Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Jeremiah 4:24
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, because the very foundations of the earth were moved, and all the hills moved lightly, as heavy bodies which shake with the slightest disturbance.
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, because the very foundations of the earth were moved, and all the hills moved lightly, as heavy bodies which shake with the slightest disturbance.
Verse Jeremiah 4:24. _THE MOUNTAINS - HILLS_] Princes, rulers, c., were astonished and fled....
In four verses each beginning with “I beheld,” the prophet sees in vision the desolate condition of Judaea during the Babylonian captivity. Jeremiah 4:23 WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID - Desolate and void (s...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. True repentance and what it means (Jeremiah 4:1) _ 2. The alarm sounded: judgment comes (Jeremiah 4:5) 3. The doom of the rebellious people (Jeremiah 4:14) 4. The desolation of I
THE VISION OF DESOLATION (Jeremiah 4:23) most impressively describes the Divine visitation of Judah. The earth becomes like the chaos before creation (_mg._) under a sky that has lost its lamps; the v...
Jeremiah 4:5-31. Impending judgements. National disaster This section and the two that follow it (viz. chs. 5 and 6) are somewhat later than the preceding, as presenting a more definite description o...
In vision he beholds the earth a void waste, the hills reeling at the blast of God's anger, the heavens black, all bird life fled, cities in ruins. Jehovah's resolve is an abiding one. See summary at...
_moved to and fro_ mg. _moved lightly_....
I BEHELD THE EARTH, &C.— The images, under which the prophet represents the approaching desolation as foreseen by him, are such as are familiar to the Hebrew poets on the like occasions. (See Lowth De...
_2. Devastating judgment_ (Jeremiah 4:23-26) TRANSLATION (23) I looked at the land, and behold, it was waste and void; and unto the heavens, but there was no light. (24) I looked at the mountains, an...
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. MOUNTAINS - (). MOVED LIGHTLY - shook vehemently....
THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6) This section furnishes us with the g...
5-10. Destruction approaches Jerusalem....
LIGHTLY] RV 'to and fro.' SHAME] RV 'the shameful thing,' i.e. the god Baal: cp. Jeremiah 11:13. HATH DEVOURED] hath consumed in the form of sacrifices the fruits of our toil. JEREMIAH 4:1. The assu...
THE MOUNTAINS, AND, LO, THEY TREMBLED. — The great earthquake in the days of Uzziah (Amos 1:1), of which we find traces in Isaiah (Isaiah 24:19), had probably made imagery of this kind familiar....
רָאִ֨יתִי֙ הֶֽ הָרִ֔ים וְ הִנֵּ֖ה רֹעֲשִׁ֑ים...
Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would under
Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in exte...
There is somewhat uncommonly solemn and striking, when the Lord by his servants, as in many parts of scripture, calls upon the heavenly bodies, and the inanimate parts of nature, to lament by their ap...
Jeremiah descends afterwards from heaven to mountains, and says that they _trembled_, and that _all the hills _moved or shook; some say, destroyed, but I know not for what reason, for the Prophet no d...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...
I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS, AND, LO, THEY TREMBLED,.... At the presence of God, at the tokens of his displeasure, and at his awful vengeance in the destruction of the Jews, as they are sometimes said to d...
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. Ver. 24. _I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled._] War is a woe that no words, how wide soever, can sufficien...
_I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form and void_ “The images under which the prophet here represents the approaching desolation, as foreseen by him, are such as are familiar to the Hebrew po...
19-31 The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion. Compared with what it was, every thing is out of order; but the ruin of the Jew...
He proceeds in his figurative elegancies: q.d. Behold how the mountains of Judea tremble! a like expression PSALMS 18:7,8 ISA 5:25; as if the very senseless creatures were astonished at the greatness...
Jeremiah 4:24 beheld H7200 (H8804) mountains H2022 trembled H7493 (H8801) hills H1389 forth H7043 (H8701)...
JEREMIAH'S VISION OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE INVASION (JEREMIAH 4:23). In chilling tones Jeremiah now pictures the land after its destruction, as he, as it were, looks around and sees all the devastation...
YHWH WARNS JUDAH THAT IF THEY WILL NOT REPENT FOR THEM TOO INVASION BY A FIERCE ADVERSARY IS THREATENING AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY COME BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS (JEREMIAH 4:3). If Judah will not respond to th...
Jeremiah 4:1. _If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The LORD l...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. Warning of the consequences of sin and exhortation to return to God. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is the evil of men's doings that kindle...
Jeremiah 4:3. _Break up your fallow ground._ Hebrews ניר _nir, novale;_ make _new_ land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12. Our old phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the word....
_I am pained at my very heart._ THE PROPHET’S LAMENTATIONS OVER HIS PEOPLE’S DOOM I. The complaint or lamentation itself. 1. The parts affected. The soul and inward man. (1) The secrecy of it, the...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 4:23 Jeremiah portrays the coming judgment as a reversal of the creation process. The earth is once again WITHOUT FORM AND VOID (compare Genesis
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Chronology_ of the chapter, _Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History_ as in chap. 3. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 4:5. “_Defenced cities_....
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 4:1, JEREMIAH 4:2 The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render, _If thou wilt return_,_ O Israel_,_ saith Jehovah_,_ wilt return unto me_;_ and if thou wilt...
But if you will return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if you will put away thine abominations out of my sight, then you will no longer be [moved or] removed. And thou shalt swear, The...
1 Kings 19:11; Ezekiel 38:20; Habakkuk 3:10; Habakkuk 3:6; Isaiah 5:25
Trembled — He proceeds in his figurative expressions. Behold how the very mountains of Judea tremble! Moved — As easily as dust, or feathers in a whirl — wind....