Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 23:20
Verse Jeremiah 23:20. In the latter days ye shall consider it] I give you warning: and this punishment which I now threaten shall surely take place; a short time will determine it; ye shall not escape.
Verse Jeremiah 23:20. In the latter days ye shall consider it] I give you warning: and this punishment which I now threaten shall surely take place; a short time will determine it; ye shall not escape.
THE LATTER DAYS - The proper and final development of any event or series of events. Thus, the expression is used of the Christian dispensation as the full development of the Jewish Church. Here it me...
CHAPTER 23:9-40 Condemnation of the False Prophets _ 1. Jeremiah's lament on account of the false prophets (Jeremiah 23:9) _ 2. The condemnation of these prophets (Jeremiah 23:15) 3. Forgotten and...
THE PROPHETS. Jeremiah is overcome by the stern message given him to deliver. The evil of the land is encouraged by prophet and priest (Jeremiah 6:13), even the Temple being dishonoured (2 Kings 21:5)...
THE LATTER DAYS. end of days. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 49:1, the same word). App-92. PERFECTLY. Compare Jeremiah 30:24....
Jeremiah 23:9-40. Condemnation of the prophets Following on the prophecies relating to successive kings of Judah, we have a section dealing with the iniquities of a class who also grievously misled t...
See introd. summary to section. These _vv_. agree substantially with Jeremiah 30:23 f., and are probably introduced here from that passage. They have no apparent connexion with the preceding or follow...
_the latter days_ a prophetic phrase denoting the final period of the history so far as the speaker's perspective reaches; e.g. Israel's return to God after adversity (so the parallel passage Jeremiah...
2. _The message of the fake prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:16-22) TRANSLATION (16) Thus says the LORD of hosts: Do not hearken to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are causing you to...
The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. IN THE LATTER DAYS YE SHALL...
1-4. A remnant shall return....
CONSIDER] RV 'understand.'...
SHALL NOT RETURN..._ — i.e.,_ shall not _turn back_ from its purpose. Men should look back on it in the “latter days” — literally, _the end of the days_ (Genesis 49:1; Numbers 24:14; Deuteronomy 4:30;...
לֹ֤א יָשׁוּב֙ אַף ־יְהוָ֔ה עַד ־עֲשֹׂתֹ֥ו וְ
CHAPTER VIII BAD SHEPHERDS AND FALSE PROPHETS Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 24:1 "Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!"- Jeremiah 23:1 "Of what avail is straw instead...
Having thus passed in review the predecessors of Zedekiah on the throne of Judah, the prophet proceeded to deal with those who had been responsible for the failure of the people, the false kings and p...
The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he shall have executed, and till he shall have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye (q) shall consider it perfectly. (q) Both that...
At the opening of this passage, we have the Lord's sentence upon them, and an awful one it is. Wormwood and gall are strong figures to set forth the awful bitterness in the close of such a life! Proph...
He confirms what he had said, lest the hypocrites, with whom he had to do, should think that their punishment would be light and soon pass away. For though they may have seen that God’s hand was armed...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23. On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the Spir...
THE ANGER OF THE LORD SHALL NOT RETURN,.... Having a commission from him, and being sent forth on an errand to do business for him, it shall not return to him, without having done it; as a servant sen...
The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. Ver. 20. _In the latter days y...
_Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth with fury_ A severe judgment of God, that shall resemble a whirlwind for the sudden and utter destruction that it shall bring. The same word, סערה, is el...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
The anger of the Lord shall not return, not cease from carrying out His judgment, UNTIL HE HAVE EXECUTED AND TILL HE HAVE PERFORMED THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART, everything that He had planned with regar...
9-22 The false prophets of Samaria had deluded the Israelites into idolatries; yet the Lord considered the false prophets of Jerusalem as guilty of more horrible wickedness, by which the people were...
It is therefore called a _continuing whirlwind_, JEREMIAH 30:23. The prophet speaks of the judgment as of a messenger, which coming from God, should not return till it had done its errand, and execute...
Jeremiah 23:20 anger H639 LORD H3068 back H7725 (H8799) executed H6213 (H8800) performed H6965 (H8687) thoughts
2). YHWH CALUMNIATES THE FALSE PROPHETS AND QUESTIONS WHAT THEY TEACH, EXPLAINING WHAT THE RESULTS OF THEIR PROPHESYING WILL BE, AND EMPHASISING THAT THEY WERE NOT SENT OR ENLIGHTENED BY HIM (JEREMIAH...
JEREMIAH'S DIATRIBE AGAINST THE PROPHETS, HEADED AS ‘CONCERNING THE PROPHETS' (JEREMIAH 23:9). Having set right the vision of the future, Jeremiah now turns on those who had been distorting that visio...
Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD._ What a dreadful woe this is upon all false shepherds, those who profess to be sent of God to...
CONTENTS: Future restoration and conversion of Israel. Message against the faithless shepherds. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Woe be to those who are commanded to feed God's people and preten...
Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep._ Princes are often called pastors, as Cyrus, Isaiah 44:28, because they enforce the laws and protect the people. Shallum, and...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The chapter is an epilogue to the denunciations of the three kings in chap. 22. It must have been written and proclaimed about the beginnin...
EXPOSITION The first eight verses form the necessary conclusion of the group of discourses summarized in Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 22:1. Like Isaiah, our prophet follows up denunciation with consolation...
Now in chapter 23 God speaks out against those Pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith the LORD (Jeremiah 23:1). God said, "They're My sheep, but these pastors are scattering...
1 Kings 8:47; Deuteronomy 31:29; Deuteronomy 31:30; Genesis 49:1;...
The anger — The prophet speaks of the judgment as of a messenger, which should not return till it had done its errand, and executed what God had resolved it should effect. Ye shall consider — And thou...