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Verse Jeremiah 9:10. _BOTH THE FOWL OF THE HEAVENS AND THE BEAST ARE
FLED_] The land shall be so utterly devastated, that neither beast nor
bird shall be able to live in it....
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The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three
verses is now detailed at great length.
Jeremiah 9:10
THE HABITATIONS I. E - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see
Jeremiah...
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CHAPTER 9
_ 1. The prophet's complaint and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 9:1) _
2. The cause of desolation and destruction (Jeremiah 9:10)
3. The call for the mourning and wailing women (Jeremiah 9:17...
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FAITHLESSNESS AND ITS RETRIBUTION: THE DIRGE OF DEATH. The humblest
caravanserai would be preferable to life among these evil men, with
their calumnies and the unfaithful use of power by those in auth...
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NEITHER CAN MEN HEAR THE VOICE OF THE CATTLE.
This verse describes the desolation of the country when God's
judgments fall upon it. It will be left. wilderness. Cattle, fowl,
beast and oxen will have...
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HABITATIONS. pastures....
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Cp. Jeremiah 4:23-26.
_a lamentation_ lit. a _ḳinah_, i.e. a composition carefully
constructed in a definite rhythmical form. See Intr. p. xlix, also
notes in C. B. on Amos 5:2; Amos 5:16, with pp. 2...
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See introd. summary to the section....
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FOR THE MOUNTAINS, &C.— These words, says Houbigant, as they now
lie, must belong either to Jeremiah, or the daughter of Zion; and yet
it follows in the next verse, _And I will make;_ which are the wo...
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B. Impending Destruction Jeremiah 9:9-21
Because of the national corruption, destruction is necessary and
imminent. The land will become desolate (Jeremiah 9:9-15) and death
will reign supreme through...
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For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the
habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned
up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear t...
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1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
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HABITATIONS] RV 'pastures.'...
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FOR THE MOUNTAINS... — The Hebrew preposition means both “upon”
and “on account of,” and probably both meanings were implied. The
prophet sees himself _upon_ the mountains, taking up the lamentation
_...
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_[Jeremiah 9:9]_ עַל ־הֶ֨ הָרִ֜ים אֶשָּׂ֧א
בְכִ֣י...
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Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1
In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is
plainly a fin
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NATIONAL PERVERSITY
Jeremiah 9:1-16
Jeremiah 9:1-6
Once the voice of joy and thanksgiving had been heard in Jerusalem,
but now on every side there was bloodshed, and the patriot-prophet
could only w...
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In answer to his own question, Jeremiah sighed for some adequate means
of expressing the anguish of his heart, and then for escape to some
lonely place in the wilderness. All this was in the nature of...
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For the (i) mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for
the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are
burned up, so that none can pass through [them]; neither can [men]...
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_Owner. Hebrew mikne, "cattle," or (Haydock) "substance." (St. Jerome)
--- Departed. Beasts and birds will not continue long after men cease
to cultivate the country. (Theodoret) (Chap. iv. 25., and x...
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It is blessed to remark, that in all the Lord's chastisements, he hath
one uniform object in view for their reform. All his dispensations are
to bring his people back to himself. Hence the wise among...
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The Prophet had exhorted others to lament and to bewail. He now comes
forth as though none had ears to attend to his admonition. As then he
himself undertakes to mourn and to lament, he no doubt indir...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9.
Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple,
which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without
conscience, wo...
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FOR THE MOUNTAINS WILL I TAKE UP A WEEPING AND WAILING,.... Because of
the desolation of them; because no pasture upon them, nor flocks
feeding there; or "concerning" them, as the Arabic version; or ...
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For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the
habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned
up, so that none can pass through [them]; neither can [men] hea...
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_For the mountains will I take up a weeping_ “These words,” says
Houbigant, “as they now lie, must belong either to Jeremiah or the
daughter of Zion; and yet it follows in the next verse, _And I will...
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THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND...
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For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, the prophet
once more taking up his lament, AND FOR THE HABITATIONS OF THE
WILDERNESS, for the pastures of the steppes, A LAMENTATION BECAUSE
TH...
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HABITATIONS:
Or, pastures
BURNT UP:
Or, desolate
BOTH THE FOWEL OF THE HEAVENS:
_ Heb._ from the fowel even to etc....
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1-11 Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might
rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the
desert, without communion with God, through Christ Jesus, and th...
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The prophet having, JEREMIAH 9:1, taken up a lamentation for the
slaughter of the people, he now reassumes it for the desolation of the
whole land, every part of it being to be laid waste: see JEREMIA...
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Jeremiah 9:10 up H5375 (H8799) weeping H1065 wailing H5092 mountains
H2022 places H4999 wilderness H4057 lamentation H
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Jeremiah 9:1. _Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain
of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the
daughter of my people!_
Jeremiah foresaw that the Chaldeans would c...
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CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Detestation of the
sins of the people. The vanity of trusting in anything but God.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Those who will not know God...
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Jeremiah 9:2. _Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodgingplace of
wayfaring men._ In countries where the peasantry are very poor,
travellers provide for themselves as they can. Even in Spain many of
th...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. For Chronology and History, see chap.
7.
1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 9:26. “_Egypt_.” sit. on N.E.
angle of Africa; a vast plain; in general features it may be...
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 9:1
The Hebrew more correctly attaches this verse to Jeremiah 8:1. OH THAT
MY HEAD WERE WATERS, etc.! A quaint conceit, it may be said. But "if
we have been going on pace for pace...
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Now Jeremiah declares,
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes were as a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my
people! Oh that I had in the wildernes...
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Wailing — The prophet having taken up a lamentation for the
slaughter of the people, now re — assumes it for the desolation of
the whole land. The mountains shall not be able to secure them, nor
the v...