Jeremiah 9:1-9
THE DECEIT OF THE PEOPLE... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DECEIT OF THE PEOPLE... [ Continue Reading ]
Oh, that my head were waters, an inexhaustible reservoir, AND MINE EYES A FOUNTAIN OF TEARS, flowing in an endless stream, THAT I MIGHT WEEP DAY AND NIGHT FOR THE SLAIN OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE, those who have become victims of their own foolishness in transgressing the Law of the Lord. Although... [ Continue Reading ]
Oh, that I had in the wilderness, far from the wicked capital and the haunts of men, A LODGING-PLACE OF WAYFARING MEN, a traveling lodge or caravansary, such as are found in the Orient, THAT I MIGHT LEAVE MY PEOPLE AND GO FROM THEM! He preferred the loneliness and filth of a desert dwelling to the c... [ Continue Reading ]
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies, so that lies are the arrows which they send to their mark, BUT THEY ARE NOT VALIANT FOR THE TRUTH UPON THE EARTH, they do not make adequate and proper use of fidelity in their dealings with others; FOR THEY PROCEED FROM EVIL TO EVIL AND THEY KNOW... [ Continue Reading ]
Take ye heed every, one of his neighbor, even of those who profess to be friends, AND TRUST YE NOT IN ANY BROTHER, the very ties of blood-relationship being insufficient to withstand the general perfidy; FOR EVERY BROTHER WILL UTTERLY SUPPLANT, literally, "trip up by the heel," Cf Genesis 27:36, AND... [ Continue Reading ]
And they will deceive every one his neighbor, overreaching him, trying to get the advantage of him, AND WILL NOT SPEAK THE TRUTH; THEY HAVE TAUGHT THEIR TONGUE TO SPEAK LIES, the tongue, as it were, being almost compelled, as though unwilling to become guilty of so much wickedness, AND WEARY THEMSEL... [ Continue Reading ]
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit, so God tells Jeremiah in characterizing the entire nation; THROUGH DECEIT THEY REFUSE TO KNOW ME, SAITH THE LORD, their ignorance of Jehovah being willful and obstinate.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, the mighty ruler of the heavenly armies. BEHOLD, I WILL MELT THEM AND TRY THEM, test them in the fire of tribulation, as the refiner tests metals in his furnace; FOR HOW SHALL I DO FOR THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE? There is nothing remaining for Jehovah to do bu... [ Continue Reading ]
Their tongue is as an arrow shot out, a sharp and deadly missile; IT SPEAKETH DECEIT, that being the burden of the Lord's complaint throughout this passage; ONE SPEAKETH PEACEABLY TO HIS NEIGHBOR WITH HIS MOUTH, professing nothing but kindness and good will for him, BUT IN HEART HE LAYETH HIS WAIT,... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord, letting His punishment come upon them for their treacherous and deceitful behavior. SHALL NOT MY SOUL BE AVENGED ON SUCH A NATION AS THIS? Cf. Jeremiah 5:9; Jeremiah 5:29. God's righteousness and holiness demand that He visit the iniquity of w... [ Continue Reading ]
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, the prophet once more taking up his lament, AND FOR THE HABITATIONS OF THE WILDERNESS, for the pastures of the steppes, A LAMENTATION BECAUSE THEY ARE BURNED UP, singed by the sun's excessive heat, no one remaining to tend and to irrigate them,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND... [ Continue Reading ]
(And) I will make Jerusalem heaps, a shapeless ruin, AND A DEN OF DRAGONS, or jackals; AND I WILL MAKE THE CITIES OF JUDAH DESOLATE, WITHOUT AN INHABITANT, the standing expression for the very height of desolation. The application of the prophet now follows.... [ Continue Reading ]
Who is the wise man that may understand this? Who will heed and apply this lesson, this warning, in a proper manner? AND WHO IS HE TO WHOM THE MOUTH OF THE LORD HATH SPOKEN THAT HE MAY DECLARE IT, explain it to his countrymen, FOR WHAT THE LAND PERISHETH AND IS BURNED UP LIKE A WILDERNESS THAT NONE... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord said, in answering the question which has just been proposed. BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN MY LAW WHICH I SET BEFORE THEM AND HAVE NOT OBEYED MY VOICE, the message brought by the true prophets, neither walked therein, not making the Word of the Lord their one rule of life,... [ Continue Reading ]
but have walked after the imagination of their own heart, following their own sinful desires in all the acts of their lives, AND AFTER BAALIM, the idols of the heathen, WHICH THEIR FATHERS TAUGHT THEM, whose idolatry they made their own, thus becoming guilty of the same transgressions:... [ Continue Reading ]
therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, the almighty and only God, BEHOLD, I WILL FEED THEM, EVEN THIS PEOPLE, WITH WORMWOOD, a bitter and poisonous food, AND GIVE THEM WATER OF GALL TO DRINK, poison-water, Cf. Jeremiah 8:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
I will scatter them also among the heathen, in shameful captivity and exile, WHOM NEITHER THEY NOR THEIR FATHERS HAVE KNOWN, as an adequate punishment for their transgression; AND I WILL SEND A SWORD AFTER THEM TILL I HAVE CONSUMED THEM, a large number of them thus being destroyed, especially among... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye and call for the mourning women, those hired to give expression to their grief by plaintive cries and a general mournful behavior, found also in the New Testament, Matthew 9:23, THAT THEY MAY COME, AND SEND FOR CUNNING WOMEN THAT THEY MAY COME, for those mos... [ Continue Reading ]
and let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, for the whole nation of Judah, THAT OUR EYES MAY RUN DOWN WITH TEARS AND OUR EYELIDS GUSH OUT WITH WATERS, in the strongest expression of excessive sorrow.... [ Continue Reading ]
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, in a lamentation over the city's pitiful fate, but without a true repentance of the heart. HOW ARE WE SPOILED, laid waste by the enemy! WE ARE GREATLY CONFOUNDED, heaped with shame and disgrace, BECAUSE WE HAVE FORSAKEN THE LAND, having been compelled to... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of His mouth, in ready obedience to the suggestion which He here makes, AND TEACH YOUR DAUGHTERS WAILING AND EVERY ONE HER NEIGHBOR LAMENTATION, so that the older generation of mourning women might quickly be replaced, and... [ Continue Reading ]
For death is come up into our windows, unexpectedly, stealthily, like a thief in the night, and is entered into our palaces, for the soldiers of the invading army, finding the doors barred, would gain admission through openings which are not so firmly barred, TO CUT OFF THE CHILDREN FROM WITHOUT, th... [ Continue Reading ]
Speak, this being addressed to the prophet, in continuing the command of verse 20, THUS SAITH THE LORD, EVEN THE CARCASSES OF MEN SHALL FALL AS DUNG UPON THE OPEN FIELD, there to rot away, and as the handful after the harvest-man, the grain ready to be gathered into sheaves, AND NONE SHALL GATHER TH... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the Lord, in once more picturing to the apostate Jews the one way of salvation, LET NOT THE WISE MAN GLORY IN HIS WISDOM, as though that were sufficient to bring him redemption, NEITHER LET THE MIGHTY MAN GLORY IN HIS MIGHT, trusting in his strength and power to deliver him, LET NOT THE R... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WAY OF ESCAPE REJECTED... [ Continue Reading ]
but let him that glorieth glory in this, make this fact the one and only foundation of his boasting, THAT HE UNDERSTANDETH AND KNOWETH Me, that he has learned to know the true God, the Triune God and the Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the one Messiah of the world, THAT I AM THE LORD WHI... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised, literally, "every circumcision in foreskin," that Isaiah He would visit in anger all men whose heart was not turned to Him in the true obedience of faith, whether they had submitted to th... [ Continue Reading ]
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, the Jews with all the nations surrounding them, AND ALL THAT ARE IN THE UTMOST CORNERS, THAT DWELL IN THE WILDERNESS, literally, "all having their hair," that is, their beard, "clipped at the corners," a custom in use among the heathen... [ Continue Reading ]