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Verse Jeremiah 18:16. _A PERPETUAL HISSING_] שריקות _sherikoth_,
a _shrieking,_ _hissing_; an expression of contempt....
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HISSING - Not derision, but the drawing in of the breath quickly as
men do when they shudder.
WAY HIS HEAD - Or, “shake his head,” a sign among the Jews not of
scorn but of pity. The desolation of th...
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CHAPTER 18
The Potter and the Clay
_ 1. In the potter's house and the message (Jeremiah 18:1) _
2. The plot against the prophet and his prayer (Jeremiah 18:18)
Jeremiah 18:1. He was comm
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THE POTTER AND THE CLAY. The potter (Jeremiah 18:1) moulding his clay
on the upper stone, which he makes revolve by his feet resting on the
connected lower stone, is compared with Yahweh in His contro...
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HISSING. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), for the
contempt felt....
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E. The Devastation of the Land Jeremiah 18:16-17
TRANSLATION
(16) The result of this is that they will make their land a
desolation, an object of everlasting derision. Everyone who passes by
it shall...
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To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that
passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
TO MAKE THEIR LAND DESOLATE, AND A PERPETUAL HISSING - which the Lord
for...
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18:16 astonishment, (c-6) Or 'a desolation.'...
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1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
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HISSING] not in contempt, but amazement....
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DESOLATE... ASTONISHED. — Better, _desolate_ in both clauses. The
Hebrew verb is the same, and there is a manifest emphasis in the
repetition which it is better to reproduce in English.
A PERPETUAL H...
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לָ שׂ֥וּם אַרְצָ֛ם לְ שַׁמָּ֖ה
_שְׁרִיקֹ֣ת_† עֹולָ֑ם
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CHAPTER XI
THE DIVINE POTTER
Jeremiah 18:1
JEREMIAH goes down into the Lower Town, or the valley between the
upper and lower city; and there his attention is arrested by a potter
sitting at work bef...
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We now come to the second series of messages before the fall of
Jerusalem (18-20), which consists of declarations of God's absolute
supremacy. In preparation for this, Jeremiah was sent to the house o...
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_Head, through contempt (Calmet) and pity, Lamentations ii. 15._...
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What a striking expostulation is in the opening of these verses? The
Lord sends his people to ask of the heathen, among whom it was never
known, of such apostasy from their dunghill gods, as Israel ma...
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The Prophet again denounces the punishment which they deserved, that
desolation awaited the land. It would be, he says, their reward to
have the land reduced to a solitude, and also to _perpetual hiss...
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In chapter 18 this principle is fully demonstrated before the people
(Jeremiah 18:1-10). But the people in despair as to God, in the midst
of their boldness in evil and in contempt of His marvellous p...
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TO MAKE THEIR LAND DESOLATE,.... Not that this was the intention
either of those that led them out of the right way into those wrong
paths, or of them that went into them; but so it was eventually; th...
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To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing; every one that
passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
Ver. 16. _To make their land desolate._] Not intentionally so; but yet
ev...
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_Because my people have forgotten me The fountain of living waters;_
have forgotten what I am in myself, and what I have been, and am still
ready to be to them; have lost their knowledge of me, and th...
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11-17 Sinners call it liberty to live at large; whereas for a man to
be a slave to his lusts, is the very worst slavery. They forsook God
for idols. When men are parched with heat, and meet with cool...
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Not that this was _finis operantis_, their end which they aimed at,
none wisheth ill or doth any thing designedly to bring evil upon
himself; but it was _finis operis_ the end these courses would
cert...
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Jeremiah 18:16 make H7760 (H8800) land H776 desolate H8047 perpetual
H5769 hissing H8292 (H8675) H8292 passes...
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BECAUSE OF THEIR REFUSAL TO RESPOND TO HIS ‘SHAPING' HE WILL NOW
‘SHAPE' EVIL AGAINST THEM UNLESS THEY NOW REPENT. HIS OFFER BEING
TURNED DOWN GOD CALLS ON THE NATIONS TO BE ASTONISHED WITNESSES OF
TH...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the potter's house. Declaration of God's ways of
dealing with nations. Jeremiah's complaint.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Jehovah has incontestable and irresistible abili...
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Jeremiah 18:6. _As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my
hand._ The sense is given in the next words; the exaltation, or the
degradation of a nation, is wholly with the Lord. If they, unde...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 18:14 DOES THE SNOW OF LEBANON LEAVE... DO
THE MOUNTAIN WATERS RUN DRY? Both questions expect a negative answer.
In contrast, Judah has done the unnatural thing and deserted...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early
in Jehoiakim’s reign (See _Chronological Note_ on Section 19–27 of
previous chapter). Probably about two years later than that messag...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending
to Jeremiah 25:1.) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not
been determined by chronological considerations. T...
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Now in chapter 18:
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go
down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my
words. Then I went down to the potter's house...
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1 Kings 9:8; 2 Chronicles 7:20; 2 Chronicles 7:21; Deuteronomy 28:59;...
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Desolate — Not that this was the end they aimed at, but it was the
end these courses would certainly issue in....