Jeremiah 14:18

them that are sick with famine lit. as mg. the sicknesses of famine.

go about mg. traffick. Such is the sense of the Heb. verb elsewhere, e.g. Genesis 34:10; Genesis 34:21, but the corresponding consonants in Syriac are found, though rarely, with the meaning, to go as a beggar. In either case, a fall in rank is indicated. Gi. proposes to substitute one of the two Heb. letters represented by sfor the other, thus obtaining the sense of sinking to the earth in mourning garb. Cp. for this thought Jeremiah 13:18. So Co.

in the land and have no knowledge mg. into a land that they know not. But the last four words are obscure, and, as Peake suggests, may be the commencement of a new sentence of which the remainder has been lost.

19 15:1. See introd. summary to section. Co. somewhat drastically considers that the expression "the throne of thy glory" (Jeremiah 14:21), i.e. Jerusalem, must belong to a later date than Jeremiah's, and that this excludes from genuineness Jeremiah 14:19. He also, however, points to metrical difficulties, which Gi. (Metrik) gets over by a considerable amount of omissions. The latter part of Jeremiah 14:19 has already occurred in Jeremiah 8:15, but one passage (we can hardly say which) is probably quoted from the other.