Jeremiah 10:34

[Bible] 9:18. Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters. 9:19. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Sion: How are we wasted and greatly confounded? because we have left the land, because our dwellings are cast down. 9:20. Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the Lord: and let your ears receive the word of his mouth: and teach your daughters wailing: and every one her neighbour mourning. 9:21. For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets. 9:22. Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Even the carcass of man shall fall as dung upon the face of the country, and as grass behind the back of the mower, and there is none to gather it. 9:23. Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches: 9:24. But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, for I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and justice in the earth: for these things please me, saith the Lord. 9:25. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit upon every one that hath the foreskin circumcised. 9:26. Upon Egypt, and upon Juda, and upon Edom, and upon the children of Ammon, and upon Moab, and upon all that have their hair polled round, that dwell in the desert: for all the nations are uncircumcised in the flesh, but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart. Jeremias Chapter 10 Neither stars nor idols are to be feared, but the great Creator of all things. The chastisement of Jerusalem for her sins. 10:1. Hear ye the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O house of Israel. 10:2. Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways of the Gentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven, which the heathens fear:

The Gentiles shall be led to "fear" God by the proofs of His power displayed in behalf of the Jews; the ungodly among them shall "tremble" for fear of God's judgments on them; the penitent shall reverentially fear and be converted to Him (Psalms 102:15; Isaiah 60:3). 10. ye say … desolate —(Jeremiah 32:43). 11. (Jeremiah 7:34; 16:9). ## Praise the Lord, &c.—the words of Psalms 136:1, which were actually used by the Jews at their restoration (Ezra 3:11). sacrifice of praise —(Psalms 107:22; 116:17). This shall continue when all other sacrifices shall be at an end. 12. habitation of shepherds … flocks —in contrast to Jeremiah 33:10, "without man … inhabitant … without beast " (Jeremiah 32:43; compare Jeremiah 31:24; 50:19; Isaiah 65:10). 13. pass … under … hands of him that telleth them —Shepherds, in sending forth and bringing back their sheep to the folds, count them by striking each as it passes with a rod, implying the shepherd's provident care that not one should be lost (Leviticus 27:32; Micah 7:14; compare John 10:28, 29; 17:12). 14. perform —"I will make to rise "; God's promise having for a time seemed to "lie" dead and abortive [C ALVIN ]. 15. Repeated from Jeremiah 23:5. the land —the Holy Land: Israel and Judah (Jeremiah 23:6). 16.

Amos 3:7 ); but the word rendered musing does not seem one that would be used very naturally of the Divine purpose. that maketh the morning darkness ] viz. suddenly blackening the clear sky with the dark masses of storm-cloud. In the thunderstorm, the Hebrews conceived Jehovah to be borne along within the clouds ( Psalm 18:9-13 ; cf. on ch. Amos 1:2 ): the picture of Jehovah darkening the heavens with the gathering storm thus leads on naturally to the clause which follows. and treadeth —or marcheth — upon the high places of the earth ] viz. in the thunder-cloud, as it sweeps along the hills. For the expression, comp. (of Israel) Deuteronomy 32:13 ; Isaiah 58:14 ; (of Jehovah) Micah 1:3 : also Job 9:8 (“who marcheth upon the high places of the sea”). Jehovah of hosts , is his name ] The title is expressive of majesty and omnipotence: see on Amos 3:13 . It stands in the same emphatic formula as here, Amos 5:27 (‘ God of hosts’); Isaiah 47:4 ; Isaiah 48:2 ; Isaiah 51:15 ; Isaiah 54:5 ; Jeremiah 10:16 (= Jeremiah 51:19 ), Jeremiah 31:35 , Jeremiah 32:18 , Jeremiah 46:18 , Jeremiah 48:15 , Jeremiah 50:34 , Jeremiah 51:57 .

The sense of the expression, over whom my name was called , appears clearly from 2 Samuel 12:28 , where Joab, while besieging Rabbah of the Ammonites, invites David to come and take it himself “lest I (emph.) take the city, and my name be called over it ,” i.e. lest I get the credit of having captured it, and it be counted as my conquest. The phrase expresses thus the fact of ownership —whether acquired by actual conquest or otherwise (cf. Isaiah 4:1 ). It is used especially of the people of Israel, Jerusalem, or the temple, as owned by Jehovah: see Deuteronomy 28:10 ; Jeremiah 7:10-11 ; Jeremiah 7:14 ; Jeremiah 7:30 ; Jeremiah 14:9 ; Jeremiah 15:16 (of Jeremiah himself), Jeremiah 25:29 , Jeremiah 32:34 , Jeremiah 34:15 ; 1 Kings 8:43 (= 2 Chronicles 6:33 ); Isaiah 63:19 ; 2 Chronicles 7:14 ; Daniel 9:18-19 ; and the newly-recovered Hebrew text of Sir 47:18 . In A.V., R.V., the phrase is often, unfortunately, represented by the obscure paraphrase, “called by my name”; but the literal rendering, which is both clearer and more forcible than the paraphrase, is sometimes added in the margin of R.V. (e.g. 1 Kings 8:43 ). that doeth this ] An epithet confirmatory of the preceding promise; cf. Jeremiah 33:2 . Amos 9:11-12 stands in the LXX. (cod.

Jeremiah Jer 14:12; Jeremiah 29:17-18 ; Jeremiah 34:17 and Ezekiel ( Ezekiel 5:12 ; Ezekiel 6:11 , etc.) prophesied them anew, together with the sword and with famine. Israel, having sinned like Egypt, was to be punished like Egypt. And have taken away your horses - Literally, as English margin. "with the captivity of your horses." After famine, drought, locust, pestilence, followed that worst scourge of all, that through man. The possessions of the plain of Jezreel, so well suited for cavalry, probably induced israel to break in this respect the law of Moses. Hazael "left to Jehoahaz but 50 horsemen and 10 chariots and 10,000 footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing." Their armies, instead of being a defense, lay unburied on the ground, a fresh source of pestilence.

xii. 8. xii. 25. xiv. 3. xiii. 26. xxii, 7. xviii. 25. xxiii. 2. xiv. 4, xxiii, 20. xviii. 25. viii. 2. xvii. 19. xiv. 5. xiii, 9. xiii. 16. xiii. 6. xxi. 2. vii, 12. xiv. 24. iii. 1. xiii. 9. xiii. 9. xxiii. 17. vii. 10. xviii, 25. xvii. 25. xiii. 29. xiii. 19. xiii. 28, xiii, 9. xii. 7. xiv. 11. xiv. 27. iii, 1, xxiii. 14. INDEX OF TEXTS. xxi. 1. xiii. 9. xii. 15. xviii. 14, xxii, 5. xiii. 24. viii. 5. xii. 20. xii. 23. viii, 2. Intr. 15. xvi. 10, xii. 7. xviii. 27. xii. 34. xviii. 25. PROVERBS. xvi. 11. V, 2. viii ECCLESIASTES. CANTICLES. iii, 2, xiii. 17. iii, 16, xiv. 5, xiv, 11. xiv. 6. xiii, 9. xiii, 31. xiv, 6. iii. 16. ISAIAH. xii. 7. xvi. 18. xviii, 34. xxi. 7. xviii, 34. xiii. 12. iii. 16, xiii, ^9. xxiii, 6. xii. 24. xvii. 10. xii. 23, xxi. 7. xiv. 14. xix. 9. xiv. 14. xvi. 30. xvi. 30. xiii. 13. xxiii, 12. xiii, 34. xiii. 30. xviii. 34. INDEX OF TEXTS. xiii. 15. xvi. 30. xviii. 34. xiii. 27. xir. 20. vii. 10. vii. 8. xviii. 34. xviii. 34. xii. 8. JEREMIAH. xii. 25. vii. 12. xiii. 19. xiii. 15. viii. 1. xiii. 12. LAMENTATIONS. EZEKIEL. MICAH. xvi. 29. all. xvi. 18. xii. 26. xii. 6. NAHUM. xvii. 12. DANIEL. HABAKKUK. xvi. 31. xii. 20. viii. 6. ZEPHANIAH. xii. 19. iii. 16. xii. 14. HOSEA, JOEL. AMOS. xii. 6. xiii. 26 xiii. 1. xiv. 24. JONAH. INDEX OF TEXTS. HAGGAI. ZECHARIAH. MALACHI. WISDOM OF SOLOMON. ECCLESIASTICUS. BARUCH. (vide iv. 35.) 6. i. e. Epistle of Jeremiah, v. iv. 35. SONG OF THE THREE CHILDREN. S. MATTHEW. xii. 31. xii. 9. iii. 7. iii. 9. xvii. 9. viii. 7. iii. 14. xxiii. 3. xiv. 17. xvii. 4. viii. 3. vii. 6. vii. 15. xxi. 4. xiv. 17. xvii. 26. xiv. 26. xiii. 6. xvii. 29. xvii. 30. xiii. 6. iii. 8.x. 11. xiv. 28.

of Jeftis Chrift. 45: D. 1 8. 27, he means, be was but what Sin ha<l I yea^ he had fotxitching cf the fmuc and berarings of Sin yet upon him : wherefore 'twas luftoKi with //rtff/indays ofold, when they Days apart for Confeflion of Sin, and Humi- :ion for the fame, to fprinkie thcmfelves with, to wallow in Duft and Aihes, Efth. 4. 1,9. Jer. 16. Job 30. 9* cbaf, 42. 6. as a token that chey dconfefs they were but what Sin had left, and iit they were dcfiCd^ weal^ncd and foliutea by it. This then is the next PJea of our goodly Advo* Ite for QS, O SaUfif this is a brntid plucked out of hi Fire. As who ihould fay, thou objedefl againft By Servant Jofkua that he is black like a Coal, or Au the Fire of Sin, at times, is Aiti burning in \ku And what then ? the reafon why he is not hittUy extinAasTow, is not thy Pity, but my hther's Mercy to him : I have pluckd him out iifthe Fire, yet not fo out biit that the fmell there* Jfisyet upon him ; and tny Father and I, wc soofider his weaknefs, and pity him ; for fincc he % Ziz Brand pulled out f can it be expeded by my ?aiher or me, that he fhould appear before us as dear, and do our biddings as welj.as^ he had ever been there ? Ibis is a Brand f lucked out of he Fiyej and muft be ccnliJer'd as fuch, and muft e born with as much. Thus as Mefhibxfl^eth leadedfor his Excufe, his lamenefs, x Sain* ij. 4, 25,x6.fo Chnft pleads the infirm and indi* ei)t condition of his Per p!e againft Satan for leir AdTa4fttage.

## A sword is put for war or slaughter , which are in a great measure performed thereby. Exodus 5:3 , "Let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God. lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword." Leviticus 26:6 , "Neither shall the sword go through your land," so Isaiah 1:20; Jeremiah 24:10,10,10,10 , and Jeremiah 43:11; Psalms 144:10; Romans 8:35 , and several other places. It is said, Matthew 10:34 , "I came not to send peace, but a sword" that is, no such peace as that men will rest contented and quiet in Paganism, or irreligion, but contend earnestly for the true religion in their confessions and preaching of the Gospel, even through sufferings, persecution, and blood, etc.