That the LORD thy God may show us the way in which we may walk, and
the thing that we may (a) do.
(a) This declares the nature of hypocrites who would know of God's
word what they should do, but will not follow it, unless it agrees
with that thing which they have purposed to do.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then they said to Jeremiah, (b) The LORD be a true and faithful
witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for
which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
(b) There are as ready to abuse the Name of God and take it in vain as
the hypocrites who colour their falsehood, use it wi... [ Continue Reading ]
(c) And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came
to Jeremiah.
(c) Here is declared the vision and the opportunity of it, of which
mention was made, (Jeremiah 40:1).... [ Continue Reading ]
If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not
pull [you] down, and I will plant you, and not pluck [you] up: for I
(d) repent of the evil that I have done to you.
(d) See Jeremiah 18:8... [ Continue Reading ]
Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not
afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I [am] with you to save you, and to
deliver you (e) from his hand.
(e) Because all king's hearts and ways are in his hands, he can turn
them and dispose them as it pleases him, and therefore they... [ Continue Reading ]
Then it shall come to pass, [that] the sword, which ye feared, (f)
shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, of
which ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and
there ye shall die.
(f) Thus God turns the policy of the wicked to their own destruction:
for t... [ Continue Reading ]
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As my anger and
my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so
shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into
Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an horror, and a (g) curse,
and a reproach; and ye shal... [ Continue Reading ]
For ye were (h) hypocrites in your hearts, when ye sent me to the LORD
your God, saying, Pray for us to the LORD our God; and according to
all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do
[it].
(h) For you were fully intending to go into Egypt, whatever God spoke
to the contrar... [ Continue Reading ]
Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence, (i) in the place where ye desire to go
[and] to sojourn.
(i) That is, in Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]