Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; (n) save me, and I shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise.
(n) He desires God to preserve him that he fall not into temptation, considering the great contempt of God's word, and the multitude that fall from God.
Verse Jeremiah 17:14. _HEAL ME - AND I SHALL BE HEALED_] That is, I shall be _thoroughly_ healed, and _effectually_ saved, if thou undertake for me. _THOU_ ART _MY PRAISE._] The whole glory of the wo...
In the rest of the prophecy Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judah’s ruin. Jeremiah 17:6 LIKE THE HEATH - Or, “like a destitute man” Psalms 102:17. The verbs “he shall see” (or...
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Judah's sin (Jeremiah 17:1) _ 2. The curse and the blessing (Jeremiah 17:5) 3. The worship of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 17:12) 4. Concerning the Sabbath ...
JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
THOU ART MY PRAISE. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 10:21)....
See introd. note on Jeremiah 17:9. Jeremiah prays that God's character for faithfulness may be vindicated in his own case....
See introd. summary to section....
V. PROPHETIC PRAYER Jeremiah 17:12-18 TRANSLATION (12) O throne of glory exalted from the beginning, the place of our sanctuary! (13) O hope of Israel, the LORD! All that forsake You shall be put to...
Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. Prayer of the prophet for deliverance from the enemies whom he excited by his faithful denunciations....
1-4. The sin of Judah is indelible. Hence the severity of the punishment....
HEAL ME. — The prophet, consciously or unconsciously, contrasts himself with the deserters from Jehovah. He needs “healing” and “salvation,” but he knows where to seek for them, and is sure that his L...
רְפָאֵ֤נִי יְהוָה֙ וְ אֵ֣רָפֵ֔א הֹושִׁיעֵ֖נִי וְ...
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...
HUMAN AND DIVINE HELP CONTRASTED Jeremiah 17:1-14 The Jews were always seeking alliance either with Egypt or Babylon. What was true of them applies to us all; but we cannot depend upon human aid, wit...
Once again Jehovah declared His determination to deal with the people in judgment, because of the defiant definiteness of their sin. That sin was "written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a d...
This passage seems to be a break in the midst of the Prophet's sermon, in which he fervently addresseth the Lord in prayer, and a blessed prayer it is. It needs no comment: for it is as plain as it is...
Here the Prophet, as though terrified, hides himself under the wings of God, for he saw that apostasy and every kind of wickedness prevailed everywhere throughout the land; he saw that the principal m...
The great thing, amidst all that was going on, was to trust in Jehovah. He who, failing in this, made flesh his arm, should not see when good came. Meantime the fire of God's anger was kindled and sho...
HEAL ME, O LORD, AND I SHALL BE HEALED,.... These are the words of the prophet, sensible of his own sins and backslidings, and of the part which he himself had in these corrupt and declining times; an...
Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise. Ver. 14. _Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed._] Viz., of that _cordolium_ heartfelt grief that my...
_Heal me, O Lord_, &c. Most interpreters understand the prophet as addressing God here in his own behalf. He represents himself as a person wounded, or sick, either with a sense of the dishonour done...
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed, both making him whole in his distress and keeping him so; SAVE ME, AND I SHALL BE SAVED, delivered from the enemies who were seeking his soul; FOR THOU ART MY P...
The Depth of the Nation's Corruption...
12-18 The prophet acknowledges the favour of God in setting up religion. There is fulness of comfort in God, overflowing, ever-flowing fulness, like a fountain. It is always fresh and clear, like spr...
Most interpreters here understand the prophet speaking in these words to God for himself; he represents himself to God as a person wounded or sick, either with his sense of God's dishonour by the sins...
Jeremiah 17:14 Heal H7495 (H8798) LORD H3068 healed H7495 (H8735) Save H3467 (H8685) saved H3467 ...
JEREMIAH ESTABLISHES HIS OWN POSITION AND CALLS FOR VINDICATION (JEREMIAH 17:12). Jeremiah exults in the glory of the significance of the Temple as YHWH's throne, and as the one place where YHWH was t...
Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond:_ It is so ingrained in their very nature that you might as well try to erase an inscription that is wr...
CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, concluded. Message in the gates concerning the Sabbath. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The heart of man, out of communion with God, is wicked and dece...
Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron._ Yea, it is deeply written on the heart, as the diamond will write on polished stones, on tablets of brass, or on the brazen altars of B...
_Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved._ THE LORD’S HEALING I. The prophet’s cry. Sin is the sickness of the soul. It has seized upon all its powers. Not one single fa...
_A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary._ OUR SANCTUARY This book of Jeremiah is a very thorny one--it might be called, like his smaller work, “The Book of Lamentatio...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 17:14 Jeremiah prays for his own healing and salvation. MY PRAISE. That which he most values and speaks of with most joy. ⇐
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Jeremiah 17:1 continue the prophecy of chap. 16. A distinct break in the continuity of the book is noticeable at Jeremiah 17:19. [_Keil_ se...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah 17:1 are closely connected with the preceding chapter. We have just been pointed to the striking contrast between the conduct of the heathen and that of the backsliding men of Juda...
Chapter 17 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond (Jeremiah 17:1): Interesting that they were using diamonds for pens in those days, isn't it? Diamonds set in...
Deuteronomy 10:21; Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 57:18; Isaiah 57:19;...
For thou art — He whom alone I have reason to praise for mercies already received....