Blessed is the man... — The words that follow in Jeremiah 17:8 are almost a paraphrase of Psalms 1:3. and, we may well believe, were suggested by them. The prophet has, as it were, his own Ebal and Gerizim: trust in God inheriting the blessing, and distrust the curse.
In the rest of the prophecy Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judah’s ruin. Jeremiah 17:6 LIKE THE HEATH - Or, “like a destitute man” Psalms 102:17. The verbs “he shall see” (or...
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Judah's sin (Jeremiah 17:1) _ 2. The curse and the blessing (Jeremiah 17:5) 3. The worship of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 17:12) 4. Concerning the Sabbath ...
JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
HOPE. confidence. Hebrew. _batah,_ as in the preceding line. Not the same word as in verses: Jeremiah 17:13; Jeremiah 17:17....
See introd. summary to section. The antithesis in these verses is sharply defined, the two courses of human conduct making the men who practise them respectively to fade and to flourish. Cp. Psalms 1:...
_hope_ lit. as mg. _trust_....
DISCOURSE: 1055 THE DUTY OF TRUSTING IN GOD Jeremiah 17:5. Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall...
B. The Desert Shrub and the Flourishing Tree Jeremiah 17:5-8 TRANSLATION (5) Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart departs from the LOR...
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT TRUSTETH IN THE LORD - (; ; , "Blessed are all they that wait for him"). Jeremiah first removed the...
17:7 man (b-4) _ Geber_ . see Job 3:3 ....
1-4. The sin of Judah is indelible. Hence the severity of the punishment....
בָּר֣וּךְ הַ גֶּ֔בֶר אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִבְטַ֖ח בַּֽ יה
CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
HUMAN AND DIVINE HELP CONTRASTED Jeremiah 17:1-14 The Jews were always seeking alliance either with Egypt or Babylon. What was true of them applies to us all; but we cannot depend upon human aid, wit...
Once again Jehovah declared His determination to deal with the people in judgment, because of the defiant definiteness of their sin. That sin was "written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a d...
What a beautiful contrast do these verses contain, to those which were before; and in what a lovely manner is that well founded trust in the Lord pointed out, under the similitude of a tree planted by...
Observed ought to be the order which the Prophet keeps; for he could not have profitably spoken of this second part had he not first taken away that false confidence to which the Jews had long cleaved...
The great thing, amidst all that was going on, was to trust in Jehovah. He who, failing in this, made flesh his arm, should not see when good came. Meantime the fire of God's anger was kindled and sho...
BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT TRUSTETH IN THE LORD,.... In the Word of the Lord, as the Targum, in Christ the essential Word of God; see Psalms 2:12 who have a spiritual knowledge of him, and so trust in hi...
Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. Ver. 7. _Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord._] See on Jer 17:5 Psalms 25:12; Psalms 32:10; Psalms 34:8;...
_Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord_ That lives in continual obedience to him, and relies entirely upon him for every blessing he wants for his body or soul, for himself or others who, under...
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, with the confidence of true faith, AND WHOSE HOPE THE LORD ISAIAH Cf Psalms 1:3....
The Depth of the Nation's Corruption...
5-11 He who puts confidence in man, shall be like the heath in a desert, a naked tree, a sorry shrub, the product of barren ground, useless and worthless. Those who trust to their own righteousness a...
Trusting in the Lord necessarily implieth also a walking close with him, and not in heart departing from him; for it is naturally impossible that any should repose a confidence in another for any good...
Jeremiah 17:7 Blessed H1288 (H8803) man H1397 trusts H982 (H8799) LORD H3068 hope H4009 LORD H3068...
THE CURSINGS AND THE BLESSINGS ON INDIVIDUALS (JEREMIAH 17:5). But not all of Judah will come under YHWH's anger. Only those (the huge majority) who have turned from Him and forsaken Him and are under...
Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond:_ It is so ingrained in their very nature that you might as well try to erase an inscription that is wr...
CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, concluded. Message in the gates concerning the Sabbath. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The heart of man, out of communion with God, is wicked and dece...
Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron._ Yea, it is deeply written on the heart, as the diamond will write on polished stones, on tablets of brass, or on the brazen altars of B...
_Cursed be the man that trusteth in man._ THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUSTING IN THE CREATURE AND THE CREATOR I. The folly and evil of trusting in man. To “trust in man,” in the sense of our text, is to...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 17:7 BLESSED. Filled with God-defined benefits. WHOSE TRUST IS THE LORD. Only trust in God motivates confident obedience in times of crisis....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Jeremiah 17:1 continue the prophecy of chap. 16. A distinct break in the continuity of the book is noticeable at Jeremiah 17:19. [_Keil_ se...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah 17:1 are closely connected with the preceding chapter. We have just been pointed to the striking contrast between the conduct of the heathen and that of the backsliding men of Juda...
Chapter 17 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond (Jeremiah 17:1): Interesting that they were using diamonds for pens in those days, isn't it? Diamonds set in...
Ephesians 1:12; Isaiah 26:3; Isaiah 26:4; Isaiah 30:18; Proverbs 16:20