Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 4:20
Verse Jeremiah 4:20. Destruction upon destruction] Cities burnt, and their inhabitants destroyed.
My tents spoiled] Even the solitary dwellings in the fields and open country do not escape.
Verse Jeremiah 4:20. Destruction upon destruction] Cities burnt, and their inhabitants destroyed.
My tents spoiled] Even the solitary dwellings in the fields and open country do not escape.
DESTRUCTION ... - Or, breaking upon breaking Jeremiah 4:6. The news of one breaking, one violent calamity, follows close upon another. MY CURTAINS - The curtains of the tent, put here for the tents t...
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...
CURTAINS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for tents, in which. large proportion of the people lived (2 Samuel 18:17; 1 Kings 8:66). Compare Jeremiah 10:20....
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....
_is cried_ better, _one destruction_(lit. _breach) meeteth_(followeth upon) _another_. The Hebrew verb is ambiguous. _curtains_ tent-hangings. Cp. Jeremiah 10:20; Ca. Jeremiah 1:5; Isaiah 54:2....
MY BOWELS, &C.— _My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the centre,_ or, _in the midst, of my heart; my heart is tumultuous within me._ This terrific vision is full of the divinest enthusiasm. The calam...
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);...
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment. DESTRUCTION UPON DESTRUCTION IS CRIED - breach upon breach is annou...
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....
DESTRUCTION UPON DESTRUCTION IS CRIED. — Literally, _Breaking upon breaking,_ or _crash upon crash, is reported._ SUDDENLY ARE MY TENTS SPOILED. — The tent dwelling retained its position even amid the...
שֶׁ֤בֶר עַל ־שֶׁ֨בֶר֙ נִקְרָ֔א כִּ֥י שֻׁדְּדָ֖ה...
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...
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my (r) tents ruined, [and] my curtains in a moment. (r) Meaning, the cities which were as easily cast down as a t...
_Moment. The cities are destroyed as easily as a tent._...
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 pursues the same subject, but amplifies the dread by a new circumstance, — that God would heap evils on evils, so that the Jews would in vain hope for an immediate relief. By saying, _A calamity up...
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...
DESTRUCTION UPON DESTRUCTION IS CRIED;.... Or, "breach upon breach" g; as soon as one affliction is over, another comes on; and upon the news of one calamity, tidings are brought of another, as in Job...
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, [and] my curtains in a moment. Ver. 20. _Destruction upon destruction._] _Fluctus fluctum trudit;...
_My bowels_, &c. Or, as Dr. Waterland renders it, _My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the centre, or in the midst, of my heart; my heart is tumultuous within me!_ It is an exclamation of the prophet...
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....
Destruction upon destruction is cried, blow upon blow is reported; FOR THE WHOLE LAND IS SPOILED, rendered desolate by the enemy; SUDDENLY ARE MY TENTS SPOILED AND MY CURTAINS, those out of which the...
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...
DESTRUCTION UPON DESTRUCTION; a further expression of his bitter lamentation, redoubling his complaint; the end of one, but the beginning of another; q.d. worse and worse, DEUTERONOMY 32:23 EZEKIEL 7:...
Jeremiah 4:20 Destruction H7667 destruction H7667 cried H7121 (H8738) land H776 plundered H7703 (H8795) Suddenly H6597
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...
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....
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...
_Suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment._ SUDDEN SORROW Jeremiah was describing the havoc of war, a war which was devastating his country and bringing untold miseries upon the peo...
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 Thessalonians 1:9; Exodus 33:5; Ezekiel 14:21; Ezekiel 7:25;...
Destruction — Good Josiah slain, and four of his successors carried away, or slain. My tents — The enemy makes no more of overthrowing my stately cities, than if he were overturning tents made of curt...