Jeremiah 45:15

20. Psalms 18:32. 21. Psalms 21:1, 3, 7. 22. Ps. 45. 23. Ps. 68, 69. 24. Ps. 72.—Targum, Midrash, Commentators—Vulgar Latin corrupted, and the LXX.—פִּסָּה and יִנּוֹן, what. 25. Psalms 80:16, 18, how to be rendered—בֶּן־אָדָם, who. 26. Ps. 110.—Prophecy of the Messiah—Confession of the Jews. 27. Of the Targum on Solomon's Song. 28. Isaiah 2:2–4. 29. Isaiah 4:2 vindicated. 30, 31. Isaiah 9:6—Sense of the Targum on the place—Vulgar Latin noted. 32. Entanglements of the Jews from this testimony. 33, 34. Four things promised, not agreeing to Hezekiah—Answer of Jarchi, Kimchi, Aben Ezra. 35. The name mentioned, whose—שַׂר־שָׁלוֹם, who. 36. Answer of Abarbanel. 37. Of the increase of his government. 38. Isaiah 10:27. 39. Isaiah 11:1, 6—Abarbanel's prediction of the ruin of the Christians. 40. Isaiah 16:1. 41. Isaiah 28:5. 42. Isaiah 42:1. 43. Isaiah 52:13. 44. Jeremiah 23:5—Corruption of old translations—Purity of the original—Messiah, Jehovah our righteousness—Ezekiel 37:24. 45. Jeremiah 30:21, 33:13, 15. 46. Hosea 3:5, 14:8. 47. Micah 4:8. 48. Micah 5:2 vindicated—Kimchi's blasphemy. 49. Zechariah 3:8, 4:7, 6:12, 10:4, 9:9, 11:12, 13, 12:10. 50. Conclusion. 1.

[Bible] 44:29. And this shall be a sign to you, saith the Lord, that I will punish you in this place: that you may know that my words shall be accomplished indeed against you for evil. 44:30. Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will deliver Pharao Nechao king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life: as I delivered Sedecias king of Juda into the land of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon his enemy, and that sought his life. Jeremias Chapter 45 The prophet comforts Baruch in his affliction. 45:1. The word that Jeremias the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Nerias, when he had written these words in a book, out of the mouth of Jeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, saying: 45:2. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel to thee, Baruch: 45:3. Thou hast said: Woe is me, wretch that I am, for the Lord hath added sorrow to my sorrow: I am wearied with my groans, and I find no rest. 45:4. Thus saith the Lord: Thus shalt thou say to him: Behold, them whom I have built, I do destroy: and them whom I have planted, I do pluck up, and all this land. 45:5. And dost thou seek great things for thyself? Seek not: for behold I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord! but I will give thee thy life, and save thee in all places whithersoever thou shalt go. Jeremias Chapter 46 A prophecy against Egypt. The Jews shall return from captivity. 46:1. The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against the Gentiles, 46:2. Against Egypt, against the army of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Charcamis, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon defeated, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda. 46:3. Prepare ye the shield and buckler, and go forth to battle. 46:4. Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen: stand forth with helmets, furbish the spears, put on coats of mail.

## Jeremiah 45:3 Upon Baruch’s reading the prophecies after he had wrote them from the mouth of Jeremiah, both he and Jeremiah were sent for before the princes, and advised to hide themselves, as we read, Jer_36:15 ,19 . This probably disturbed Baruch, and made him lament his condition in such-like expressions, of which the prophet had heard, probably by revelation from God. Jeremiah 45:4 No text from Poole on this verse. Jeremiah 45:5 What great things Baruch was seeking is not expressed, and impossible to be determined with any certainty; they could not be honour or riches, the time of Jehoiakim’s reign was no time for any pious rational man to expect any thing of that nature; he might expect to have been a prophet, as Elisha was, who first was but a servant to Elijah. Or at least he might expect rest and protection, when others met with disturbance. But it may be the meaning is no more than, Dost thou expect what none meeteth with, or is like to meet with who feareth God? Never think of it. ## I will bring evil upon all flesh; I am bringing calamities and misery upon the whole nation wherein thou livest. ## But thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest; I will preserve thy life, that is all thou art to expect, and thou shalt live to see the time that thou wilt judge that a great booty, that thou shalt have lent thee, whithersoever the wind of my providence shall happen to drive thee.

5. Zedekiah. To render the transpositions evident which have taken place in these prophetical discourses, we have only to look at those which bear the date of their delivery. Table II Jeremiah 1:1. Delivered the thirteenth year of Josiah Jeremiah 35:1. Under Jehoiakim Jeremiah 3:6. Under Josiah Jeremiah 36:1. Under Jehoiakim Jeremiah 21:1. Under Zedekiah Jeremiah 37:1. Under Zedekiah during the siege of Jerusalem Jeremiah 24:1. After the carrying away of Jeconiah, son of Jehoiakim Jeremiah 37:11. Under Zedekiah Jeremiah 25:1. The fourth year of Jehoiakim Jeremiah 38:1. Under Zedekiah Jeremiah 26:1. The beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim Jeremiah 39:15. Under Zedekiah while Jeremiah was in prison Jeremiah 28:1. The beginning of the reign of Zedekiah Jeremiah 45:1. The fourth year of Jehoiakim Jeremiah 29:1. After the carrying away of Jeconiah Jeremiah 46:2. The fourth year of Jehoiakim Jeremiah 32:1. The tenth year of Zedekiah Jeremiah 49:34. In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah Jeremiah 34:1. (Under Zedekiah) during the siege of Jerusalem Jeremiah 51:59.

His residence was at Mizpah (Jeremiah 40:5). home —the house of Gedaliah, wherein Jeremiah might remain as in a safe asylum. As in Jeremiah 40:1 Jeremiah is represented as "bound in chains" when he came to Ramah among the captives to be carried to Babylon, this release of Jeremiah is thought by M AURER to be distinct from that in Jeremiah 40:5, 6. But he seems first to have been released from the court of the prison and to have been taken to Ramah, still in chains, and then committed in freedom to Gedaliah. dwelt among the people —that is, was made free. 15-18. Belonging to the time when the city was not yet taken, and when Jeremiah was still in the court of the prison (Jeremiah 38:13). This passage is inserted here because it was now that Ebed-melech's good act (Jeremiah 38:7-12; Matthew 25:43) was to be rewarded in his deliverance. 16. Go —not literally, for he was in confinement, but figuratively. before thee —in thy sight. 17. the men of whom thou art afraid —(Jeremiah 38:1, 4-6). The courtiers and princes hostile to thee for having delivered Jeremiah shall have a danger coming so home to themselves as to have no power to hurt. Heretofore intrepid, he was now afraid; this prophecy was therefore the more welcome to him. ## 18. life … for a prey —(See on Jeremiah 21:9; Jeremiah 38:2; Jeremiah 45:5). put … trust in me —(Jeremiah 38:7-9). Trust in God was the root of his fearlessness of the wrath of men, in his humanity to the prophet (1 Chronicles 5:20; Psalms 37:40).

Mh lupeite to pneuma, &c. Ne contristetis spiritum, &c. Et dixit verbo suo, se confracturum potentiam eorum secundum voluntatem suam. ## So Judges 10:15 , "And his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel," that is, as the Chaldee renders it, [he grieved, or his soul was affected with anguish;] by which grief the commiseration and compassion of God, for the afflictions and calamities of Israel is noted. The like phrase of the indignation and averseness of God is used, Ecclesiastes 11:8. The word broken when ascribed to God is also of the same sense, as Ezekiel 6:9 , "I am broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me," that is, I am affected with grief, and as it were compelled to decree their punishment, as verse the 10th. ## [39] Or shortened, so it is in the Hebrew. Repentance is ascribed to God, by which likewise his divine displeasure against man's iniquities, and the infliction of punishment is noted, Genesis 6:6; 1 Samuel 15:35; Jeremiah 18:10 . Sometimes (if the speech be with reference to men that by serious repentance are converted to God) it denotes divine commiseration, and a taking away of punishment Exodus 32:12,14; 2 Samuel 24:16; Psalms 106:45; Jeremiah 18:8 , and Jeremiah 27:3; Hosea 11:8; Joel 2:13-14 . Upon which place Tarnovius thus expresses himself, "The condition of men being changed, the immutable God is not changed, but the thing itself; for he willeth always, that it should go ill with the obstinate, and that

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.

Alfo if it tarry long, wait for it ; do not lude that thy Caufe is loft, becaufe at pre- [hou doft not hear from Court. Cry if thou O when wilt thou come unto me ? but never ich a wicked Thought pafs thro' thy Heart, g. This Evil is of the Lord, whyjhould^ I wait the Lord any longer ? a Kin, 6. "i"^. . ^ .