REVIEW OF CHAPTER TEN I. Facts to Master 1. The time when Jeremiah received this word from God (Jeremiah 14:1). 2. Two titles of God used in Jeremiah 14:8. 3. Number of times God forbids Jeremiah to pray on behalf of his people. 4. What would not avail to spare the people from further calam... [ Continue Reading ]
IV. PROPHETIC SAYINGS Jeremiah 17:1-11 The first eleven verses of chapter 17 contain three independent sayings of the prophet probably from three different sermons. These sayings do not seem to have any logical connection with one another. In them Jeremiah is concerned about the guilt of the nation... [ Continue Reading ]
B. The Desert Shrub and the Flourishing Tree Jeremiah 17:5-8 TRANSLATION (5) Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart departs from the LORD. (6) For he shall be like a tamarisk in the wilderness, and he shall not see when good comes; but... [ Continue Reading ]
C. The Deceitful Human Heart Jeremiah 17:9-11 TRANSLATION (9) The heart is deceitful more than anything and incurable; who can know it? (10) I am the LORD who searches the heart, tries the mind in order to give to man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds. (11) A partridge tha... [ Continue Reading ]
V. PROPHETIC PRAYER Jeremiah 17:12-18 TRANSLATION (12) O throne of glory exalted from the beginning, the place of our sanctuary! (13) O hope of Israel, the LORD! All that forsake You shall be put to shame. Those who turn from me shall be written down in the land, for they have forsaken the fountain... [ Continue Reading ]
VI. PROPHETIC PROCLAMATION Jeremiah 17:19-27 Chapter 17 ends with a prose discourse urging the keeping of the Sabbath. Like Amos (Amos 8:4-6) and Isaiah (Isaiah 56, 58) before him, Jeremiah regarded violation of the Sabbath as a serious offense. Jeremiah in this sermon addressed to the royal house... [ Continue Reading ]
B. Promise and Threat Jeremiah 17:24-27 TRANSLATION (24) And it shall come to pass if you fully hearken unto Me (oracle of the LORD) not to carry a burden into the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and to sanctify the Sabbath day not to do in it any work, (25) then there shall pass through the... [ Continue Reading ]