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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:30

And when thou art spoiled] better, 'and thou, spoiled one,' i.e. Jerusalem. Rentest thy face with painting] RV 'enlargest thine eyes with paint.' The Eastern custom was to paint black the border of the eyes, so as to give the effect of size and brilliancy. So Jezebel in 2 Kings 9:30.

Jeremiah's Fourth Prophecy (or Group of Prophecies). God's Judgment upon the Unrepentant

When the check which Josiah's personal character and influence put upon idolatry was removed, Jeremiah foresaw that the condition of the nation would become well-nigh desperate.

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See also Jeremiah 4:30 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 4:30. _THOUGH THOU RENTEST THY FACE WITH PAINTING_] This probably refers to the custom of introducing _stibium_, a preparation of antimony, between the eye and the lids, in order to pr...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Translate, And thou, O plundered one, what effectest thou, that “thou clothest thyself with” scarlet, that “thou deckest” thyself “with ornaments of gold,” that thou enlargest thine eyes with antimony...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 4 _ 1. True repentance and what it means (Jeremiah 4:1) _ 2. The alarm sounded: judgment comes (Jeremiah 4:5) 3. The doom of the rebellious people (Jeremiah 4:14) 4. The desolation of I

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE VISION OF DESOLATION (Jeremiah 4:23) most impressively describes the Divine visitation of Judah. The earth becomes like the chaos before creation (_mg._) under a sky that has lost its lamps; the v...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THOU. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_, Put for idolatrous Israel. An adulterous woman. RENTEST. enlargest (with paint). FACE. eyes. LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Thy harsh captors will scorn thy feminine arts to make thyself attractive in their eyes. But the anomalous gender (masc.) of the Hebrew participle suggests that it is a gloss. _And thou, when thou art...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeremiah 4:5-31. Impending judgements. National disaster This section and the two that follow it (viz. chs. 5 and 6) are somewhat later than the preceding, as presenting a more definite description o...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Embellishments of the person are of no avail. Zion cries out in vain before an implacable foe. See summary at commencement of section....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THOUGH THOU RENTEST THY FACE WITH PAINTING— See 2 Kings 9:30. The prophet here carries on the idea wherewith he began, describing Jerusalem under the figure of a harlot, dressing herself up to captiva...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. _Inevitable judgment_ (Jeremiah 4:27-31) TRANSLATION (27) For thus says the LORD: All the land shall become a desolation; but I will not make a full end of it. (28) On account of this the land sha...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt tho...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:30 rendest (g-26) By an irony for 'enlargest.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND WHEN THOU ART SPOILED... — The sentence is clearer without the insertion of the words in italics: _Thou spoiled one, what dost thou work, that thou clothest..._ _that thou deckest..._ _that thou r...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _וְ_†_אַ֨תְּ_† שָׁד֜וּד מַֽה ־תַּעֲשִׂ֗י כִּֽי ־תִלְבְּשִׁ֨י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would under

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in exte...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And [when] thou [art] laid waste, what wilt thou do? Though thou (x) clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou enlarge thy eyes with painting, in vain...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Stone, or antimony, like Jazabel, (4 Kings ix. 30.) to darken and enlarge the eye-lids. --- Lovers. Infidel nations of Egypt, &c._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    There is somewhat uncommonly solemn and striking, when the Lord by his servants, as in many parts of scripture, calls upon the heavenly bodies, and the inanimate parts of nature, to lament by their ap...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet boldly ridicules the Jews, in order to cast down their pride and haughtiness. It was indeed his object to check that pride with which they were elated against God. The Prophet could not ha...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND WHEN THOU ART SPOILED, WHAT WILT THOU DO?.... Or, "O thou spoiled" k, wasted, and undone creature, how wilt thou help thyself? by what means dost thou think thou canst be delivered? it suggests th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And [when] thou [art] spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And when thou art spoiled_ When this destruction shall come upon thee, which is very near; _what wilt thou do?_ When thou, O daughter of Zion, art besieged by the Babylonians, what course wilt thou t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Desolation Following the Lord's Judgment. The prophet here, in a most dramatic manner, introduces Israel as lamenting over the calamity which has struck the nation....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And when thou art spoiled, rather, "But thou, O destroyed one," WHAT WILT THOU DO? How escape the threatened destruction? THOUGH THOU CLOTHEST THYSELF WITH CRIMSON, in garments of the most expensive m...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FACE: _ Heb._ eyes...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    19-31 The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion. Compared with what it was, every thing is out of order; but the ruin of the Jew...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WHEN THOU ART SPOILED; which will certainly come upon thee; or when this destruction shall come upon thee, which is very near thee. WHAT WILT THOU DO? viz. when thou, O daughter of Zion, as JEREMIAH 4...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 4:30 plundered H7703 (H8803) do H6213 (H8799) clothe H3847 (H8799) crimson H8144 adorn H5710 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH WARNS JUDAH THAT IF THEY WILL NOT REPENT FOR THEM TOO INVASION BY A FIERCE ADVERSARY IS THREATENING AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY COME BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS (JEREMIAH 4:3). If Judah will not respond to th...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S VISION OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE INVASION (JEREMIAH 4:23). In chilling tones Jeremiah now pictures the land after its destruction, as he, as it were, looks around and sees all the devastation...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. Warning of the consequences of sin and exhortation to return to God. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is the evil of men's doings that kindle...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 4:3. _Break up your fallow ground._ Hebrews ניר _nir, novale;_ make _new_ land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12. Our old phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the word....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair._ HYPOCRISY DISCOVERED This renting of the face is, literally, enlarging of the eyes through kohl or antimony--a tric...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Chronology_ of the chapter, _Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History_ as in chap. 3. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 4:5. “_Defenced cities_....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 4:1, JEREMIAH 4:2 The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render, _If thou wilt return_,_ O Israel_,_ saith Jehovah_,_ wilt return unto me_;_ and if thou wilt...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    But if you will return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if you will put away thine abominations out of my sight, then you will no longer be [moved or] removed. And thou shalt swear, The...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 9:30; Ezekiel 16:36; Ezekiel 23:10; Ezekiel 23:22;...

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