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Verse Jeremiah 14:2. _THE GATES THEREOF LANGUISH_] The _gates_ being
the places of public resort, they are put here for the _people_.
_THEY ARE BLACK UNTO THE GROUND_] Covered from head to foot with...
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THEY ARE BLACK UNTO THE GROUND - The people assembled at the gates,
the usual places of concourse, are in deep mourning and sit humbly on
the ground....
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II. THE PROPHET'S MINISTRY BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, THE
PROPHECIES OF JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF
JEREMIAH, HIS FAITHFULNESS AND HIS SUFFERING
CHAPTER 14
The Great Drought...
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JEREMIAH 14:1 TO JEREMIAH 15:9. THE DROUGHT IN JUDAH, AND JEREMIAH'S
CONSEQUENT INTERCESSION. The date of this disaster is unknown, but
some year in the latter half of Jehoiakim's reign is most probab...
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JUDAH... JERUSALEM. Country and city.
GATES. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for the people
assembling there.
ARE BLACK. sit in black. Compare Jeremiah 8:21; Jeremiah 13:18; Job
2:8;...
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_the gates_ put, as often in Hebrew, for cities, i.e. for the
inhabitants, as being the place of general resort.
_they sit in black upon the ground_ Cp. Jeremiah 8:21; Jeremiah 13:18;
also Psalms 137:...
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JUDAH MOURNETH— The prophet represents Jerusalem as a mother who has
lost her children, and who is oppressed with grief. The _gates_ are
put for the city. Instead of, _Its gates languish,_ &c. Houbiga...
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CHAPTER TEN
NATIONAL DISTRESS AND PROPHETIC DISCOURAGEMENT
Jeremiah 14:1 to Jeremiah 17:27
Sometime during the ministry of Jeremiah a terrible drought or series
of droughts (the Hebrew word is plura...
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Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto
the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
JUDAH MOURNETH, AND THE GATES THEREOF LANGUISH - "the gates," the
place of publ...
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THE GATES THEREOF LANGUISH] Figurative of the people who collect
there. THEY ARE BLACK UNTO] RV 'They sit in black (mourning) upon.'...
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1-6. Description of the drought....
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THE GATES THEREOF LANGUISH. — The “gates” of the cities, as the
chief places of concourse, like the _agora_ of Greek cities, are taken
figuratively for the inhabitants, who in the “black” garments of...
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אָבְלָ֣ה יְהוּדָ֔ה וּ שְׁעָרֶ֥יהָ
אֻמְלְל֖וּ קָדְר֣וּ...
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CHAPTER IX
THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS
Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?)
VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these
Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
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We now come to the second division of the Book, that containing the
account of the prophet's ministry. This falls into three sections:
prophecies before the fall of Jerusalem (14-39), prophecies after...
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Judah mourneth, and her gates languish; they are (b) black to the
ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
(b) The word signifies extreme sorrow....
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We have here an account of the famine, which by the parallel history
took place in the reign of Jehoiakim; probably just before the
captivity. Jeremiah had mourned for the good king Josiah; see 2
Chro...
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The Prophet intimates in these words, that so great would be the
scarcity as to appear to be a manifest and remarkable evidence of
God’s vengeance; for when God punishes us in a common way, we for
the...
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Chapter 14 refers to a famine which took place in the land. The
desolation of Jerusalem by the sword and by famine is again declared.
But observe here the touching intercession of Jeremiah 14:7-9; and...
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JUDAH MOURNETH,.... That is, the inhabitants of Judah; those of the
house of Judah, as the Targum; these mourned because of the drought
and famine that were upon the land:
AND THE GATES THEREOF LANGU...
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Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto
the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
Ver. 2. _Judah mourneth._] The prophet's pitiful complaint, bitterly
bewailing the...
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_Judah mourneth_ The people of Judah and Jerusalem, here considered
collectively, and represented as a mother oppressed with grief for the
miseries which have come upon her children. _And the gates la...
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THE PROPHET INTERCEDES FOR THE FIRST TIME...
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Judah mourneth, the entire nation being plunged in grief, AND THE
GATES THEREOF LANGUISH, the people who usually assembled in this
public meeting-place being in trouble; THEY ARE BLACK UNTO THE GROUND...
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1-9 The people were in tears. But it was rather the cry of their
trouble, and of their sin, than of their prayer. Let us be thankful
for the mercy of water, that we may not be taught to value it by
f...
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By JUDAH is meant the men and women in the whole country of Judah. The
GATES is put for their cities; or the men of their cities languished,
for want of moisture for themselves or their beasts. They a...
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Jeremiah 14:2 Judah H3063 mourns H56 (H8804) gates H8179 languish H535
(H8797) mourn H6937 (H8804) land...
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THE LESSON OF THE GREAT DROUGHTS (JEREMIAH 14:1).
As a preliminary warning of what is coming YHWH sends a great drought
on Judah with the result that the cisterns are empty, the springs are
dry, the p...
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THE DEPTHS OF THE SERIES OF DROUGHTS (JEREMIAH 14:1).
The plural for ‘droughts' suggests that there had been a series of
droughts, probably over a number of years. Such droughts did occur in
Canaan fr...
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In some respects, Jeremiah is one of the greatest of the ancient
prophets, for he had most sorrowful task to perform. He had not to
deliver a message full of Evangelical comfort, like that of Isaiah;...
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CONTENTS: Message on the drought.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Man's sins bring those judgments upon the earth which make
even the inferior creatures to groan. There will come a time when...
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Jeremiah 14:3. _They found no water._ The latter rain had been denied,
as in Jeremiah 3:3; and as Moses had foretold. Deuteronomy 11:17;...
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_They came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their
vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their
heads._
THE DROUGHT OF NATURE, THE RAIN OF GRACE, AND THE LESSO...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY of the Chapter. This
and chapter 15 form one prophecy (although Lange, Keil, and others
connect Chapter s 14 to 17, regarding them as interwoven and
synchr...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter must be read in connection with the following one. They
describe chiefly Jeremiah's twofold attempt at intercession (see
verses 7-9 and 19-22)—a tender and appealing attempt in...
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The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the deaRuth
(Jeremiah 14:1).
For a drought filled the land.
Judah mourns, and the gates languish; they are black upon the ground;
and the cry of...