The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; The Septuagint omit the first four verses, but other Greek versions have them. The first of the four clauses relates to the third, the s... [ Continue Reading ]
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. WHILST THEIR CHILDREN REMEMBER THEIR ALTARS AND THEIR GROVES - instead of forsaking the idolatries of their fathers they keep them up (Jeremiah 7:18). This is given as proof that their sin is "gr... [ Continue Reading ]
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders. MY MOUNTAIN - Jerusalem, and especially Zion and the temple. IN THE FIELD. Since Jerusalem was surrounded by mountains (), the sense probably is, Ye... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever. EVEN THYSELF, [uwbªkaah] - rather, 'and that, too, owing to thysel... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. CURSED BE THE MAN THAT TRUSTETH IN MAN - referring to the Jews' proneness to rely on Egypt, in its fear of Assyria and Babylon. (Isaiah 31:1). TRUSTETH - this word is... [ Continue Reading ]
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. HEATH - [kª`ar`ar, from `aaraah (H6168), to bare]. In Psalms 102:17; Isaiah 32:11; Habakkuk 3:9, the Hebrew is translated, "b... [ Continue Reading ]
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT TRUSTETH IN THE LORD - (; ; , "Blessed are all they that wait for him"). Jeremiah first removed the weeds (false trusts), so that there might be room for the good grain (trust in the Lord) (Calvin).... [ Continue Reading ]
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. HE SHALL BE AS A TREE PLANTED BY THE WATERS -... [ Continue Reading ]
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? THE HEART IS DECEITFUL - from a root [ `aaqab (H6117)], 'supplanting,' 'tripping up insidiously by the heel,' from which Jacob (Hosea 12:3) took his name. In speaking of the Jews' deceit of heart, he appropriately... [ Continue Reading ]
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Lest any should infer from , "who can how it?" that even the Lord does not know, and therefore cannot punish, the hidden treachery of the heart, He saith, "I the L... [ Continue Reading ]
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. PARTRIDGE - (1 Samuel 26:20). Hebrew [koree'] 'Korea,' from a root [ qaaraa' (H7121)] to call, alluding to its cry: a n... [ Continue Reading ]
A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. A GLORIOUS HIGH THRONE - the temple of Jerusalem, the throne of Yahweh. Having condemned false objects, of trust, "high places for sin" (), and an "arm of flesh," he next sets forth Yahweh, and His temple, which was ever ope... [ Continue Reading ]
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters. ALL THAT FORSAKE THEE SHALL BE ASHAMED, AND THEY THAT DEPART FROM ME - Yahweh-though thee precedes.... [ Continue Reading ]
Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. Prayer of the prophet for deliverance from the enemies whom he excited by his faithful denunciations. HEAL ME, O LORD, AND I SHALL BE HEALED; SAVE ME, AND I SHALL BE SAVED - not only make me whole (as... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; Delivered in the reign of Jehoiakim, who undid the good effected by Josiah's reformation, especially as to the o... [ Continue Reading ]