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Verse Jeremiah 23:36. _EVERY MAN'S WORD SHALL BE HIS BURDEN_] Ye say
that all God's messages are _burdens_, and to _you_ they shall be
such: whereas, had you used them as you ought, they would have be...
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EVERY MAN’S WORD ... - Rather, every man’s burden shall be his
word; i. e., his mocking use of the word “burden” shall weigh him
down and crush him.
PERVERTED - i. e., put into a ridiculous light....
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CHAPTER 23:9-40
Condemnation of the False Prophets
_ 1. Jeremiah's lament on account of the false prophets (Jeremiah
23:9) _
2. The condemnation of these prophets (Jeremiah 23:15)
3. Forgotten and...
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THE PROPHETS. Jeremiah is overcome by the stern message given him to
deliver. The evil of the land is encouraged by prophet and priest
(Jeremiah 6:13), even the Temple being dishonoured (2 Kings 21:5)...
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PERVERTED. See note on Jeremiah 6:10.
THE LIVING GOD. Both words are plural....
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Jeremiah 23:9-40. Condemnation of the prophets
Following on the prophecies relating to successive kings of Judah, we
have a section dealing with the iniquities of a class who also
grievously misled t...
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See introd. summary to section. The original word means either a
burden or a prophetic utterance. It would appear that those hostile to
Jeremiah had taken to apply the word derisively to the prophet's...
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_every man's own word shall be his burden_ mg. _is his burden, and ye
pervert, etc_. Either (_a_) he who has jokingly enquired after the
"burden of the Lord" shall find that those lightly spoken words...
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EVERY MAN'S WORD SHALL BE HIS BURDEN— "Every one of you shall feel
the weight of my vengeance, for the insolent discourse which you have
pronounced. Your discourse shall be your burden, and the cause...
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4. _The mockery of the false prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:33-40)
TRANSLATION
(33) And when this people or the prophet or the priest shall ask you,
What is the burden of the LORD? Then you shall say unto th...
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And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's
word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the
living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
EVERY MAN'S WORD SHA...
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1-4. A remnant shall return....
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Every man's burden shall be his use of the word. For he who has
jokingly enquired after the 'burden of the Lord' shall find that those
lightly spoken words of his are in very deed a load upon him.
PER...
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THE BURDEN OF THE LORD SHALL YE MENTION NO MORE... — The misused
term was no longer to be applied to the messages of Jehovah. If men
continued to apply it to the words of their own heart, they would f...
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וּ מַשָּׂ֥א יְהוָ֖ה לֹ֣א תִזְכְּרוּ
־עֹ֑וד כּ
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CHAPTER VIII
BAD SHEPHERDS AND FALSE PROPHETS
Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 24:1
"Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My
pasture!"- Jeremiah 23:1
"Of what avail is straw instead...
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Having thus passed in review the predecessors of Zedekiah on the
throne of Judah, the prophet proceeded to deal with those who had been
responsible for the failure of the people, the false kings and
p...
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And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's
(d) word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the
living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
(d) The thing which...
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At the opening of this passage, we have the Lord's sentence upon them,
and an awful one it is. Wormwood and gall are strong figures to set
forth the awful bitterness in the close of such a life! Proph...
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Jeremiah goes on with the same subject, that every one ought calmly
and meekly to hear God speaking, he said, as we saw yesterday, that
the prophets were to be asked as to what God had spoken and what...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23.
On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord
would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the
Spir...
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AND THE BURDEN OF THE LORD SHALL BE MENTIONED NO MORE,.... Or the word
of the Lord under that name, speaking of it in a ludicrous and
scoffing manner:
FOR EVERY MAN'S WORD SHALL BE HIS BURDEN; every...
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And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's
word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the
living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
Ver. 36. For every man'...
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_For every man's word shall be his burden_ You shall be made severely
to account for your loose and profane speeches, wherewith you deride
and pervert the words and messages of God himself. Or, “Every...
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AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
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And the burden of the Lord shall ye mention no more, no more toss this
expression about in mockery; FOR EVERY MAN'S WORD SHALL BE HIS BURDEN,
that is, this expression, if used in such a jeering sense,...
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33-40 Those are miserable indeed who are forsaken and forgotten of
God; and men's jesting at God's judgments will not baffle them. God
had taken Israel to be a people near to him, but they shall now b...
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THE BURDEN OF THE LORD SHALL YE MENTION NO MORE; not in scorn and
derision, as not believing there were any such judgments as they
threaten; nor hardly, as if I sent yon no other messages but burdens....
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Jeremiah 23:36 oracle H4853 LORD H3068 mention H2142 (H8799) mans H376
word H1697 oracle H4853 perverted H2015 ...
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BOTH JEREMIAH AND THE FALSE PROPHETS ARE FORBIDDEN TO USE THE PHRASE,
‘THE BURDEN OF YHWH' (JEREMIAH 23:33).
God now puts a blanket ban on speaking of a ‘burden' from YHWH. This
is not just arguing ab...
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JEREMIAH'S DIATRIBE AGAINST THE PROPHETS, HEADED AS ‘CONCERNING THE
PROPHETS' (JEREMIAH 23:9).
Having set right the vision of the future, Jeremiah now turns on those
who had been distorting that visio...
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CONTENTS: Future restoration and conversion of Israel. Message against
the faithless shepherds.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: Woe be to those who are commanded to feed God's people and
preten...
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Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the
sheep._ Princes are often called pastors, as Cyrus, Isaiah 44:28,
because they enforce the laws and protect the people. Shallum, and...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The
chapter is an epilogue to the denunciations of the three kings in
chap. 22. It must have been written and proclaimed about the beginnin...
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EXPOSITION
The first eight verses form the necessary conclusion of the group of
discourses summarized in Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 22:1. Like Isaiah,
our prophet follows up denunciation with consolation...
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Now in chapter 23 God speaks out against those
Pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith the
LORD (Jeremiah 23:1).
God said, "They're My sheep, but these pastors are scattering...
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1 Samuel 17:26; 1 Samuel 17:36; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 2 Kings 19:4;...