Jeremiah 8:39

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.

2 And it shall be, if they say to thee, "Whither shall we go forth?" Then shalt thou say to them, — Thus saith Jehovah, — They who are for death, to death, And they who are for the sword, to the sword, And they who are for the famine, to the famine, And they who are for captivity, to captivity: 3 And I will set over them four kinds, saith Jehovah, — The sword to kill, and the dogs to drag, And the bird of heaven, and the beast of the earth, To devour and to destroy: 4 And I will set them a vexation, To all the kingdoms of the earth, For Manasse, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, On account of what he did in Jerusalem. 5 For who will pity thee, O Jerusalem? And who will condole with thee? And who will turn aside To inquire of thy welfare? 6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith Jehovah; Backward hast thou gone; I will therefore stretch my hand against thee, And I will destroy thee; I am wearied with repenting: 7 And I will fan them with a fan Through all the gates of the earth; I have bereaved, I destroyed my people; From their own ways they have not returned. 8 Multiplied have their widows to me Above the sand of the sea; I brought to them, on the troop of youths, A waster at mid-day; And I cast on them suddenly A tumult and terrors. 9 Weakened did she become who had born seven, Expire did her soul, Go down did her sun while it was yet day, Confounded has she been and ashamed: And the remainder of them to the sword will I give, Before their enemies, saith Jehovah.

18 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah the king of Judea, They shall not bewail him, — "Ah, my brother! Ah, sister!" They shall not bewail him, — "Ah, Lord! Ah, his glory!" 19 With the burial of an ass shall he be buried, Drawn out and cast forth Beyond the gates of Jerusalem. 20 Ascend into Lebanon and cry, And on Bashan lift up thy voice, And cry all around, For destroyed are all thy lovers. 21 I spake to thee in thy tranquillity, Thou saidst, "I will not hear:" It has been thy manner from thy youth That thou didst not hear my voice. 22 Thy pastors shall the wind consume, And thy lovers, into exile shall they go: Surely ashamed shalt thou then be, And blush for all thy wickedness. 23 Thou hast set thy seat on Lebanon, Thou hast made thy nest among the cedars: How gracious wilt thou be When come on thee shall sorrows, The pain as of one in travail! 24 Live do I, saith Jehovah; Were Coniah the son of Jehoiakim the king of Judah A sealing ring on my right hand, I would thence pluck thee off: 25 And I will deliver thee Into the hand of those who seek thy life, And into the hand of those whose face thou dreadest, Even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar The king of Babylon, And into the hand of the Chaldeans: 26 And I will cast thee and thy mother who bare thee Into a foreign land where ye were not born, And there shall ye die; 27 And into the land they set their mind to return, Thither they shall not return. 28 Is this man Coniah a despised and broken statue?

sword … famine … pestilence —the three sorest judgments at once; any one of which would be enough for their ruin (2 Samuel 24:12, 13). 13. Jeremiah urges that much of the guilt of the people is due to the false prophets' influence. assured peace —solid and lasting peace. Literally, "peace of truth" (Isaiah 39:8). 14. (Jeremiah 23:21). 15. (Jeremiah 5:12, 13). By sword and famine … consumed —retribution in kind both to the false prophets and to their hearers (Jeremiah 14:16). 16. none to bury —(Psalms 79:3). pour their wickedness —that is, the punishment incurred by their wickedness (Jeremiah 2:19). 17. (Jeremiah 9:1; Lamentations 1:16). Jeremiah is desired to weep ceaselessly for the calamities coming on his nation (called a "virgin," as being heretofore never under foreign yoke), (Isaiah 23:4). 18. go about —that is, shall have to migrate into a land of exile. H ORSLEY translates, "go trafficking about the land (see Jeremiah 5:31, Margin; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Peter 2:3), and take no knowledge" (that is, pay no regard to the miseries before their eyes) (Isaiah 1:3; 58:3). If the literal sense of the Hebrew verb be retained, I would with English Version understand the words as referring to the exile to Babylon; thus, "the prophet and the priest shall have to go to a strange land to practise their religious traffic (Isaiah 56:11; Ezekiel 34:2, 3; Micah 3:11). 19. The people plead with God, Jeremiah being forbidden to do so. no healing —(Jeremiah 15:18). peace … no good —(Jeremiah 8:15). 20.

[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?

4 . And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth ] R.V. And whosoever is left, in any place where he sojourneth. The wording of this clause is a little ambiguous. The following paraphrase will give the meaning. ‘In any place where survivors of the Jewish captivity are to be found sojourning, there let the natives of the place, the non-Israelite neighbours, render him all assistance.’ That this is the right interpretation is shown by the passages Nehemiah 1:2 , ‘The Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity’ and Haggai 2:3 , ‘Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory’. Cf. 2 Kings 25:22 and ‘the residue’ (R.V.) in Jeremiah 8:3 ; Jeremiah 24:8 ; Jeremiah 39:9 , &c. The A.V. gives no intelligible sense. The R.V. (1) by altering ‘remaineth’ to ‘is left’ preserves the application of the word in the original to the survivors of the Captivity, (2) by punctuation indicates the construction of the verse, in which ‘whosoever is left’ is placed independently as a heading to the whole sentence; while the words ‘in any place where he sojourneth’ do not belong to ‘whosoever is left’ but introduce the succeeding clause ‘let the men &c.’ The passage is somewhat awkwardly worded, but with the above explanation is rendered quite clear in meaning. The decree made no universal requisition for aid to the Jews.

Verse 39. - Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;) [ Jeremiah 17:10 . Cf. ὁ παρδιογνώστης θεὸς ( Acts 15:8 ; also ib . 1:24). 1 Kings 8:39

4 . Even in captivity they would not be safe; they might escape the destruction of the foe, but the Divine sword should yet overtake them. before their enemies ] Driven before them, like a flock of sheep: cf. Lamentations 1:5 . I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good ] To set the eye upon is elsewhere found always in a good sense = to keep watch over, take under one’s care (see Jeremiah 24:6 ; Jeremiah 39:11 ). For evil and not for good , as Jeremiah 21:10 (with “to set the face against”), Jeremiah 39:16 ; and (with “watch over”) Jeremiah 44:27 . God’s watchful care and love is transformed, through His people’s sin, into hostility (cf. on Amos 6:8 ).

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