George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 30:14
Lovers. Nations which had seduced thee to worship their idols. (Haydock) --- Enemy. This judgment (ver. 11.) was requisite. (Calmet)
Lovers. Nations which had seduced thee to worship their idols. (Haydock) --- Enemy. This judgment (ver. 11.) was requisite. (Calmet)
FOR THE MULTITUDE ... - Or, Because of the multitude of thine iniquity, Because thy sins are strong. Judah’s lovers are the nations which once sought her alliance (see Jeremiah 22:20;...
THE GLORIOUS FUTURE OF THE NATION (30-31) CHAPTER 30 _ 1. The time of Jacob's trouble (Jeremiah 30:1) _ 2. Zion's desperate condition and the promise of deliverance (Jeremiah 30:12) 3. Restoration...
Description of the people's terror (Jeremiah 30:5 _mg._) at the Day of Yahweh (Amos 5:18); but this Day shall bring deliverance from the (heathen) yoke (Jeremiah 30:8), and Israel shall have (religiou...
See introd. note to section. For a parallel in the character of the description in Jeremiah 30:5, Dr. compares Isaiah 13:6-15 (the overthrow of Babylon) followed by Isaiah 14:1 f. (the deliverance of...
_thy lovers_ See on Jeremiah 22:20. _for the greatness, etc_.] mg. _multitude_. Probably the latter part of the _v_. has been accidentally introduced from Jeremiah 30:15, where it suits the context b...
These _vv_. are either Jeremiah's own (so Du.) or a close imitation of his style....
B. The Plight of Apostate Israel Jeremiah 30:12-17 TRANSLATION (12) For thus says the LORD: Your wound is incurable, your hurt is fatal. (13) There is no one to plead your case that you may be bound...
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins...
1-9. When the gloom is deepest, deliverance shall come....
THY LOVERS] the nations that sought to ally themselves with thee: see Jeremiah 27:3 18-24. Jerusalem shall be restored to favour....
ALL THY LOVERS HAVE FORGOTTEN THEE... — The lovers of a nation are, of course, as in Jeremiah 22:20, its allies and tributaries. Moab, Ammon, Edom, Tyre, had at one time courted the favour of Judah (J...
כָּל ־מְאַהֲבַ֣יִךְ שְׁכֵח֔וּךְ אֹותָ֖ךְ לֹ֣א יִדְרֹ֑שׁוּ...
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
Following this action of the prophet a word of Jehovah came to him which he was especially commanded to write in a book. In a remarkable way it first set forth two things side by side. The first and f...
I stay not to detain the Reader with any observations upon this blessed passage, though in itself it would invite some of the most delightful. But the gracious things here spoken of, both in a way of...
The Prophet again repeats, that nothing remained for Israel as coming from men, for no one offered to bring help. Some, indeed, explain the words as though the Prophet had said, that friends, as it is...
THE DAY OF JACOB'S TROUBLE: PROMISED DELIVERANCE AND SURE JUDGMENT Some details of the circumstances that accompany its exercise deserve our attention, as well as the character which God displays in i...
ALL THY LOVERS HAVE FORGOTTEN THEE,.... The Egyptians and Assyrians, whom they sought unto for help, and entered into an alliance with, and who promised them great things; but forgot their promises an...
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; [because] thy sin...
_Thy bruise is incurable_ In all human appearance. The state that the Jews should be in would be so miserable that it would be incurable from any hand except that of God. _There is none to plead thy c...
All thy lovers, the former allied nations that had professed friendship for Judah, HAVE FORGOTTEN THEE, THEY SEEK THEE NOT, not being at all concerned about Judah's welfare; FOR I HAVE WOUNDED THEE WI...
THE TURN OF AFFAIRS AND THE CONSUMMATION OF SALVATION...
12-17 When God is against a people, who will be for them? Who can be for them, so as to do them any kindness? Incurable griefs are owing to incurable lusts. Yet, though the captives suffered justly,...
In the time of thy prosperity thou hadst many friends, but now they have FORGOTTEN THEE. Very probably the Egyptians and Assyrians, whose help the Jews made often use of, are the _lovers_ here intende...
Jeremiah 30:14 lovers H157 (H8764) forgotten H7911 (H8804) seek H1875 (H8799) wounded H5221 (H8689) wound...
PART 1). ANGUISH AND RESTORATION (JEREMIAH 30:1 TO JEREMIAH 31:40). Part 1 is divided up into two Sub-parts (A and B) by the introductory words, ‘thus says YHWH (of hosts), the God of Israel' (Jeremia...
THE REASON WHY ISRAEL/JUDAH NEEDED TO BE DELIVERED WAS BECAUSE OF THEIR SUFFERINGS, WHICH WERE GRIEVOUS BECAUSE THEY WERE THE CONSEQUENCE OF THEIR SINS (JEREMIAH 30:12). Having made His glorious promi...
SECTION 2 (JEREMIAH 26:1 TO JEREMIAH 45:5). (CONTINUED). As we have seen this Section of Jeremiah from Jeremiah 26:1 to Jeremiah 45:5 di
Jeremiah 30:12. _For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous._ See here is the bass again. We have got down into the sorrowful notes all to make us sick of self and re...
Jeremiah 30:1. _The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book._ We believe in ver...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first writing. Summary of Israel in the coming great tribulation. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Israel, after many years of wandering among all nations, is to be finall...
Jeremiah 30:6. _Ask ye now whether a man doth travail with child._ The anguish of a people once lords in Judea, now servants in Babylon, was great. But they were happier weeping there than worshipping...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 30:1 Restoration for Judah and Israel. The book now turns to positive themes. At last Jeremiah may “build and plant” (Jeremiah 1:10). He cl
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 30:14 LOVERS. Former allies and their gods (Jeremiah 3:1; Jer
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—Though without a date, yet the probability is that it was “_written in a book_” (see Jeremiah 30:2) in the tenth year of Zedekiah; and that th...
EXPOSITION This and the three next chapters form a kind of book in themselves, which contrasts admirably with Jermiah 27-29. In the latter Jeremiah aimed at casting down the delusive hope that the tim...
Now as we get into chapter 30, we enter into the future in these next four Chapter s. And this is now writing of the Great Tribulation period which is yet future. This is writing about this period of...
Ezekiel 23:22; Ezekiel 23:9; Ezekiel 9:8; Hosea 2:10; Hosea 2:5;...
Thy lovers — The Egyptians and Assyrians....