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Verse Jeremiah 2:12. _BE ASTONISHED, O YE HEAVENS_] Or, _the heavens
are_ _astonished_. The original will admit either sense. The conduct
of this people was so altogether bad, that among all the iniqu...
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BE ASTONISHED - The King James Version uses this word as equivalent
“to be stupefied.”
DESOLATE - Or, “be dry.” In horror at Israel’s conduct the
heavens shrivel and dry up....
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CHAPTER S 2:1-3:5
Expostulation and Impeachment
_ 1. His love and kindness to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:1) _
2. The unfaithful people (Jeremiah 2:4)
3. The two evils and the results (Jeremiah 2:12)...
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YAHWEH'S REPROACHES. Yahweh asks why His redeeming acts are forgotten
and His (true) worship abandoned; other nations do not abandon their
gods, though these are worthless, but Yahweh's people have fo...
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BE ASTONISHED. Figure of speech _Apostrophe_.
VERY DESOLATE. dried up, or, devoid of clouds and vapours....
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_be ye very desolate_ lit. BE YE DRY. The heavens are bid to shrivel
up in horror at the behaviour of the people. By a figure common in all
poetry nature is called upon to adapt herself, as though a l...
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DISCOURSE: 1027
THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS
Jeremiah 2:12. _Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly
afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have
committed two evils...
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BE HORRIBLY AFRAID, BE YE VERY DESOLATE— _Be amazed; marvel,_ or
_tremble exceedingly._...
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C. Penetrating Analysis Jeremiah 2:9-19
TRANSLATION
(9) So yet I present My case against you (oracle of the LORD), and
with your children I must contend. (10) For pass over to the isles of
Kittim and...
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Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye
very desolate, saith the LORD.
BE ASTONISHED, O YE HEAVENS - impassioned personification ().
HORRIBLY AFRAID - rather, 'be hor...
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JEREMIAH'S SECOND PROPHECY (2:1-3:5)
The prophet expostulates with Israel because of their unfaithfulness
to Jehovah.
1-13. Under the figure of the marriage relation Jehovah reminds the
people of Hi...
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BE ASTONISHED, O YE HEAVENS. — The adjuration had been made familiar
by a like utterance in Isaiah 1:2; Deuteronomy 32:1 “Astonished”
— in the old sense, “thunder-stricken,” stupefied. The whole
unive...
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שֹׁ֥מּוּ שָׁמַ֖יִם עַל ־זֹ֑את וְ
שַׂעֲר֛וּ חָ
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CHAPTER II
THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT
Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1
THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon
which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menace...
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The first movement in commissioning the called man now commences. He
was commanded to utter a great impeachment in the ears of Jerusalem.
This impeachment was threefold. It first declared how Israel h...
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Be astonished, O ye (s) heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be
ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
(s) He shows that the insensible creatures abhor this vile
ingratitude, and as it were tremble f...
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_Gates; angels, or the temple._...
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Reader! this is not the first time that we meet with such appeals to
heaven, and to other parts of the inanimate creation: for if man will
not hear, to whom shall respect be had? Isaiah 50:2; Deuteron...
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When the Prophet saw that he had to do with besotted men, almost void
of all reason, he turned to address the heavens: and it is a way of
speaking, common in the Prophets, — that they address the heav...
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Chapter 2 contains a most touching appeal to the people at Jerusalem.
It requires no explanation, but deserves the heart's serious
attention. It testifies in the most striking manner to the kindness
a...
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BE ASTONISHED, O YE HEAVENS, AT THIS,.... Meaning either the angels in
heaven, or the heavens themselves, by a personification:
AND BE HORRIBLY AFRAID, BE YE VERY DESOLATE, SAITH THE LORD; all which...
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_Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye
very desolate, saith the LORD._
Ver. 12. _Be astonished, O heavens!_] A poetic and pathetic
expression. Compare Deu 32:1 Isaiah 1:...
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_Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this_ A pathetical expression, in the
poetic style, signifying that the wickedness of these apostates from
God was so great, that the very inanimate creatures, could t...
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ISRAEL'S LACK OF FAITHFULNESS...
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Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, at the unspeakable wickedness of
their behavior, AND BE HORRIBLY AFRAID, be filled with shuddering
loathing, BE YE VERY DESOLATE, SAITH THE LORD, exceedingly agha...
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9-13 Before God punishes sinners, he pleads with them, to bring them
to repentance. He pleads with us, what we should plead with ourselves.
Be afraid to think of the wrath and curse which will be the...
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Jeremiah 2:12 astonished H8074 (H8798) heavens H8064 afraid H8175
(H8798) very H3966 desolate H2717 (H8798) says...
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YHWH EXPRESSES HIS ASTONISHMENT AT THE INCREDIBLE WAY IN WHICH THEY
HAVE BEHAVED (JEREMIAH 2:9).
YHWH expresses His astonishment at the behaviour of His people, and
calls on the heavens to witness wha...
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Jeremiah 2:1. Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and
cry in the ears of Jerusalem saying, Thus saith the LORD: I remember
thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals...
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Jeremiah 2:1. Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and
cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I remember
thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousal...
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CONTENTS: First message to backslidden Judah concerning their
ingratitude to God and wickedness against Him.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: It is a great affront to God to neglect Him and for...
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Jeremiah 2:2. _I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth._ God now
addressed them, that he might do the same to the children as he had
done to the fathers, and rejoice over them as the bridegroom rej...
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_Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods?_
CHRISTIAN CONTROVERSY
The text may be put into other words, thus: “Go over to the islands
of the Chittim, the isles and coast lands of the f...
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JEREMIAH 2:1 Israel’s Covenantal Adultery. These five related
messages were probably delivered during Josiah’s reign (Jeremiah
3:6). Jeremiah declares that God’s chosen people commit spiritual
adulter...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 2:12 The HEAVENS, called as witnesses in
the lawsuit (see note on v. 9), are shocked by Israel’s abandoning
the FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS for...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY. Most probably in
thirteenth Josiah, quickly after his call. Dr. Dahler (Stratsbourg)
would interpose Chapter s 4, 5, 6; deferring this chapter till after...
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EXPOSITION
The second chapter forms the introduction of a group of discourses
(Jeremiah 2-6), which should be read together. It is called By Ewald
(and the position of the prophecy favors this view) t...
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Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the
ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD (Jeremiah 2:1-2);
Now this is the first message that he has to deliver. As God is
cal...
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Deuteronomy 32:1; Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 22:29; Jeremiah 6:19; Micah 6:2
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O ye heavens — A pathetical expression, intimating that it is such a
thing, that the very inanimate creatures, could they be sensible of
it, would be astonished. Be desolate — Lose your brightness, as...