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In four verses each beginning with “I beheld,” the prophet sees in
vision the desolate condition of Judaea during the Babylonian
captivity.
Jeremiah 4:23
WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID - Desolate and void ...
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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 VISION OF DESOLATION (Jeremiah 4:23) most impressively describes
the Divine visitation of Judah. The earth becomes like the chaos
before creation (_mg._) under a sky that has lost its lamps; the v...
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AT. because of.
AND BY. Some cod ices, with five early printed editions, Septuagint,
Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and because of"....
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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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I BEHELD THE EARTH, &C.— The images, under which the prophet
represents the approaching desolation as foreseen by him, are such as
are familiar to the Hebrew poets on the like occasions. (See Lowth De...
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_2. Devastating judgment_ (Jeremiah 4:23-26)
TRANSLATION
(23) I looked at the land, and behold, it was waste and void; and unto
the heavens, but there was no light. (24) I looked at the mountains,
a...
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I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the
cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by
his fierce anger.
FRUITFUL PLACE - Hebrew, the Carmel.
A W...
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4:26 land (d-7) Or 'Carmel.' see ch. 2.7....
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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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THE FRUITFUL PLACE. — The Carmel, or vine-land, became as _“the_
wilderness.” The Hebrew article points probably to the well-known
desert of the wanderings.
AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. — Literally,...
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רָאִ֕יתִי וְ הִנֵּ֥ה הַ כַּרְמֶ֖ל הַ
מִּדְבָּ֑ר וְ כָל ־עָרָ֗יו נִתְּצוּ֙
מִ פְּנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה...
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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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_Carmel: the beautiful country of Palestine, (Haydock) Jerusalem,
(Theodoret) or the mountain so called._...
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There is somewhat uncommonly solemn and striking, when the Lord by his
servants, as in many parts of scripture, calls upon the heavenly
bodies, and the inanimate parts of nature, to lament by their
ap...
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What he saw the fourth time was this — that the _fertile land _was
turned into a _desert_. I indeed think that Carmel is to be taken here
as meaning the place. That part of the holy land, we know, rec...
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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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I BEHELD, AND, LO, THE FRUITFUL PLACE WAS A WILDERNESS,.... Or, "I
beheld, and, lo, Carmel was a wilderness"; which was a particular part
of the land of Israel, and was very fertile, and abounded in p...
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I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place [was] a wilderness, and all the
cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, [and] by
his fierce anger.
Ver. 26. _At the presence of the Lord, &c...
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_I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form and void_ “The
images under which the prophet here represents the approaching
desolation, as foreseen by him, are such as are familiar to the Hebrew
po...
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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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THE FRUITFUL PLACE, Heb. _Carmel_, either properly, for that part of
the land so called for its fruitfulness; or rather appellatively, for
not only their most pleasant, but most fruitful lands, that w...
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Jeremiah 4:26 beheld H7200 (H8804) land H3759 wilderness H4057 cities
H5892 down H5422 (H8738) presence H6440 LORD H3068 fierce H2740 anger
H639
the fruitful - Jeremiah 12:4, Jeremiah 14:2-6; Deutero...
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YHWH WARNS JUDAH THAT IF THEY WILL NOT REPENT FOR THEM TOO INVASION BY
A FIERCE ADVERSARY IS THREATENING AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY COME BECAUSE OF
THEIR SINS (JEREMIAH 4:3).
If Judah will not respond to t...
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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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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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Deuteronomy 29:23; Isaiah 5:10; Isaiah 5:9; Isaiah 7:20; Jeremiah
12:4; Jeremiah 14:2; Micah 3:12; Psalms 107:34; Psalms 76:7...