Jeremiah 19:16

The Hebrew text runs - "And this house shall be high: every one," etc. The meaning appears to be, "This house shall be high" (i. e., conspicuous) "in its ruin as in its glory." And shall hiss - In contempt. This expression first appears in the time of Hezekiah 2 Chronicles 29:8; Micah 6:16. It is especially familiar to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 19:8, etc.).

The Hebrew text runs - "And this house shall be high: every one," etc. The meaning appears to be, "This house shall be high" (i. e., conspicuous) "in its ruin as in its glory." And shall hiss - In contempt. This expression first appears in the time of Hezekiah 2 Chronicles 29:8; Micah 6:16. It is especially familiar to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 19:8, etc.).

thou shalt come, but be preserved from any harm by the workings of my providence for thee. ## Jeremiah 16:1 JEREMIAH CHAPTER 16 ## The prophet is commanded to abstain from marriage, from mourning, or festival assemblies; hereby representing to them their approaching misery, Jer_16:1-9. Their sins which caused it, Jer_16:10-13. Their strange deliverance from Babylon, Jer_16:14 ,15 . After that their iniquity is recompensed, Jer_16:16- 18. The prophet’s comfort in the calling of the Gentiles, Jer_16:19-21. No text from Poole on this verse. Jeremiah 16:2 It is uncertain whether what we have in this chapter be a new revelation, or a continuance of his former prophecy. God ## commandeth the prophet in it under certain types to foretell their utter ruin and destruction. First he commandeth him to marry no wife, nor have sons or daughters. He expoundeth this command Jer_16:3 ,4 . Jeremiah 16:3 No text from Poole on this verse. Jeremiah 16:4 God in these verses opens the reason why he would not have the prophet marry nor multiply relations. In evil and calamitous times, those who multiply relations do but multiply sorrows and afflictions to themselves; the apostle in evil times tells the Corinthians that married persons should have trouble in the flesh, 1Co_7:28; and Christ pronounceth a woe to those that should be with child, and to those that gave suck, at the time when Jerusalem should be besieged.

[Bible] 15:18. Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted. 15:19. Therefore thus saith the Lord: If thou wilt be converted, I will convert thee, and thou shalt stand before my face; and thou wilt separate the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall be turned to thee, and thou shalt not be turned to them. 15:20. And I will make thee to this people as a strong wall of brass: and they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail: for I am with thee to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord. 15:21. And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the mighty. Jeremias Chapter 16 The prophet is forbid to marry. The Jews shall be utterly ruined for their idolatry: but shall at length be released from their captivity, and the Gentiles shall be converted. 16:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 16:2. Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons and daughters in this place. 16:3. For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and daughters, that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them: and concerning their fathers, of whom they were born in this land: 16:4. They shall die by the death of grievous illnesses: they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be buried, they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed with the sword, and with famine: and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth. 16:5. For thus saith the Lord: Enter not into the house of feasting, neither go thou to mourn, nor to comfort them: because I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, my mercy and commiserations. 16:6. Both the great and the little shall die in this land: they shall not be buried nor lamented, and men shall not cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

Verse 21. - The Hebrew text of the first sentence of this verse differs here from that in the parallel; but, in fact, neither text reads satisfactorily and smoothly. The parallel ( 1 Kings 9:8 ) inserts the little word " at ," though without italics, and " which" in italic type. The " at" is no doubt intended to be condoned as supposed to belong to the word astonished; the following verb hiss also permitting, though not requiring, the appendage. Not leaning to the text of the parallel (which shows no אֲשֶׁר , and which shows the substantive verb in the future tense יִהְיֶה ), we need not find any particular difficulty in rendering our present text, And this house, which is most high (the word well favours this idea), shall be an astonishment to every passer by. The Septuagint reads simply, "This lofty house." Why hath the Lord done this? (see Deuteronomy 29:24 ; Jeremiah 22:8, 9 ). To the "astonishment" prophesied here the parallel adds, "shall hiss" - in a forcible expression found first in 2 Chronicles 29:8 , and afterwards in Micah ( Micah 6:16 )and in Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 18:16 ; Jeremiah 19:8 ; Jeremiah 25:9 , etc.; Lamentations 2:15, 16 ). 2 Chronicles 7:21

M AURER , "I will recompense their former iniquities (those long ago committed by their fathers) and their (own) repeated sins" (Jeremiah 16:11, 12). English Version gives a good sense, " First (before 'I bring them again into their land'), I will doubly (that is, fully and amply, Jeremiah 17:18; Isaiah 40:2) recompense." carcasses —not sweet-smelling sacrifices acceptable to God, but "carcasses" offered to idols, an offensive odor to God: human victims (Jeremiah 19:5; Ezekiel 16:20), and unclean animals (Isaiah 65:4; 66:17). M AURER explains it, "the carcasses" of the idols: their images void of sense and life. Compare Jeremiah 16:19, 20. Leviticus 26:30 favors this. 19, 20. The result of God's judgments on the Jews will be that both the Jews when restored, and the Gentiles who have witnessed those judgments, shall renounce idolatry for the worship of Jehovah. Fulfilled partly at the return from Babylon, after which the Jews entirely renounced idols, and many proselytes were gathered in from the Gentiles, but not to be realized in its fulness till the final restoration of Israel (Isaiah 2:1-17). 20. indignant protest of Jeremiah against idols. and they (are) no gods —(Jeremiah 2:11; Isaiah 37:19; Galatians 4:8). "They" refers to the idols. A man (a creature himself) making God is a contradiction in terms. Vulgate takes "they" thus: "Shall man make gods, though men themselves are not gods?" 21.

" Israel " was not, save in a very limited sense, "gathered from all the lands" at the return from Babylon (see on Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:3; Jeremiah 32:15). 16. send for —translate, "I will send many"; "I will give the commission to many" (2 Chronicles 17:7). fishers … hunters —successive invaders of Judea (Amos 4:2; Habakkuk 1:14, 15). So "net" (Ezekiel 12:13). As to "hunters," see Genesis 10:9; Micah 7:2. The Chaldees were famous in hunting, as the Egyptians, the other enemy of Judea, were in fishing. "Fishers" expresses the ease of their victory over the Jews as that of the angler over fishes; "hunters," the keenness of their pursuit of them into every cave ## and nook. It is remarkable, the same image is used in a good sense of the Jews' restoration, implying that just as their enemies were employed by God to take them in hand for destruction, so the same shall be employed for their restoration (Ezekiel 47:9, 10). So spiritually, those once enemies by nature ( fishermen many of them literally) were employed by God to be heralds of salvation, "catching men" for life (Matthew 4:19; Luke 5:10; Acts 2:41; 4:4); compare here Jeremiah 16:19, "the Gentiles shall come unto thee" (2 Corinthians 12:16). 17. (Jeremiah 32:19; Proverbs 5:21; 15:3). their iniquity —the cause of God's judgments on them. 18. first … double —H ORSLEY translates, "I will recompense … once and again "; literally, "the first time repeated": alluding to the two captivities—the Babylonian and the Roman.

2 . Jehovah’s indignation is aroused; and He swears (cf. Amos 6:8 , Amos 8:7 ), that retribution will overtake them for such selfishness and cruelty. hath sworn by his holiness ] God’s holiness is made the pledge of the validity of the oath: so Psalm 89:35 ; cf. Jeremiah 44:26 . behold, days are coming &c.] The expression implies a sudden and unexpected reversal of what at present prevails: it occurs besides, Amos 8:11 , Amos 9:13 ; 1 Samuel 2:31 ; 2 Kings 20:17 (= Isaiah 39:6 ), and fifteen times in Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 7:32 ; Jeremiah 9:24 ; Jeremiah 16:14 ; Jeremiah 19:6 ; Jeremiah 23:5 ; Jeremiah 23:7 ; Jeremiah 30:3 , &c.). he will take you away with hooks &c.] rather, ye shall be taken &c. The image is one partly of ignominy, partly of helplessness. The women of Samaria are no longer like fat cattle, proudly disdainful of all who may approach them: they are dragged violently by the foe out of the ease and luxury of their palaces, like fishes out of their native element, the water. your posterity ] your residue (R.V.),—any of you who happen to escape the ‘hooks’ of the preceding clause. It is a total destruction which the prophet contemplates.

Peter comprises the whole course of the times of the New Testament between the Ascension of the Lord and His Advent in glory, times in which that apostolic age shines forth pre-eminent, Acts 3:24 , as also corresponding to it the condition of the Church, which was to be constituted of Jews and Gentiles, together, [32] Justus Jonas says, “Christ is that King, who has now received heaven, reigning in the meantime through the Gospel in the Spirit, until all things be restored, i.e. until the remainder of the Jews and the Gentiles be converted.” Romans 11. Ἀποκατάστασις is the restitution of things from their confusion into their former order. You will say, Were then all things at any time in such a state as that to which they are to be restored? Answer: 1) They were, at least as far as concerns their beginnings: comp. Matthew 17:11 , “Elias truly shall first come and restore all things:” for which reason the apostles also above used this verb, ch. Acts 1:6 , “Wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” 2) There is a reference to the Divine intention and promise: as a man born blind is said to recover his sight , because the sight is a natural blessing. Weigh well the word השיב ἀποκαθίστημι , Jeremiah 16:15 ; Jeremiah 24:6 ; Jeremiah 50:19 ; Ezekiel 16:55 .