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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Jeremiah 30:16

Prey. The Romans utterly overturned the Macedonian empire, (Haydock) as the former had done the Persian, and they the Chaldean monarchy, which has risen on the ruins of the Assyrian empire. But the Jews rise as it were from their ashes. (Calmet)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 30:16. _THEY THAT DEVOUR THEE_] The Chaldeans. _SHALL BE DEVOURED_] By the _Medes_ and _Persians_. _ALL THAT PREY UPON THEE WILL I GIVE FOR A PREY._] The _Assyrians_ were destroyed b...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEREFORE - i. e., Because thou hast undergone thy punishment and cried out in consciousness of thy guilt....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ALL THEY THAT DEVOUR THEE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 23:22)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Therefore_ Because thou hast undergone thy portion of suffering and it is plain that none other than Myself can deliver thee. For the general sense cp. Isaiah 14:2; Isaiah 51:22 f. Co. points out tha...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee wi...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-9. When the gloom is deepest, deliverance shall come....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לָכֵ֞ן כָּל ־אֹכְלַ֨יִךְ֙ יֵאָכֵ֔לוּ וְ כָל ־

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here, again, the Prophet promises that God would be gracious to his people, but after a long time, when that perverseness would be subdued, which could not be soon cured. We ought, then, ever to bear...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEREFORE ALL THEY THAT DEVOUR THEE SHALL BE DEVOURED,.... Thus rendering the words, they are to be connected with Jeremiah 30:10; and all between to be put into a parenthesis: but rather, in connecti...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee wil...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Therefore_ Or rather, _yet surely_, as לכן should be rendered; (see note on Jeremiah 16:14;) _all they that devour thee shall be devoured_ The Egyptians, Philistines, Midianites, Ammonites, Edomites,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured, and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity, the fate of the oppressed Jews striking them in full measure; AND THEY THA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE TURN OF AFFAIRS AND THE CONSUMMATION OF SALVATION...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OLBHeb; The particle Nbl is thought here to be ill translated _therefore_, for manifestly it is not a causal or illative, and those who interpret it therefore refer it to what went before, JEREMIAH 30...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 30:16 devour H398 (H8802) devoured H398 (H8735) adversaries H6862 go H3212 (H8799) captivity H7628 plund

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HOWEVER, THE NATIONS TOO WILL SUFFER BOTH BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN DESERTS AND BECAUSE THEY HAVE MOCKED JUDAH'S GOD, WHILE ON THE OTHER HAND JUDAH WILL BE RESTORED (JEREMIAH 30:16). But Israel/Judah will...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 23:22; Ezekiel 25:3; Ezekiel 26:2; Ezekiel 29:6; Ezekiel 35:5

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