For the (i) mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through [them]; neither can [men] hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.
(i) Signifying that all the places about Jerusalem would be destroyed.
Verse Jeremiah 9:10. _BOTH THE FOWL OF THE HEAVENS AND THE BEAST ARE FLED_] The land shall be so utterly devastated, that neither beast nor bird shall be able to live in it....
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...
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...
NEITHER CAN MEN HEAR THE VOICE OF THE CATTLE. This verse describes the desolation of the country when God's judgments fall upon it. It will be left. wilderness. Cattle, fowl, beast and oxen will have...
HABITATIONS. pastures....
Cp. Jeremiah 4:23-26. _a lamentation_ lit. a _ḳinah_, i.e. a composition carefully constructed in a definite rhythmical form. See Intr. p. xlix, also notes in C. B. on Amos 5:2; Amos 5:16, with pp. 2...
See introd. summary to the section....
FOR THE MOUNTAINS, &C.— These words, says Houbigant, as they now lie, must belong either to Jeremiah, or the daughter of Zion; and yet it follows in the next verse, _And I will make;_ which are the wo...
B. Impending Destruction Jeremiah 9:9-21 Because of the national corruption, destruction is necessary and imminent. The land will become desolate (Jeremiah 9:9-15) and death will reign supreme through...
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear t...
HABITATIONS] RV 'pastures.'...
1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
FOR THE MOUNTAINS... — The Hebrew preposition means both “upon” and “on account of,” and probably both meanings were implied. The prophet sees himself _upon_ the mountains, taking up the lamentation _...
_[Jeremiah 9:9]_ עַל ־הֶ֨ הָרִ֜ים אֶשָּׂ֧א בְכִ֣י...
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...
_Owner. Hebrew mikne, "cattle," or (Haydock) "substance." (St. Jerome) --- Departed. Beasts and birds will not continue long after men cease to cultivate the country. (Theodoret) (Chap. iv. 25., and x...
It is blessed to remark, that in all the Lord's chastisements, he hath one uniform object in view for their reform. All his dispensations are to bring his people back to himself. Hence the wise among...
The Prophet had exhorted others to lament and to bewail. He now comes forth as though none had ears to attend to his admonition. As then he himself undertakes to mourn and to lament, he no doubt indir...
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...
FOR THE MOUNTAINS WILL I TAKE UP A WEEPING AND WAILING,.... Because of the desolation of them; because no pasture upon them, nor flocks feeding there; or "concerning" them, as the Arabic version; or ...
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through [them]; neither can [men] hea...
_For the mountains will I take up a weeping_ “These words,” says Houbigant, “as they now lie, must belong either to Jeremiah or the daughter of Zion; and yet it follows in the next verse, _And I will...
THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND...
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, the prophet once more taking up his lament, AND FOR THE HABITATIONS OF THE WILDERNESS, for the pastures of the steppes, A LAMENTATION BECAUSE TH...
HABITATIONS: Or, pastures BURNT UP: Or, desolate BOTH THE FOWEL OF THE HEAVENS: _ Heb._ from the fowel even to etc....
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...
The prophet having, JEREMIAH 9:1, taken up a lamentation for the slaughter of the people, he now reassumes it for the desolation of the whole land, every part of it being to be laid waste: see JEREMIA...
Jeremiah 9:10 up H5375 (H8799) weeping H1065 wailing H5092 mountains H2022 places H4999 wilderness H4057 lamentation H
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...
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...
Ezekiel 14:15; Ezekiel 29:11; Ezekiel 33:28; Hosea 4:3; Isaiah 49:19;
Wailing — The prophet having taken up a lamentation for the slaughter of the people, now re — assumes it for the desolation of the whole land. The mountains shall not be able to secure them, nor the v...