INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 45 This chapter contains a prophecy, delivered to Baruch for his personal use. The time of it is expressed, Jeremiah 45:1; a reproof is given him for his immoderate grief and sorrow, Jeremiah 45:2; the destruction of the land of Judea is prophesied of; and therefore it was... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORD THAT JEREMIAH THE PROPHET SPAKE UNTO BARUCH THE SON OF NERIAH,.... Who was his amanuensis or scribe; and this word he spake not to him of himself, but in the name of the Lord, as coming from him; so the Targum calls it, "the word of prophecy which Jeremiah the prophet prophesied concerning... [ Continue Reading ]
THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, UNTO THEE, O BARUCH. Whom he knew by name, had a great regard for, and honours with this prophecy; and, being an Israelite, both in a literal and spiritual sense, he addresses him as the God of Israel, and as being his covenant God; in whom he should put his t... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU DIDST SAY, WOE IS ME NOW!.... What will become of me? I am ruined and undone; this he said in his heart, if not with his lips, perhaps both ways; and when the king gave orders for the apprehending of him and the prophet, being provoked at the roll which he had wrote and read, Jeremiah 36:26; F... [ Continue Reading ]
THUS SHALT THOU SAY UNTO HIM,.... This is spoken to Jeremiah, and is an order from the Lord to him, what he should say in his name to Baruch: THE LORD SAITH THUS, BEHOLD, [THAT] WHICH I HAVE BUILT WILL I BREAK DOWN, AND THAT WHICH I HAVE PLANTED I WILL PLUCK UP; the Jewish nation, both as to church... [ Continue Reading ]
SEEKEST THOU GREAT THINGS FOR THYSELF? SEEK [THEM] NOT,.... Riches and wealth honour and esteem, peace and prosperity; these were not to be sought after and expected, when the whole nation would be involved in such a general calamity. Baruch perhaps expected that his reading the roll to princes woul... [ Continue Reading ]