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Verse Jeremiah 13:20. _WHERE_ IS _THE FLOCK - THY BEAUTIFUL FLOCK?_]
Jerusalem is addressed. Where are the prosperous multitudes of men,
women, and children? Alas! are they not driven before the Babyl...
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Jerusalem is asked where the cities, which once lay grouped round her,
like a goodly flock of sheep, are gone? The question implies blame....
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CHAPTER 13
Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations
_ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _
2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15)
3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremiah 13:22)...
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JERUSALEM'S SHAME. This prophecy, as perhaps others in this chapter,
would suit the position of affairs under Jehoiakim, after Carchemish
(605). Jerusalem is asked concerning the welfare of her people...
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THE NORTH. See notes on Jeremiah 1:13; Jeremiah 3:12; Jeremiah 6:1,
&c....
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_Lift up your eyes, and behold_ The verbs in MT. are fem. and sing.,
with a variant (Ḳ"ri) mas. and pl. The pronoun, probably by a slip,
is pl. It is better to read with LXX, _Lift up thine eyes, O
Je...
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LIFT UP YOUR EYES, &C.— "Ye people of Judah, behold and reconnoitre
the Chaldean army, coming against you from the north." The next words
are addressed to the king and queen; see Jeremiah 13:18. He re...
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E. WARNING: Pride is Punished by Disgrace
Jeremiah 13:20-27
TRANSLATION
(20) Lift up your eyes and see them who come from the north. Where is
the flock that was given to you, your glorious flock? (2...
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Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is
the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
BEHOLD THEM THAT COME FROM THE NORTH - Nebuchadnezzar and his hostile
army...
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JEREMIAH'S SEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN). THE LINEN GIRDLE
The date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word 'queen'
(Jeremiah 13:18), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehushta,...
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LIFT UP YOUR EYES. — The Hebrew verb is feminine and singular, the
possessive pronoun masculine and plural. Assuming the reading to be
correct, the irregularity may have been intended to combine the i...
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_שְׂא֤וּ_† עֵֽינֵיכֶם֙ _וּ_†_רְא֔וּ_†
הַ בָּאִ֖ים מִ צָּפֹ֑ון אַיֵּ֗ה הָ
עֵ֨דֶר֙ נִתַּן ־לָ֔ךְ צֹ֖אן
תִּפְאַרְתּ
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CHAPTER VIII
THE FALL OF PRIDE
Jeremiah 13:1
THIS discourse is a sort of appendix to the preceding; as is indicated
by its abrupt and brief beginning with the words "Thus said Iahvah
unto me," with...
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The account of this time of communion between Jeremiah and Jehovah
ends with the story of how Jehovah gave him two signs, one for himself
and one for the people. That for himself was the sign of the g...
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Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where
[is] the (i) flock [that] was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
(i) He asks the king, where his people is become....
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_North: ye Chaldeans. (Haydock) --- Hebrew and Septuagint, "see those
who come." --- Cattle. O king, what account wilt thou give of the
people to the Almighty? (Calmet)_...
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I interrupt not the reading of those verses, because they are
connected. They contain the solemn expostulation of the Lord, in the
view of their sins. They point out also the utter impossibility of th...
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We here see that Egypt and Chaldea are set in opposition, the one to
the other; as though the Prophet had said, “Whenever anything is
said to you about the Chaldeans, ye turn your eyes to Egypt, as th...
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Chapter 13, bringing to mind how God had bound Israel to His heart,
announces the terrible judgment with which the people shall, as it
were, be drunken; and, on the ground of this judgment, calls them...
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LIFT UP YOUR EYES, AND BEHOLD THEM THAT COME FROM THE NORTH,.... There
are a Keri and a Cetib of the words "lift up" and "behold"; they are
written in the singular number, and may be considered as dir...
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Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where
[is] the flock [that] was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
Ver. 20. _Lift up your eyes, &c._] Still he bespeaketh the king and
the q...
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_The cities of the south_, &c. The cities of Judah, which lay in the
southern part of Canaan, shall be straitly besieged by the enemy, so
that there shall be no going in and out; or shall be deserted...
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AN EXHORTATION WITH REGARD TO THE IMPENDING DESTRUCTION...
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18-27 Here is a message sent to king Jehoiakim, and his queen. Their
sorrows would be great indeed. Do they ask, Wherefore come these
things upon us? Let them know, it is for their obstinacy in sin. W...
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He speaks to them as if their enemy was even then upon their march,
that if they did but look they might see him coming. WHERE IS THE
FLOCK THAT WAS GIVEN THEE, THY BEAUTIFUL FLOCK? the prophet either...
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Jeremiah 13:20 up H5375 (H8798) eyes H5869 see H7200 (H8798) come H935
(H8802) north H6828 flock H5739 given H5414 (H8738) beautiful H8597
sheep H6629
and - Jeremiah 1:14, Jeremiah 6:22,...
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A FINAL APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, FOR IF THEY DO
FAIL TO RESPOND THEIR FINAL JUDGMENT WILL COME UPON THEM (JEREMIAH
13:15).
The people are called on to look to YHWH while there is s...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the linen girdle and sign of the bottles filled with
wine.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Those who persist in sin, ignoring God's Word, make
themselves vessels of wrath fi...
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Jeremiah 13:1. _Get thee a linen girdle,_ or “buy thee,” as the
Chaldaic reads; which this priest and prophet wore unwashed till it
became offensive, and began to excite attention and talk. The priest...
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_Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?_
A QUESTION FOR PARENTS AND PASTORS
Here is a flock that is being inquired about, not a flock only, but a
beautiful flock.
1. The questi...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 13:20 FLOCK. Judah’s people. FRIENDS.
Babylon was once Judah’s ally (Isaiah 39:1).
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The
reference in Jeremiah 13:18 to the “queen” is regarded as
determining the date of this chapter. Ewald, Hitzig, Umbreit, Dahler,
Hend.,...
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EXPOSITION
The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely
commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching
rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal...
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Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go down and buy a linen girdle, and put
it on, but don't wash it. So I got a girdle according to the word of
the LORD, and I put it on. And the word of the LORD came unto...
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Acts 20:26; Ezekiel 34:7; Habakkuk 1:6; Isaiah 56:9; Jeremiah 1:14;
Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 13:17; Jeremiah 23:2; Jeremiah 6:22; John
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Where — The prophet speaks to the king, or to the rulers. In the
multitude of the people is the king's honour....