Jeremiah 8:38

17 Therefore shalt thou say to them this word, — Run down shall mine eyes with tears Day and night, and they shall not rest, For with a great breach is broken down The virgin, the daughter of my people; The stroke is very grievous: 18 If I go out to the field, behold the slain with the sword! And if I enter the city, behold the sorrowful with famine! For both the prophet, and the priest, Go round through the land, and know not what to do. 19 Repudiating hast thou repudiated Judah? Has thy soul abominated Sion? Why hast thou so smitten us, that we have no healing? We have looked for peace, and there is no good, And for time of healing, and behold terror! 20 We know, O Jehovah, our wickedness, And the iniquity of our fathers; For we have done wickedly against thee. 21 Reject not, for thy name's sake, Overthrow not the throne of thy glory; Remember. render not void, Thy covenant with us. (2:240) 22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles, Who can cause it to rain? And can they give rain from heaven? Art not thou thyself, Jehovah, our God? And we have looked to thee, For thou hast done all these things. 1 Then Jehovah said to me: Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, My soul would not be towards this people; Send them from my presence, and let them depart.

1 The word which came to Jeremiah respecting the drought: 2 Mourned has Judah, And his gates have been weakened; They are become black on the ground, And the cry of Jerusalem has gone up: (2:205) 3 And their chiefs sent the common people to the waters; They came to the cisterns, they found no water; They returned with empty vessels; They were confounded and ashamed, And they covered their head: 4 For the chapt ground, as there was no rain in the land, Ashamed were the husbandmen, And they covered their head: 5 Moreover the hind brought forth young in the field, And forsook it, for there was no grass: 6 And the wild asses stood on the cliffs, They drew in wind like serpents; Fail did their eyes, for there was no grass. (2:209) 7 Though our iniquities testify against us, O Jehovah, Deal with us for thine own name's sake; For multiplied have our defections, Against thee have we done wickedly, 8 Hope of Israel! Savior art thou In the time of trouble; Why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land? As a traveler, turning aside to pass the night? 9 Why shouldest thou be as a man terrified? As a strong man, who yet cannot save? Thou art in the midst of us, O Jehovah, And on us is thy name called, Forsake us not. (2:214) 10 Thus saith Jehovah of this people: As they have loved to wander, And have not restrained their feet, Therefore Jehovah has not been pleased with them; He will now remember their iniquities, And visit their sins.

10 His hand did the enemy stretch out To all her desirable things; For she saw the heathens, When they entered her sanctuary, Respecting whom thou hast commanded, They shall not come to thy congregation. 11 All her people are sighing, They are seeking bread; They have given their desirable things For food, to restore life: See, Jehovah, and look, For I am vile. 12 is it nothing to all of you Who pass by the way? Look and see, if there be a sorrow Like the sorrow that is come to me; For afflicted me hath Jehovah, In the day of the indignation of his wrath. 13 From on high hath he sent fire into my bones And it hath prevailed over them: He hath spread his net for my feet, He hath turned me backward; He hath made me desolate, Sorrowing all the day. 14 Tied is the yoke of mine iniquities by his hand, They are twined together: They have come up on my neck, He hath weakened my strength: Given me up hath the Lord, Into the hand of my enemies, From whom I shall not be able to rise. 15 Trodden under foot all my valiant men Hath the Lord in the midst of me: He hath brought on me the fixed time To destroy my young men; The winepress hath the Lord trodden, As to the virgin, the daughter of Judah. 16 For this I weep; mine eye mine eye! Waters flow down; For removed far from me is a comforter Who might revive my soul; My children are become desolate, For prevailed has the enemy.

That this promise was in part implemented by the erection of the second temple in the days of Zerubbabel may be conceded, and also that Ezekiel himself may have looked forward to a literal restoration of the sanctuary; but its highest realization must be sought for, first in the Incarnation ( John 1:14 ), next in God's inhabitation of the Church through the Spirit ( 2 Corinthians 6:16 ), and finally in his tabernacling with redeemed men in the heavenly Jerusalem ( Revelation 21:3, 22 ). The last blessing specified is the intimate communion of God with his people, and of them with him - Yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. This, which formed the kernel of the old covenant with Israel ( Leviticus 26:12 ), became the essence of the new covenant with the Israel of the restoration ( Ezekiel 11:20 ; Ezekiel 36:28 ; Jeremiah 30:22 ; Jeremiah 31:33 ; Jeremiah 32:38 ; Zechariah 8:8 ; Zechariah 13:9 ), but only attained to complete realization in the relation of Christian believers to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ( 2 Corinthians 6:16 ). Ezekiel 37:26

Micah and Isaiah, a little later, speak of such opposition, in Judah, as habitual Micah 2:6; Isaiah 30:10-11; much more in Israel, where the opposition to God's law was more fundamental, and where God's prophet's had been all but exterminated. Even Asa, in his degenerate days, imprisoned Hanani for prophesying that he would "have wars" 2 Chronicles 16:7, 2 Chronicles 16:10; Joash killed Zechariah son of Jehoiada 2 Chronicles 24:20-21; Amaziah silenced the prophet who rebuked him, "Art thou made of the king's council? forbear. Why shouldest thou be smitten?" 2 Chronicles 25:15-16. Jehoiakim sent even into Egypt to fetch Uriah and killed him Jeremiah 26:20-23. Jeremiah's life was one continuous encounter with false accusations Jeremiah 20:10; Jeremiah 37:13; Jeremiah 38:4, contradictions by false prophets (Jeremiah 23:17 ff; Jeremiah 27:9-10, Jeremiah 27:14-16; Jeremiah 28; Jeremiah 29), hatred Jeremiah 15:10, mockery Jeremiah 17:15; Jeremiah 20:7-8; Jeremiah 23:33, persecution Jeremiah 17:18, imprisonment Jeremiah 20:2; Jeremiah 32:3; Jeremiah 33:1; Jeremiah 37:15-21; Jeremiah 38:6-13, attempts to destroy him (Jeremiah 11:18-21; Jeremiah 18:18, Jeremiah 18:20-23; Jeremiah 26:8 ff; Jeremiah 36:26). The complaint was, as here, "wherefore dost thou prophesy?" Jeremiah 32:3.

[Bible] 8:17. For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord. 8:18. My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me. 8:19. Behold the voice of the daughter of my people from a far country: Is not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king in her? why then have they provoked me to wrath with their idols, and strange vanities? 8:20. The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 8:21. For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me. 8:22. Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed? Jeremias Chapter 9 The prophet laments the miseries of his people: and their sins, which are the cause of them. He exhorts them to repentance. 9:1. Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people. 9:2. Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors. 9:3. And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord. 9:4. Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully. 9:5. And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity. 9:6. Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord. 9:7. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will melt, and try them: for what else shall I do before the daughter of my people?

12 . humbled not himself ] Jeremiah consistently advised Zedekiah to submit to the Chaldeans; but the king partly through fear of his princes, partly through illusive hopes, could never bring himself to do this; cp. Jeremiah 21:1-7 ; Jeremiah 34:8-22 ; Jeremiah 37:1-10 ; Jeremiah 37:17 ; Jeremiah 38:17-23 .

ely put Jeremiah into this miserable place, but yet the noise of it came to Ebed-melech’s ear, who was attending in the court. The gates of the city were places where princes were wont to sit to execute justice, and to receive petitions, and give answers, 2Sa xix, 8 Proverbs 31:23 , &c. Jeremiah 38:8 No text from Poole on this verse. Jeremiah 38:9 The courage of this good eunuch was very remarkable; he did not stay till the king came in, but went to the king, as he was sitting in the gate of Benjamin, administering justice, or receiving and answering petitions, where doubtless he was not alone, and probably was at

hat God*s People may, by their new and repeai Sirts, as to Reafon at leaft, endanger their fereft in the eternal Inheritance, is manifeft by ch Groanings of theirs as thefc, I4^h dojl tUu ft me off\ Pfal.43. 2. £^ 5 1. II. Qafl me mt vay from thy p efmce^ Pfal. 60. i . And^ O God^ hybiji thou cdft us off for ever ? Pfal. 74. i. Yec ind in the Book of Leviticus, that tho' atTj of be Children of Ifrael ftioujd hzvefold.morigag'd "Rm^ide awny withihciv Inherirance,they did not iereby utterly make void their Tide 10 an Inereft therein, but it Iliould again return to *cm, ind they again enjoy the poffeifion of it \\\ the fear of Jubilee. In the Tear of Jubilee, faiihCod, mfhall yetum every man to his PoJf.ffJjn ; thi . Und /hall not be fold for ever, nor be quite cut off, 4r the Land is mine, for ye are fir angers and /ommers with me. In all the Land of your Poffaffi^n foufh all grant a Redemption for the Land,Lcv,l^, The Man in Ifrael that, by waxing poor, did !ell his Land in Canaan, was furely a type of the !!hriftian who, by Sin and Decays in Grace, has 'orfeitcd his Place and Inheritance in Heaven ; )ut as the Ceremonial >Law provided that the )Oorman in Canaan ftiould not by his Poverty lofe lis Portion in C4tf4 for ever, but that it fhould eturn to him in the Year of Jubilee j fo the Law /Gr4Cff has provided that the Children (Viall not or their Sin lofe their Inheritance in Heaven for :ver, but it Hiall return to iheni in t'other l4^orld^ 1 Cor, 11,32

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.