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Verse Jeremiah 9:15. _I WILL FEED THEM - WITH WORMWOOD_] They shall
have the deepest sorrow and heaviest affliction. They shall have
_poison_ instead of _meat_ and _drink_....
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The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three
verses is now detailed at great length.
Jeremiah 9:10
THE HABITATIONS I. E - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see
Jeremiah...
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CHAPTER 9
_ 1. The prophet's complaint and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 9:1) _
2. The cause of desolation and destruction (Jeremiah 9:10)
3. The call for the mourning and wailing women (Jeremiah 9:17...
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FAITHLESSNESS AND ITS RETRIBUTION: THE DIRGE OF DEATH. The humblest
caravanserai would be preferable to life among these evil men, with
their calumnies and the unfaithful use of power by those in auth...
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BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN MY LAW.
These three verses declared the reasons why these awful judgments
shall come upon Israel. They had forsaken God's law; they had turned
to the worship of Baalim, or...
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THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 7:3.
WORMWOOD... GALL. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 29:18).
Repeated in Jeremiah 23:15. Occurs also in...
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See introd. summary to the section....
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Du. and Gi. consider this passage to be condemned by prosaic wording
and the vagueness or absence of metre. Co. thinks it to contain
Jeremianic elements, worked up later. It certainly forms a remarkab...
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The coming troubles are likened to wormwood and water of gall.
_wormwood_ a generic word for the species _Artemisia_, found chiefly
in desert places. Cp. Jeremiah 23:15; Lamentations 3:15; Lamentation...
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BEHOLD, I WILL FEED, &C.— See Deuteronomy 29:18....
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B. Impending Destruction Jeremiah 9:9-21
Because of the national corruption, destruction is necessary and
imminent. The land will become desolate (Jeremiah 9:9-15) and death
will reign supreme through...
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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water
of gall to drink.
I WILL FEED THEM WITH WORMWOOD - (, "Tho...
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1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
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WORMWOOD. — As a plant, probably a species of _Artemisia,_ four
species of which are found in Palestine. In Deuteronomy 29:18 it
appears as the symbol of moral evil, here of the bitterness of
calamity...
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_[Jeremiah 9:14]_ לָכֵ֗ן כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֞ר
יְהוָ֤ה צְבָאֹות֙...
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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
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NATIONAL PERVERSITY
Jeremiah 9:1-16
Jeremiah 9:1-6
Once the voice of joy and thanksgiving had been heard in Jerusalem,
but now on every side there was bloodshed, and the patriot-prophet
could only w...
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In answer to his own question, Jeremiah sighed for some adequate means
of expressing the anguish of his heart, and then for escape to some
lonely place in the wilderness. All this was in the nature of...
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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water
of gall (m) to drink.
(m) Read (Jeremiah 8:14)....
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_Gall. Hebrew rosh, "poison," &c., Deuteronomy xxix. 18. (Haydock)_...
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It is blessed to remark, that in all the Lord's chastisements, he hath
one uniform object in view for their reform. All his dispensations are
to bring his people back to himself. Hence the wise among...
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He at length concludes that God would take vengeance, but speaks in a
figurativle language, _I will feed them with bitterness _The word
לענה _lone, _is rendered “wormwood;” but as this is a
wholesome...
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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...
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THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... He
calls himself "the Lord God of hosts", of armies above and below, in
heaven and in earth, in opposition to Baalim, the idols of th...
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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water
of gall to drink.
Ver. 15. _Behold, I will feed them with w...
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_I will feed them, &c., with wormwood_ See on Deuteronomy 29:18. The
word rendered _wormwood_ here, it seems, had better be rendered
_wolfsbane_, as signifying an herb which is not only bitter and
nau...
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12-22 In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the
people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the
voice of lamentation. Unhumbled hearts lament their calami...
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EVEN THIS PEOPLE: this supplement _even_ shows that it is spoken
emphatically, though they be a people that presume to be my peculiar.
_Wormwood; worms_, Dutch Annotations. A plant to purify and clean...
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Jeremiah 9:15 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 God H430 Israel
H3478 feed H398 (H8688) people...
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THOSE WHO ARE TRULY WISE WILL KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD AND WILL THUS
UNDERSTAND WHY HE ACTS LIKE HE DOES IN BRINGING FINAL JUDGMENT ON
JUDAH (JEREMIAH 9:12).
The passage commences by asking who the tr...
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Jeremiah 9:1. _Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain
of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the
daughter of my people!_
Jeremiah foresaw that the Chaldeans would c...
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CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Detestation of the
sins of the people. The vanity of trusting in anything but God.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Those who will not know God...
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Jeremiah 9:2. _Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodgingplace of
wayfaring men._ In countries where the peasantry are very poor,
travellers provide for themselves as they can. Even in Spain many of
th...
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_Because they have forsaken My law. .. give them water of gall to
drink._
THE WAGES OF SIN
A quaint preacher, addressing miners, drew a picture of two mines. He
represented payday at one of the mines...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 9:15 BITTER FOOD... POISONOUS WATER refer
to both bitter hearts that prefer disobedience (Deuteronomy 29:18) and
bitter experiences rela
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. For Chronology and History, see chap.
7.
1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 9:26. “_Egypt_.” sit. on N.E.
angle of Africa; a vast plain; in general features it may be...
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 9:1
The Hebrew more correctly attaches this verse to Jeremiah 8:1. OH THAT
MY HEAD WERE WATERS, etc.! A quaint conceit, it may be said. But "if
we have been going on pace for pace...
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Now Jeremiah declares,
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes were as a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my
people! Oh that I had in the wildernes...
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Isaiah 2:17; Isaiah 2:22; Jeremiah 23:15; Jeremiah 25:15; Jeremiah 8