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CHAPTER 4
_ 1. True repentance and what it means (Jeremiah 4:1) _
2. The alarm sounded: judgment comes (Jeremiah 4:5)
3. The doom of the rebellious people (Jeremiah 4:14)
4. The desolation of Isra...
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THE PROPHET'S GRIEF for his country finds characteristic expression:
My bowels! my bowels! Let me writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart
moaneth within me! (Driver). His soul hears (_mg._ with LXX) t...
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KNOWN. acknowledged.
SOTTISH. stupid. Probably from Celtic. Breton _sot,_ or _sod =_
stupid.
CHILDREN. sons....
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Jeremiah 4:5-31. Impending judgements. National disaster
This section and the two that follow it (viz. chs. 5 and 6) are
somewhat later than the preceding, as presenting a more definite
description o...
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FOR MY PEOPLE IS FOOLISH— Some have supposed that these words, as
well as the preceding ones, are to be referred to God; but they suit
the prophet much better, who speaks here, as commissioned by the...
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B. Description of Coming Judgment Jeremiah 4:19-31
In the last half of chapter four Jeremiah describes the coming
judgment. He emphasizes that this judgment will be (1) terrifying
(Jeremiah 4:19-22);...
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For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish
children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil,
but to do good they have no knowledge.
FOR MY PEOPLE IS FOO...
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4:22 wise (b-22) Or 'clever.'...
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THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE
INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF
THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6)
This section furnishes us with the...
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FOR MY PEOPLE IS FOOLISH. — Jehovah answers the prophet’s
question. The misery comes to punish the folly and sottishness of the
people. It shall last as long as they last, or till it has
accomplished...
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כִּ֣י ׀ אֱוִ֣יל עַמִּ֗י אֹותִי֙ לֹ֣א
יָדָ֔עוּ בָּנִ֤ים סְכָלִים֙ הֵ֔מָּה
וְ לֹ֥א נְבֹונִ֖ים הֵ֑מָּה חֲכָמִ֥ים
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Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1
CHAPTER IV
THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD
Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30
IF we would understand what is written here and elsewhere in the pages
of prophecy, two thing...
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Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be
established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined
on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in exte...
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For my people [are] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] silly
children, and they have no understanding: (s) they [are] wise to do
evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
(s) Their wisdom...
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_Me, practically. They have not honoured me as they ought. (Calmet)
--- If they were indeed devoid of sense, they would be excused.
(Worthington)_...
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I hope the Reader will pause over these verses, and remark the concern
of the Prophet. And when he hath done this, let him ask himself what
ought to be the concern of the Lord's prophets: I mean his m...
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The Prophet again teaches us, that the cause of these evils arose from
the people themselves, and was to be found in them, so that they could
not transfer it to anybody else. Hence he says, _My people...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6.
Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at
that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be
unto t...
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FOR MY PEOPLE IS FOOLISH,.... This, as Kimchi says, is the answer of
the Lord to the prophet; for not the prophet says this, but the Lord
to the prophet, giving a reason why this sore destruction came...
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_For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are]
sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to
do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge._
Ver. 22. _For m...
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_How long shall I see the standard_, &c. This dreadful war continued a
great while, not in the borders, but in the bowels of the country; for
the people were very obstinate, and would not submit to, b...
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The Desolation Following the Lord's Judgment.
The prophet here, in a most dramatic manner, introduces Israel as
lamenting over the calamity which has struck the nation....
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19-31 The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He
is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion. Compared with what
it was, every thing is out of order; but the ruin of the Jewi...
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FOR MY PEOPLE IS FOOLISH: though God show them here that the cause of
all these calamities is their folly, JEREMIAH 2:17,19 PSA 38:3,5, yet
he owns them for his people, JEREMIAH 2:11,31,32. THEY HAVE...
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Jeremiah 4:22 people H5971 foolish H191 known H3045 (H8804) silly
H5530 children H1121 understanding H995 (H8737) wise H2450 evil H7489
(H8687) good H3190 (H8687) knowledge H3045 (H8804)
For my - Jer...
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JUDAH ARE CALLED TO REPENTANCE AS WELL AS ISRAEL FOR THEY ARE STILL IN
THEIR LAND, AND, IF THEY WILL ONLY TRULY TURN TO HIM WITH GENUINELY
CHANGED HEARTS, CAN STILL LOOK FORWARD TO THE FUTURE IN HOPE....
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Jeremiah 4:1. _If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return
unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight,
then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The LORD l...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. Warning of the
consequences of sin and exhortation to return to God.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: It is the evil of men's doings that kindle...
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Jeremiah 4:3. _Break up your fallow ground._ Hebrews ניר _nir,
novale;_ make _new_ land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12. Our old
phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the word....
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_I am pained at my very heart._
THE PROPHET’S LAMENTATIONS OVER HIS PEOPLE’S DOOM
I. The complaint or lamentation itself.
1. The parts affected. The soul and inward man.
(1) The secrecy of it, the...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 4:22 God says his PEOPLE lack saving
knowledge and a proper UNDERSTANDING of his ways and words (Jeremiah
3:15; Hosea 4:1). Their only wisdom is IN DOING EVIL. Thus, they are...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Chronology_ of the chapter,
_Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History_ as in
chap. 3. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 4:5. “_Defenced
cities_....
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 4:1, JEREMIAH 4:2
The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render,
_If thou wilt return_,_ O Israel_,_ saith Jehovah_,_ wilt return unto
me_;_ and if thou wilt...
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But if you will return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and
if you will put away thine abominations out of my sight, then you will
no longer be [moved or] removed. And thou shalt swear, The...
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1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 14:20; 2 Samuel
13:3; 2 Samuel 16:21; Deuteronomy 32:28; Deuteronomy 32:6; Hosea 4:1;
Hosea 4:6;...