We looked for peace, still expecting deliverance, but no good came, their hope of blessing being utterly vain; and for a time of health, when healing would come to them, and behold trouble! So all the promises of the false prophets upon which the people had depended were found to be vain.
HEALTH ... TROUBLE - Or, “rest ... terror.”...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _ 2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4) 3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13) 4. The prophet's lamentation ...
JUDAH'S UNNATURAL CONDUCT AND ITS PUNISHMENT. There is something unnatural in the persistency of the people's misconduct; they show no inclination to return to Yahweh, but pursue a headstrong course a...
TROUBLE. terror....
See summary at commencement of section....
Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of sin The section may be thus summarized. (i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to change, but Israel...
The people in their straits address one another. Cp. Jeremiah 4:5....
See on Jeremiah 14:19....
C. Unavoidable Punishment at the Hand of God Jeremiah 8:13-17 TRANSLATION (13) I will utterly consume them (oracle of the LORD). No grapes are on the vine and no figs are on the fig tree. The leaves...
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! Repeated, . WE LOOKED FOR PEACE - owing to the expectations held out by the false prophets. HEALTH - healing...
1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....
A TIME OF HEALTH... — Better, _healing,_ or, following another etymology, _a time of quietness, and behold alarm._ “Peace,” in the first clause, is used in its wider sense as including all forms of go...
קַוֵּ֥ה לְ שָׁלֹ֖ום וְ אֵ֣ין טֹ֑וב לְ
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the fight, so were the people set...
Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
I bring the whole of this beautiful Chapter, from this verse to the end into one view, for the sake of shortness, and from necessity; but otherwise nothing could be more desirable than to dwell upon e...
He explains his meaning more clearly in this verse, — that the Jews in vain flattered themselves, while they entertained vain hopes. He then says that there was no reason for them to deceive themselve...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
WE LOOKED FOR PEACE,.... Outward prosperity, affluence of temporal blessings, peace with enemies, and safety from them, which the false prophets had given them reason to expect; or which last they con...
We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble! Ver. 15. _We looked for peace, but no good came._] Our false prophets have merely deluded us. So poor souls, whe...
_Let us enter into the defenced cities_ In these verses the prophet seems to turn to and address his countrymen by way of apostrophe; and, as one of the people that dwelt in the open towns, advises th...
14-22 At length they begin to see the hand of God lifted up. And when God appears against us, every thing that is against us appears formidable. As salvation only can be found in the Lord, so the pre...
Viz. Upon the persuasion of our prophets, we expected that these troubles would never come, but all would be well; but we find ourselves merely deluded by them; we looked so long, till even our eyes f...
Jeremiah 8:15 looked H6960 (H8763) peace H7965 good H2896 time H6256 health H4832 trouble H1205...
JEREMIAH CALLS ON THE PEOPLE TO ENTER THEIR FORTIFIED CITIES BECAUSE THE INVADERS ARE COMING AND THERE WILL BE NO PEACE TERMS ACCEPTED OR HEALING OF THEIR REBELLION, FOR YHWH IS SENDING AMONG THEM SER...
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bo...
Jeremiah 8:1. At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bon...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments impending. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of man cannot serve to k...
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 8:15 Israel LOOKED FOR PEACE, but only the peace offered by false teachers (v. Jeremiah 8:11). Such so-called healing
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 8:1 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. JEREMIAH 8:1 THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies remain unbur...
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inha...
1 Thessalonians 5:3; Jeremiah 14:19; Jeremiah 4:10; Micah 1:12...