Jeremiah 8:1
SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES] either from pure wantonness, or in the hope of finding treasure or ornaments of value.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES] either from pure wantonness, or in the hope of finding treasure or ornaments of value.... [ Continue Reading ]
1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEFORE THE SUN] the heavenly bodies will not be prevented by all the offerings and devotions that they have received from using their influence to hasten the rotting of the carcases of their sometime worshippers.... [ Continue Reading ]
FAMILY] the whole nation: see on Jeremiah 3:14. 4-17. The people are hardened in sin.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY] RV 'men.' If a man stumble, he will naturally regain his footing: if he lose his way he will return to it. Not so with this people.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE HORSE, etc.] meaning, an eager plunge into wrongdoing.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TURTLE AND THE CRANE AND THE SWALLOW] rather, 'The turtle dove and the swift and the crane': cp. Isaiah 1:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
LO, CERTAINLY IN VAIN.. IN vain] RV 'But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely,' i.e. they have used their knowledge of the Law to deceive others, persuading them that they may transgress with impunity. The scribes (frequently mentioned in NT.) were a class of persons who devote... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL INHERIT _them_] shall take possession of them. The idea is forcible seizure by the invader.... [ Continue Reading ]
See on Jeremiah 6:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND _the things_ .. FROM THEM] RM 'I have appointed them those that shall pass over them': viz. the Assyrians invading them as a flood. 14F. The people address one another, while suffering under the troubles thus described. ENTER INTO THE DEFENCED CITIES] i.e. out of villages for protection. WATER... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS HORSES] i.e. those of the Babylonian invader. STRONG ONES] warhorses. So in Jeremiah 47:3; Jeremiah 50:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
COCKATRICES] RV 'basilisks,' RM 'adders': Jeremiah may have chosen the word because of its resemblance in sound in the Hebrew to the word _northern,_ the invaders coming from that quarter. CHARMED] so as to be harmless. 18-22. Jeremiah speaks. 18 _When_ I WOULD] RV 'O that I could.' 19F. Jeremiah... [ Continue Reading ]
When the harvest was bad there was still hope of the yield from grapes, etc. But the people had lost one chance of deliverance after another, and might now despair. SUMMER] RM 'ingathering of summer fruits.'... [ Continue Reading ]
BLACK] RM 'mourning.'... [ Continue Reading ]
'Is there no way of saving this people?' GILEAD was a mountainous part of Palestine E, of the Jordan. BALM (balsam) was found there, and naturally in the same place would be found those skilled in its use.... [ Continue Reading ]