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Verse Jeremiah 14:11. _PRAY NOT FOR THIS PEOPLE_] They are ripe for
destruction, intercede not for them. O, how dreadful is the state of
that people in reference to whom the Lord says to his ministers...
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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...
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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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PRAY NOT, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 32:10). Compare Jeremiah
7:16; Jeremiah 11:14....
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The Lord's answer....
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B. The Prophet's Intercession Rejected Jeremiah 14:7-12
TRANSLATION
(7) If our iniquities testified against us act, O LORD, for the sake
of Your name; for our backsliding are many, against You we hav...
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Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.
PRAY NOT FOR THIS PEOPLE - (; )....
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1-6. Description of the drought....
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PRAY NOT... — As before, in Jeremiah 7:16; Jeremiah 11:14, the
saddest, sternest part of the prophet’s work is to feel that even
prayer — the prayer that punishment may be averted — is unavailing
and...
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וַ יֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוָ֖ה אֵלָ֑י אַל
־תִּתְפַּלֵּ֛ל בְּעַד ־הָ עָ֥ם הַ
זֶּ֖ה לְ טֹובָֽה׃...
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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...
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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...
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Then said the LORD to me, (i) Pray not for this people for [their]
good.
(i) Read (Jeremiah 7:16; Jeremiah 11:14)....
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_Good, that the drought may be removed. (Calmet) See chap. vii. 16.,
and xi. 14. (Menochius) --- "It is folly to pray for him who has
sinned unto death," (St. Jerome; 1 John v. 16.) by final impeniten...
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These are solemn scriptures: and awful is it, when the Lord restrains
prayer in his people, by withholding the spirit of grace and
supplication. But we find in scripture beautiful instances, where the...
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God first forbids the Prophet to pray for the people, as we have
before seen, (Jeremiah 7:16; Jeremiah 11:14) But we must remember what
I have said before, that this prohibition is to be understood as...
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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...
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THEN SAID THE LORD UNTO ME,.... To the prophet; now the Lord gives a
more direct answer to him, and to his prayers and intercession for the
people; which he forbids, saying,
PRAY NOT FOR THIS PEOPLE...
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Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for [their] good.
Ver. 11. _Pray not for this people._] See on Jeremiah 7:16 ....
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_Thus saith the Lord_, &c. Here God returns an answer to the
complaints and expostulations of the prophet, contained in the eight
preceding verses. _They have loved to wander_ They have been fond of
t...
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The Lord Refuses Jeremiah's Request...
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10-16 The Lord calls the Jews "this people," not "his people." They
had forsaken his service, therefore he would punish them according to
their sins. He forbade Jeremiah to plead for them. The false p...
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Twice before God had given the prophet this charge, JEREMIAH 7:16,
JEREMIAH 11:14; how it could consist with the piety of Jeremiah after
those charges to put up the prayer we have JEREMIAH 14:7 of thi...
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Jeremiah 14:11 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) pray H6419 (H8691) people
H5971 good H2896
Jeremiah 7:16, Jeremiah 11:14, Jeremiah 15:1; Exodus 32:32-34...
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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 shoc...
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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;...
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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...
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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;
Deuteronomy 28:23. Jeremiah, as is the duty of all ministers, i...
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_Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet;
therefore the Lord doth net accept them._
JEHOVAH’S REFUSAL TO ALLOW INTERCESSION TO PREVAIL
I. The Lord’s answer to the prophet’...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Exodus 32:32; Jeremiah 11:14; Jeremiah 15:1; Jeremiah 7:16...