The fruitful place. — The Carmel, or vine-land, became as “the wilderness.” The Hebrew article points probably to the well-known desert of the wanderings.
At the presence of the Lord. — Literally, from before Jehovah, from before the heat of his anger. The original has the emphasis of repeating the preposition.
In four verses each beginning with “I beheld,” the prophet sees in vision the desolate condition of Judaea during the Babylonian captivity. Jeremiah 4:23 WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID - Desolate and void (s...
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
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...
AT. because of. AND BY. Some cod ices, with five early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and because of"....
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...
In vision he beholds the earth a void waste, the hills reeling at the blast of God's anger, the heavens black, all bird life fled, cities in ruins. Jehovah's resolve is an abiding one. See summary at...
_the fruitful field_ mg. Heb. _Carmel_(see Jeremiah 2:7), but meaning here the most fruitful portions of the land in general....
I BEHELD THE EARTH, &C.— The images, under which the prophet represents the approaching desolation as foreseen by him, are such as are familiar to the Hebrew poets on the like occasions. (See Lowth De...
_2. Devastating judgment_ (Jeremiah 4:23-26) TRANSLATION (23) I looked at the land, and behold, it was waste and void; and unto the heavens, but there was no light. (24) I looked at the mountains, an...
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. FRUITFUL PLACE - Hebrew, the Carmel. A WI...
4:26 land (d-7) Or 'Carmel.' see ch. 2.7....
THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6) This section furnishes us with the g...
5-10. Destruction approaches Jerusalem....
רָאִ֕יתִי וְ הִנֵּ֥ה הַ כַּרְמֶ֖ל הַ מִּדְבָּ
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
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...
_Carmel: the beautiful country of Palestine, (Haydock) Jerusalem, (Theodoret) or the mountain so called._...
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...
What he saw the fourth time was this — that the _fertile land _was turned into a _desert_. I indeed think that Carmel is to be taken here as meaning the place. That part of the holy land, we know, rec...
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...
I BEHELD, AND, LO, THE FRUITFUL PLACE WAS A WILDERNESS,.... Or, "I beheld, and, lo, Carmel was a wilderness"; which was a particular part of the land of Israel, and was very fertile, and abounded in p...
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place [was] a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, [and] by his fierce anger. Ver. 26. _At the presence of the Lord, &c...
_I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form and void_ “The images under which the prophet here represents the approaching desolation, as foreseen by him, are such as are familiar to the Hebrew po...
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, Carmel, the part of Canaan renowned for its fertility, a desert, AND ALL THE CITIES THEREOF WERE BROKEN DOWN, sharing in the general devastation...
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....
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...
THE FRUITFUL PLACE, Heb. _Carmel_, either properly, for that part of the land so called for its fruitfulness; or rather appellatively, for not only their most pleasant, but most fruitful lands, that w...
Jeremiah 4:26 beheld H7200 (H8804) land H3759 wilderness H4057 cities H5892 down H5422 (H8738) presence H6440 LORD
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...
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...
Jeremiah 4:1. _If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The LORD l...
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...
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....
_I am pained at my very heart._ THE PROPHET’S LAMENTATIONS OVER HIS PEOPLE’S DOOM I. The complaint or lamentation itself. 1. The parts affected. The soul and inward man. (1) The secrecy of it, the...
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_....
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 29:23; Isaiah 5:10; Isaiah 5:9; Isaiah 7:20; Jeremiah 1