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Or, “I will gather and sweep them away, saith Jehovah: there are no
grapes on the vine, and no figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is dry:
therefore will I appoint those that shall pass over them.” Jud...
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CHAPTER 8
_ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _
2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4)
3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13)
4. The prophet's lamentation ...
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JUDAH'S UNNATURAL CONDUCT AND ITS PUNISHMENT. There is something
unnatural in the persistency of the people's misconduct; they show no
inclination to return to Yahweh, but pursue a headstrong course a...
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SURELY CONSUME THEM. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_. Hebrew.
_'asoph 'asiphem._
ON THE VINE. See note on Jeremiah 6:9.
SHALL FADE. is withered.
THE THINGS... FROM THEM: or,. have appointed...
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Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of
sin
The section may be thus summarized.
(i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to
change, but Israel...
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_there shall be_ better, _there are_. The people in their
_present_state are likened to a lifeless vine or fig tree. We are
reminded of the comparison of the righteous man, Jeremiah 17:8; Psalms
1:1 f...
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See summary at commencement of section....
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I WILL SURELY CONSUME THEN, &C.— _I was about to gather them, saith
the Lord, but there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the
fig-tree; and the leaves themselves have faded: they have dissipated...
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C. Unavoidable Punishment at the Hand of God Jeremiah 8:13-17
TRANSLATION
(13) I will utterly consume them (oracle of the LORD). No grapes are
on the vine and no figs are on the fig tree. The leaves...
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I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes
on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and
the things that I have given them shall pass away from them....
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8:13 them. (b-38) Or 'pass through them.'...
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1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....
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AND _the things_ .. FROM THEM] RM 'I have appointed them those that
shall pass over them': viz. the Assyrians invading them as a flood.
14F. The people address one another, while suffering under the...
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I WILL SURELY CONSUME. — Literally, _Gathering, I will sweep away_
— _i.e.,_ I will gather and sweep away, the two verbs being all but
identical in sound and spelling, so that the construction has alm...
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אָסֹ֥ף אֲסִיפֵ֖ם נְאֻם ־יְהֹוָ֑ה
אֵין֩ עֲנָבִ֨ים...
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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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FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE
Jeremiah 8:4-22
This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and
infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the
fight, so were the people set...
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Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen
rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the
people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
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_Gather into Jerusalem, to be butchered. (Calmet) --- Away. They are
now in the greatest distress. (Haydock) --- This probably happened a
little before the last siege, chap. xiv._...
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I bring the whole of this beautiful Chapter, from this verse to the
end into one view, for the sake of shortness, and from necessity; but
otherwise nothing could be more desirable than to dwell upon e...
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He confirms, as I have said, what he had declared in the last verse,
tie had said, that there would be the ruin of the whole people: for
the same purpose he now adds, _Destroying I will destroy them _...
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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 SURELY CONSUME THEM, SAITH THE LORD,.... Or, "gathering I will
gather them" k; into some one place, the city of Jerusalem, and there
destroy them. The word is, לשון כלייה, expressive of
consump...
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I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: [there shall be] no grapes
on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and
[the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them...
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_There shall be no grapes on the vine_ A figurative expression, to
signify that there should be none of them left. _And the leaf shall
fade,_ &c. As both leaves and fruit wither and fade when a tree i...
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I will surely consume them, saith the Lord, making a clean sweep of
them all; THERE SHALL BE NO GRAPES ON THE VINE NOR FIGS ON THE
FIG-TREE, both of these plants representing unfruitful Israel, AND TH...
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FURTHER DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPENDING PUNISHMENT...
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I will surely consume them:
Or, in gathering I will consume...
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4-13 What brought this ruin? 1. The people would not attend to
reason; they would not act in the affairs of their souls with common
prudence. Sin is backsliding; it is going back from the way that le...
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I WILL SURELY CONSUME THEM; or, _In gathering I will consume them_:
q.d. I will so gather them together into their several cities to be
besieged, that it shall be no hard matter to destroy them, JEREM...
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YHWH EXPRESSES AMAZEMENT AT THE UNWILLINGNESS OF HIS PEOPLE TO RETURN
TO HIM, AND THEIR COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR HIS REQUIREMENTS, AND WARNS
THEM THAT AS A CONSEQUENCE THEY WILL LOSE EVERYTHING (JEREMIA...
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Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the
bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the
bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bo...
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Jeremiah 8:1. At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the
bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the
bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bon...
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CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments
impending.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of
man cannot serve to k...
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Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the
kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in
the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap.
7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic
address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 8:1
Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been
deceased.
JEREMIAH 8:1
THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies
remain unbur...
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At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the
kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the
priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the
inha...
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Deuteronomy 28:39; Ezekiel 22:19; Ezekiel 24:3; Habakkuk 3:17;...
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Pass away — Shall be taken away by their enemies....