturing the dismal waste which would follow the Chaldean invasion, AND THE HEAVENS, AND T...
19-31 The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion. Compared with what it was, every thing is out of order; but the ruin of the Jew...
I BEHELD; either I Jeremiah saw all this in a vision, or I fancied and framed such an IDEA of it in my mind; it seems to be impressed upon my thoughts _graphically, _ as in a map, in such a rueful man...
Jeremiah 4:23 beheld H7200 (H8804) earth H776 form H8414 void H922 heavens H8064 light H216 the earth -...
YHWH WARNS JUDAH THAT IF THEY WILL NOT REPENT FOR THEM TOO INVASION BY A FIERCE ADVERSARY IS THREATENING AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY COME BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS (JEREMIAH 4:3). If Judah will not respond to th...
JEREMIAH'S VISION OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE INVASION (JEREMIAH 4:23). In chilling tones Jeremiah now pictures the land after its destruction, as he, as it were, looks around and sees all the devastation...
WITHOUT FORM AND VOID Compare (Genesis 1:2). "Without form and void" describes the condition of the earth as the result of judgment; (Jeremiah 4:24); (Isaiah 24:1) which overthrew the primal order o...
Jeremiah 4:1. _If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The LORD l...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. Warning of the consequences of sin and exhortation to return to God. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is the evil of men's doings that kindle...
Jeremiah 4:3. _Break up your fallow ground._ Hebrews ניר _nir, novale;_ make _new_ land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12. Our old phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the word....
_I am pained at my very heart._ THE PROPHET’S LAMENTATIONS OVER HIS PEOPLE’S DOOM I. The complaint or lamentation itself. 1. The parts affected. The soul and inward man. (1) The secrecy of it, the...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 4:23 Jeremiah portrays the coming judgment as a reversal of the creation process. The earth is once again WITHOUT FORM AND VOID (compare Genesis
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Chronology_ of the chapter, _Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History_ as in chap. 3. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 4:5. “_Defenced cities_....
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 4:1, JEREMIAH 4:2 The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render, _If thou wilt return_,_ O Israel_,_ saith Jehovah_,_ wilt return unto me_;_ and if thou wilt...
But if you will return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if you will put away thine abominations out of my sight, then you will no longer be [moved or] removed. And thou shalt swear, The...
Acts 2:19; Acts 2:20; Amos 8:9; Ezekiel 32:7; Ezekiel 32:8;...
I beheld — I Jeremiah saw this in a vision. It — The land was squalid, and ruined, like the first chaos, for which reason possibly he calls Judah the earth, in allusion to Genesis 1:2. The heavens — H...