Jeremiah 16:1-21
1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot.... [ Continue Reading ]
1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOR CUT THEMSELVES] in token of mourning: cp. Jeremiah 47:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
TEAR _themselves_ FOR THEM] RV 'break bread for them.' The reference here and in the rest of the v. is to the custom that the friends should urge the mourners to eat and drink: cp. 2 Samuel 3:35; 2 Samuel 12:16; Proverbs 31:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
IMAGINATION] cp. Jeremiah 3:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE SHALL YE SERVE OTHER GODS] if you please. Spoken ironically. 14-21. The deliverance will be in proportion to the severity of the punishment.... [ Continue Reading ]
15. Yet the coming deliverance shall be one in comparison with which even the exodus from Egypt shall pale. For Jeremiah's custom of throwing in a bright thought among gloomy ones see Jeremiah 3:14; Jeremiah 4:27; Jeremiah 5:10; Jeremiah 5:18; Jeremiah 27:22; Jeremiah 30:3; Jeremiah 32:37.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LAND OF THE NORTH] i.e. Babylon: a promise of restoration after the exile.... [ Continue Reading ]
MANY FISHERS] Judah's enemies. The people shall be hunted down with energy wherever they may be found. 19-21. God's power thus shown in the care of His people for evil and then for good, and witnessed by other nations, shall lead even the most distant of them to acknowledge Him. Jeremiah's Ninth P... [ Continue Reading ]