Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Jeremiah 23:40
And you shall be a reproach, and that not for a few days, but for ever; and a penal shame, which neither you nor those that see or hear of it shall forget. See such expressions Jeremiah 20:11.
And you shall be a reproach, and that not for a few days, but for ever; and a penal shame, which neither you nor those that see or hear of it shall forget. See such expressions Jeremiah 20:11.
Verse Jeremiah 23:40. _I WILL BRING AN EVERLASTING REPROACH UPON YOU_] And this reproach of having rebelled against so good a God, and rejected so powerful a Saviour, follows them to this day through...
CHAPTER 23:9-40 Condemnation of the False Prophets _ 1. Jeremiah's lament on account of the false prophets (Jeremiah 23:9) _ 2. The condemnation of these prophets (Jeremiah 23:15) 3. Forgotten and...
THE PROPHETS. Jeremiah is overcome by the stern message given him to deliver. The evil of the land is encouraged by prophet and priest (Jeremiah 6:13), even the Temple being dishonoured (2 Kings 21:5)...
EVERLASTING... PERPETUAL. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Whole), for. part of time. life long. Limited here by the promised Restoration....
Jeremiah 23:9-40. Condemnation of the prophets Following on the prophecies relating to successive kings of Judah, we have a section dealing with the iniquities of a class who also grievously misled t...
See introd. summary to section. The original word means either a burden or a prophetic utterance. It would appear that those hostile to Jeremiah had taken to apply the word derisively to the prophet's...
4. _The mockery of the false prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:33-40) TRANSLATION (33) And when this people or the prophet or the priest shall ask you, What is the burden of the LORD? Then you shall say unto th...
And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten. NOT BE FORGOTTEN. If we translate as the English version, the antithesis is, though I forget...
1-4. A remnant shall return....
וְ נָתַתִּ֥י עֲלֵיכֶ֖ם חֶרְפַּ֣ת עֹולָ֑ם וּ כ
CHAPTER VIII BAD SHEPHERDS AND FALSE PROPHETS Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 24:1 "Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!"- Jeremiah 23:1 "Of what avail is straw instead...
Having thus passed in review the predecessors of Zedekiah on the throne of Judah, the prophet proceeded to deal with those who had been responsible for the failure of the people, the false kings and p...
REFLECTIONS READER! while this Chapter in the awful close of it, holds forth most powerful instructions concerning true and false teachers in the Church of God; and which are in themselves enough to c...
At the opening of this passage, we have the Lord's sentence upon them, and an awful one it is. Wormwood and gall are strong figures to set forth the awful bitterness in the close of such a life! Proph...
What is here contained is, that though the Jews justly gloried for a time in being the peculiar people of God, yet this would avail them nothing, as they had divested themselves of that honor in which...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23. On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the Spir...
AND I WILL BRING AN EVERLASTING REPROACH UPON YOU,.... Which was a just retaliation for reproaching, vilifying, and bantering his word: they who had been honoured so much and so long as the people of...
And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten. Ver. 40. _And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you._] Contempt of the Word is such an...
and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you and a perpetual shame, namely, on the part of all her enemies and all the witnesses of her downfall, WHICH SHALL NOT BE FORGOTTEN. A similar fate awai...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
33-40 Those are miserable indeed who are forsaken and forgotten of God; and men's jesting at God's judgments will not baffle them. God had taken Israel to be a people near to him, but they shall now b...
Jeremiah 23:40 bring H5414 (H8804) everlasting H5769 reproach H2781 perpetual H5769 shame H3640 forgotten H7911 (H8
JEREMIAH'S DIATRIBE AGAINST THE PROPHETS, HEADED AS ‘CONCERNING THE PROPHETS' (JEREMIAH 23:9). Having set right the vision of the future, Jeremiah now turns on those who had been distorting that visio...
BOTH JEREMIAH AND THE FALSE PROPHETS ARE FORBIDDEN TO USE THE PHRASE, ‘THE BURDEN OF YHWH' (JEREMIAH 23:33). God now puts a blanket ban on speaking of a ‘burden' from YHWH. This is not just arguing ab...
CONTENTS: Future restoration and conversion of Israel. Message against the faithless shepherds. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Woe be to those who are commanded to feed God's people and preten...
Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep._ Princes are often called pastors, as Cyrus, Isaiah 44:28, because they enforce the laws and protect the people. Shallum, and...
_Because ye say this word, The burden of the Lord._ SINS OF THE TONGUE Great part of the prophetical writings is occupied with denunciations of vengeance on the Jews, for their obstinacy, ingratitude...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The chapter is an epilogue to the denunciations of the three kings in chap. 22. It must have been written and proclaimed about the beginnin...
EXPOSITION The first eight verses form the necessary conclusion of the group of discourses summarized in Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 22:1. Like Isaiah, our prophet follows up denunciation with consolation...
Now in chapter 23 God speaks out against those Pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith the LORD (Jeremiah 23:1). God said, "They're My sheep, but these pastors are scattering...
Daniel 12:2; Daniel 9:16; Deuteronomy 28:37; Ezekiel 5:14; Ezekiel 5:1