Jeremiah 9:1
OH THAT, &C. Figure of speech _Pathopoeia._ WATERS... FOUNTAIN... TEARS. Figure of speech _Catabasis._ SLAIN. Not healed by "balm" or "physician".... [ Continue Reading ]
OH THAT, &C. Figure of speech _Pathopoeia._ WATERS... FOUNTAIN... TEARS. Figure of speech _Catabasis._ SLAIN. Not healed by "balm" or "physician".... [ Continue Reading ]
BEND: or, prepare. TRUTH. veracity.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEIGHBOUR. friend. TRUST YE NOT. do not confide. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69. EVERY BROTHER... SUPPLANT. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 25:26; Genesis 27:36). App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHOT OUT. Hebrew. piercing. But some codices, with two early printed editions, and Syriac, read "pointed".... [ Continue Reading ]
MY SOUL. I myself (emphatic). Hebrew. _nephesh._ Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ AVENGED. Compare Jeremiah 5:9; Jeremiah 5:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
HABITATIONS. pastures.... [ Continue Reading ]
DRAGONS. jackals.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ WHO... ? The Ellipsis is thus correctly supplied.... [ Continue Reading ]
FORSAKEN. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:15; Deuteronomy 32:21). App-92. MY LAW. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20, &c). App-92. SET BEFORE THEM. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:8; Deuteronomy 4:44). App-92. THEREIN. In the law, not the voice.... [ Continue Reading ]
IMAGINATION. stubbornness. Reference to Pentateuch, (see note on Jeremiah 3:17).... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 7:3. WORMWOOD... GALL. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 29:18). Repeated in Jeremiah 23:15. Occurs also in Lamentations 3:19. WATER OF GALL. Compare Jeremiah 8:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL SCATTER. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:33.Deuteronomy 28:64; Deuteronomy 28:64). HEATHEN. nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
THUS SAITH, &C. This (verses: Jeremiah 9:17) develops the calamity, for which this chapter gives the reason. MOURNING WOMEN.. class still hired for the purpose. Compare 2 Samuel 1:24; 2 Chronicles 35:25.Ecclesiastes 12:5.Matthew 9:23.Mark 5:38. CUNNING. skilful (in this business).... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW.! Supply _Ellip_ sis: "[saying], How is it", &c. BECAUSE. Some codices, with three early printed editions (one Rabbinic), read "yea, for", or "for indeed". OUR DWELLINGS, &C.: or, they have cast down our habitations. Compare Daniel 8:11.Job 8:18; Ezekiel 19:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
YET: or, For, or Yea. WOMEN. These had been largely the instrumental cause; now they share the calamities.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. infant. STREETS...... [ Continue Reading ]
Speak. This shows that Jerome's Hebrew text was unpointed, for he read d-b-r as _deber =_ pestilence, instead of _dabar =_ word, or _dabber =_ speak. OPEN FIELD. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "ground". NONE SHALL GATHER THEM. Compare Psalms 79:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
THUS SAITH, &C. The lesson which follows is of universal application. LET NOT. Note the Figure of speech _Symploke,_ or _Anaphora_, for emphasis. WISDOM... MIGHT... RICHES. These are the three things which men boast of, and trust in. This was Jerusalem's sin. LET NOT. Some codices, with six early... [ Continue Reading ]
LET HIM, &C. Quoted in 1 Corinthians 1:31. KNOWETH ME. This lies at the foundation of everything: of all trust in God (for One unknown cannot be trusted at all); of all pleasing (Ephesians 1:17; Colossians 1:9; Colossians 1:10; 1 John 5:20). The want of it led to Gentile corruption (Romans 1:28); to... [ Continue Reading ]
CIRCUMCISED, &C.: in the flesh, but not in "ears" (Jeremiah 6:10), nor in "heart" (Jeremiah 4:4). Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:41; Leviticus 26:42.Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 30:6). Elsewhere only in Ezekiel 44:7; Ezekiel 44:9, WITH THE UNCIRCUMCISED. [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons. THAT ARE IN THE UTMOST CORNERS: or, all that have the corners of their beard polled. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 19:27). App-92. Compare Jeremiah 49:32. UNCIRCUMCISED. Supply _Ellipsis_, from the next clause: "uncircumcised [in heart], and all", &c. THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. See... [ Continue Reading ]