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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...
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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...
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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...
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YET: or, For, or Yea.
WOMEN. These had been largely the instrumental cause; now they share
the calamities....
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See summary introducing the section....
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No traditional formula will suffice; Jehovah will dictate a dirge, and
it shall be for universal use....
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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...
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Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive
the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one
her neighbour lamentation.
YET - rather, 'Only' (Henderso...
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1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
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TEACH YOUR DAUGHTERS WAILING. — The thought of Jeremiah 9:9 is
continued. The words rest upon the idea that wailing was an art, its
cries and tones skilfully adapted to the special sorrows of which it...
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_[Jeremiah 9:19]_ כִּֽי ־שְׁמַ֤עְנָה נָשִׁים֙
דְּבַר ־יְהוָ֔ה...
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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
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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...
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Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive
the word of his mouth, and (p) teach your daughters wailing, and every
one her neighbour lamentation.
(p) He derides the superstiti...
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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...
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He proceeds with the same subject, but adopts another figure. He then
somewhat changes the comparison; for he had bidden them before to hire
women to excite to mourning by fictitious tears, but he now...
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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...
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YET HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, O YE WOMEN,.... Not the mourning women,
but others who had lost their husbands and their children, and had
just reason for real mourning; and therefore they are called u...
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Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive
the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one
her neighbour lamentation.
Ver. 20. _Yet hear the word of th...
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THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND...
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Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive
the word of His mouth, in ready obedience to the suggestion which He
here makes, AND TEACH YOUR DAUGHTERS WAILING AND EVERY ONE HER...
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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...
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YET, or _therefore, hear the word of the Lord_, i.e. do not think I
speak words out of my own mind or fancy, but what I speak is from the
Lord. O YE WOMEN; either those hired women mentioned before, o...
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Jeremiah 9:20 hear H8085 (H8798) word H1697 LORD H3068 women H802 ear
H241 receive H3947 (H8799) word...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 3:16-4; Jeremiah 9:17; Jeremiah 9:18; Job 22:22; Luke 23:27...
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Every one — It denotes how large and universal the mourning shall
be....