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Verse Jeremiah 4:30. _THOUGH THOU RENTEST THY FACE WITH PAINTING_]
This probably refers to the custom of introducing _stibium_, a
preparation of antimony, between the eye and the lids, in order to
pr...
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Translate, And thou, O plundered one, what effectest thou, that
“thou clothest thyself with” scarlet, that “thou deckest”
thyself “with ornaments of gold,” that thou enlargest thine eyes
with antimony...
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CHAPTER 4
_ 1. True repentance and what it means (Jeremiah 4:1) _
2. The alarm sounded: judgment comes (Jeremiah 4:5)
3. The doom of the rebellious people (Jeremiah 4:14)
4. The desolation of I
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THE VISION OF DESOLATION (Jeremiah 4:23) most impressively describes
the Divine visitation of Judah. The earth becomes like the chaos
before creation (_mg._) under a sky that has lost its lamps; the v...
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THOU. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_, Put for idolatrous Israel. An
adulterous woman.
RENTEST. enlargest (with paint).
FACE. eyes.
LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._...
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Jeremiah 4:5-31. Impending judgements. National disaster
This section and the two that follow it (viz. chs. 5 and 6) are
somewhat later than the preceding, as presenting a more definite
description o...
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Embellishments of the person are of no avail. Zion cries out in vain
before an implacable foe.
See summary at commencement of section....
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Thy harsh captors will scorn thy feminine arts to make thyself
attractive in their eyes. But the anomalous gender (masc.) of the
Hebrew participle suggests that it is a gloss.
_And thou, when thou art...
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THOUGH THOU RENTEST THY FACE WITH PAINTING— See 2 Kings 9:30. The
prophet here carries on the idea wherewith he began, describing
Jerusalem under the figure of a harlot, dressing herself up to
captiva...
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3. _Inevitable judgment_ (Jeremiah 4:27-31)
TRANSLATION
(27) For thus says the LORD: All the land shall become a desolation;
but I will not make a full end of it. (28) On account of this the land
sha...
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And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest
thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold,
though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt tho...
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4:30 rendest (g-26) By an irony for 'enlargest.'...
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AND _when_ THOU _art_ SPOILED] better, 'and thou, spoiled one,' i.e.
Jerusalem. RENTEST THY FACE WITH PAINTING] RV 'enlargest thine eyes
with paint.' The Eastern custom was to paint black the border o...
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THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE
INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF
THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6)
This section furnishes us with the g...
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5-10. Destruction approaches Jerusalem....
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AND WHEN THOU ART SPOILED... — The sentence is clearer without the
insertion of the words in italics: _Thou spoiled one, what dost thou
work, that thou clothest..._ _that thou deckest..._ _that thou
r...
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Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1
CHAPTER IV
THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD
Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30
IF we would under
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Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be
established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined
on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in exte...
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And [when] thou [art] laid waste, what wilt thou do? Though thou (x)
clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments
of gold, though thou enlarge thy eyes with painting, in vain...
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_Stone, or antimony, like Jazabel, (4 Kings ix. 30.) to darken and
enlarge the eye-lids. --- Lovers. Infidel nations of Egypt, &c._...
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There is somewhat uncommonly solemn and striking, when the Lord by his
servants, as in many parts of scripture, calls upon the heavenly
bodies, and the inanimate parts of nature, to lament by their
ap...
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The Prophet boldly ridicules the Jews, in order to cast down their
pride and haughtiness. It was indeed his object to check that pride
with which they were elated against God. The Prophet could not ha...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6.
Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at
that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be
unto th...
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AND WHEN THOU ART SPOILED, WHAT WILT THOU DO?.... Or, "O thou spoiled"
k, wasted, and undone creature, how wilt thou help thyself? by what
means dost thou think thou canst be delivered? it suggests th...
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And [when] thou [art] spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest
thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold,
though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt...
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_And when thou art spoiled_ When this destruction shall come upon
thee, which is very near; _what wilt thou do?_ When thou, O daughter
of Zion, art besieged by the Babylonians, what course wilt thou t...
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The Desolation Following the Lord's Judgment.
The prophet here, in a most dramatic manner, introduces Israel as
lamenting over the calamity which has struck the nation....
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And when thou art spoiled, rather, "But thou, O destroyed one," WHAT
WILT THOU DO? How escape the threatened destruction? THOUGH THOU
CLOTHEST THYSELF WITH CRIMSON, in garments of the most expensive
m...
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FACE:
_ Heb._ eyes...
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19-31 The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He
is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion. Compared with what
it was, every thing is out of order; but the ruin of the Jew...
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WHEN THOU ART SPOILED; which will certainly come upon thee; or when
this destruction shall come upon thee, which is very near thee. WHAT
WILT THOU DO? viz. when thou, O daughter of Zion, as JEREMIAH 4...
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Jeremiah 4:30 plundered H7703 (H8803) do H6213 (H8799) clothe H3847
(H8799) crimson H8144 adorn H5710 ...
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JEREMIAH'S VISION OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE INVASION (JEREMIAH 4:23).
In chilling tones Jeremiah now pictures the land after its
destruction, as he, as it were, looks around and sees all the
devastation...
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YHWH WARNS JUDAH THAT IF THEY WILL NOT REPENT FOR THEM TOO INVASION BY
A FIERCE ADVERSARY IS THREATENING AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY COME BECAUSE OF
THEIR SINS (JEREMIAH 4:3).
If Judah will not respond to th...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. Warning of the
consequences of sin and exhortation to return to God.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: It is the evil of men's doings that kindle...
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Jeremiah 4:3. _Break up your fallow ground._ Hebrews ניר _nir,
novale;_ make _new_ land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12. Our old
phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the word....
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_Though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make
thyself fair._
HYPOCRISY DISCOVERED
This renting of the face is, literally, enlarging of the eyes through
kohl or antimony--a tric...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Chronology_ of the chapter,
_Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History_ as in
chap. 3. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 4:5. “_Defenced
cities_....
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 4:1, JEREMIAH 4:2
The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render,
_If thou wilt return_,_ O Israel_,_ saith Jehovah_,_ wilt return unto
me_;_ and if thou wilt...
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But if you will return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and
if you will put away thine abominations out of my sight, then you will
no longer be [moved or] removed. And thou shalt swear, The...
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2 Kings 9:30; Ezekiel 16:36; Ezekiel 23:10; Ezekiel 23:22;...