Jeremiah 25:36

_A VOICE OF THE CRY OF THE SHEPHERDS, AND AN HOWLING OF THE PRINCIPAL OF THE FLOCK, SHALL BE HEARD: FOR THE LORD HATH SPOILED THEIR PASTURE._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

He not merely repeats the same thing in other words, but adds also something more grievous, that God would render desolate their pastures. He pursues the same metaphor; for as he used this comparison in speaking of the king’s counsellors and the priests, so now he does the same; and what he means by pastures is the community, the people, in the city and in the country; (154) as though he had said, that they had hitherto ruled over that land which was rich and fertile, and in which they enjoyed power and dignity, but that now they would be deprived of all these benefits. He afterwards adds, —...

30-38 The Lord has just ground of controversy with every nation and every person; and he will execute judgment on all the wicked. Who can avoid trembling when God speaks in displeasure? The days are fully come; the time fixed in the Divine counsels, which will make the nations wholly desolate. The tender and delicate shall share the common calamity. Even those who used to live in peace, and did nothing to provoke, shall not escape. Blessed be God, there is a peaceable habitation above, for all the sons of peace. The Lord will preserve his church and all believers in all changes; for nothing can separate them from his love....

PRINCIPAL OF THE FLOCK - i. e., noble ones. WALLOW YOURSELVES IN THE ASHES - Rather, roll yourselves on the ground. FOR ... - Read; “for your days for being slaughtered are accomplished, and I will scatter you” (or, (dash you in pieces). FALL LIKE A PLEASANT VESSEL - The comparison suggests the idea of change from a thing of value into worthless fragments. Jeremiah 25:36 HATH SPOILED - Or, spoileth....

EXPOSITION This chapter may be illustrated by a comparison of it with Jeremiah 46:1. There Jeremiah exults ever the destruction of a nation (Egypt) which was one of the chief enemies of God's people, and on hearing or reading the inspired eloquence of the prophet the heart of a Jew could not but be moved with the liveliest sympathy. But it is another strain which meets us in this chapter, and one which to a Jew would certainly neutralize the favorable feelings which prophecies like that referred to must have awakened. Here Jeremiah announces that the last moment of grace for Judah is past, and the time for judgment come. The long-suffering of Jehovah has been exhausted; the fall of the commonwealth cannot any longer be delayed. Such was the strange destiny of the prophet; he was sent to "pull down" and "to build," but the destructive element (as...

AND A VOICE OF THE CRY OF THE SHEPHERDS,.... Or of the kings, as the Targum: AND AN HOWLING OF THE PRINCIPAL OF THE FLOCK, [SHALL BE HEARD]; of the mighty of the people, as the same; what is before called for is here represented as in fact, because of the certainty of it: FOR THE LORD HATH SPOILED THEIR PASTURES: their kingdoms, provinces, cities, and towns; or their people, as the Targum, among whom they lived, and by whom they were supported; still keeping up the metaphor of the shepherd and flock. This the Lord is said to do because he suffered it to be done, yea, ordered it to be done, as a punishment for their sins....

CHAPTER 25 The Seventy Years' Captivity and the Judgment of the Nations _ 1. The retrospect (Jeremiah 25:1) _ 2. The seventy years' captivity announced (Jeremiah 25:8) 3. The punishment of Babylon and its king (Jeremiah 25:12) 4. The wine-cup of fury for the nations (Jeremiah 25:15) 5. The day of the LORD and wrath of God (Jeremiah 25:30) Jeremiah 25:1. The prophet in the fourth year o

JEREMIAH 25. THE SUPREMACY OF BABYLON OVER JUDAH AND THE NATIONS. Jeremiah 25:1. In the year 604 (after the Babylonian victory over Egypt at Carchemish, 605 B.C., _cf._ Jeremiah 46:2), Jeremiah publicly reviews his ministry (since 626; _cf._ Jeremiah 1:2)_._ which has failed to produce repentance (Jeremiah 25:1). As a result, Yahweh will bring the victorious Babylonians against both Judah and the surrounding peoples to lay them waste, and the supremacy of Babylon shall last seventy years. Jeremiah 25:10. the so

The judgement to come upon all the peoples of the earth. The description is characterized by Oriental hyperbole. A considerable amount is adapted from elsewhere, and the eschatological character of the whole tends to throw serious doubts upon the genuineness of the passage....

D. Judgment on the World Jeremiah 25:30-38 TRANSLATION (30) But as for you, prophesy unto them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD from on high will roar, and from His holy habitation He will give forth His voice; He will mightily roar against His pasture. He will give forth a shout like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. A noise will come unto the ends of the earth, for the LORD has a controversy with the nations. He is about to judge all flesh; the wicked He shall give to the sword (oracle of the LORD). (32) Thus says the LORD of hosts: Disaster proceeds from nation to nation, and a tempest is being stirred up from the farthest bounds of the earth. (33) Those slain by the LORD in that day shall be from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented, gathered, or buried; they shall be dung on the face of the gro