These words are not the language of consolation to the conscience-stricken, but of vehement expostulation with hardened sinners. They prove, therefore, the truth of the interpretation put upon the preceding verse.
As the Arabian ... - The freebooting propensities of the Bedouin had passed in ancient times into a proverb. As eager as the desert-tribes were for plunder, so was Israel for idolatry.
Verse Jeremiah 3:2. _AS THE ARABIAN IN THE WILDERNESS_] They were as fully intent on the practice of their idolatry as the _Arab_ in the desert is in lying in wait to plunder the caravans. Where they...
CHAPTER S 2:1-3:5 Expostulation and Impeachment _ 1. His love and kindness to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:1) _ 2. The unfaithful people (Jeremiah 2:4) 3. The two evils and the results (Jeremiah 2:12)...
ISRAEL'S INFIDELITY. (Some introductory formula, like that of Jeremiah 2:1, has dropped out before Jeremiah 3:1; note _mg.)._ Israel's marital unfaithfulness to Yahweh is too gross for a facile repent...
Israel is shameless and wholly given up to idolatrous excesses. _bare heights_ a favourite word in this Book (Jeremiah 3:21; Jeremiah 4:11 etc.). _an Arabian in the wilderness_ lit. steppe-dwellers ...
HIGH-PLACES, &C.— See Proverbs 7:8 and the _Observations,_ p. 52. The fondness of the people for idolatry is compared to the wantonness of a harlot, who lies in wait for men as for her prey; or as the...
II. GOD'S APPEAL To HIS PEOPLE Jeremiah 3:1 to Jeremiah 4:4 After the blistering indictment of his inaugural sermon Jeremiah takes up the subject of repentance. He speaks here of (1) the possibility o...
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy who...
3:2 heights (d-7) Or 'high places,' strictly, 'bare hills.' see Isaiah 41:18 ; Isaiah 49:9 . so ver. 21; ch. 4.11, &c....
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...
LIFT UP THINE EYES. — The consciousness of guilt was, however, the only foundation of repentance, and the prophet’s work, therefore, in very tenderness, is to paint that guilt in the darkest colours p...
שְׂאִֽי ־עֵינַ֨יִךְ עַל ־שְׁפָיִ֜ם וּ רְאִ֗י...
CHAPTER II THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1 THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menac...
Following the impeachment, the prophet appealed to the people to return. This appeal commenced with a declaration that Jehovah's love was greater than man's in that He was willing to receive back the...
Lift up thy eyes to the high places, and see where thou hast not been lain with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the (e) Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy harl...
_High. Literally, "straight forward." (Haydock) --- On the hills, idolatry and immorality prevailed. --- Ways, where harlots used to sit, Genesis xxxviii. 14., and Proverbs vii. 9., and xxxiii. 27. --...
It is the uniform custom of human life, that, if a woman prove unfaithful to her husband, and the thing be notorious and publicly known, by her open departure from him, never is she permitted to retur...
As the Prophet had charged the Jews with being wanton in a loose and promiscuous manner, as it is the case with abandoned women, after having cast away all shame, that they might not evade the charge...
Chapter 3 has the same character; indeed it is the continuation of the same address; but it contains details of Israel's and Judah's behaviour, and proclaims the restoration of Israel by sovereign goo...
LIFT UP THINE EYES UNTO THE HIGH PLACES,.... Where idols were set and worshipped; either places naturally high, as hills and mountains, which were chosen for this service; or high places, artificially...
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whor...
_Lift up thine eyes_ Do but look and consider whether I charge thee wrongfully or not; _unto the high places_ The places of thy spiritual whoredoms or idolatries, their false gods being generally wors...
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, the scene of her former idolatries, AND SEE WHERE THOU HAST NOT BEEN LIEN WITH, in spiritual adultery. IN THE WAYS HAST THOU SAT FOR THEM, like a common prosti...
THE POSSIBILITY OF RETURN...
1-5 In repentance, it is good to think upon the sins of which we have been guilty, and the places and companies where they have been committed. How gently the Lord had corrected them! In receiving pe...
LIFT UP THINE EYES; do but look, and consider whether I do charge thee wrongfully or no. UNTO THE HIGH PLACES: he directs her to the places of her whoredoms and idolatries, called HIGH PLACES, being p...
Jeremiah 3:2 up H5375 (H8798) eyes H5869 heights H8205 see H7200 (H8798) Where H375 lain H7693 ...
YHWH LAYS DOWN HIS FINAL TERMS (JEREMIAH 3:1). The latter rains have failed to come because they have been faithless to YHWH, something that is evident to anyone who will look to the bare hills or the...
In this chapter, the sin of God's people is put in the strongest possible light. The figure used may be even said to be a coarse one, but man's sin is itself a coarse thing. The thoughts suggested in...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's message concerning the impenitence of Judah. Encouragement to backsliders to return and repent. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those will justly be divorced from God tha...
Jeremiah 3:3. _Therefore the showers,_ of the former and the latter rain, _have been withheld._ Other prophets make the same remark. God is not obliged to give luxuriant harvests to furnish feasts to...
_Return again to Me, saith the Lord._ THE BACKSLIDER INVITED TO RETURN We have here a wonderful display of God’s character: forbearance, pity, and love. I. What is inferred. A departure from God....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_1. Chronology._ Exact date of chapter uncertain. It naturally divides itself at Jeremiah 3:5, although Dahler, Umbriet, and Neuman contend for the unity of the chapter...
EXPOSITION That this chapter (to which the first four verses of Jeremiah 4:1. ought to have been attached) belongs to the time of Josiah seems to be proved by Jeremiah 3:6, and the years immediately f...
They say (Jeremiah 3:1), That is, in quoting the law and in speaking of the law, Deuteronomy. If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's wife, shall he return unto...
1 Kings 11:3; 2 Kings 23:13; Deuteronomy 12:2; Ezekiel 16:16;...
Lien with — Where there are not the footsteps of thy idolaters. Sat — To assure passengers. As the Arabian — An allusion to the custom of that people, who were wont to pitch their tents by the way — s...