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Verse Jeremiah 23:39. _I WILL UTTERLY FORGET YOU, AND I WILL FORSAKE
YOU AND_ _THE CITY_] Dr. _Blayney_ translates: - _I will both take you
up_ _altogether, and will cast you off together with the ci...
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Translate, “Therefore, behold, I will even take you up (or will
burden you), and I will cast you, and the city which I gave you and
your fathers, out of my presence.”...
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CHAPTER 23:9-40
Condemnation of the False Prophets
_ 1. Jeremiah's lament on account of the false prophets (Jeremiah
23:9) _
2. The condemnation of these prophets (Jeremiah 23:15)
3. Forgotten and...
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THE PROPHETS. Jeremiah is overcome by the stern message given him to
deliver. The evil of the land is encouraged by prophet and priest
(Jeremiah 6:13), even the Temple being dishonoured (2 Kings 21:5)...
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Jeremiah 23:9-40. Condemnation of the prophets
Following on the prophecies relating to successive kings of Judah, we
have a section dealing with the iniquities of a class who also
grievously misled t...
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See introd. summary to section. The original word means either a
burden or a prophetic utterance. It would appear that those hostile to
Jeremiah had taken to apply the word derisively to the prophet's...
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_utterly forget you_ The alternative in mg. _lift you up_, as
rendering the Hebrew verb from which "burden" is derived, is clearly
right, that substantive being the key-word of the passage, and the tw...
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_JEREMIAH 23:39_. I_, EVEN I, WILL UTTERLY FORGET YOU_— _I, even I,
will bear you away like a burden, and I will throw out of my sight
both you and the city which I gave to you and to your fathers._
H...
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4. _The mockery of the false prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:33-40)
TRANSLATION
(33) And when this people or the prophet or the priest shall ask you,
What is the burden of the LORD? Then you shall say unto th...
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Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will
forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast
you out of my presence:
I WILL UTTERLY FORGET YOU - just retri...
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1-4. A remnant shall return....
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I, EVEN I, WILL UTTERLY FORGET YOU... — A very slight alteration in
a single letter of the Hebrew verb gives a rendering which was
followed by the LXX. and Vulgate, and is adopted by many modern
comme...
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לָכֵ֣ן הִנְנִ֔י וְ נָשִׁ֥יתִי
אֶתְכֶ֖ם נָשֹׁ֑א...
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CHAPTER VIII
BAD SHEPHERDS AND FALSE PROPHETS
Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 24:1
"Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My
pasture!"- Jeremiah 23:1
"Of what avail is straw instead...
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Having thus passed in review the predecessors of Zedekiah on the
throne of Judah, the prophet proceeded to deal with those who had been
responsible for the failure of the people, the false kings and
p...
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At the opening of this passage, we have the Lord's sentence upon them,
and an awful one it is. Wormwood and gall are strong figures to set
forth the awful bitterness in the close of such a life! Proph...
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_If ye shall say, _even when I warn you not to speak in this manner;
if then ye persevere in this obstinacy, _Behold I, _etc.; God here
declares that he would take vengeance. As to this sentence, most...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23.
On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord
would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the
Spir...
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THEREFORE, BEHOLD, I, EVEN I, WILL UTTERLY FORGET YOU,.... That is, so
behave towards them, as though they were entirely out of his sight and
mind; show no affection to them; take no care of them; bes...
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Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will
forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, [and cast
you] out of my presence:
Ver. 39. _Therefore, behold, I, even I...
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_Therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you_ The Vulgate renders
this clause, _Propterea ecce ego tolam vos portans, Therefore, behold,
I will take you away removing you_, (taking the verb נשׁה,
_na...
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therefore, behold, I, even I, spoken with great solemnity and
impressiveness, WILL UTTERLY FORGET YOU, rather, "I will altogether
lift you up and burden you," AND I WILL FORSAKE YOU, thrusting them
wi...
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AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
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33-40 Those are miserable indeed who are forsaken and forgotten of
God; and men's jesting at God's judgments will not baffle them. God
had taken Israel to be a people near to him, but they shall now b...
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_ I will forget you_ as to my affection, and that is more than if all
your friends forgot you. There is a great emphasis in the doubling of
the pronoun, I, EVEN I. I WILL FORSAKE YOU as to the presenc...
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Jeremiah 23:39 utterly H5377 (H8800) forget H5382 (H8804) forsake
H5203 (H8804) city H5892 gave...
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JEREMIAH'S DIATRIBE AGAINST THE PROPHETS, HEADED AS ‘CONCERNING THE
PROPHETS' (JEREMIAH 23:9).
Having set right the vision of the future, Jeremiah now turns on those
who had been distorting that visio...
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BOTH JEREMIAH AND THE FALSE PROPHETS ARE FORBIDDEN TO USE THE PHRASE,
‘THE BURDEN OF YHWH' (JEREMIAH 23:33).
God now puts a blanket ban on speaking of a ‘burden' from YHWH. This
is not just arguing ab...
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CONTENTS: Future restoration and conversion of Israel. Message against
the faithless shepherds.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: Woe be to those who are commanded to feed God's people and
preten...
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Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the
sheep._ Princes are often called pastors, as Cyrus, Isaiah 44:28,
because they enforce the laws and protect the people. Shallum, and...
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_Because ye say this word, The burden of the Lord._
SINS OF THE TONGUE
Great part of the prophetical writings is occupied with denunciations
of vengeance on the Jews, for their obstinacy, ingratitude...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The
chapter is an epilogue to the denunciations of the three kings in
chap. 22. It must have been written and proclaimed about the beginnin...
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EXPOSITION
The first eight verses form the necessary conclusion of the group of
discourses summarized in Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 22:1. Like Isaiah,
our prophet follows up denunciation with consolation...
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Now in chapter 23 God speaks out against those
Pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith the
LORD (Jeremiah 23:1).
God said, "They're My sheep, but these pastors are scattering...
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2 Thessalonians 1:9; Deuteronomy 32:39; Ezekiel 34:11; Ezekiel 34:20;...