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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:18

Take up a wailing for us. — There is in all such figures of speech an inevitable blending of metaphors. The mourners wail for the dead nation, and yet the members of the nation are sharers in the obsequies, and their eyes run down with tears.

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See also Jeremiah 9:18 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length. Jeremiah 9:10 THE HABITATIONS I. E - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see Jeremiah...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    FAITHLESSNESS AND ITS RETRIBUTION: THE DIRGE OF DEATH. The humblest caravanserai would be preferable to life among these evil men, with their calumnies and the unfaithful use of power by those in auth...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    "There are in every city and community women exceedingly cunning in this business.… When a fresh company of sympathisers comes in, these women -make haste" to -take up a wailing" that the newly come m...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See summary introducing the section....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. _Death throughout the land_ (Jeremiah 9:17-22) TRANSLATION (17) Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider and call for the mourning women that they might come and unto the wise women send that they mi...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. THAT OUR EYES MAY RUN DOWN WITH TEARS ... - ()....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Jeremiah 9:17]_ וּ תְמַהֵ֕רְנָה וְ תִשֶּׂ֥נָה עָלֵ֖ינוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Perhaps these mourning women means true weepers, and the cunning women those which were counterfeit. And the counterfeit would have found cause to change their cries into real sorrow, had they foresee...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    _Let them, _he says, _take up for us a wailing, and let our eyes come down to tears, and let our eyelids flow down into waters _These are hyperbolical words, and yet they do not exceed the intensehess...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND LET THEM MAKE HASTE, AND TAKE UP A WAILING FOR US,.... Deliver out a mournful song, as the Arabic version; setting forth their miseries and distresses, and affecting their minds with them. The pro...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters._ Ver. 18. _And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us._...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, for the whole nation of Judah, THAT OUR EYES MAY RUN DOWN WITH TEARS AND OUR EYELIDS GUSH OUT WITH WATERS, in the strongest expression of excessiv...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-22 In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the voice of lamentation. Unhumbled hearts lament their calami...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    LET THEM MAKE HASTE: as by the calling for their artificial mourners he did intimate the greatness of the misery that was coming upon them, that with all, their art they could not sufficiently bewail...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 9:18 haste H4116 (H8762) up H5375 (H8799) wailing H5092 eyes H5869 run H3381 (H8799) tears...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 13:17; Jeremiah 14:17; Jeremiah 6:26; Jeremia

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