Verse Jeremiah 9:5. And weary themselves to commit iniquity.] O, what a drudgery is sin! and how much labour must a man take in order to get to hell! The tenth part of it, in working together with God, would bring him to the gate of glory.
From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins. Jeremiah 9:2 The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared his daily striving, and in some lone wilderness give way to his sorrow, wi...
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...
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...
THEY HAVE TAUGHT THEIR TONGUE TO SPEAK LIES. Amid the general deceit and falsehood of this sad period of moral and religious decay, there was nothing else that worked so much evil as the words of the...
Here, and in Jeremiah 9:4, the verbs had best be rendered by present tenses. _deceive_ better (as mg.) _mock_....
The MT. has apparently suffered some corruption. The LXX yield a fairly good sense. Dividing the four consonants of the Hebrew word rendered "thine habitation," so as to end Jeremiah 9:5 with the firs...
II. NATIONAL CORRUPTION Jeremiah 9:2-26 Jeremiah does not allow himself to be overcome by his personal feelings regarding the gloomy future of his people. The destruction of Judah is a punishment well...
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. WEARY THEMSELVES TO COMMIT INIQUIT...
9:5 neighbour, (b-9) Or 'friend,' as ver. 4. see ch. 3.1....
1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
DECEIVE. — The word is commonly translated, as in the margin, _mock._ (So in 1 Kings 18:27; Judges 16:10; Judges 16:13; Judges 16:15.) The con
_[Jeremiah 9:4]_ וְ אִ֤ישׁ בְּ רֵעֵ֨הוּ֙ יְהָתֵ֔לּוּ...
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
NATIONAL PERVERSITY Jeremiah 9:1-16 Jeremiah 9:1-6 Once the voice of joy and thanksgiving had been heard in Jerusalem, but now on every side there was bloodshed, and the patriot-prophet could only w...
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...
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they (f) have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity. (f) They have so practised dec...
_Iniquity. It is become natural to them. (St. Jerome) --- They cannot lay the blame on the violence of passion. They sin on purpose. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "they have not left off, (6.) in order to...
How blessed is it to behold faithful ministers, who enter into a deep concern for their people. What a beautiful portrait is here undesignedly drawn of Jeremiah. How endeared is that servant of the Lo...
Jeremiah goes on with the same subject. He says that fidelity had so disappeared among the Jews, that every one endeavored to deceive his neighbor. Hence it followed, that they were withhout any shame...
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...
AND THEY WILL DECEIVE EVERYONE HIS NEIGHBOUR,.... In conversation, with lying words; and in trade and commerce, by art and tricking: AND WILL NOT SPEAK THE TRUTH; with respect to facts they report, o...
_And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity._ Ver. 5. _They have taught their...
_Take ye heed every one of his neighbour_ Or, _of his friend_, as רעהו rather signifies; of him who pretends friendship to him, or whom he has befriended. _And trust ye not in a brother_ Against whom...
And they will deceive every one his neighbor, overreaching him, trying to get the advantage of him, AND WILL NOT SPEAK THE TRUTH; THEY HAVE TAUGHT THEIR TONGUE TO SPEAK LIES, the tongue, as it were, b...
THE DECEIT OF THE PEOPLE...
DECEIVE: Or, mock...
1-11 Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without communion with God, through Christ Jesus, and th...
THEY WILL DECEIVE, Heb. _mock_, or _deride_; they are scoffers. _They have taught their tongue to speak lies_; they have so framed their tongues to it by custom and constant use, that lying is become...
Jeremiah 9:5 Everyone H376 deceive H2048 (H8762) neighbor H7453 speak H1696 (H8762) truth H571 taught H3925 ...
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...
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...
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...
_And weary themselves to commit iniquity._ THE UNEASINESS OF A SINFUL LIFE Though these words were spoken of the Jews more than two thousand years ago, yet I shall endeavour to show that it may be s...
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...
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...
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...
1 Timothy 4:2; Ephesians 4:25; Ezekiel 24:12; Genesis 19:11; Hab
Weary — They use industry, and contrivance in it, they spare no labour....