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Verse Jeremiah 4:24. _THE MOUNTAINS - HILLS_] Princes, rulers, c.,
were astonished and fled....
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In four verses each beginning with “I beheld,” the prophet sees in
vision the desolate condition of Judaea during the Babylonian
captivity.
Jeremiah 4:23
WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID - Desolate and void (s...
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CHAPTER 4
_ 1. True repentance and what it means (Jeremiah 4:1) _
2. The alarm sounded: judgment comes (Jeremiah 4:5)
3. The doom of the rebellious people (Jeremiah 4:14)
4. The desolation of I
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THE VISION OF DESOLATION (Jeremiah 4:23) most impressively describes
the Divine visitation of Judah. The earth becomes like the chaos
before creation (_mg._) under a sky that has lost its lamps; the v...
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Jeremiah 4:5-31. Impending judgements. National disaster
This section and the two that follow it (viz. chs. 5 and 6) are
somewhat later than the preceding, as presenting a more definite
description o...
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In vision he beholds the earth a void waste, the hills reeling at the
blast of God's anger, the heavens black, all bird life fled, cities in
ruins. Jehovah's resolve is an abiding one.
See summary at...
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_moved to and fro_ mg. _moved lightly_....
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I BEHELD THE EARTH, &C.— The images, under which the prophet
represents the approaching desolation as foreseen by him, are such as
are familiar to the Hebrew poets on the like occasions. (See Lowth De...
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_2. Devastating judgment_ (Jeremiah 4:23-26)
TRANSLATION
(23) I looked at the land, and behold, it was waste and void; and unto
the heavens, but there was no light. (24) I looked at the mountains,
an...
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I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills
moved lightly.
MOUNTAINS - ().
MOVED LIGHTLY - shook vehemently....
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THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE
INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF
THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6)
This section furnishes us with the g...
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5-10. Destruction approaches Jerusalem....
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LIGHTLY] RV 'to and fro.'
SHAME] RV 'the shameful thing,' i.e. the god Baal: cp. Jeremiah 11:13.
HATH DEVOURED] hath consumed in the form of sacrifices the fruits of
our toil.
JEREMIAH 4:1. The assu...
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THE MOUNTAINS, AND, LO, THEY TREMBLED. — The great earthquake in the
days of Uzziah (Amos 1:1), of which we find traces in Isaiah (Isaiah
24:19), had probably made imagery of this kind familiar....
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רָאִ֨יתִי֙ הֶֽ הָרִ֔ים וְ הִנֵּ֖ה
רֹעֲשִׁ֑ים...
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Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1
CHAPTER IV
THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD
Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30
IF we would under
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Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be
established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined
on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in exte...
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There is somewhat uncommonly solemn and striking, when the Lord by his
servants, as in many parts of scripture, calls upon the heavenly
bodies, and the inanimate parts of nature, to lament by their
ap...
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Jeremiah descends afterwards from heaven to mountains, and says that
they _trembled_, and that _all the hills _moved or shook; some say,
destroyed, but I know not for what reason, for the Prophet no d...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6.
Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at
that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be
unto th...
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I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS, AND, LO, THEY TREMBLED,.... At the presence of
God, at the tokens of his displeasure, and at his awful vengeance in
the destruction of the Jews, as they are sometimes said to d...
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I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills
moved lightly.
Ver. 24. _I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled._] War is a
woe that no words, how wide soever, can sufficien...
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_I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form and void_ “The
images under which the prophet here represents the approaching
desolation, as foreseen by him, are such as are familiar to the Hebrew
po...
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The Desolation Following the Lord's Judgment.
The prophet here, in a most dramatic manner, introduces Israel as
lamenting over the calamity which has struck the nation....
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I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, because the very
foundations of the earth were moved, AND ALL THE HILLS MOVED LIGHTLY,
as heavy bodies which shake with the slightest disturbance....
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19-31 The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He
is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion. Compared with what
it was, every thing is out of order; but the ruin of the Jew...
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Jeremiah 4:24 beheld H7200 (H8804) mountains H2022 trembled H7493
(H8801) hills H1389 forth H7043 (H8701)...
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JEREMIAH'S VISION OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE INVASION (JEREMIAH 4:23).
In chilling tones Jeremiah now pictures the land after its
destruction, as he, as it were, looks around and sees all the
devastation...
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YHWH WARNS JUDAH THAT IF THEY WILL NOT REPENT FOR THEM TOO INVASION BY
A FIERCE ADVERSARY IS THREATENING AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY COME BECAUSE OF
THEIR SINS (JEREMIAH 4:3).
If Judah will not respond to th...
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Jeremiah 4:1. _If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return
unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight,
then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The LORD l...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. Warning of the
consequences of sin and exhortation to return to God.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: It is the evil of men's doings that kindle...
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Jeremiah 4:3. _Break up your fallow ground._ Hebrews ניר _nir,
novale;_ make _new_ land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12. Our old
phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the word....
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_I am pained at my very heart._
THE PROPHET’S LAMENTATIONS OVER HIS PEOPLE’S DOOM
I. The complaint or lamentation itself.
1. The parts affected. The soul and inward man.
(1) The secrecy of it, the...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 4:23 Jeremiah portrays the coming judgment
as a reversal of the creation process. The earth is once again WITHOUT
FORM AND VOID (compare Genesis
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Chronology_ of the chapter,
_Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History_ as in
chap. 3. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 4:5. “_Defenced
cities_....
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 4:1, JEREMIAH 4:2
The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render,
_If thou wilt return_,_ O Israel_,_ saith Jehovah_,_ wilt return unto
me_;_ and if thou wilt...
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But if you will return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and
if you will put away thine abominations out of my sight, then you will
no longer be [moved or] removed. And thou shalt swear, The...
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1 Kings 19:11; Ezekiel 38:20; Habakkuk 3:10; Habakkuk 3:6; Isaiah 5:25
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Trembled — He proceeds in his figurative expressions. Behold how the
very mountains of Judea tremble! Moved — As easily as dust, or
feathers in a whirl — wind....