Jeremiah 16:1-9
THE INSTRUCTION OF JEHOVAH... [ Continue Reading ]
THE INSTRUCTION OF JEHOVAH... [ Continue Reading ]
The word of the Lord came also unto me, saying,... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shall not take thee a wife, neither shall thou have sons or daughters in this place, he should not have a family, although this was otherwise self-evident among the Jews.... [ Continue Reading ]
For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land, all the persons belonging to the married estate being included in this enumeration:... [ Continue Reading ]
They shall die of grievous deaths, in a most miserable manner; THEY SHALL NOT BE LAMENTED, NEITHER SHALL THEY BE BURIED, BUT THEY SHALL BE AS DUNG UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, Cf. Jeremiah 8:2; Jeremiah 9:22; AND THEY SHALL BE CONSUMED BY THE SWORD AND BY FAMINE, perishing in some of the great scourg... [ Continue Reading ]
For thus saith the Lord, in bidding Jeremiah refrain from every show of sympathy for the fate of the apostate people, ENTER NOT INTO THE HOUSE OF MOURNING, where some one had died and where people were giving loud expression to their grief, NEITHER GO TO LAMENT NOR BEMOAN THEM; FOR I HAVE TAKEN AWAY... [ Continue Reading ]
Both the great and the small shall die in this land, as a result of the withdrawal of His blessing; THEY SHALL NOT BE BURIED, NEITHER SHALL MEN LAMENT FOR THEM, with the usual signs of mourning, NOR CUT THEMSELVES, MAKING INCISIONS IN THE FLESH, NOR MAKE THEMSELVES BALD FOR THEM, by shaving off a pa... [ Continue Reading ]
neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, literally, "break bread for them," to comfort them for the dead; NEITHER SHALL MEN GIVE THEM THE CUP OF CONSOLATION TO DRINK FOR THEIR FATHER OR FOR THEIR MOTHER. The reference is to the custom of sending bread and wine to the house of such as... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shall not also go into the house of feasting to sit with them to eat and to drink, to attend such a mournful feast of survivors in person and to show sympathy in any form whatever.... [ Continue Reading ]
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, who here again makes announcement of His intention in a most solemn manner. BEHOLD, I WILL CAUSE TO CEASE OUT OF THIS PLACE IN YOUR EYES, that is, "before your eyes," AND IN YOUR DAYS THE VOICE OF MIRTH AND THE VOICE OF GLADNESS, THE VOICE OF THE... [ Continue Reading ]
REASONS FOR THE CAPTIVITY... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass, when thou shall show this people all these words, declaring to them the judgment of the Lord, AND THEY SHALL SAY UNTO THEE, WHEREFORE HATH THE LORD PRONOUNCED ALL THIS GREAT EVIL AGAINST US? this being asked with a great show of pretended innocence, OR WHAT IS OUR INIQUITY... [ Continue Reading ]
then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken Me, saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, thus habitually indulging in idolatry, AND HAVE SERVED THEM, AND HAVE WORSHIPED THEM, AND HAVE, on the other hand, FORSAKEN ME, AND HAVE NOT KEPT MY LAW.... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, in deliberate stubbornness, THAT THEY MAY NOT HEARKEN UNTO ME, or, "that ye hearken not unto Me," obstinately ignoring His Word;... [ Continue Reading ]
therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers, a country altogether strange to them, AND THERE SHALL YE SERVE OTHER GODS DAY AND NIGHT, without intermission; WHERE I WILL NOT SHOW YOU FAVOR. This is a form of holy irony: what they willingly did... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, according to the asseveration which had been common in Judah these many centuries. THE LORD LIVETH THAT BROUGHT UP THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, this being a very emphatic statement,... [ Continue Reading ]
but, The Lord liveth that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the North, from Babylon, AND FROM ALL THE LANDS WHITHER HE HAD DRIVEN THEM, from the lands of their exile; AND I WILL BRING THEM AGAIN INTO THEIR LAND THAT I GAVE UNTO THEIR FATHERS, this promise being like a ray of light i... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, whose nets would enfold large multitudes to take them captive, AND THEY SHALL FISH THEM; AND AFTER WILL I SEND FOR MANY HUNTERS, AND THEY SHALL HUNT THEM FROM EVERY MOUNTAIN AND FROM EVERY HILL AND OUT OF THE HOLES OF THE ROCKS, this indicating t... [ Continue Reading ]
For Mine eyes are upon all their ways, observing their entire conduct; THEY ARE NOT HID FROM MY FACE, NEITHER IS THEIR INIQUITY HID FROM MINE EYES, they are unable to conceal it before His omniscient gaze.... [ Continue Reading ]
And first, that is, to begin with, I WILL RECOMPENSE THEIR INIQUITY AND THEIR SIN DOUBLE, in twice the measure in which they committed their wicked deeds; BECAUSE THEY HAVE DEFILED MY LAND, desecrating the country which was considered hallowed to Him; THEY HAVE FILLED MINE INHERITANCE, what He had g... [ Continue Reading ]
O Lord, so the prophet now addresses Jehovah, the God of the covenant, in expressing his own hope and that of all true Israelites concerning the return of the people to the true God, MY STRENGTH AND MY FORTRESS, his Protection against the enemies, AND MY REFUGE IN THE DAY OF AFFLICTION, THE GENTILES... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? The question has the strength of a most emphatic denial, of a stern rebuke to the men of Judah for their idolatrous ways. Moreover, the Lord expresses His emphatic agreement with this statement of Jeremiah.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, in the impending catastrophe, I WILL CAUSE THEM TO KNOW MINE HAND AND MY MIGHT, as it descends upon them in anger; AND THEY SHALL KNOW THAT MY NAME IS "THE LORD," that He alone is God in truth. Cf Ezekiel 12:15; Exodus 3:14. Many a person has s... [ Continue Reading ]