What does Jeremiah 1:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confoundc thee before them."
Verse Jeremiah 1:17. _GIRD UP THY LOINS_] Take courage and be ready, lest I confound thee; take courage and be resolute, פן _pen_, lest by their opposition thou be terrified and confounded. God is oft...
GIRD UP THY LOINS - A symbol of preparation for earnest exertion, and implying also firm purpose, and some degree of alacrit BE NOT DISMAYED ... - literally, “be not dismayed at their faces, lest I d...
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...
GIRD UP, &C. See note on 1 Kings 18:46. BE NOT DISMAYED. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6), in the alternate words and lines of. (p. 1016):. g. 17-. Be not dismayed (_tehath_).. | -17-....
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...
BE NOT DISMAYED, &C.— _Be not thou confounded at their presence, lest I confound thee in their presence._ REFLECTIONS.—1st, We have here an account of the prophet's parentage, with the time of his pr...
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...
Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. GIRD UP THY LOINS - resolutely prepare f...
THE CALL OF JEREMIAH (13TH YEAR OF JOSIAH). FIRST PROPHECY 1-3. See Introduction....
GIRD UP THY LOINS. — Be as the messenger who prepares to be swift on his errand, and to go whithersoever he is sent (1 Kings 18:46; 2 Kings 4:29; 2 Kings 9:1). The vivid image of intense activity re-a...
וְ אַתָּה֙ תֶּאְזֹ֣ר מָתְנֶ֔יךָ וְ קַמְתָּ֙ וְ דִבַּרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵיהֶ֔ם אֵ֛ת כָּל ־אֲשֶׁ֥ר אָנֹכִ֖י אֲצַוֶּ֑ךָּ
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...
Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I (q) confound thee before them. (q) Which declares that God's vengeance i...
_Loins. Make haste, and take courage, Job xxxviii. 3. (Menochius)_...
How needful must faithfulness be in the service of the Lord? And where the Lord gives grace to his poor servants to be faithful, he will give strength to bear them up against all their foes. An iron p...
_JEREMIAH_ CONTRA MUNDUM! ‘Be not dismayed.’ Jeremiah 1:17 I. A TENDER-HEARTED PROPHET.—Jeremiah stands before us, keenly sensitive to injustice and misconstruction, deeply moved by the ungodlines...
God first bids his Prophet to be the herald of the dreadful judgment, which we have already noticed: for it was not his purpose to speak only as it were in a corner, or secretly, to Jeremiah, but he c...
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...
THOU THEREFORE GIRD UP THY LOINS,.... The loins both of his mind and body. The allusion is to the custom of the eastern countries in wearing long garments, who, when they went about business, girt the...
Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. Ver. 17. _Thou therefore gird up thy loins,...
_Thou therefore gird up thy loins_ Prepare to do the work to which I call and appoint thee. For, it being the custom of the eastern people to wear long garments, which they girded about their loins wh...
THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF THE PROPHET...
CONFOUND: Or, break to pieces...
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 judgm...
GIRD UP THY LOINS: by this expression God quickens and hastens him upon his work, not to stand hesitating, but to be doing; prepare thyself: for it is a speech taken from the custom of the countries w...
Jeremiah 1:17 prepare H247 (H8799) H4975 arise H6965 (H8804) speak H1696 (H8765) command H6680 (H8762) dismayed H2865 (H8735) faces H6440 dismay H2865 (H8686) before H6440 gird up - 1 Kings 18:46;...
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 J...
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 foreknowl...
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...
_Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee._ GOD’S WITNESS I. Must be quick. II. Busy. III. Bold. IV. Faithful. For-- 1. He must speak all that he i...
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 1:4), and the Lord’s promised protecti...
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 MATTERS WHICH HE HAS TO ANNOUNCE. JEREMIAH 1:1 There are some indic...
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...
1 Corinthians 9:16; 1 Kings 18:46; 1 Peter 1:13; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; 2 Kings 4:29; 2 Kings 9:1; Acts 20:20; Acts 20:27; Exodus 3:12; Exodus
Gird up — It is a speech taken from the custom of the countries where they wore long garments; and therefore they girt them up about them, that they might not hinder them in any work that required exp...