And I will utter my (p) judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
(p) I will give them charge and power to execute my vengeance against the idolaters who have forsaken me for their idols.
Verse Jeremiah 1:16. _I WILL UTTER MY JUDGMENTS_] God denounced his judgments: the conquest of their cities, and the destruction of the realm, were the facts to which these judgments referred; and the...
In accordance with the custom of law courts, the crimes of the guilty city are mentioned in the sentence. The charges brought against her are three: first, the desertion of the true God; next, the off...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE CALL TO REPENTANCE, THE IMPENITENCE OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED CHAPTER 1 The Call of the Prophet _ 1. The introduction (Jeremiah 1:1) _ 2. The divin...
THE TWO VISIONS OF JUDGMENT. These form a separate experience, and imply some change of standpoint, since it is now the judgment of Judah through the instrumentality of the nations which is presented...
THEM: i.e. the people of Judah. WICKEDNESS. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. FORSAKEN ME. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:20). App-92. BURNED INCENSE. Hebrew. _katar._ See App-43. This includes the...
Jeremiah's call The passage will fall into four sections. (i) Jeremiah 1:4. The prophet's call and its nature. (ii) Jeremiah 1:11. The symbol of the almond tree, shewing that Jehovah is wakeful to p...
_I will utter my judgements against them_ lit., I WILL SPEAK MY JUDGEMENTS WITH THEM. An almost identical phrase in the Hebrew occurs again in this book, when Nebuchadnezzar at Riblah "gave judgement...
The symbol of the caldron 13. _a seething caldron_ An ordinary sight in daily life conveys a message to the prophet. In this second symbol the character of the future in store for the nation is more c...
In 2 Chronicles 6:41-42 the words of the Psalm are quoted at the close of Solomon's prayer at the Dedication of the Temple, and some commentators suppose that in Psalms 132:8 ff. the Psalmist carries...
II. THE CALL CONFIRMED Jeremiah 1:11-19 TRANSLATION (11) And the word of the LORD came unto me saying, What are you looking at, Jeremiah? And I replied, I am looking at a rod of almond. (12) Then the...
And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. UTTER - pronoun...
THE CALL OF JEREMIAH (13TH YEAR OF JOSIAH). FIRST PROPHECY 1-3. See Introduction....
I WILL UTTER MY JUDGMENTS AGAINST THEM. — Here, again, we get a literal correspondence in the words of Jeremiah 39:5, “he gave [or uttered] judgment upon him,” of Nebuchadnezzar’s sentence on Zedekiah...
וְ דִבַּרְתִּ֤י מִשְׁפָּטַי֙ אֹותָ֔ם עַ֖ל כָּל...
CHAPTER I THE CALL AND CONSECRATION IN the foregoing pages we have considered the principal events in the life of the prophet Jeremiah, by way of introduction to the more detailed study of his writin...
COURAGE PROMISED TO A FEARFUL MESSENGER Jeremiah 1:1-19 God has a distinct purpose for each life, and our one aim should be to discover and work out His plan. See Psalms 139:16; Galatians 1:15. The...
The first three verses constitute a title page naming the author and giving the dates of the period during which he exercised his ministry. The Book opens with the account of Jeremiah's call, and at o...
The Lord was pleased, we find, both by word and by vision, to confirm the Prophet in his new appointment. And the Lord which raised up to the Prophet's mind these images, took care to instruct his min...
God now assigns the reason why he had resolved to deal so severely with the Jews. It was necessary to teach them two things, — first, that the Chaldeans would not of themselves come upon them, but thr...
In chapter 1 the prophet is established in his office, to which he had been appointed by Jehovah, even before his birth, that he should carry His word unto the nations. But Jeremiah's fears are immedi...
AND I WILL UTTER MY JUDGMENTS AGAINST THEM,.... Not against the kingdoms of the north, but against the people of the Jews. The sense is, that God would enter into judgment with this people, and pass s...
And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. Ver. 16. _And I w...
_For lo, I will call_ Or, _I am upon calling_, or, _about to call; all the families of the kingdoms of the north_ By these seem to be meant the different nations who were subject to Nabopolassar and N...
And I will utter My judgments against them, the wicked inhabitants of the land, TOUCHING ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS, pronouncing their condemnation and doom, WHO HAVE FORSAKEN ME AND HAVE BURNED INCENSE UNT...
THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF THE PROPHET...
11-19 God gave Jeremiah a view of the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. The almond-tree, which is more forward in the spring than any other, represented the speedy approach of judg...
I WILL UTTER MY JUDGMENTS; cause sentence to be passed according to my threatening. See JEREMIAH 39:5. Or, I will place my bounty and their unworthiness before them. Or, I will upbraid them with their...
Jeremiah 1:16 utter H1696 (H8765) judgments H4941 concerning H5921 wickedness H7451 forsaken H5800 (H8804) incense H69
THE SIGN OF THE BOILING CAULDRON (JEREMIAH 1:13). The second sign was that of a cauldron full of boiling liquid ready to be poured out on Judah from the north, a vivid picture of threatening judgment...
YHWH GIVES JEREMIAH TWO SIGNS, ONE OF WHICH WAS THE CERTAINTY OF YHWH'S WATCHFULNESS OVER HIS PURPOSES, AND THE SECOND A SIGN WHICH DEMONSTRATED THE JUDGMENTS THAT WERE TO COME FROM THE NORTH BECAUSE...
Jeremiah 1:1. The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Ju...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's call and enduement. The sign of the almond rod and seething pot. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Jeremiah, Josiah, Jehoiakim. CONCLUSION: God, by His special counsel and foreknowle...
Jeremiah 1:5. _Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee._ In the creation God knew the nature and designations of every creature, whether of plants, or of living beings. He assigned laws and abod...
_I see a rod of an almond tree._ TREE EMBLEMS The Hebrew word for almond signifies the “waker,” in allusion to its being the first tree to wake to life in the winter. The word also contains the signi...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:1 Introduction. These verses introduce the book’s historical background (vv. Jeremiah 1:1), Jeremiah’s call and message (vv....
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:16 God will use the invaders (v. Jeremiah 1:15) as his agents of JUDGMENTS AGAINST Judah, for all their evil in fors
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. CHRONOLOGY. Jeremiah 1:1, penned _cir._ B.C. 578; Jeremiah 1:4, _sq._ B.C. 629. But the recently discovered Assyrian chronology would make the date of the “thirteen...
EXPOSITION AN ACCOUNT OF THE CALL AND CONSECRATION OF JEREMIAH TO THE PROPHETIC OFFICE, FOLLOWED BY TWO EXPRESSIVE SYMBOLS OF THE...
At this time shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Jeremiah. About sixty years after Isaiah died, God called Jeremiah to what I feel must have been the hardest task any minister has ever been cal...
2 Chronicles 15:2; 2 Chronicles 34:25; 2 Chronicles 7:19; 2 Kings 22:17;...