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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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WILL SCATTER THEM AMONG THE HEATHEN.
The events that happened before that generation ended serve to explain
the meaning. The city was destroyed, the temple leveled, and the
people carried away captiv...
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I WILL SCATTER. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:33.Deuteronomy
28:64; Deuteronomy 28:64).
HEATHEN. nations....
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See introd. summary to the section....
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Du. and Gi. consider this passage to be condemned by prosaic wording
and the vagueness or absence of metre. Co. thinks it to contain
Jeremianic elements, worked up later. It certainly forms a remarkab...
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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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I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor
their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I
have consumed them.
NOR THEIR FATHERS HAVE KNOWN - alluding t...
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1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
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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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_Consumed. Chap. xliv. 27. No country shall afford them protection.
(Calmet) --- The richer sort were made captives, and most of the
people destroyed, but not all, chap. iv. 25. (Worthington)_...
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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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As he had said that the Jews were following what theyhad received from
their fathers,so he says now that God would _scatter them among
nations, _which had been unknown to them and to their fathers. He...
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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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I WILL SCATTER THEM ALSO AMONG THE HEATHEN,.... Besides the bitter
judgments of famine and pestilence during the siege, what remained of
them should be carried captive out of their own land into forei...
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I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor
their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I
have consumed them.
Ver. 16. _And I will scatter them also among...
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_I will feed them, &c., with wormwood_ See on Deuteronomy 29:18. The
word rendered _wormwood_ here, it seems, had better be rendered
_wolfsbane_, as signifying an herb which is not only bitter and
nau...
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THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND...
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I will scatter them also among the heathen, in shameful captivity and
exile, WHOM NEITHER THEY NOR THEIR FATHERS HAVE KNOWN, as an adequate
punishment for their transgression; AND I WILL SEND A SWORD...
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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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I WILL SCATTER THEM ALSO AMONG THE HEATHEN; either you shall wander up
and down among strangers, like Cain's curse; or rather, you shall have
no friend abroad, but be sold as so many slaves from perso...
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Jeremiah 9:16 scatter H6327 (H8689) Gentiles H1471 fathers H1 known
H3045 (H8804) send H7971 (H8765) sword...
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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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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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Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 28:36; Deuteronomy 28:64; Deuteronomy
32:26;...
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A sword — But I will follow them with the sword, 'till they be
destroyed, such of them as were appointed for destruction; for
otherwise, they were not all consumed, a full end was not to be made....