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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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"There are in every city and community women exceedingly cunning in
this business.… When a fresh company of sympathisers comes in, these
women -make haste" to -take up a wailing" that the newly come m...
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See summary introducing the section....
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2. _Death throughout the land_ (Jeremiah 9:17-22)
TRANSLATION
(17) Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider and call for the mourning
women that they might come and unto the wise women send that they
mi...
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And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes
may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
THAT OUR EYES MAY RUN DOWN WITH TEARS ... - ()....
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1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom....
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_[Jeremiah 9:17]_ וּ תְמַהֵ֕רְנָה וְ
תִשֶּׂ֥נָה עָלֵ֖ינוּ...
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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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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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Perhaps these mourning women means true weepers, and the cunning women
those which were counterfeit. And the counterfeit would have found
cause to change their cries into real sorrow, had they foresee...
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_Let them, _he says, _take up for us a wailing, and let our eyes come
down to tears, and let our eyelids flow down into waters _These are
hyperbolical words, and yet they do not exceed the intensehess...
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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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AND LET THEM MAKE HASTE, AND TAKE UP A WAILING FOR US,.... Deliver out
a mournful song, as the Arabic version; setting forth their miseries
and distresses, and affecting their minds with them. The pro...
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_And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes
may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters._
Ver. 18. _And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us._...
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THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND...
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and let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, for the whole
nation of Judah, THAT OUR EYES MAY RUN DOWN WITH TEARS AND OUR EYELIDS
GUSH OUT WITH WATERS, in the strongest expression of excessiv...
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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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LET THEM MAKE HASTE: as by the calling for their artificial mourners
he did intimate the greatness of the misery that was coming upon them,
that with all, their art they could not sufficiently bewail...
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Jeremiah 9:18 haste H4116 (H8762) up H5375 (H8799) wailing H5092 eyes
H5869 run H3381 (H8799) tears...
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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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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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Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 13:17; Jeremiah 14:17; Jeremiah 6:26; Jeremia