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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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BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN MY LAW.
These three verses declared the reasons why these awful judgments
shall come upon Israel. They had forsaken God's law; they had turned
to the worship of Baalim, or...
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FORSAKEN. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:15; Deuteronomy
32:21). App-92.
MY LAW. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20, &c). App-92.
SET BEFORE THEM. Reference to Pentateuch ...
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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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And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set
before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN MY LAW - answer to the "for what the...
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9:13 it, (c-25) i.e. in the law....
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1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
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_[Jeremiah 9:12]_ וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה עַל
־עָזְבָם֙...
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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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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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Jeremiah now confirms what I have stated, and more fully explains it,
— that though no teacher or a disciple was found in the land, yet
there was sufficient power in God’s word alone, and that his
jud...
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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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AND THE LORD SAITH,.... The Septuagint version adds, "to me"; there
being no wise and understanding man, nor prophet b, to take up this
affair, and open the cause of it, therefore the Lord undertakes...
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_And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set
before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;_
Ver. 13. _And the Lord saith._] Or, Therefore the Lord saith, _q...
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_Who is the wise man_ Or, _Is there not a wise man, who understands
this?_ Is there none of you so well acquainted with the will of God
and the methods of his providence, as to be able to declare the...
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And the Lord said, in answering the question which has just been
proposed. BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN MY LAW WHICH I SET BEFORE THEM
AND HAVE NOT OBEYED MY VOICE, the message brought by the true
proph...
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THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND...
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12-22 In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the
people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the
voice of lamentation. Unhumbled hearts lament their calami...
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Either this and the next verse refer to the former, viz. because there
are none can give the reason why the land perisheth, therefore God
will; or else they refer to JEREMIAH 9:15,16, as showing the c...
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Jeremiah 9:13 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) forsaken H5800 (H8800) law
H8451 set H5414 (H8804) before...
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THOSE WHO ARE TRULY WISE WILL KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD AND WILL THUS
UNDERSTAND WHY HE ACTS LIKE HE DOES IN BRINGING FINAL JUDGMENT ON
JUDAH (JEREMIAH 9:12).
The passage commences by asking who the tr...
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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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_Because they have forsaken My law. .. give them water of gall to
drink._
THE WAGES OF SIN
A quaint preacher, addressing miners, drew a picture of two mines. He
represented payday at one of the mines...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 9:12 The WISE MAN knows THE LAND is RUINED
because the people of Judah have forsaken God’s law, followed their
own hearts
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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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2 Chronicles 7:19; Deuteronomy 31:16; Deuteronomy 31:17; Ezra 9:10;...