Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 18:17
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and (f) not the face, in the day of their calamity.
(f) I will show my anger and not my favour toward them.
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and (f) not the face, in the day of their calamity.
(f) I will show my anger and not my favour toward them.
Verse Jeremiah 18:17. _I WILL SCATTER THEM AS WITH AN EAST WIND_] It is the property of this wind, almost every where, to parch up, blast, and destroy grain and trees, and even cattle and men suffer f...
I WILL SHEW THEM THE BACK - The hiding of God’s face is the sure sign of His displeasure Isaiah 1:15; Isaiah 59:2....
CHAPTER 18 The Potter and the Clay _ 1. In the potter's house and the message (Jeremiah 18:1) _ 2. The plot against the prophet and his prayer (Jeremiah 18:18) Jeremiah 18:1. He was comm
THE POTTER AND THE CLAY. The potter (Jeremiah 18:1) moulding his clay on the upper stone, which he makes revolve by his feet resting on the connected lower stone, is compared with Yahweh in His contro...
AS. Some codices, with five early printed editions, read "with", instead of "as". WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. IN THE DAY. See App-18....
_as with an east wind_ better, perhaps, _as an east wind_. _look upon … their face_ mg. _shew them the back, and not the face_, in answer to the people's own behaviour towards Him. See ch. Jeremiah 2:...
E. The Devastation of the Land Jeremiah 18:16-17 TRANSLATION (16) The result of this is that they will make their land a desolation, an object of everlasting derision. Everyone who passes by it shall...
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity. I WILL SCATTER THEM AS WITH AN EAST WIND - literally, 'I will s...
1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
I WILL SHEW THEM THE BACK] God's countenance will be turned away. 18-23. Invocation of evil on the prophet's enemies....
WITH AN EAST WIND. — MSS. vary, some giving “with” and some “as an east wind.” The difference does not much affect the meaning. The east wind blowing from the desert was the wind of storms, tempests,...
כְּ רֽוּחַ ־קָדִ֥ים אֲפִיצֵ֖ם לִ פְנֵ֣י אֹויֵ
CHAPTER XI THE DIVINE POTTER Jeremiah 18:1 JEREMIAH goes down into the Lower Town, or the valley between the upper and lower city; and there his attention is arrested by a potter sitting at work bef...
We now come to the second series of messages before the fall of Jerusalem (18-20), which consists of declarations of God's absolute supremacy. In preparation for this, Jeremiah was sent to the house o...
_Burning. Hebrew kadim, "eastern," (Haydock) coming from Desert Arabia, Exodus x. 13. (Calmet) --- Back. Thus the Lord now treats the synagogue. (St. Jerome)_...
What a striking expostulation is in the opening of these verses? The Lord sends his people to ask of the heathen, among whom it was never known, of such apostasy from their dunghill gods, as Israel ma...
Though no word of comparison is expressed, if we read ב, _beth_, and not כ, _caph_, yet the Prophet employs a comparison, for God did not drive away the Jews by an eastern wind, but as the force of th...
In chapter 18 this principle is fully demonstrated before the people (Jeremiah 18:1-10). But the people in despair as to God, in the midst of their boldness in evil and in contempt of His marvellous p...
I WILL SCATTER THEM AS WITH AN EAST WIND BEFORE THE ENEMY,.... As the east wind, which is generally strong and boisterous, drives the chaff and stubble, and anything that is light, before it, and scat...
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity. Ver. 17. _I will scatter them._] Whirry and whirl them up and dow...
_Because my people have forgotten me The fountain of living waters;_ have forgotten what I am in myself, and what I have been, and am still ready to be to them; have lost their knowledge of me, and th...
THE PARABLE FURTHER APPLIED...
I will scatter them as with an east wind, a violent wind from the desert, BEFORE THE ENEMY; I WILL SHOW THEM THE BACK, AND NOT THE FACE, IN THE DAY OF THEIR CALAMITY, this being done in just retributi...
11-17 Sinners call it liberty to live at large; whereas for a man to be a slave to his lusts, is the very worst slavery. They forsook God for idols. When men are parched with heat, and meet with cool...
The east wind is (or was at least in those parts) the fiercest wind. As the east wind scatters the chaff, so, saith God, I will scatter them. And when they shall be in great calamity and misery, I wil...
Jeremiah 18:17 scatter H6327 (H8686) east H6921 wind H7307 before H6440 enemy H341 (H8802) show H7200 ...
BECAUSE OF THEIR REFUSAL TO RESPOND TO HIS ‘SHAPING' HE WILL NOW ‘SHAPE' EVIL AGAINST THEM UNLESS THEY NOW REPENT. HIS OFFER BEING TURNED DOWN GOD CALLS ON THE NATIONS TO BE ASTONISHED WITNESSES OF TH...
CONTENTS: Sign of the potter's house. Declaration of God's ways of dealing with nations. Jeremiah's complaint. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah has incontestable and irresistible abili...
Jeremiah 18:6. _As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand._ The sense is given in the next words; the exaltation, or the degradation of a nation, is wholly with the Lord. If they, unde...
_I win scatter them;.. . I will shew them the back._ THE SINNER’S DOOM I. The cause of the evil threatened. 1. Rejecting the Divine government. 2. Guilty of idolatry. 3. Rejecting the mercy of Go...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early in Jehoiakim’s reign (See _Chronological Note_ on Section 19–27 of previous chapter). Probably about two years later than that messag...
EXPOSITION This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending to Jeremiah 25:1.) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not been determined by chronological considerations. T...
Now in chapter 18: The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. Then I went down to the potter's house...
Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 28:64; Deuteronomy 31:17; Deuteronomy 32:35;...
East wind — The east wind was in those parts the fiercest wind. As the east — wind scatters the chaff, so saith God, I will scatter them. In their calamity — And when they shall be in great calamity,...