How long shall I see... — The “standard,” as in Jeremiah 4:6, is the alarm signal given to the fugitives. The “trumpet” sounds to give the alarm, and quicken their flight to the defenced city. The prophet sees no end to the miseries of the coming war.
THE STANDARD - See Jeremiah 4:6. The alarm caused by the invasion is graphically described. The people are dispersed over the land following their usual pursuits, when tidings come of the enemy’s appr...
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 PROPHET'S GRIEF for his country finds characteristic expression: My bowels! my bowels! Let me writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart moaneth within me! (Driver). His soul hears (_mg._ with LXX) t...
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...
The prophet is racked with grief at the noise of war and the thought of its horrors and all through the mad folly of his people. See summary at commencement of section....
B. Description of Coming Judgment Jeremiah 4:19-31 In the last half of chapter four Jeremiah describes the coming judgment. He emphasizes that this judgment will be (1) terrifying (Jeremiah 4:19-22);...
How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet? HOW LONG SHALL I SEE THE STANDARD? - Judah in perplexity asks, 'How long is this state of things to continue?'...
THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6) This section furnishes us with the g...
5-10. Destruction approaches Jerusalem....
SEE Jeremiah 4:6....
עַד ־מָתַ֖י אֶרְאֶה ־נֵּ֑ס אֶשְׁמְעָ֖ה קֹ֥ול...
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 hope the Reader will pause over these verses, and remark the concern of the Prophet. And when he hath done this, let him ask himself what ought to be the concern of the Lord's prophets: I mean his m...
He concludes that part of his discourse, which, as we have said, he embellished with figurative terms, in order more fully to rouse slow and torpid minds: but he confirms what he said at the beginning...
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...
HOW LONG SHALL I SEE THE STANDARD,.... "Ensign" or "banner" displayed; either by the watchmen placed on high hills or towers, who, when they see the enemy approaching, lift up their ensign or banner,...
How long shall I see the standard, [and] hear the sound of the trumpet? Ver. 21. _How long shall I see the standard?_] Sad sights and doleful ditties are common in times of war. _ And hear the sound...
_How long shall I see the standard_, &c. This dreadful war continued a great while, not in the borders, but in the bowels of the country; for the people were very obstinate, and would not submit to, b...
How long shall I see the standard, the banner of the advancing enemy, AND HEAR THE 'SOUND OF THE TRUMPET? How long would this state of things continue? When would the reports of calamities and disaste...
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....
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...
He seems to have these concomitants of war, both of Judea preparing for defence, and especially these of the enemy preparing for ruin and destruction. always in his eye and ear, JEREMIAH 4:19, and bew...
Jeremiah 4:21 see H7200 (H8799) standard H5251 hear H8085 (H8799) sound H6963 trumpet H7782 How long -...
JUDAH ARE CALLED TO REPENTANCE AS WELL AS ISRAEL FOR THEY ARE STILL IN THEIR LAND, AND, IF THEY WILL ONLY TRULY TURN TO HIM WITH GENUINELY CHANGED HEARTS, CAN STILL LOOK FORWARD TO THE FUTURE IN HOPE....
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 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...
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...
2 Chronicles 35:25; 2 Chronicles 36:10; 2 Chronicles 36:17; 2 Chronicles 36:3;...