When — As in the former verse he relates God's unspeakable power and wisdom in his creating and fixing the stated order of things, so here he farther sets it forth in his providential ordering and disposing of them.
Verse Jeremiah 10:13. _WHEN HE UTTERETH HIS VOICE_, THERE IS _A MULTITUDE OF_ _WATERS_] This is a plain allusion to a storm of thunder and lightning, and the abundance of rain which is the consequenc...
WHEN ... - i. e., the rushing downpour of rain follows immediately upon the thunder. The rest of the verse is identical with marginal reference; but probably the words belong to Jeremiah, the Psalm be...
CHAPTER 10 The Vanity of Idols _ 1. Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven (Jeremiah 10:1) _ 2. The contrast: The vanity of idols and the Lord, the King of Nations (Jeremiah 10:6) 3. The afflictio...
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY, This passage (like Jeremiah 9:23) interrupts the connexion of Jeremiah 9:22 and Jeremiah 10:17; its denunciation of the idols of the heathen as utterly futile for good or evil r...
WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....
See summary at commencement of the ch....
Jeremiah 10:1-16. The folly of idolatry It is now generally recognised that this passage is a later insertion, for (_a_) it breaks the connexion between Jeremiah 9:1-22 and Jeremiah 10:17 ff.; while...
The creation of all things, and in particular the phenomena of the tempest, are appealed to as signs of Jehovah's supremacy....
Repeated Jeremiah 51:15-19....
_when he uttereth his voice, etc_.] The sense is plain, though the form of the Hebrew in MT. is peculiar, and hence the alternative in mg. _at the sound of his giving an abundance of waters_, continui...
WHEN HE UTTERETH HIS VOICE, &C.— "When the Almighty utters his voice, or sends his thunders abroad, the clouds immediately precipitate in torrents of rain; and as God causes the vapours to ascend in c...
B. The Incomparable God of Israel Jeremiah 10:6-16 TRANSLATION (6) There is none like You O LORD; great are You and great is Your name in power. (7) Who would not fear You, O King of the nations; for...
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind...
1-16. The folly of idolatry. This section of the prophecy is of doubtful authorship. For (_a_) it introduces a break in the sense; (_b_) there is less smoothness between the parts than we generally fi...
The ascent of the vapours in clouds is spoken of poetically, as though it were the consequence of the thunder (HIS VOICE), because it is seen to follow it....
A MULTITUDE OF WATERS. — Better, _a rush of waters,_ following on the thunder, which is thought of as the voice of God (comp. Psalms 29:3). The prophet finds the tokens of Almighty Power alike in the...
לְ קֹ֨ול תִּתֹּ֜ו הֲמֹ֥ון מַ֨יִם֙ בַּ †...
CHAPTER VI THE IDOLS OF THE HEATHEN AND THE GOD OF ISRAEL Jeremiah 10:1 THIS fine piece is altogether isolated from the surrounding context, which it interrupts in a very surprising manner. Neither...
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
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY Jeremiah 10:1-10; Jeremiah 19:1-15; Jeremiah 20:1-18; Jeremiah 21:1-14; Jeremiah 22:1-30; Jeremiah 23:1-40; Jeremiah 24:1-10; Jeremiah 25:1-38...
Here begins the third movement in the commissioning of the prophet. In it the sin of idolatry is first dealt with. The prophet revealed the unutterable folly of idolatry in a powerful contrast between...
_Voice. Thunder, (Psalm xxviii. 3.) which is usually the forerunner of rain. Lightning is occasioned by the inflamed exhalations of conflicting clouds._...
This is most striking sermon, and very highly finished, in which the Prophet, in the Lord's name, asserts his divine nature and sovereignty: and then displays the folly of idols. The words are so plai...
The Prophet then descends to the other works of God, to those which are changeable, for there is in nature a perpetual constancy as to the heavens and the earth; and there are many things subject to c...
In chapter 10 the idols and the vanities of the nations are put in contrast with Jehovah. In Verses 19-25 (Jeremiah 10:19-25) we have the affliction of the prophet, speaking of the desolation of Jerus...
WHEN HE UTTERETH HIS VOICE,.... Declares his will and pleasure, issues out his commands; or when he thunders, for thunder is his voice, Job 37:2: THERE IS A MULTITUDE OF WATERS IN THE HEAVENS; they a...
When he uttereth his voice, [there is] a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the win...
_He hath made the earth_, &c. Here follows a noble and lofty description of God's power and providence, whereby he sets forth his infinite pre-eminence above all the dead and senseless idols of the wo...
When He uttereth His voice, when He causes it to thunder, THERE IS A MULTITUDE OF WATERS IN THE HEAVENS, or, "a heaving of waters in the heavens," as the clouds come rolling along in heavy masses, AND...
THE NOTHINGNESS OF IDOLS...
MULTITUDE: Or, noise WITH RAIN: Or, for rain...
1-16 The prophet shows the glory of Israel's God, and exposes the folly of idolaters. Charms and other attempts to obtain supernatural help, or to pry into futurity, are copied from the wicked custom...
As in the former verse he relates God's unspeakable power and wisdom in his creating and fixing the stated order of things; so here he further sets it forth in his providential ordering and disposing...
Jeremiah 10:13 utters H5414 (H8800) voice H6963 multitude H1995 waters H4325 heavens H8064 vapors H5387 ascend H592
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL ARE NOT TO LEARN THE WAY OF THE NATIONS BECAUSE, WHILE YHWH IS GREAT BEYOND DESCRIBING, THEIR IDOLS ARE UTTERLY FUTILE (JEREMIAH 10:1). This passage, in a sequence of verses, compa...
Jeremiah 10:1. _Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, concluded. Greatness of the true God. Coming distresses in the land because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah is the one only living and tr...
Jeremiah 10:2. _Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;_ at the position of revolving planets on which the augurs found predictions, and discover their ignorance. Be not dismayed at solar eclipses, at...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 10:11 All false gods SHALL PERISH. They were created by humans, but the living God MADE and ESTABLISHED THE WORLD by wisdom
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Section 1–16 has been declared spurious (by De Wette, Movers, and Hitzig), its authenticity disputed, a late interpolation by either the ps...
EXPOSITION Whoever wrote the prophecy in Jeremiah 10:1 of this chapter, it was not Jeremiah; but of course, as the passage forms part of a canonical book, its claims to the character of a Scripture re...
Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven [or the Zodiac]; for the heathen...
1 Kings 18:41; 1 Kings 18:45; 1 Kings 18:46; 1 Samuel 12:17;...