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Verse Jeremiah 2:37. _THOU SHALT GO FORTH FROM HIM, AND THINE HANDS
UPON_ _THINE HEAD_] Thou shalt find all thy confidence in vain, - thy
hope disappointed; - and thy state reduced to desperation. _T...
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FROM HIM - From it, from this Egypt, which though fem. as a land, yet
as a people may be used as a masc. (compare Jeremiah 46:8). Now that
Nineveh is trembling before the armies of Cyaxares and Nabopa...
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CHAPTER S 2:1-3:5
Expostulation and Impeachment
_ 1. His love and kindness to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:1) _
2. The unfaithful people (Jeremiah 2:4)
3. The two evils and the results (Jeremiah 2:12)...
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THE DESERVED PUNISHMENT. Israel's sorrows are well deserved, for
Yahweh's love has been forgotten. In spite of wrong-doing, there is no
penitence for sin. The help of Egypt will be as futile as that o...
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THINE HANDS UPON THINE HEAD. The Eastern custom of expressing grief.
Compare 2 Samuel 13:19....
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Israel's disregard of Jehovah's past favours
31. _O generation, see ye_ O GENERATION THAT YE ARE, SEE.
_a wilderness_ Have I been like a place where ye lacked sustenance?
Not so. Cp. Hosea 2:8.
_thi...
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_From him also shalt thou go forth_ The king of Egypt shall repulse
thy advances, and thou shalt return mourning.
_thine hands upon thine head_ in disgrace and disappointment; cp. 2
Samuel 13:19.
_t...
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THINE HANDS UPON THINE HEAD— As _Tamar_ went forth from her brother
Amnon, _her garments torn, and her hands upon her head;_ insulted and
despised, and in the deepest grief and misery.
REFLECTIONS.—1s...
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E. Pungent Argument Jeremiah 2:29-37
TRANSLATION
(29) Why do you continue to complain to Me? All of you have
transgressed against Me (oracle of the LORD). (30) In vain I have
smitten your sons; they...
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Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head:
for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper
in them.
HIM - Egypt.
HANDS UPON THINE HEAD - expressiv...
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2:37 in, (b-21) Lit. 'thy confidences.'...
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JEREMIAH'S SECOND PROPHECY (2:1-3:5)
The prophet expostulates with Israel because of their unfaithfulness
to Jehovah.
1-13. Under the figure of the marriage relation Jehovah reminds the
people of Hi...
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THINE HANDS UPON THINE HEAD] clasped in disgrace.
JEREMIAH 3:1. THAT LAND] an allusion to the law (Deuteronomy 24:1)
that under such circumstances the reunion of husband and wife would
pollute the la...
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FROM HIM. — Better, _from it, sc.,_ from Egypt as a people.
THINE HANDS UPON THINE HEAD. — The outward sign of depression and
despair (2 Samuel 13:19).
THY CONFIDENCES. — _i.e.,_ the grounds or obje...
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גַּ֣ם מֵ אֵ֥ת זֶה֙ תֵּֽצְאִ֔י וְ
יָדַ֖יִךְ
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CHAPTER II
THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT
Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1
THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon
which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menace...
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The first movement in commissioning the called man now commences. He
was commanded to utter a great impeachment in the ears of Jerusalem.
This impeachment was threefold. It first declared how Israel h...
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_Head, like the violated Thamar, 2 Kings xiii. 19. The king of Egypt
was routed, when coming to assist Sedecias, chap. xxxvii. 3, 10.
(Calmet)_...
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Never surely, was there afforded a more lively instance of the
gracious purpose of God's unalterable love to his people, than what
this Chapter affords, from beginning to end. The Lord sends the
Proph...
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REFLECTIONS
PAUSE my soul over the Prophet's sermon, and remark how graciously the
Lord pleads with his people for their good; how reluctant the Lord
seemeth to give them up, and with what gentle exp...
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He expresses more clearly what he had said of the shameful character
of his own nation, — that the Jews, who thought that their safety
would be secured by the Egyptians, were seeking their own entire...
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Chapter 2 contains a most touching appeal to the people at Jerusalem.
It requires no explanation, but deserves the heart's serious
attention. It testifies in the most striking manner to the kindness
a...
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YEA, THOU SHALT GO FORTH FROM HIM,.... From the Egyptian, without any
help, and with shame; or, "from this" u; that is, from this place,
from Jerusalem, and from the land of Judea, into captivity;
not...
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Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head:
for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper
in them.
Ver. 37. _Yea, thou shalt go from him._] Or, From h...
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_Yea, thou shalt go forth from him_ The ambassadors thou sendest to
Egypt shall return with disappointment and confusion; _and their hands
on their heads_ Condoling the desperate condition of their pe...
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THE GUILT ESTABLISHED...
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Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, from all heathen allies, AND THINE
HANDS UPON THINE HEAD, as a sign of deep mourning; FOR THE LORD HATH
REJECTED THY CONFIDENCES, the heathen nations in whom Israel...
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29-37 The nation had not been wrought upon by the judgements of God,
but sought to justify themselves. The world is, to those who make it
their home and their portion, a wilderness and a land of dark...
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THOU SHALT GO FORTH FROM HIM: some apply it to the sad and ineffectual
return of the ambassadors, being disappointed in their expectation
from the king of Egypt; but rather, All the help thou canst pr...
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Jeremiah 2:37 forth H3318 (H8799) hands H3027 head H7218 LORD H3068
rejected H3988 (H8804) allies H4009 prosper...
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YHWH CHALLENGES HIS PEOPLE TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE BEHAVING AS THEY
ARE (JEREMIAH 2:29).
YHWH now asks them why they are troubling Him with arguments in their
favour when all they had previously done...
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Jeremiah 2:20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy
bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high
hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the har...
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CONTENTS: First message to backslidden Judah concerning their
ingratitude to God and wickedness against Him.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: It is a great affront to God to neglect Him and for...
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Jeremiah 2:2. _I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth._ God now
addressed them, that he might do the same to the children as he had
done to the fathers, and rejoice over them as the bridegroom rej...
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_Thou sayest, I have not sinned._
OBSTINATE IMPENITENCE
1. Blind to its own guilt.
2. Blasphemes God by accusing Him of unjust anger.
3. Will not escape just punishment. (_Naegelsbach._)
DENIAL O...
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_The Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in
them._
THE DANGER OF FALSE CONFIDENCES
In the state and conduct of Judah we have a picture of the state and
conduct of the world...
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_Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?_
DIVINE QUESTIONS
The people were required to answer two questions: “Have I been a
wilderness unto Israel? have I been a land of darkness unto Israel?”
Speak ou...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 2:36 Israel changes her political course
of action (v. Jeremiah 2:18) very easily, but whoever she chooses
(whether EGYPT or...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY. Most probably in
thirteenth Josiah, quickly after his call. Dr. Dahler (Stratsbourg)
would interpose Chapter s 4, 5, 6; deferring this chapter till after...
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EXPOSITION
The second chapter forms the introduction of a group of discourses
(Jeremiah 2-6), which should be read together. It is called By Ewald
(and the position of the prophecy favors this view) t...
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Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the
ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD (Jeremiah 2:1-2);
Now this is the first message that he has to deliver. As God is
cal...
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2 Chronicles 13:12; 2 Samuel 13:19; Ezekiel 17:15; Isaiah 10:4;...
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Yea — All the help thou canst procure shall not prevent thy
captivity, but from hence thou shalt go. Thy hands — An usual
posture of mourning....