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Verse Jeremiah 4:19. _MY BOWELS_] From this to the _twenty-ninth_
verse the prophet describes the ruin of Jerusalem and the desolation
of Judea by the Chaldeans in language and imagery scarcely paral...
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The verse is best translated as a series of ejaculations, in which the
people express their grief at the ravages committed by the enemy:
“My bowels! My bowels!” I writhe in pain!
The walls of my hea...
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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 PROPHET'S GRIEF for his country finds characteristic expression:
My bowels! my bowels! Let me writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart
moaneth within me! (Driver). His soul hears (_mg._ with LXX) t...
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MY BOWELS. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6), for emphasis. Note
the Figure of speech _Hypotyposis, verses:_ 19-31. Put by Figure of
speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), for the emotions which produce an...
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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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_My bowels_ considered as the seat of profound emotion. Cp. Jeremiah
31:20; Isaiah 16:11; Isaiah 63:15; Ca. Jeremiah 5:4 (R.V. mg.).
I am
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The prophet is racked with grief at the noise of war and the thought
of its horrors and all through the mad folly of his people.
See summary at commencement of section....
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DISCOURSE: 1038
THE MISERIES OF WAR
Jeremiah 4:19. _My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my
heart maketh a noise in me: I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast
heard, O my soul, the...
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MY BOWELS, &C.— _My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the centre,_
or, _in the midst, of my heart; my heart is tumultuous within me._
This terrific vision is full of the divinest enthusiasm. The
calam...
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B. Description of Coming Judgment Jeremiah 4:19-31
In the last half of chapter four Jeremiah describes the coming
judgment. He emphasizes that this judgment will be (1) terrifying
(Jeremiah 4:19-22);...
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My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a
noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my
soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
MY BOWELS,...
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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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MY BOWELS] supposed to be the seat of emotions.
The Lord tells of His affection for Israel. BUT] rather,'and.' HOW]
i.e. In what honourable position? THE CHILDREN] the nations of the
earth, all of th...
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MY BOWELS, MY BOWELS! — As with Jeremiah 4:13, the words may be
Jeremiah’s own cry of anguish, or that of the despairing people with
whom he identifies himself. The latter gives more dramatic vividnes...
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מֵעַ֣י ׀ מֵעַ֨י׀ _אֹוחִ֜ילָה_†
קִירֹ֥ות לִבִּ֛י הֹֽמֶה ־לִּ֥י
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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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My distress, my (q) distress! I am pained at my very heart; my heart
maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard,
O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
(q)...
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_My. God, (St. Jerome) the people, (Grotius) or rather Jeremias
speaks._...
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I hope the Reader will pause over these verses, and remark the concern
of the Prophet. And when he hath done this, let him ask himself what
ought to be the concern of the Lord's prophets: I mean his m...
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Some interpreters think that the Prophet is here affected with grief,
because he saw that his own nation would soon perish; but I know not
whether this is a right view. It is indeed true, that the pro...
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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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MY BOWELS, MY BOWELS,.... These are either the words of the people,
unto whose heart the calamity reached, as in the preceding verse; or
rather of the prophet, who either, from a sympathizing heart,
e...
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My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a
noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my
soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Ver. 19. _My...
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_My bowels_, &c. Or, as Dr. Waterland renders it, _My bowels, my
bowels! I am pained at the centre, or in the midst, of my heart; my
heart is tumultuous within me!_ It is an exclamation of the prophet...
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My bowels, my bowels! the whole inner part of the man quaking with
terror. I AM PAINED AT MY VERY HEART! or, I feel the pain of a severe
cramp the chambers of my heart! MY HEART MAKETH A NOISE IN ME,...
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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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AT MY VERY HEART:
_ Heb._ the walls of my heart [symbol in wrong place]...
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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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MY BOWELS, MY BOWELS! here begins the woeful complaint of, and the
great trouble the prophet was in, upon the consideration of these
things, crying out as one even under great pain and torment, doubli...
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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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JUDAH ARE CALLED TO REPENTANCE AS WELL AS ISRAEL FOR THEY ARE STILL IN
THEIR LAND, AND, IF THEY WILL ONLY TRULY TURN TO HIM WITH GENUINELY
CHANGED HEARTS, CAN STILL LOOK FORWARD TO THE FUTURE IN HOPE....
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Jeremiah 4:1. _If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return
unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight,
then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The LORD l...
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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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_I am pained at my very heart._
THE PROPHET’S LAMENTATIONS OVER HIS PEOPLE’S DOOM
I. The complaint or lamentation itself.
1. The parts affected. The soul and inward man.
(1) The secrecy of it, the...
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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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Amos 3:6; Daniel 7:15; Daniel 7:28; Daniel 8:27; Galatians 4:19;...
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My bowels — Here begins the complaint of the prophet. My heart —
Is disturbed within me. Because — I have heard in the spirit of
prophecy; it is as certain, as if I now heard the trumpet sounding....