Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 10:22
Behold, the sound of a rumour is come, and a great commotion from the (o) north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, [and] a den of dragons.
(o) Read (Jeremiah 4:15).
Behold, the sound of a rumour is come, and a great commotion from the (o) north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, [and] a den of dragons.
(o) Read (Jeremiah 4:15).
Verse Jeremiah 10:22. _THE NOISE OF THE BRUIT IS COME_] How this silly French word _bruit_, which signifies _noise_, got in here, I cannot imagine. The simple translation is this: "The voice of the r...
The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy. Jeremiah 10:19 GRIEVOUS - Rather, “mortal,” i. e., fatal, incurabl...
CHAPTER 10 The Vanity of Idols _ 1. Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven (Jeremiah 10:1) _ 2. The contrast: The vanity of idols and the Lord, the King of Nations (Jeremiah 10:6) 3. The afflictio...
THE DEPARTURE INTO EXILE. The personified community is told to pick up its bundle (_mg.),_ and prepare for the inevitable exile. She bewails her hurt and her spoilt dwelling. These troubles, says the...
NOISE. voice. BRUIT. rumour. French _bruit,_. voice, from Breton (Celtic) _bruchellein,_ to roar (as. lion). Compare Greek. _bruchao-mai._ NORTH. Compare Jeremiah 1:15; Jeremiah 5:15; Jeremiah
Exile is at hand. Appeal to Jehovah in His wrath to remember mercy The utterances, interrupted by Jeremiah 9:23-26, and Jeremiah 10:1-16, are now continued. The passage has apparently suffered both b...
_jackals_ See on Jeremiah 9:11....
BRUIT— _A noise_ or _report:_ that is, the news of the approach of Nebuchadnezzar's army....
C. The Folly of Forsaking God Jeremiah 10:17-22 TRANSLATION (17) Gather your bundle from the land, you who dwell in the siege. (18) For thus says the LORD! Behold, I am about to hurl out the inhabita...
Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons. BRUIT. - rumour of invasion. The antithesis is b...
1-16. The folly of idolatry. This section of the prophecy is of doubtful authorship. For (_a_) it introduces a break in the sense; (_b_) there is less smoothness between the parts than we generally fi...
THE BRUIT] RV 'a rumour.' THE NORTH COUNTRY] see on Jeremiah 1:13. DRAGONS] see on Jeremiah 9:11....
BEHOLD, THE NOISE OF THE BRUIT IS COME. — Better, _A cry is heard, Behold, it cometh._ The cry of terror is heard and it utters the tidings, terrible in their brevity, that the army of the invader is...
קֹ֤ול שְׁמוּעָה֙ הִנֵּ֣ה בָאָ֔ה וְ רַ֥עַשׁ גּ
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
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY Jeremiah 10:1-10; Jeremiah 19:1-15; Jeremiah 20:1-18; Jeremiah 21:1-14; Jeremiah 22:1-30; Jeremiah 23:1-40; Jeremiah 24:1-10; Jeremiah 25:1-38...
Here begins the third movement in the commissioning of the prophet. In it the sin of idolatry is first dealt with. The prophet revealed the unutterable folly of idolatry in a powerful contrast between...
_North. He has announced this conqueror eight times. --- Dragons. Tannim means "huge reptiles," whether of sea or land. (Calmet)_...
The Prophet gets back again to his old subject. The prospect of the Babylonish captivity so affected the Prophet's heart, that he could harp upon no other string. And observe, how the man of God gives...
Jeremiah shews in this verse that prophetic doctrine was useless to an obstinate people; for there is a contrast, no doubt, to be understood betweenthe voice of God, which had constantly resounded in...
In chapter 10 the idols and the vanities of the nations are put in contrast with Jehovah. In Verses 19-25 (Jeremiah 10:19-25) we have the affliction of the prophet, speaking of the desolation of Jerus...
BEHOLD THE NOISE OF THE BRUIT IS COME,.... Or, "the voice of hearing" c; that is, the voice heard; the report that was made that the king of Babylon had invaded the land, and was coming up to besiege...
Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, [and] a den of dragons. Ver. 22. _Behold, the noise of the bruit is come....
_For the pastors are become brutish_ The prophet pursues the foregoing metaphor, and says, that the reason why the tents are destroyed, is because the shepherds, meaning the governors, both civil and...
The Prophet's Lamentation and Prayer...
Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, the report that the threatened invasion is about to begin, AND A GREAT COMMOTION OUT OF THE NORTH COUNTRY, the tumult of an advancing army, TO MAKE THE CITIES O...
17-25 The Jews who continued in their own land, felt secure. But, sooner or later, sinners will find all things as the word of God has declared, and that its threatenings are not empty terrors. Submi...
The prophet had divers times sounded this alarm in their ears, but to very little purpose; his words seemed but as idle tales, they believed him not: he speaks of it partly as one conceiving what drea...
Jeremiah 10:22 noise H6963 report H8052 come H935 (H8802) great H1419 commotion H7494 north H6828 country H776 ma
YHWH NOTIFIES JUDAH OF HIS INTENTION TO SLING THEM OUT OF HIS LAND AND PUNISH THEM, AND THEY EXPRESS THEIR GRIEF AS THEY LOOK PROPHETICALLY AT HIS HAVING DONE SO. THE SOUND OF THE INVADERS IS HEARD AN...
Jeremiah 10:1. _Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, concluded. Greatness of the true God. Coming distresses in the land because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah is the one only living and tr...
Jeremiah 10:2. _Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;_ at the position of revolving planets on which the augurs found predictions, and discover their ignorance. Be not dismayed at solar eclipses, at...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Section 1–16 has been declared spurious (by De Wette, Movers, and Hitzig), its authenticity disputed, a late interpolation by either the ps...
EXPOSITION Whoever wrote the prophecy in Jeremiah 10:1 of this chapter, it was not Jeremiah; but of course, as the passage forms part of a canonical book, its claims to the character of a Scripture re...
Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven [or the Zodiac]; for the heathen...
Habakkuk 1:6; Jeremiah 1:15; Jeremiah 4:6; Jeremiah 5:15; Jeremiah 6:1
Noise — Rumour, report....