-
Verse Jeremiah 6:7. _AS A FOUNTAIN CASTETH OUT HER WATERS_] The
inhabitants are incessant in their acts of iniquity; they do nothing
but sin....
-
AS A FOUNTAIN CASTETH OUT - Better, As a cistern “cooleth.”
BEFORE ME ... - Before My face continually there is disease and
wounding: Disease as the result of poverty and want: wounding, or, the
comm...
-
CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _
2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9)
3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)
Jeremiah 6:1. The children of B...
-
THE SIEGE OF THE SINFUL CITY. The prophet bids his kinsfolk (Anathoth,
his birthplace, being in Benjamin) to abandon the capital, and to
gather in the southern mountains; the northern peril is now nea...
-
FOUNTAIN. Hebrew. _bor_. a well, bored or hewn out. Compare 2 Samuel
23:15; 2 Samuel 23:16; 1 Chronicles 11:17. See note on Genesis 21:19....
-
The Scythians would not make their approaches to the city in this
fashion, while the absence of metre makes us hesitate to take the
passage as inserted by the prophet in Jehoiakim's time, when the
Cha...
-
_2. The siege of Jerusalem_ (Jeremiah 6:6-8)
TRANSLATION
(6) For thus says the LORD of hosts: Cut her trees and pour out
against Jerusalem a mound! This is the city to be punished; everywhere
there...
-
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her
wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually
is grief and wounds.
FOUNTAIN - rather, a well dug, from which wa...
-
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
-
AS A FOUNTAIN CASTETH OUT HER WATERS. — The English is plain enough,
but the Hebrew presents two difficulties: (1) The word rendered
“fountain” (better, _cistern_) is not spelt with the usual vowels,...
-
כְּ הָקִ֥יר _בַּ֨יִר֙_† מֵימֶ֔יהָ
כֵּ֖ן הֵקֵ֣רָה רָעָתָ֑הּ חָמָ֣ס וָ֠
שֹׁד יִשָּׁ֨מַע בָּ֧הּ עַל ־פָּנַ֛י...
-
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...
-
This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe,
acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against
Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...
-
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her
wickedness: (g) violence and destruction is heard in her; before me
continually [are] grief and wounds.
(g) He shows the reason why it wou...
-
_Cold. Hebrew, "come forth." All the citizens imitate her vices._...
-
I venture to think, that if we read these verses with an eye to the
Church in Jesus, they will be found very interesting. Who is the
speaker here, that likens Zion to a comely and delicate woman? May...
-
The Prophet enlarges on what he had said in the last verse; for he had
shewn, by mentioning one kind of evil, that Jerusalem was a den of
thieves, as oppression dwelt in the midst of it. But he now, b...
-
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...
-
AS A FOUNTAIN CASTETH OUT HER WATERS,.... In great abundance, and
continually:
SO SHE CASTETH OUT HER WICKEDNESS; this metaphor expresses the
multitude of her sins, the frequent and constant commissi...
-
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her
wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually
[is] grief and wounds.
Ver. 7. _As a fountain casteth out her waters...
-
_For thus hath the Lord of hosts said_ To the Chaldeans: God would
have the Jews to know, that they have not so much to do with the
Chaldeans as with him; that they are his rod to scourge them for the...
-
THE ADVICE TO FLEE FROM JERUSALEM...
-
1-8 Whatever methods are used, it is vain to contend with God's
judgments. The more we indulge in the pleasures of this life, the more
we unfit ourselves for the troubles of this life. The Chaldean ar...
-
In this verse God aggravates their sin of oppression, mentioned in the
former. AS A FOUNTAIN CASTETH OUT HER WATERS, SO SHE CASTETH OUT HER
WICKEDNESS; a metaphor, to express how natural all manner of...
-
Jeremiah 6:7 fountain H953 up H6979 (H8687) water H4325 up H6979
(H8689) wickedness H7451 Violence H2555 plundering H7701 heard H8085
(H8735) Before H6440 continually H8548 grief H2483 wounds H4347
a...
-
HIS PEOPLE ARE TO PREPARE FOR ACTION BECAUSE THE INVASION IS UPON THEM
(JEREMIAH 6:1).
As the enemy approached from the north the tribe of Benjamin (his own
tribe), who were to the north of Jerusalem...
-
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that
should come because of sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking
people,...
-
Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of
Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_
[of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem,
ac...
-
_Arise, and let us go up at noon._
CHRISTIAN EFFORT
That spirit-stirring call of the text, so needful to arouse the
Chaldeans on their march to the ancient, is as needful for us on our
pilgrimage to...
-
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:7 Jerusalem should repent of EVIL
(harmful acts; see Jeremiah 4:14), but instead she keeps her evil as
FRESH as WELL water. VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION. Constant brutality
aga...
-
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.)
2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small
town of defenc...
-
EXPOSITION
A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the
judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance.
JEREMIAH 6:1
Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...
-
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and
know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be
any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...
-
Ezekiel 22:3; Ezekiel 24:7; Ezekiel 7:11; Ezekiel 7:23; Isaiah 57:20;
James 3:10; Jeremiah 20:8; Micah 2:1; Micah 2:2; Micah 2:8;...