Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time,
while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
Ver. 1. _Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the second
time._] To the same purpose with the former, Jer 32:1 which is
reckoned his fourteenth sermon, as this... [ Continua a leggere ]
Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to
establish it; the LORD [is] his name;
Ver. 2. _Thus saith the Lord the maker thereof._] _i.e., _ Of the
promise of restoration. Jer 32:41-44 Or of Jerusalem, which he is said
to make in the sense that he "made Moses and Aaron," that... [ Continua a leggere ]
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty
things, which thou knowest not.
Ver. 3. _Call unto me, and I will answer thee._] Thou hast a promise,
and I will perform it; but so as that thou Jeremiah, and such as thou
art, Daniel, Ezekiel, Nehemiah, &c., pray over the promise... [ Continua a leggere ]
For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of
this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are
thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
Ver. 4. _Which are thrown down by the mounts._] Or, Catapults, or
engines of demolition, used to batter with. See G... [ Continua a leggere ]
They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but [it is] to fill them with
the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my
fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
Ver. 5. _They come to fight with the Chaldeans._] But they fight not
in God's name; for he hat... [ Continua a leggere ]
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and
will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
Ver. 6. _Behold, I will bring it health and cure._] _Una eademque
manus vulnus opemque feret._ This is God's usual method and manner of
dealing with his people, Hos 6:1 as a sk... [ Continua a leggere ]
And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to
return, and will build them, as at the first.
Ver. 7. _And I will cause the captivity of Judah._] As Geremia 24:5;
Geremia 30:3; Geremia 32:44. They shall be as if I had not cast them
off, and I will hear them. Zec 10:6... [ Continua a leggere ]
And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have
sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby
they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
Ver. 8. _And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity._] Which must
therefore needs be a filthy a... [ Continua a leggere ]
And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all
the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto
them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all
the prosperity that I procure unto it.
Ver. 9. And it shall be to me a name _a_ of joy... [ Continua a leggere ]
Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which
ye say [shall be] desolate without man and without beast, [even] in
the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are
desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
Ver. 10. _Again there shall be he... [ Continua a leggere ]
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall
say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD [is] good; for his mercy
[endureth] for ever: [and] of them that shall bring the sacrifice of
praise into the house of the LO... [ Continua a leggere ]
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate
without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be
an habitation of shepherds causing [their] flocks to lie down.
Ver. 12. _In all the cities thereof shall be an habitation of
shepherds,_] _i.e.,_ Several sorts... [ Continua a leggere ]
In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the
cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places
about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass
again under the hands of him that telleth [them], saith the LORD.
Ver. 13. _Shall the flocks p... [ Continua a leggere ]
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good
thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house
of Judah.
Ver. 14. _I will perform that good thing._] _Praestabo verbum istud
optimum,_ as Tremellius well rendereth it. I will perform that best
word or promis... [ Continua a leggere ]
In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of
righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and
righteousness in the land.
Ver. 15. _I will cause the branch of righteousness._] See the same,
Geremia 23:5. The sweet promise concerning Christ can never be too
often... [ Continua a leggere ]
In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely:
and this [is the name] wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our
righteousness.
Ver. 16. _And this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The Lord
is our righteousness._] Heb., This is that he shall call her, Jehovah
our ri... [ Continua a leggere ]
For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the
throne of the house of Israel;
Ver. 17. _David shall never want a man._] The man Christ Jesus. Luk
1:32-33... [ Continua a leggere ]
Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer
burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice
continually.
Ver. 18. _Neither shall the priest want a man._] The same man Christ
Jesus, who is, as a King everlasting, so a priest for ever after the
order of Melc... [ Continua a leggere ]
And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
Ver. 19. _And the word of the Lord, &c._] _Iterum de perpetuitate
regni Christi tractat et iurat,_ saith Oecolampadius. Once more he
treateth of the perpetuity of Christ's kingdom, and assureth it as by
oath.... [ Continua a leggere ]
Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my
covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in
their season;
Ver. 20. _If ye can break my covenant of the day._] God hath hitherto
kept promise with nights and days, that one shall succeed the other;
and will... [ Continua a leggere ]
Geremia 33:21 [Then] may also my covenant be broken with David my
servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and
with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
Ver. 21. _Then may also my covenant._] See Geremia 33:17,18. The poet
hath somewhat like this:
“ _Iungantur ante saeva... [ Continua a leggere ]
_As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea
measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the
Levites that minister unto me._
Ver. 22. _As the host of heaven._] See Genesi 13:16; Genesi 15:5 .
_ So will I multiply the seed of David._] True believers.
_... [ Continua a leggere ]
Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
Ver. 23. _Moreover._] Or, Again. _Idem repetit; _ the same thing is
repeated, that it may be the better believed.... [ Continua a leggere ]
Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two
families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus
they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation
before them.
Ver. 24. _Consider thou not what this people have spoken._] This
unbelieving, misg... [ Continua a leggere ]
_Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant [be] not with day and night, [and
if] I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;_
Ver. 25. _If my covenant be not with day and night._] See on Geremia
33:20. If there be not a constant intercourse of either.... [ Continua a leggere ]
Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, [so]
that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the seed of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return,
and have mercy on them.
Ver. 26. _Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob._] The body of... [ Continua a leggere ]