If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about (m) into a land that they know not.
(m) Both high and low will be led captive into Babylon.
Verse Jeremiah 14:18. _IF I GO FORTH INTO THE FIELD, THEN BEHOLD THE SLAIN_ _WITH THE SWORD_] Every place presents frightful spectacles; the wounded, the dying, the starving, and the slain; none to b...
II. THE PROPHET'S MINISTRY BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, THE PROPHECIES OF JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF JEREMIAH, HIS FAITHFULNESS AND HIS SUFFERING CHAPTER 14 The Great Drought...
JEREMIAH 14:1 TO JEREMIAH 15:9. THE DROUGHT IN JUDAH, AND JEREMIAH'S CONSEQUENT INTERCESSION. The date of this disaster is unknown, but some year in the latter half of Jehoiakim's reign is most probab...
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_them that are sick with famine_ lit. as mg. _the sicknesses of famine_. _go about_ mg. _traffick_. Such is the sense of the Heb. verb elsewhere, e.g. Genesis 34:10; Genesis 34:21, but the correspondi...
THE PROPHET AND THE PRIEST GO ABOUT, &C.— Jeremiah is here manifestly describing what he saw when he entered the city; namely, men sick and worn out with famine; and among these even the _priests_ and...
C. The Prophet's Second Petition Rejected Jeremiah 14:13-18 TRANSLATION (13) And I said, Ah Lord GOD, Behold, the prophets are saying to them, You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine;...
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land...
14:18 not. (b-42) Or 'wander about in the land, and they know not [what to do].'...
1-6. Description of the drought....
THEM THAT ARE SICK WITH FAMINE. — Literally, with even a more awful force, as summing all individual sufferings in one collective unity, _the sickness of famine — _the pestilence that follows on starv...
אִם ־יָצָ֣אתִי הַ שָּׂדֶ֗ה וְ הִנֵּה֙ חַלְלֵי
CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
We now come to the second division of the Book, that containing the account of the prophet's ministry. This falls into three sections: prophecies before the fall of Jerusalem (14-39), prophecies after...
_Famine. Under Jechonias many were slain, and the chiefs carried into captivity, 4 Kings xxiv. 12. --- Into. Hebrew, "through the land, and are ignorant." Chaldean, "they apply to their business, to e...
Faithful ministers cannot but feel grief at the conduct of false teachers, who prophecy smooth things, and prophecy deceit. Jeremiah had to encounter with many in his days, of this description and no...
He confirms the same thing in other words, not on account of the obscurity of what he had said, but because he knew that he was speaking to the deaf, or that such was their sloth, that they needed man...
Chapter 14 refers to a famine which took place in the land. The desolation of Jerusalem by the sword and by famine is again declared. But observe here the touching intercession of Jeremiah 14:7-9; and...
IF I GO FORTH INTO THE FIELD,.... Without the city, where was the camp of the enemy besieging it THEN BEHOLD THE SLAIN WITH THE SWORD! the sword of the enemy; who by sallying out of the city upon the...
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land...
_Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them_ Either, 1st, The word spoken above; the threatenings denounced in the last two verses against the false prophets and the people, _the deceivers and the d...
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! no matter where he turns, the prophet's eyes encounter the...
The Lord Refuses Jeremiah's Request...
GO ABOUT INTO A LAND THAT THEY KNOW NOT: Or, make merchandise against a land, and men acknowledge it not, Jeremiah 5:31...
17-22 Jeremiah acknowledged his own sins, and those of the people, but pleaded with the Lord to remember his covenant. In their distress none of the idols of the Gentiles could help them, nor could t...
OLBHeb; The prophet is by God directed to speak still of the calamities of this people as a thing past, though yet to come, according to the usual style of prophetical writings; and to tell them, that...
Jeremiah 14:18 out H3318 (H8804) field H7704 slain H2491 sword H2719 enter H935 (H8804) city H5892 sick...
YHWH INFORMS JEREMIAH THAT HE WILL NO LONGER HEAR HIS PEOPLE BUT RATHER INTENDS TO CONTINUE TO VISIT THEM WITH THE SWORD AND WITH FAMINE (JEREMIAH 14:11). Once again we learn with something of a shock...
In some respects, Jeremiah is one of the greatest of the ancient prophets, for he had most sorrowful task to perform. He had not to deliver a message full of Evangelical comfort, like that of Isaiah;...
CONTENTS: Message on the drought. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Man's sins bring those judgments upon the earth which make even the inferior creatures to groan. There will come a time when...
Jeremiah 14:3. _They found no water._ The latter rain had been denied, as in Jeremiah 3:3; and as Moses had foretold. Deuteronomy 11:17;...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY of the Chapter. This and chapter 15 form one prophecy (although Lange, Keil, and others connect Chapter s 14 to 17, regarding them as interwoven and synchr...
EXPOSITION This chapter must be read in connection with the following one. They describe chiefly Jeremiah's twofold attempt at intercession (see verses 7-9 and 19-22)—a tender and appealing attempt in...
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the deaRuth (Jeremiah 14:1). For a drought filled the land. Judah mourns, and the gates languish; they are black upon the ground; and the cry of...
2 Peter 2:3; Deuteronomy 28:36; Deuteronomy 28:64; Ezekiel 7:15;...