Woe is me, &c.— The prophet here pathetically laments the overthrow of his country; and either in his own person, or in that of his country, bewails the plundering and desolation of the cities and houses, as if they were so many shepherds' tents. See the following verse.
Verse Jeremiah 10:19. _THIS_ IS _A GRIEF, AND I MUST BEAR IT._] Oppressive as it is, I have deserved it, and worse; but even in this _judgment_ God remembers _mercy_....
The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy. Jeremiah 10:19 GRIEVOUS - Rather, “mortal,” i. e., fatal, incurabl...
CHAPTER 10 The Vanity of Idols _ 1. Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven (Jeremiah 10:1) _ 2. The contrast: The vanity of idols and the Lord, the King of Nations (Jeremiah 10:6) 3. The afflictio...
THE DEPARTURE INTO EXILE. The personified community is told to pick up its bundle (_mg.),_ and prepare for the inevitable exile. She bewails her hurt and her spoilt dwelling. These troubles, says the...
ME. Zion now speaks in view of the coming deportation; or, Jeremiah voices the calamity. A GRIEF: or, my affliction. AND I. but I....
Exile is at hand. Appeal to Jehovah in His wrath to remember mercy The utterances, interrupted by Jeremiah 9:23-26, and Jeremiah 10:1-16, are now continued. The passage has apparently suffered both b...
The prophet now begins a lament in the person of the nation. _my hurt_ See Jeremiah 8:21. _grief_ lit., as mg., _sickness_. "We speak only of a _person_as being sick; Heb. speaks also of a _wound_as...
C. The Folly of Forsaking God Jeremiah 10:17-22 TRANSLATION (17) Gather your bundle from the land, you who dwell in the siege. (18) For thus says the LORD! Behold, I am about to hurl out the inhabita...
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it. WOE IS ME FOR MY HURT! Judea bewails its calamity. WOUND - the stroke I suffer under. I MUST BE...
10:19 wound! (e-6) Lit. 'breach.'...
1-16. The folly of idolatry. This section of the prophecy is of doubtful authorship. For (_a_) it introduces a break in the sense; (_b_) there is less smoothness between the parts than we generally fi...
WOE IS ME... — From this verse to the end of the chapter we have, with the prophet’s characteristic dramatic vividness, the lamentation of the daughter of Israel in her captivity, bewailing the transg...
אֹ֥וי לִי֙ עַל ־שִׁבְרִ֔י נַחְלָ֖ה מַכָּתִ֑י...
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
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY Jeremiah 10:1-10; Jeremiah 19:1-15; Jeremiah 20:1-18; Jeremiah 21:1-14; Jeremiah 22:1-30; Jeremiah 23:1-40; Jeremiah 24:1-10; Jeremiah 25:1-38...
Here begins the third movement in the commissioning of the prophet. In it the sin of idolatry is first dealt with. The prophet revealed the unutterable folly of idolatry in a powerful contrast between...
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this (l) [is] a grief, and I must bear it. (l) It is my just plague, and therefore I will take it patiently: by which he teaches the peo...
The Prophet gets back again to his old subject. The prospect of the Babylonish captivity so affected the Prophet's heart, that he could harp upon no other string. And observe, how the man of God gives...
The Prophet here no doubt speaks in the name of the whole people; for he saw that no one was moved by threatenings, though very grievous and severe; and this mode of speaking must be sufficiently know...
In chapter 10 the idols and the vanities of the nations are put in contrast with Jehovah. In Verses 19-25 (Jeremiah 10:19-25) we have the affliction of the prophet, speaking of the desolation of Jerus...
WOE IS ME FOR MY HURT!.... Or "breach" a; which was made upon the people of the Jews, when besieged, taken, and carried captive; with whom the prophet heartily sympathized, and considered their calami...
Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it. Ver. 19. _Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous._] This is the moan that people make when i...
_Wo is me for my hurt_ The prophet here again pathetically laments the overthrow of his country, and, either in his own person or in that of his country, bewails the plundering and desolation of the c...
Woe is me for my hurt! so the prophet cries out in the name of Judah, bewailing its calamity. MY WOUND IS GRIEVOUS, incurable! BUT I SAID. TRULY, THIS IS A GRIEF, the desolation of the land and the ca...
The Prophet's Lamentation and Prayer...
17-25 The Jews who continued in their own land, felt secure. But, sooner or later, sinners will find all things as the word of God has declared, and that its threatenings are not empty terrors. Submi...
Here the prophet doth not so much express his own sorrow, though that be great, as personate the sorrow and complaint that the land, i.e. the people of the land, manifest. or at least ought to do; whi...
Jeremiah 10:19 Woe H188 hurt H7667 wound H4347 severe H2470 (H8737) say H559 (H8804) Truly H389 infirmity...
YHWH NOTIFIES JUDAH OF HIS INTENTION TO SLING THEM OUT OF HIS LAND AND PUNISH THEM, AND THEY EXPRESS THEIR GRIEF AS THEY LOOK PROPHETICALLY AT HIS HAVING DONE SO. THE SOUND OF THE INVADERS IS HEARD AN...
Jeremiah 10:1. _Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, concluded. Greatness of the true God. Coming distresses in the land because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah is the one only living and tr...
Jeremiah 10:2. _Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;_ at the position of revolving planets on which the augurs found predictions, and discover their ignorance. Be not dismayed at solar eclipses, at...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 10:19 Jerusalem expresses her woes (Lamentations 1:20; Lamentations
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Section 1–16 has been declared spurious (by De Wette, Movers, and Hitzig), its authenticity disputed, a late interpolation by either the ps...
EXPOSITION Whoever wrote the prophecy in Jeremiah 10:1 of this chapter, it was not Jeremiah; but of course, as the passage forms part of a canonical book, its claims to the character of a Scripture re...
Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven [or the Zodiac]; for the heathen...
Isaiah 8:17; Jeremiah 17:13; Jeremiah 4:19; Jeremiah 4:31; Jeremiah
Woe is me — Here the prophet personates the complaint of the people of the land....