Jeremiah 47:12

He calls on Jerusalem, personified as a mourning female, to go up to the highest points visible from Jerusalem, and lament there (see on Jeremiah 3:21) the calamity of herself, bereft of allies and of her princes, who are one after the other being cast down. Bashan —north of the region beyond Jordan; the mountains of Anti-libanus are referred to (Psalms 68:15). from the passages —namely, of the rivers (Jude 12:6); or else the borders of the country (1 Samuel 13:23; Isaiah 10:29). The passes (1 Samuel 14:4). M AURER translates, "Abarim," a mountainous tract beyond Jordan, opposite Jericho, and south of Bashan; this accords with the mention of the mountains Lebanon and Bashan (Numbers 27:12; 33:47). lovers —the allies of Judea, especially Egypt, now unable to help the Jews, being crippled by Babylon (2 Kings 24:7). 21. I admonished thee in time. Thy sin has not been a sin of ignorance or thoughtlessness, but wilful. prosperity —given thee by Me; yet thou wouldest not hearken to the gracious Giver. The Hebrew is plural, to express, "In the height of thy prosperity"; so "droughts" (Isaiah 58:11). thou saidst —not in words, but in thy conduct, virtually. thy youth —from the time that I brought thee out of Egypt, and formed thee into a people (Jeremiah 7:25; 2:2; Isaiah 47:12). 22. wind —the Chaldees, as a parching wind that sweeps over rapidly and withers vegetation (Jeremiah 4:11, 12; Psalms 103:16; Isaiah 40:7). eat up … pastors —that is, thy kings (Jeremiah 2:8).

Dedan —a tribe bordering on and made subject by Idumea; descended from Jokshan, son of Abraham and Keturah (Genesis 25:1-3). Esau —The naming of Edom's progenitor, reprobated by God, recalls the remembrance of the old curse on him for his profanity, both his sin and its punishment being perpetuated in his descendants (Hebrews 12:16, 17). 9. (Ob 5). Grape gatherers, yea even thieves, leave something behind them; but the Chaldeans will sweep Idumea clean of everything. 10. Edom became politically extinct after the time of the Romans. uncovered his secret places —where he hid himself (Jeremiah 49:8) and his treasures (Isaiah 45:3). I have caused that nothing should be so hidden as that the conqueror should not find it. brethren —Ammon. neighbours —the Philistines. 11. Thy fatherless and widows must rest their hope in God alone, as none of the adult males shall be left alive, so desperate will be the affairs of Edom. The verse also, besides this threat, implies a promise of mercy to Esau in God's good time, as there was to Moab and Ammon (Jeremiah 49:6; Jeremiah 48:47); the extinction of the adult males is the prominent idea (compare Jeremiah 49:12). 12. (Compare Jeremiah 25:15, 16, 29). they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup —the Jews to whom, by virtue of the covenant relation, it did not belong to drink the cup. It might have been expected that they would be spared.

55 . When thy sisters ] Better: and thy sisters … and thou and thy daughters. In this idea of the restoration of Israel’s heathen neighbours to their own land after being plucked up out of it Ezekiel as usual follows Jeremiah; cf. in general, Jeremiah 12:14-17 ; Moab, ch. Jeremiah 48:47 , Ammon, Jeremiah 49:6 , and Elam, Jeremiah 49:39 .

Verse 10. - I will turn your feasts into mourning, etc. (comp. ver. 3: Amos 5:16, 17 ; Lamentations 5:15 ; Hosea 2:11 ; Tobit 2:6). Sackcloth . A token of mourning ( 1 Kings 20:31 ; Isaiah 15:3 ; Joel 1:8, 13 ). Baldness. On shaving the head as a sign of mourning, see note on Micah 1:16; and comp. Job 1:20 ; Isaiah 3:24 ; Jeremiah 16:6 ; Jeremiah 47:5 ; Ezekiel 7:18 ). I will make it; Ponam eam (Vulgate); sc . terram . But it is better to take it to refer to the whole state of things mentioned before. The mourning for an only son was proverbially severe, like that of the widow of Nain ( Luke 7:12 , etc.; comp. Jeremiah 6:26 ; Zechariah 12:10 ). And the end thereof as a bitter day. The calamity should not wear itself out; it should be bitter unto the end. Septuagint, Θήσομαι ... τοὺς μέτ αὐτοῦ ὡς ἡμέραν ὀδύνης , "I will make... those with him as a day of anguish." Amos 8:10

See Isa_5:25 ,26 , &c.; Jer_5:15. ## Jeremiah 6:23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; or, They shall carry ; they shall not want military ammunition of all sorts for the despatch of this great work; synecdochically expressed for all sorts of weapons. So Psa_35:2 ,3 . ## Have no mercy; see Jer_50:42; not be entreated, or have any pity to sex or age, poor or rich, Jer_21:7. See the like Isa_13:17 ,18 . And this was as duly executed as here prophesied, 2Ch_36:17. ## Their voice roareth like the sea; which, as it is very violent, so it causeth great consternation by its noise, compared to the roaring of the devils, Jam_2:19. Possibly it may intimate, they would not hearken to the voice of his prophets, now they shall hear the terrifying noise of armies, like the roaring of the sea. ## They ride upon horses; which is a creature in especial manner adapted by God for war, as he is described. Job_9:19 ,20 , &c.; implying their speed, strength, and fierceness, Jer_50:42. ## Set in array; the whole nation set as it were in battalia against them, that they may perceive they have to do with soldiers. The LXX. reading va esh , fire , for vya ish, man , render it, as fire to the war. ## O daughter of Zion, or Jerusalem; for these two titles are promiscuously used for the same place; and the term daughter is often given to cities and countries, as Psa_45:12 137:8 Isa_23:12 47:1 . ## Jeremiah 6:24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble. The prophet personates the people’s affections: q.d.

65 . shalt thou find no ease ] The vb. is found only in Jeremiah 31:2 ; Jeremiah 47:6 ; Jeremiah 50:34 , Isaiah 52:4 ; its substantive in Isaiah 28:12 . no rest , etc.] Genesis 8:9 . a quaking heart ] The vb. occurs in Deuteronomy 2:25 . failing of eyes ] With disappointment of hope: cp. Deuteronomy 28:32 and Lamentations 2:11 ; Lamentations 4:17 . pining of soul ] Faintness of longing or of life ; Heb. nephesh means either. Deuteronomy 28:65

So in Jeremiah 7 the men of Judah point to the material Temple in their midst as the palladium of their security; but the prophet retorts in a similar strain, that, if they desire to merit Jehovah’s protection, and wish Jerusalem to escape the fate of Shiloh, they must ‘amend their ways,’ and practise more consistently than they have done hitherto the ordinances of civil righteousness ( Jeremiah 7:3-15 ). punish you for ] R.V. more lit., visit upon you , as the same phrase is often rendered, Amos 3:14 ; Exodus 20:5 ; Jeremiah 5:9 ; Jeremiah 5:29 ; Jeremiah 23:2 (but punish , Jeremiah 11:22 , Jeremiah 25:12 , Jeremiah 29:32 , &c.). The expression is particularly frequent in Jeremiah. iniquities ] the conventional, and sufficient rendering of ‘âwôn . Etymologically, however, as Arabic shews (where the corresponding verb ghawâ means to err , or go astray ), the idea expressed by it is that of deviation from the right track, error: so the corresponding verb, 2 Samuel 7:14 ; 2 Samuel 24:17 ; 1 Kings 8:47 al. Comp. the writer’s Notes on the Hebrew Text of Samuel , on 1 Samuel 20:30 .

The Lord God hath sworn by His holiness - They had sinned to profane His "Holy Name" (see the note at Amos 2:7 ). God swears by that holiness which they had profaned in themselves on whom it was called, and which they had caused to be profaned by others. He pledges His own holiness, that He will avenge their unholiness. : "In swearing "by His holiness," God sware by Himself. For He is the supreme uncreated justice and Holiness. This justice each, in his degree, should imitate and maintain on earth, and these had sacrilegiously violated and overthrown." Days shall come (literally, are among) upon you - God's Day and eternity are ever coming. He reminds them of their continual approach. He says not only that they will certainly come, but they are ever coming. They are holding on their steady course. Each day which passes, they advance a day closer upon the sinner. People put out of their minds what "will come;" they "put far the evil day." Therefore, God so often in His notices of woe to come, (1 Samuel 2:31; Isaiah 39:6; Jeremiah 7:32; Jeremiah 9:25; Jeremiah 17:14; Jeremiah 19:6; Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:7; Jeremiah 30:3; Jeremiah 31:27-31, Jeremiah 31:38; Jeremiah 33:14; Jeremiah 48:12; Jeremiah 49:2; Jeremiah 51:47, Jeremiah 51:52. (Ges.); Amos 8:11), brings to mind, that those "days are" ever "coming" ; they are not a thing which shall be only; in God's purpose, they already "are;" and with one uniform steady noiseless tread "are coming upon" the sinner.

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