Verse Jeremiah 23:39. I will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you and the city] Dr. Blayney translates: - I will both take you up altogether, and will cast you off together with the city. Ye are a burden to me: but I will take you up, and then cast you off. I will do with you as a man weary with his burden will do; cast it off his shoulders, and bear it no more.
Translate, “Therefore, behold, I will even take you up (or will burden you), and I will cast you, and the city which I gave you and your fathers, out of my presence.”...
CHAPTER 23:9-40 Condemnation of the False Prophets _ 1. Jeremiah's lament on account of the false prophets (Jeremiah 23:9) _ 2. The condemnation of these prophets (Jeremiah 23:15) 3. Forgotten and...
THE PROPHETS. Jeremiah is overcome by the stern message given him to deliver. The evil of the land is encouraged by prophet and priest (Jeremiah 6:13), even the Temple being dishonoured (2 Kings 21:5)...
Jeremiah 23:9-40. Condemnation of the prophets Following on the prophecies relating to successive kings of Judah, we have a section dealing with the iniquities of a class who also grievously misled t...
_utterly forget you_ The alternative in mg. _lift you up_, as rendering the Hebrew verb from which "burden" is derived, is clearly right, that substantive being the key-word of the passage, and the tw...
See introd. summary to section. The original word means either a burden or a prophetic utterance. It would appear that those hostile to Jeremiah had taken to apply the word derisively to the prophet's...
_JEREMIAH 23:39_. I_, EVEN I, WILL UTTERLY FORGET YOU_— _I, even I, will bear you away like a burden, and I will throw out of my sight both you and the city which I gave to you and to your fathers._ H...
4. _The mockery of the false prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:33-40) TRANSLATION (33) And when this people or the prophet or the priest shall ask you, What is the burden of the LORD? Then you shall say unto th...
Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence: I WILL UTTERLY FORGET YOU - just retri...
1-4. A remnant shall return....
I, EVEN I, WILL UTTERLY FORGET YOU... — A very slight alteration in a single letter of the Hebrew verb gives a rendering which was followed by the LXX. and Vulgate, and is adopted by many modern comme...
לָכֵ֣ן הִנְנִ֔י וְ נָשִׁ֥יתִי אֶתְכֶ֖ם נָשֹׁ֑א...
CHAPTER VIII BAD SHEPHERDS AND FALSE PROPHETS Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 24:1 "Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!"- Jeremiah 23:1 "Of what avail is straw instead...
Having thus passed in review the predecessors of Zedekiah on the throne of Judah, the prophet proceeded to deal with those who had been responsible for the failure of the people, the false kings and p...
_Take. Hebrew of the Masorets, (Calmet) "I, even I, will utterly forget (Protestants; Haydock) or abandon you." (Chaldean) But the sense of the Septuagint and Vulgate seems preferable. (Calmet)_...
At the opening of this passage, we have the Lord's sentence upon them, and an awful one it is. Wormwood and gall are strong figures to set forth the awful bitterness in the close of such a life! Proph...
_If ye shall say, _even when I warn you not to speak in this manner; if then ye persevere in this obstinacy, _Behold I, _etc.; God here declares that he would take vengeance. As to this sentence, most...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23. On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the Spir...
THEREFORE, BEHOLD, I, EVEN I, WILL UTTERLY FORGET YOU,.... That is, so behave towards them, as though they were entirely out of his sight and mind; show no affection to them; take no care of them; bes...
Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, [and cast you] out of my presence: Ver. 39. _Therefore, behold, I, even I...
_Therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you_ The Vulgate renders this clause, _Propterea ecce ego tolam vos portans, Therefore, behold, I will take you away removing you_, (taking the verb נשׁה, _na...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
therefore, behold, I, even I, spoken with great solemnity and impressiveness, WILL UTTERLY FORGET YOU, rather, "I will altogether lift you up and burden you," AND I WILL FORSAKE YOU, thrusting them wi...
33-40 Those are miserable indeed who are forsaken and forgotten of God; and men's jesting at God's judgments will not baffle them. God had taken Israel to be a people near to him, but they shall now b...
_ I will forget you_ as to my affection, and that is more than if all your friends forgot you. There is a great emphasis in the doubling of the pronoun, I, EVEN I. I WILL FORSAKE YOU as to the presenc...
Jeremiah 23:39 utterly H5377 (H8800) forget H5382 (H8804) forsake H5203 (H8804) city H5892 gave...
JEREMIAH'S DIATRIBE AGAINST THE PROPHETS, HEADED AS ‘CONCERNING THE PROPHETS' (JEREMIAH 23:9). Having set right the vision of the future, Jeremiah now turns on those who had been distorting that visio...
BOTH JEREMIAH AND THE FALSE PROPHETS ARE FORBIDDEN TO USE THE PHRASE, ‘THE BURDEN OF YHWH' (JEREMIAH 23:33). God now puts a blanket ban on speaking of a ‘burden' from YHWH. This is not just arguing ab...
CONTENTS: Future restoration and conversion of Israel. Message against the faithless shepherds. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Woe be to those who are commanded to feed God's people and preten...
Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep._ Princes are often called pastors, as Cyrus, Isaiah 44:28, because they enforce the laws and protect the people. Shallum, and...
_Because ye say this word, The burden of the Lord._ SINS OF THE TONGUE Great part of the prophetical writings is occupied with denunciations of vengeance on the Jews, for their obstinacy, ingratitude...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The chapter is an epilogue to the denunciations of the three kings in chap. 22. It must have been written and proclaimed about the beginnin...
EXPOSITION The first eight verses form the necessary conclusion of the group of discourses summarized in Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 22:1. Like Isaiah, our prophet follows up denunciation with consolation...
Now in chapter 23 God speaks out against those Pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith the LORD (Jeremiah 23:1). God said, "They're My sheep, but these pastors are scattering...
2 Thessalonians 1:9; Deuteronomy 32:39; Ezekiel 34:11; Ezekiel 34:20;...