"At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;"
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Verse Jeremiah 18:7. AT WHAT _INSTANT I SHALL SPEAK CONCERNING A_
_NATION, C. - IF THAT NATION, AGAINST WHOM, C. - AND_ AT WHAT
_INSTANT,_ _ C. - IF IT DO EVIL, C._] These verses contain what may be
c...
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AT WHAT INSTANT - literally, “in a moment.” Here, “at one time -
at another time.”...
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CHAPTER 18
The Potter and the Clay
_ 1. In the potter's house and the message (Jeremiah 18:1) _
2. The plot against the prophet and his prayer (Jeremiah 18:18)
Jeremiah 18:1. He was commanded to go...
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THE POTTER AND THE CLAY. The potter (Jeremiah 18:1) moulding his clay
on the upper stone, which he makes revolve by his feet resting on the
connected lower stone, is compared with Yahweh in His contro...
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TO PLUCK UP. to declare that it should be plucked up. Hebrew idiom.
Compare Jeremiah 1:10.
PULL DOWN. Some codices, with two early printed editions and Syriac,
read "tear away". Compare Jeremiah 1:10...
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_At what instant_ lit. _Suddenly_. The same word occurs at the
beginning of Jeremiah 18:9. The rendering in the two cases probably is
_At one moment at another_. (So Oxf. Heb. Lex.)...
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B. The Interpretation for the Prophet Jeremiah 18:5-10
TRANSLATION
(5) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (6) Am I not able
to do to you as this potter (oracle of the LORD)? Behold, like...
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At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a
kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
AT WHAT INSTANT - in a moment, when the nation least expects it.
Here...
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1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
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(7-10) AT WHAT INSTANT I SHALL SPEAK CONCERNING A NATION... — The
words carry the thoughts of the prophet back to those which had been
stamped indelibly on his memory when he was first called to his w...
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רֶ֣גַע אֲדַבֵּ֔ר עַל ־גֹּ֖וי וְ עַל
־מַמְלָכָ֑ה לִ נְתֹ֥ושׁ וְ לִ נְתֹ֖וץ
וּֽ לְ...
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CHAPTER XI
THE DIVINE POTTER
Jeremiah 18:1
JEREMIAH goes down into the Lower Town, or the valley between the
upper and lower city; and there his attention is arrested by a potter
sitting at work be...
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We now come to the second series of messages before the fall of
Jerusalem (18-20), which consists of declarations of God's absolute
supremacy. In preparation for this, Jeremiah was sent to the house o...
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The Lord himself explains and applies his type of the Potter. And in
Jesus how hath the doctrine been fully proved? Surely the Lord can
with infinitely more ease create new hearts in his people, and r...
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This is a fuller application of the Prophet’s doctrine; for he had
said generally before, that the people were in God’s hand as the
clay is in the hand of the potter; but he adds here what is more
pop...
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In chapter 18 this principle is fully demonstrated before the people
(Jeremiah 18:1-10). But the people in despair as to God, in the midst
of their boldness in evil and in contempt of His marvellous p...
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[AT WHAT] INSTANT I SHALL SPEAK CONCERNING A NATION, AND CONCERNING A
KINGDOM,.... By way of threatening: or, "the moment I shall speak" s,
c as soon as ever I have declared concerning any people what...
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Jeremiah 18:7 [At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy
[it];
Ver. 7. _At what instant I shall speak._] As God lovet...
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_At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation_, &c. God speaks
thus concerning nations and kingdoms in his word, and by his prophets
and ministers. Thus he told Jeremiah 1:10, that he had set him...
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THE PARABLE OF THE POTTER...
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1-10 While Jeremiah looks upon the potter's work, God darts into his
mind two great truths. God has authority, and power, to form and
fashion kingdoms and nations as he pleases. He may dispose of us a...
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God thus speaketh concerning nations and kingdoms more immediately in
his word, or more mediately by his prophets and ministers; he told
Jeremiah, JEREMIAH 1:10, that he had set him over nations, to r...
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Jeremiah 18:7 instant H7281 speak H1696 (H8762) nation H1471 kingdom
H4467 up H5428 (H8800) down H5422 (H8800) destroy H6 (H8687)
to pluck - Jeremiah 1:10, Jeremiah 12:14-17, Jeremiah 25:9-14,...
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THE LESSON OF THE PATIENT POTTER (JEREMIAH 18:1).
In one of the most beautiful illustrations in the Old Testament YHWH
illustrates His readiness ever to show mercy in the lesson of the
patient potter...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the potter's house. Declaration of God's ways of
dealing with nations. Jeremiah's complaint.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Jehovah has incontestable and irresistible abili...
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Jeremiah 18:6. _As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my
hand._ The sense is given in the next words; the exaltation, or the
degradation of a nation, is wholly with the Lord. If they, unde...
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_Go down to the potter’s house._
THE POTTER AND THE CLAY
(with Romans 9:19):--The potter and the clay! Is not that parable the
germ of all that is most oppressive in the “terrible decree” of
Calvinis...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 18:7 PLUCK UP, BREAK DOWN, DESTROY.
Judgment metaphors from agriculture, construction, and war. See
Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 31:28; Jeremiah 45:4. IF. Many of the biblical
pro...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early
in Jehoiakim’s reign (See _Chronological Note_ on Section 19–27 of
previous chapter). Probably about two years later than that messag...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending
to Jeremiah 25:1.) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not
been determined by chronological considerations. T...
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Now in chapter 18:
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go
down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my
words. Then I went down to the potter's hous...
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Amos 9:8; Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 12:14; Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 45:4;
Jonah 3:4...