Leave thy (m) fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
(m) The destruction will be so great that there will be none left to take care of the widows and the fatherless.
Verse Jeremiah 49:11. _LEAVE THY FATHERLESS CHILDREN_] The connexion of this with the context is not easy to be discerned; but, as a general maxim, it is of great importance. _Widows_ and _orphans_ a...
Edom stretched along the south of Judah from the border of Moab on the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and the Arabian deserts, and held the same relation to Judah which Moab held toward the kingdom of...
CHAPTER 49 Concerning Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, and Elam _ 1. Concerning the Ammonites (Jeremiah 49:1) _ 2. Concerning Edom (Jeremiah 49:7) 3. Concerning Damascus (Jeremiah 49:23)...
EDOM. For the land, and the relations of this people to Israel, see on Obadiah, from Jeremiah 49:1 of which the present prophecy has taken verbally Jeremiah 49:9; Jeremiah 49:14. This does not, in its...
CHILDREN. young children. Not the same word as in Jeremiah 49:6. TRUST. confide. Hebrew. _batah_. App-69....
A remarkable _v_. and decidedly Jeremianic in character, as compared with the attitude which later days would have assumed towards an enemy so bitterly hated. On the other hand, it is extremely abrupt...
LEAVE THY FATHERLESS CHILDREN— This is understood by many to be an irony. See Isaiah 16:4. But there is nothing in the context, says Houbigant, which can lead to this interpretation. I rather understa...
VI. AN ORACLE AGAINST EDOM Jeremiah 49:7-22 Beyond the brook Zered, the southern boundary of Moab, lay Edom. Edom was an exceedingly mountainous country rich in copper and iron ore. Because of its min...
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me. LEAVE THY FATHERLESS CHILDREN, I WILL PRESERVE THEM ALIVE; AND LET THY WIDOWS TRUST IN ME. "Thy fatherless...
CONCERNING EDOM] The bitterness of the tone in which Edom is addressed in this prophecy is doubtless to be ascribed to the affinity between them and the Jews, which made the unnatural exultation of Ed...
The widows and orphans of the slain may, however, look to God's protection....
AGAINST AMMON, EDOM, AND OTHER NATIONS 1-6. The territory of Ammon was N. of Moab, and the two peoples were connected by descent. The carrying away of the tribes on the E. of Jordan by Tiglath-pileser...
LEAVE THY FATHERLESS CHILDREN... — Were the words uttered in the stern irony of one who veils _&_ threat in the form of a promise, as some have thought, or was there even in the case of Edom a minglin...
עָזְבָ֥ה יְתֹמֶ֖יךָ אֲנִ֣י אֲחַיֶּ֑ה וְ אַלְמְנֹתֶ֖יךָ...
Against the children of Ammon Jeremiah raised a protest because their king was in possession of Gad. He declared that by the fierce judgment of war, they were to be dispossessed and driven forth. The...
The Edomites, the descendants of Esau, are here brought to account. Long grudge, and an old hatred to Jacob and his seed, marked this race: and to this hour the enmity hath not ceased. Galatians 4:29....
With regard to the end of the verse, some give this explanation, “There will be none to say:” there is then a word to be understood, — “there will be none to say, _Leave thy orphans to me, I will nour...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...
LEAVE THY FATHERLESS CHILDREN, I WILL PRESERVE [THEM] ALIVE,.... Leave them with me; commit them to my care; I will provide for them; they shall have food and raiment, and want nothing to make them co...
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy widows trust in me. Ver. 11. _Leave thy fatherless children, &c._] Thus God speaketh to the profane Edomites in derision, but...
_Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them_, &c. The Chaldee paraphrast understands this of the Jews, to whom the following words do certainly belong, as if it contained God's promise to tak...
AGAINST EDOM...
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in Me; for Jehovah, whom Edom had forsaken for false gods, would be the Help of the orphans and widows after the men...
7-22 The Edomites were old enemies to the Israel of God. But their day is now at hand; it is foretold, not only to warn them, but for the sake of the Israel of God, whose afflictions were aggravated b...
The only question upon this verse is, whether, in the whole of it, it be a promise or a threatening: if it be a promise, the sense is, that though this great destruction should come upon the body of t...
Jeremiah 49:11 Leave H5800 (H8798) children H3490 alive H2421 (H8762) widows H490 trust H982 (H8799)...
JUDGMENT AGAINST EDOM (JEREMIAH 49:7). Edom lay to the south east of Judah stretching from the borders of Judah down to the Gulf of Aqabah, a distance of 100 miles. Its importance generally lay in the...
PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT ON THE NATIONS CONTINUED (JEREMIAH 49:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:64). Having learned that judgment was coming on Egypt, Philistia and Moab, we now go on to learn that it will also visit Am...
TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
CONTENTS: Prophecies against the Ammonites, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, kingdoms of Hazor, Elam. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadrezzar, Zedekiah. CONCLUSION: Nations that despise and persecute God's...
Jeremiah 49:1. _Hath Israel no sons; hath he no heir?_ In this bold and striking manner the prophet commences his elegy on Ammon. The king of Ammon had in times of war, seized the cities of Gad. By ev...
_Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in Me._ THE COMPASSION AND BENEFICENCE OF THE DEITY No subject is more open to general observation, or more confir...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 49:11 God may protect Edom’s FATHERLESS CHILDREN and WIDOWS, but the nation as a whole will DRINK the CUP of destr
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The prophecies against _Ammon, Edom, Damascus,_ and _Kedar._ Jeremiah 49:1 are synchronous with the previous chapter, but the section (Jere...
EXPOSITION On Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar and Hazer, and Elam. JEREMIAH 49:1 The violence of the Ammonites shall be severely punished. JEREMIAH 49:1 HATH ISRAEL NO SONS! The violent seizure, perp...
Now in chapter 49, he speaks first of the Ammonites. Now, the Ammonites were those people who were north of Moab and east of the Jordan in the upper Jordan area, east of the Sea of Galilee and the Gol...
1 Timothy 5:5; Deuteronomy 10:18; Hosea 14:3; James 1:27; Jonah 4:11;...