STREETS. out places, or outskirts. BROAD PLACES. market, or open places of concourse. IF YE CAN FIND. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 18:26, &c). Points to reign of Jehoiakim rather than that of Josiah. I WILL PARDON. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 18:24). App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TRUTH. faithfulness. The same word as in Jeremiah 5:1. HAVE NOT GRIEVED. have felt no pain.... [ Continue Reading ]
POOR. become poor, or impoverished, reduced in means. Hebrew. _dal._ See note on "poverty", Proverbs 6:11. JUDGMENT. justice.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALTOGETHER. together, or with one accord.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVENINGS. deserts. TRANSGRESSIONS. revolts. BACKSLIDINGS. apostasies. INCREASED. strong, or many.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons. FORSAKEN ME. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:15; Deuteronomy 32:21). SWORN. Compare Jeremiah 5:2. FED THEM TO THE FULL. So in many codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate; but some codices, with five early printed editions, read... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE MORNING: i.e. roaming at large.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL. NOT VISIT... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ MY SOUL. I Myself, for emphasis. Hebrew. _nephesh._ Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ BE AVENGED. avenge herself. Compare Jeremiah 5:29; Jeremiah 9:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT. FULL END. Compare Jeremiah 5:18, and Jeremiah 4:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 2:4. THE HOUSE OF JUDAH. See note on Jeremiah 2:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
BELIED. acted deceitfully against. Compare Joshua 24:27. EVIL. calamity.... [ Continue Reading ]
PROPHETS: i.e. Jeremiah, and others with him. See one in Ch. Jeremiah 26:20. WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ the Elohim of Zebaioth. Occurs in Jeremiah only here, Jeremiah 15:16; Jeremiah 35:17. and Jeremiah 49:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL BRING. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:49). App-92. A NATION: i.e. the Chaldeans, but not yet named as such. ANCIENT. Compare Genesis 10:10. UNDERSTANDEST. hearest. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for what is understood. Compare 1 Corinthians 14:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SHALL EAT UP. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:16). App-92. Repeated three times by Figure of speech _Anaphora_, for great emphasis. HARVEST, &C. Note the similar enumeration in Habakkuk 3:17. IMPOVERISH. beat down. Only again in Malachi 1:4. TRUSTEDST. confidedst. Hebrew. _batah._ App-... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 29:24; Deuteronomy 29:25). STRANGE... STRANGERS. foreign... foreigners, or aliens.... [ Continue Reading ]
DECLARE... PUBLISH. Compare Jeremiah 4:15. IN THE HOUSE OF JACOB. Only here, and Amos 3:13, with the Preposition "in". See note on Jeremiah 2:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNDERSTANDING. Hebrew "heart".... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT GIVETH RAIN. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 11:14). BOTH. even. Some codices omit this word. THE APPOINTED... HARVEST. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 8:22).... [ Continue Reading ]
INIQUITIES. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. SINS. Hebrew. _chata'_. App-44. GOOD. the good (singular)... [ Continue Reading ]
WICKED. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
WAXEN FAT. Reference to Pentateuch, (the same word as in Deuteronomy 32:15). THE WICKED. a lawless one. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. THE FATHERLESS. an orphan. YET THEY PROSPER: or, that they [the fatherless] should prosper. Figure of speech _Ellipsis._ App-6. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 10... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL. NOT. ? Note the repeated Figure of speech _Erotesis_, in the form of Figure of speech _Anaphora._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
A WONDERFUL. An astounding.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THEIR MEANS. Prophets were raised up when the priests failed in their duty. Now they had become in accord with them. Compare Jeremiah 23:25; Jeremiah 23:26; Ezekiel 13:6, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]