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Or,
It shall eat “thine harvest and thy bread:”
They shall eat “thy sons and thy daughters.”
It shall eat thy sheep and thy cattle:
It shall eat “thy vines and thy fig-trees.”
THEY SHALL IMPOVERIS...
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CHAPTER 5
_ 1. The apostate conditions of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 5:1) _
2. The impending judgment (Jeremiah 5:10)
3. Sowing and reaping (Jeremiah 5:19)
4. The horrible thing ...
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THE COMING OF THE FOE. Let the enemy, therefore, destroy the vineyard
of Judah, for of its owner Judah has said, He does nothing, rejecting
His warnings by (true) prophets. The word they have rejected...
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THEY SHALL EAT UP. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:16). App-92.
Repeated three times by Figure of speech _Anaphora_, for great
emphasis.
HARVEST, &C. Note the similar enumeration in Habakkuk 3:...
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See summary at beginning of section....
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which _thy sons and thy daughters should eat_ This is the rendering
which the Heb. on the whole suggests, though the meaning _may_be,
_they shall eat thy sons and thy daughters_. Seeing, however, that...
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3. _Treacherous unbelief_ (Jeremiah 5:10-18)
TRANSLATION
(10) Go up against her rows and destroy, but do not make a full end;
Remove her shoots for they do not belong to the LORD. (11) For the
house...
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And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons
and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine
herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shal...
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1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
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WHICH THY SONS AND THY DAUGHTERS SHOULD EAT. — There is no relative
pronoun in the Hebrew, and the clause stands parallel with the others,
_they shall eat_ (_i.e.,_ destroy) _thy sons and thy daughter...
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וְ אָכַ֨ל קְצִֽירְךָ֜ וְ לַחְמֶ֗ךָ
יֹאכְלוּ֙...
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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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Having thus declared that judgment was determined on, the prophet now
carefully declared the reason for it. This was, first, the utter
corruption of conduct. Among the people not a man was to lie foun...
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_Devour. Hebrew, "destroy." They did not eat human flesh._...
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Reader! do as the Psalmist did, after reading these verses, and say, I
will sing of mercy and judgment. And let your song as his was, be
dedicated to the Lord: for to the Lord alone the praise and glo...
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He continues to speak in a similar way of the cruelty of their
enemies; as though he said that victory was already in their hand, for
they were the scourges of God. He does not then set before the Jew...
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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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AND THEY SHALL EAT UP THINE HARVEST,.... The standing corn in the
fields, cut it down, and give it as fodder to their horses, which is
usually done by armies; or the increase of the earth, when gather...
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_Wherefore, thus saith the Lord God of hosts_ The prophet now, in the
name of God, answers the blasphemous speeches of these infidels,
ascribing to Jehovah that power and supremacy which were calculat...
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FAITHLESSNESS AND TREACHERY...
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And they shall eat up thine harvest, the standing grain, AND THY
BREAD, WHICH THY SONS AND THY DAUGHTERS SHOULD EAT, which was intended
for their food; THEY SHALL EAT UP THY FLOCKS AND THINE HERDS; TH...
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10-18 Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be so
strict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind.
Sinners are not willing to own any thing to be God's word, that...
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THEY SHALL EAT UP THINE HARVEST, AND THY BREAD; they shall make clean
riddance, leave thee, no supports of life, but bring an utter famine
upon thee; it is thus threatened DEUTERONOMY 28:30,48,51. WHI...
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Jeremiah 5:17 up H398 (H8804) harvest H7105 bread H3899 sons H1121
daughters H1323 eat H398 (H8799) up...
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YHWH CALLS ON HIS CHAMPION, WHOSE GREAT MIGHT HE MAKES CLEAR, IN ORDER
THAT HIS FORCES MIGHT DENUDE JUDAH BECAUSE OF THEIR TREACHERY TOWARDS
HIM (JEREMIAH 5:10).
The instrument of YHWH's judgment is c...
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YHWH PRESENTS THE REASONS WHY THE INVASION IS NECESSARY (JEREMIAH
5:1).
Invasion is seen as necessary because there are no righteous people in
Jerusalem, and they are full of adultery (both spiritual...
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TRUSTEDST
(_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
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Jeremiah 5:10. _Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a
full end: take away her battlements; for the are not the LORD'S. For
the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
tre...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. God's charges against
them and the judgments threatened.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Sinners have reason to expect punishment on account of...
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Jeremiah 5:2. _Though they say the Lord liveth, surely they swear
falsely._ These words being in every one's mouth, are but words, not
sentiments. If men knew the grandeur of God, and studied his
perf...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The
description here of unblushing immorality and total disorganisation
leads Kimchi and others to date this chapter after Josiah’s times;...
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EXPOSITION
Is the punishment thought too severe? Then let the moral condition of
Jerusalem be inquired into. Must not such transgressions precipitate
its people into ruin? There are four well-marked...
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Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and
know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be
any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...
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Deuteronomy 28:30; Deuteronomy 28:31; Deuteronomy 28:33; Ezekiel 36:4;...