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Verse Jeremiah 9:7. _BEHOLD, I WILL MELT THEM_] I will put them in the
_furnace of affliction_, and see if this will be a means of purging
away their dross. Jeremiah 6:27....
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From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.
Jeremiah 9:2
The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared his daily
striving, and in some lone wilderness give way to his sorrow, wi...
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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 MELT THEM, AND TRY THEM.
As the ores are melted and tried in. furnace to drive away the
impurities, so God would try his people in the fierce furnace fires to
purify them....
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THE LORD OF HOSTS. See note on Jeremiah 6:6 and 1 Samuel 1:3.
HOW SHALL. how [else] shall, &c.
FOR THE DAUGHTER: or, because of [the wickedness of] the daughter, &c....
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_melt_ the same Hebrew word as "refining" in Jeremiah 6:29, where see
note, and cp. Zechariah 13:9.
_how else should_ or, _how_(terribly) _will_.
_because of the daughter_ LXX probably rightly has _b...
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BEHOLD, I WILL MELT THEM— The prophet uses here the same metaphor as
in chap. Jeremiah 6:28, &c. where see the note. Houbigant renders the
last clause; _So will I do, for the perversity of the daughte...
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II. NATIONAL CORRUPTION Jeremiah 9:2-26
Jeremiah does not allow himself to be overcome by his personal
feelings regarding the gloomy future of his people. The destruction of
Judah is a punishment well...
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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and
try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
I WILL MELT THEM AND TRY THEM - by sending calamities on them. The...
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1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
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MELT.. TRY] i.e. remove the dross, and test whether the metal is now
pure....
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I WILL MELT THEM, AND TRY THEM. — The prophet, speaking in the name
of Jehovah, falls back upon the imagery of Jeremiah 6:28; Isaiah
48:10. The evil has come to such a pass that nothing is left but th...
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_[Jeremiah 9:6]_ לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה
צְבָאֹ֔ות...
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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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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will (h) melt them,
and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
(h) With the fire of affliction....
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_Try them in the crucible of war, chap. vi. 27. (Calmet)_...
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I read this verse alone, in order that we may not lose the beauty and
the blessedness of it. What a delightful representation is here made
of the Lord's pity for his people? Doth it not seem as if the...
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Jeremiah, speaking in God’s name, concludes that the chastisement,
of which he had spoken, was necessary; And what I have already said
appears more clearly from this verse, — that he brings to light
t...
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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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THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS,.... Because of this deceit and
hypocrisy, and lying:
BEHOLD, I WILL MELT THEM, AND TRY THEM: as the refiner does his gold
and silver, by putting them into the...
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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and
try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
Ver. 7. _Behold, I will melt them and try them._] I will cast them
in...
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_Behold, I will melt them and try them_ I will cast them into the
furnace of affliction, that I may purify them from their dross. See
note on Jeremiah 6:29, and on Isaiah 1:25. _For how shall I do_, &...
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THE DECEIT OF THE PEOPLE...
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Therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, the mighty ruler of the
heavenly armies. BEHOLD, I WILL MELT THEM AND TRY THEM, test them in
the fire of tribulation, as the refiner tests metals in his furnac...
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1-11 Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might
rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the
desert, without communion with God, through Christ Jesus, and th...
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I WILL MELT THEM, AND TRY THEM; the same metaphor used JEREMIAH 6:29;
try them by melting them, i.e. either I will try what lesser
afflictions will do before I do utterly destroy them; or rather, I
wi...
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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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_Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and
try them._
GOD’S PEOPLE MELTED AND TRIED
Observe, here, that God represents Himself as greatly concerned to
know what to do with...
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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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1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 4:12; 2 Chronicles 36:15; Ezekiel 22:18;...
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Try them — By melting them, I will bring upon them, the fire of the
Chaldean war, that shall purge away those deceits in which they trust,
that the remnant may be purified. For how — I have tried all...