Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 9:7
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will (h) melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
(h) With the fire of affliction.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will (h) melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
(h) With the fire of affliction.
Verse Jeremiah 9:7. _BEHOLD, I WILL MELT THEM_] I will put them in the _furnace of affliction_, and see if this will be a means of purging away their dross. Jeremiah 6:27....
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...
WILL MELT THEM, AND TRY THEM. As the ores are melted and tried in. furnace to drive away the impurities, so God would try his people in the fierce furnace fires to purify them....
THE LORD OF HOSTS. See note on Jeremiah 6:6 and 1 Samuel 1:3. HOW SHALL. how [else] shall, &c. FOR THE DAUGHTER: or, because of [the wickedness of] the daughter, &c....
_melt_ the same Hebrew word as "refining" in Jeremiah 6:29, where see note, and cp. Zechariah 13:9. _how else should_ or, _how_(terribly) _will_. _because of the daughter_ LXX probably rightly has _b...
BEHOLD, I WILL MELT THEM— The prophet uses here the same metaphor as in chap. Jeremiah 6:28, &c. where see the note. Houbigant renders the last clause; _So will I do, for the perversity of the daughte...
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...
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? I WILL MELT THEM AND TRY THEM - by sending calamities on them. The...
1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
MELT.. TRY] i.e. remove the dross, and test whether the metal is now pure....
I WILL MELT THEM, AND TRY THEM. — The prophet, speaking in the name of Jehovah, falls back upon the imagery of Jeremiah 6:28; Isaiah 48:10. The evil has come to such a pass that nothing is left but th...
_[Jeremiah 9:6]_ לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאֹ֔ות...
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...
_Try them in the crucible of war, chap. vi. 27. (Calmet)_...
I read this verse alone, in order that we may not lose the beauty and the blessedness of it. What a delightful representation is here made of the Lord's pity for his people? Doth it not seem as if the...
Jeremiah, speaking in God’s name, concludes that the chastisement, of which he had spoken, was necessary; And what I have already said appears more clearly from this verse, — that he brings to light t...
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...
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS,.... Because of this deceit and hypocrisy, and lying: BEHOLD, I WILL MELT THEM, AND TRY THEM: as the refiner does his gold and silver, by putting them into the...
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? Ver. 7. _Behold, I will melt them and try them._] I will cast them in...
_Behold, I will melt them and try them_ I will cast them into the furnace of affliction, that I may purify them from their dross. See note on Jeremiah 6:29, and on Isaiah 1:25. _For how shall I do_, &...
THE DECEIT OF THE PEOPLE...
Therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, the mighty ruler of the heavenly armies. BEHOLD, I WILL MELT THEM AND TRY THEM, test them in the fire of tribulation, as the refiner tests metals in his furnac...
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...
I WILL MELT THEM, AND TRY THEM; the same metaphor used JEREMIAH 6:29; try them by melting them, i.e. either I will try what lesser afflictions will do before I do utterly destroy them; or rather, I wi...
Jeremiah 9:7 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 refine H6884 (H8802) try H974 (H8804) deal...
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...
_Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them._ GOD’S PEOPLE MELTED AND TRIED Observe, here, that God represents Himself as greatly concerned to know what to do with...
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 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 4:12; 2 Chronicles 36:15; Ezekiel 22:18;...
Try them — By melting them, I will bring upon them, the fire of the Chaldean war, that shall purge away those deceits in which they trust, that the remnant may be purified. For how — I have tried all...