Verse Jeremiah 14:10. _THUS HAVE THEY LOVED TO WANDER_] And the measure of your iniquity being now full, ye must be punished....
The answer is addressed to the people. Jeremiah had prayed as their representative, but he must not intercede: for to the same degree that God was determined to punish them, to the same degree (thus)...
II. THE PROPHET'S MINISTRY BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, THE PROPHECIES OF JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF JEREMIAH, HIS FAITHFULNESS AND HIS SUFFERING CHAPTER 14 The Great Drought...
JEREMIAH 14:1 TO JEREMIAH 15:9. THE DROUGHT IN JUDAH, AND JEREMIAH'S CONSEQUENT INTERCESSION. The date of this disaster is unknown, but some year in the latter half of Jehoiakim's reign is most probab...
See summary at commencement of the section. Is the intercession (_a_) the prophet's own, or (_b_) put by him into the mouth of the people? Co. supports (_b_) as indicated by Jeremiah 14:10, where the...
_Even so_ My withdrawal from them is merely the counterpart of their withdrawal from Me. _therefore, etc_.] See introductory note to section....
The Lord's answer....
THUS SAITH THE LORD UNTO, &C.— _Thus saith the Lord concerning this people. They altogether love to wander,_ &c. Houbigant. God here returns an answer to the complaints and expostulations of the proph...
B. The Prophet's Intercession Rejected Jeremiah 14:7-12 TRANSLATION (7) If our iniquities testified against us act, O LORD, for the sake of Your name; for our backsliding are many, against You we hav...
Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their...
14:10 to (e-4) Or 'concerning.'...
1-6. Description of the drought....
THUS HAVE THEY LOVED TO WANDER. — The prophet has to tell the people that Jehovah’s answer to his prayer is one of seeming refusal. The time of pardon has not yet come. The prophet is told that _now_...
כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֨ר יְהוָ֜ה לָ † עָ֣ם הַ...
CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
We now come to the second division of the Book, that containing the account of the prophet's ministry. This falls into three sections: prophecies before the fall of Jerusalem (14-39), prophecies after...
_Rested. They are inconstant, fond of novelties, and apply to idols._...
These are solemn scriptures: and awful is it, when the Lord restrains prayer in his people, by withholding the spirit of grace and supplication. But we find in scripture beautiful instances, where the...
The Prophet goes on with the same subject; but he reproves the Jews more severely and shews what their sins were. He says then that they were given to inconstancy; but by saying, “to wander,” לנוע _le...
Chapter 14 refers to a famine which took place in the land. The desolation of Jerusalem by the sword and by famine is again declared. But observe here the touching intercession of Jeremiah 14:7-9; and...
THUS SAITH THE LORD UNTO THIS PEOPLE,.... Instead of answering the prophet directly and immediately, he first speaks to the people, and observes their sin is the cause of his conduct; and whom he does...
Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their...
_Thus saith the Lord_, &c. Here God returns an answer to the complaints and expostulations of the prophet, contained in the eight preceding verses. _They have loved to wander_ They have been fond of t...
The Lord Refuses Jeremiah's Request...
Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, like the wild beasts whose behavior had been described in the previous section, THEY HAVE NOT REFRAINED THEIR FEET, not restrainin...
10-16 The Lord calls the Jews "this people," not "his people." They had forsaken his service, therefore he would punish them according to their sins. He forbade Jeremiah to plead for them. The false...
Here beginneth that Divine revelation mentioned Jeremiah 14:1, as an answer to the prophet's complaint and prayer in the nine first verses; the substance of which is, that for their manifold sins he w...
Jeremiah 14:10 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 people H5971 loved H157 (H8804) wander H5128 (H8800) restrained...
THE LESSON OF THE GREAT DROUGHTS (JEREMIAH 14:1). As a preliminary warning of what is coming YHWH sends a great drought on Judah with the result that the cisterns are empty, the springs are dry, the p...
YHWH'S REPLY TO HIS PEOPLE (JEREMIAH 14:10). Jeremiah 14:10 ‘Thus says YHWH to this people, “Even so have they loved to wander, They have not prevented their feet from straying, Therefore YHWH do...
In some respects, Jeremiah is one of the greatest of the ancient prophets, for he had most sorrowful task to perform. He had not to deliver a message full of Evangelical comfort, like that of Isaiah;...
CONTENTS: Message on the drought. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Man's sins bring those judgments upon the earth which make even the inferior creatures to groan. There will come a time when...
Jeremiah 14:3. _They found no water._ The latter rain had been denied, as in Jeremiah 3:3; and as Moses had foretold. Deuteronomy 11:17;...
_Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet; therefore the Lord doth net accept them._ JEHOVAH’S REFUSAL TO ALLOW INTERCESSION TO PREVAIL I. The Lord’s answer to the prophet’...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY of the Chapter. This and chapter 15 form one prophecy (although Lange, Keil, and others connect Chapter s 14 to 17, regarding them as interwoven and synchr...
EXPOSITION This chapter must be read in connection with the following one. They describe chiefly Jeremiah's twofold attempt at intercession (see verses 7-9 and 19-22)—a tender and appealing attempt in...
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the deaRuth (Jeremiah 14:1). For a drought filled the land. Judah mourns, and the gates languish; they are black upon the ground; and the cry of...
1 Kings 17:18; 1 Samuel 15:2; Amos 5:22; Hebrews 8:12; Hosea 11:7;...
Thus — Here begins the answer to the prophet's complaint and prayer in the nine first verses. The substance is, that for their manifold sins, he was resolved to punish them. They loved — They have bee...