What does Jeremiah 18:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;"
Verse Jeremiah 18:9. Jeremiah 18:7....
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 commanded to go...
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...
TO BUILD, &C.. to declare that it should be built and planted....
See introd. note....
B. The Interpretation for the Prophet Jeremiah 18:5-10 TRANSLATION (5) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (6) Am I not able to do to you as this potter (oracle of the LORD)? Behold, like...
_AND AT WHAT INSTANT I SHALL SPEAK CONCERNING A NATION, AND CONCERNING A KINGDOM, TO BUILD AND TO PLANT IT;_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
(7-10) AT WHAT INSTANT I SHALL SPEAK CONCERNING A NATION... — The words carry the thoughts of the prophet back to those which had been stamped indelibly on his memory when he was first called to his w...
וְ רֶ֣גַע אֲדַבֵּ֔ר עַל ־גֹּ֖וי וְ עַל ־מַמְלָכָ֑ה לִ בְנֹ֖ת וְ לִ נְטֹֽעַ׃...
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 be...
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...
The Lord himself explains and applies his type of the Potter. And in Jesus how hath the doctrine been fully proved? Surely the Lord can with infinitely more ease create new hearts in his people, and r...
On the other hand, he affirms, that the lost are restored, when the Lord _speaks suddenly, of a nation and of a kingdom, to build and to plant_; as though it was said, — “I will not only forgive, but...
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...
AND [AT WHAT] INSTANT I SHALL SPEAK CONCERNING A NATION, AND CONCERNING A KINGDOM,.... By way of promise on the other hand: or, "and the moment I shall speak", c. as in Jeremiah 18:7 in favour to a pe...
_And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant [it];_ Ver. 9. _And at what instant I shall speak._] All is done as God the great Induperator...
_If I shall speak concerning a nation to build and to plant_ That is, To advance and establish all the true interests of it; _if it do evil in my sight_, &c. If it lose its piety and virtue, and becom...
THE PARABLE OF THE POTTER...
1-10 While Jeremiah looks upon the potter's work, God darts into his mind two great truths. God has authority, and power, to form and fashion kingdoms and nations as he pleases. He may dispose of us a...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Jeremiah 18:9 instant H7281 speak H1696 (H8762) nation H1471 kingdom H4467 build H1129 (H8800) plant H5193 (H8800) to build - Jeremiah 1:10, Jeremiah 11:17, Jeremiah 30:18, Jeremiah 31:4,...
THE LESSON OF THE PATIENT POTTER (JEREMIAH 18:1). In one of the most beautiful illustrations in the Old Testament YHWH illustrates His readiness ever to show mercy in the lesson of the patient potter...
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...
_Go down to the potter’s house._ THE POTTER AND THE CLAY (with Romans 9:19):--The potter and the clay! Is not that parable the germ of all that is most oppressive in the “terrible decree” of Calvinis...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 18:9 BUILD AND PLANT are restoration metaphors from construction and agriculture. See Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 42:10. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img");...
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 hous...
Amos 9:11; Ecclesiastes 3:2; Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 11:17; Jeremiah 30:18; Jeremiah 31:28; Jeremiah 31:38; Jeremiah 31:4; Jeremiah 32:41...