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The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three
verses is now detailed at great length.
Jeremiah 9:10
THE HABITATIONS I. E - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see
Jeremiah...
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CHAPTER 9
_ 1. The prophet's complaint and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 9:1) _
2. The cause of desolation and destruction (Jeremiah 9:10)
3. The call for the mourning and wailing women (Jeremiah 9:17...
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FAITHLESSNESS AND ITS RETRIBUTION: THE DIRGE OF DEATH. The humblest
caravanserai would be preferable to life among these evil men, with
their calumnies and the unfaithful use of power by those in auth...
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BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN MY LAW.
These three verses declared the reasons why these awful judgments
shall come upon Israel. They had forsaken God's law; they had turned
to the worship of Baalim, or...
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IMAGINATION. stubbornness. Reference to Pentateuch, (see note on
Jeremiah 3:17)....
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See introd. summary to the section....
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Du. and Gi. consider this passage to be condemned by prosaic wording
and the vagueness or absence of metre. Co. thinks it to contain
Jeremianic elements, worked up later. It certainly forms a remarkab...
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_the Baalim_ See on ch. Jeremiah 2:8....
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B. Impending Destruction Jeremiah 9:9-21
Because of the national corruption, destruction is necessary and
imminent. The land will become desolate (Jeremiah 9:9-15) and death
will reign supreme through...
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But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after
Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
WALKED AFTER THE IMAGINATION OF THEIR OWN HEART - ().
BAALIM - plural of Baal, to exp...
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1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
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_[Jeremiah 9:13]_ וַ יֵּ֣לְכ֔וּ אַחֲרֵ֖י
שְׁרִר֣וּת לִבָּ֑ם...
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Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1
In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is
plainly a fin
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NATIONAL PERVERSITY
Jeremiah 9:1-16
Jeremiah 9:1-6
Once the voice of joy and thanksgiving had been heard in Jerusalem,
but now on every side there was bloodshed, and the patriot-prophet
could only w...
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In answer to his own question, Jeremiah sighed for some adequate means
of expressing the anguish of his heart, and then for escape to some
lonely place in the wilderness. All this was in the nature of...
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But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after
Baalim, which (l) their fathers taught them:
(l) He shows that the children cannot excuse themselves by their
fathers: for both fat...
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It is blessed to remark, that in all the Lord's chastisements, he hath
one uniform object in view for their reform. All his dispensations are
to bring his people back to himself. Hence the wise among...
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He then adds,_And they have walked after the hardiness, _or
_obstinacy_, or _imaginations_, _of their own heart _(246) He opposes
the imaginations, or hardness of the heart, to the voice of God, as we...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9.
Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple,
which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without
conscience, wo...
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BUT HAVE WALKED AFTER THE IMAGINATION OF THEIR OWN HEART,.... What
their own hearts devised, chose, and were best pleased with;
Jeremiah 7:24,
AND AFTER BAALIM; the idols of the Gentiles; these they...
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But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after
Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
Ver. 14. _But have walked after the imagination of their own heart._]
Than the which they...
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THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND...
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but have walked after the imagination of their own heart, following
their own sinful desires in all the acts of their lives, AND AFTER
BAALIM, the idols of the heathen, WHICH THEIR FATHERS TAUGHT THEM...
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IMAGINATION:
Or, stubbornness...
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12-22 In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the
people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the
voice of lamentation. Unhumbled hearts lament their calami...
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IMAGINATION, or stubbornness and obstinacy: see JEREMIAH 7:24. BAALIM:
see JEREMIAH 2:23. The prophet doth not charge them with new crimes,
but with their tenacious sticking to their idolatry. WHICH T...
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Jeremiah 9:14 walked H3212 (H8799) according H310 dictates H8307
hearts H3820 after H310 Baals H1168 fathers H1 taught
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THOSE WHO ARE TRULY WISE WILL KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD AND WILL THUS
UNDERSTAND WHY HE ACTS LIKE HE DOES IN BRINGING FINAL JUDGMENT ON
JUDAH (JEREMIAH 9:12).
The passage commences by asking who the tr...
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Jeremiah 9:1. _Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain
of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the
daughter of my people!_
Jeremiah foresaw that the Chaldeans would c...
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CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Detestation of the
sins of the people. The vanity of trusting in anything but God.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Those who will not know God...
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Jeremiah 9:2. _Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodgingplace of
wayfaring men._ In countries where the peasantry are very poor,
travellers provide for themselves as they can. Even in Spain many of
th...
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_Because they have forsaken My law. .. give them water of gall to
drink._
THE WAGES OF SIN
A quaint preacher, addressing miners, drew a picture of two mines. He
represented payday at one of the mines...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 9:12 The WISE MAN knows THE LAND is RUINED
because the people of Judah have forsaken God’s law, followed their
own hearts
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. For Chronology and History, see chap.
7.
1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 9:26. “_Egypt_.” sit. on N.E.
angle of Africa; a vast plain; in general features it may be...
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 9:1
The Hebrew more correctly attaches this verse to Jeremiah 8:1. OH THAT
MY HEAD WERE WATERS, etc.! A quaint conceit, it may be said. But "if
we have been going on pace for pace...
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Now Jeremiah declares,
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes were as a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my
people! Oh that I had in the wildernes...
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1 Peter 1:18; Ephesians 2:3; Ephesians 4:17; Galatians 1:14; Genesis