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Text -- Jeremiah 9:21 (NET)

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9:21 ‘Death has climbed in through our windows. It has entered into our fortified houses. It has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.’
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Wesley: Jer 9:21 - -- The unavoidableness of the ruin is expressed metaphorically, alluding to the storming of a city, wherein there is no respect had to sex, youth, or age...

The unavoidableness of the ruin is expressed metaphorically, alluding to the storming of a city, wherein there is no respect had to sex, youth, or age.

JFB: Jer 9:21 - -- The death-inflicting soldiery, finding the doors closed, burst in by the windows.

The death-inflicting soldiery, finding the doors closed, burst in by the windows.

JFB: Jer 9:21 - -- Death cannot be said to enter the windows to cut off the children in the streets, but to cut them off, so as no more to play in the streets without (Z...

Death cannot be said to enter the windows to cut off the children in the streets, but to cut them off, so as no more to play in the streets without (Zec 8:5).

Clarke: Jer 9:21 - -- For death is come up into our windows - Here Death is personified, and represented as scaling their wall; and after having slain the playful childre...

For death is come up into our windows - Here Death is personified, and represented as scaling their wall; and after having slain the playful children without, and the vigorous youth employed in the labors of the field, he is now come into the private houses, to destroy the aged and infirm; and into the palaces, to destroy the king and the princes.

Calvin: Jer 9:21 - -- And by way of explanation he adds, For death has ascended into our windows There is here a kind of derision; for the Jews, as it has been said, had...

And by way of explanation he adds, For death has ascended into our windows There is here a kind of derision; for the Jews, as it has been said, had falsely promised to themselves a perpetual impunity; and therefore the Prophet adopts here a most suitable comparison. For as they sleep securely, who with closed doors seem to themselves to be beyond the reach of danger; so the Jews at that time despised God and all his judgments, as though the doors of their houses were closed. Hence the Prophet says, that death had entered in through the windows; and he thus derides their folly for thinking that they could escape the hand of God, because their gates were shut, as though. God’s power could not ascend above the clouds nor enter through their windows, when the doors were closed. In short, he intimates that the doors would not be opened by God; for though he might not be disposed to break them, he could yet immediately ascend into the windows. We now apprehend the Prophet’s design in saying, that death had entered through the windows.

And what he adds respecting palaces bears the same import; as though he had said, “Were our houses even fortified, and were they not. only commodious habitations, but made like citadels, yet God could not be excluded; for his power can penetrate through the highest and the thickest walls, so that a palace is to him like the weakest and frailest cottage.” We hence see that by this comparison he checks that foolisll confidence by which the Jews had deceived themselves, and by which they were as yet inebriated. Death then has ascended into our windows, etc.

He then adds, To cut off the young, or children, from the public ways, and the youths from the streets 253 By these words he sets forth the dreadfulness of the calamity; for the youths would not be able to defend themselves by their own strength; for by בחורים , bechurim, he means the most robust. Even these would not be able to repel the onset of their enemies; though in the flower of their age, yet their rigor, however strong, would not protect them, nor would children and infants be spared. We see that two things are here set forth by the Prophet, — that the assaults of their enemies would be so violent, that young men would in vain resist them, as their vigor would avail them nothing, — and then that such would be the cruelty of their enemies, that no regard would be shewn for age, for they would put to death even infants newly born. It follows —

TSK: Jer 9:21 - -- Jer 6:11, Jer 15:7; 2Ch 36:17; Eze 9:5, Eze 9:6, Eze 21:14, Eze 21:15; Amo 6:10,Amo 6:11

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Jer 9:10-22 - -- The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length. Jer 9:10 The habitations i. e - ...

The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length.

Jer 9:10

The habitations i. e - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see Jer 6:3).

So that none can ... - Or, "They are parched up, with no man to pass through them; neither do they hear the voice of cattle; from the birds of the heaven even to the beasts they "are fled, they are gone."

Jer 9:11

Dragons - Rather, jackals.

Jer 9:12

For what the land perisheth ... - This is the question proposed for consideration. The prophet calls upon the wise man to explain his question; that question being, Wherefore did the land perish? He follows it by the assertion of a fact: "It is parched like the wilderness with no man to pass through."

Jer 9:13

The cause of the chastisement about to fall upon Jerusalem, was their desertion of the divine Law.

Jer 9:14

Imagination - Or, as in the margin.

Which their fathers taught them - It was not the sin of one generation that brought upon them chastisement: it was a sin, which had been handed down from father to son.

Jer 9:15

I will feed them ... - Rather, I am feeding them. The present participle used here, followed by three verbs in the future, shows that the judgment has beam, of which the successive stages are given in the next clause.

Wormwood - See Deu 29:18, note, and for "water of gall,"Jer 8:14, note.

Jer 9:16

This verse is taken from Lev 26:33. The fulfillment of what had been so long before appointed as the penalty for the violation of Yahweh’ s covenant is one of the most remarkable proofs that prophecy was something more than human foresight.

Till I have consumed them - See Jer 4:27 note. How is this "consuming"consistent with the promise to the contrary there given? Because it is limited by the terms of Jer 9:7. Previously to Nebuchadnezzars destruction of Jerusalem God removed into safety those in whom the nation should revive.

Jer 9:17

The mourning women - Hired to attend at funerals, and by their skilled wailings aid the real mourners in giving vent to their grief. Hence, they are called "cunning,"literally "wise"women, wisdom being constantly used in Scripture for anything in which people are trained.

Jer 9:18

Take up a wailing for us - i. e., for the nation once God’ s chosen people, but long spiritually dead.

Jer 9:19

Forsaken - Or, left: forced to abandon the land.

Because our dwellings ... - Rather, "because they have east down our dwellings."The whole verse is a description of their sufferings. See 2Ki 25:1-12.

Jer 9:20

The command is addressed to the women because it was more especially their part to express the general feelings of the nation. See 1Sa 18:6; 2Sa 1:24. The women utter now the death-wail over the perishing nation. They are to teach their daughters and neighbors the "lamentation, i. e., dirge,"because the harvest of death would be so large that the number of trained women would not suffice.

Jer 9:21

Death is come up ... - i. e., death steals silently like a thief upon his victims, and makes such havoc that there are no children left to go "without,"nor young men to frequent the open spaces in the city.

Jer 9:22

The "handful"means the little bundle of grain which the reaper gathers on his arm with three or four strokes of his sickle, and then lays down. Behind the reaper came one whose business it was to gather several of these bundles, and bind them into a sheaf. Thus, death strews the ground with corpses as thickly as these handfuls lie upon the reaped land, but the corpses lie there unheeded.

Poole: Jer 9:21 - -- Death is come up the unavoidableness of the ruin is expressed metaphorically, Eze 21:14 Jer 6:5 , most likely alluding to the violent and universal s...

Death is come up the unavoidableness of the ruin is expressed metaphorically, Eze 21:14 Jer 6:5 , most likely alluding to the violent and universal storming of a city, Jer 5:10 , wherein there is no respect had to sex, youth, or age. Several other allusions. See English Annotations. The Chaldeans are here understood by death, as bringing death wherever they come; a metonymy of the effect.

To cut off the children from without no safety within or without; the enemy shall cut off all, not only those at home, but even those that are conversing or playing in the streets, which most commonly young men and children are, Jer 6:11 .

Haydock: Jer 9:21 - -- For. This was the song. (Calmet) --- Streets. Death spares none. The least suspecting fall. (Haydock) --- It enters by the windows, if the do...

For. This was the song. (Calmet) ---

Streets. Death spares none. The least suspecting fall. (Haydock) ---

It enters by the windows, if the doors be shut, Joel ii. 8.

Gill: Jer 9:21 - -- For death is come up into our windows,.... Their doors being shut, bolted, and barred, they thought themselves safe, but were not; the Chaldeans scale...

For death is come up into our windows,.... Their doors being shut, bolted, and barred, they thought themselves safe, but were not; the Chaldeans scaled their walls, broke in at the tops of their houses, or at their windows, and destroyed them: for the invasion of the enemy, and the manner of their entrance into them, seem to be described. Death is here represented as a person, as it sometimes is in Scripture; see Rev 6:8 and as coming suddenly and unawares upon men, and from whom there is no escape, or any way and method of keeping him out; bolts and bars will not do; he can climb up, and go in at the window:

and is entered into our palaces; the houses of their principal men, which were well built, and most strongly fortified, these could not keep out the enemy: and death spares none, high nor low, rich nor poor; it enters the palaces of great men, as well as the cottages of the poor. The Septuagint version is, "it is entered into our land"; and so the Arabic version; only it places the phrase, "into our land", in the preceding clause; and that of "into", or "through our windows", in this:

to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets; these words are not strictly to be connected with the preceding, as though they pressed the end of death, ascending up to the windows, and entering palaces, to cut off such as were in the streets; but the words are a proposition of themselves, as the distinctive accent "athnach" shows; and must be supplied after this manner, and passing through them it goes on, "to cut off", &c. and so aptly describes the invading enemy climbing the walls of the city, entering at windows, or tops of houses, upon or near the walls; and, having destroyed all within, goes forth into the streets, where children were at play, and slays them and into courts or markets, where young men were employed in business, and destroys them. The Jews e interpret it of famine.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jer 9:21 Here Death is personified (treated as though it were a person). Some have seen as possible background to this lament an allusion to Mesopotamian mytho...

Geneva Bible: Jer 9:21 For death hath come up into our ( q ) windows, [and] hath entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Jer 9:1-26 - --1 Jeremiah laments the Jews for their manifold sins;9 and for their judgment.12 Disobedience is the cause of their bitter calamity.17 He exhorts to mo...

MHCC: Jer 9:12-22 - --In Zion the voice of joy and praise used to be heard, while the people kept close to God; but sin has altered the sound, it is now the voice of lament...

Matthew Henry: Jer 9:12-22 - -- Two things the prophet designs, in these verses, with reference to the approaching destruction of Judah and Jerusalem: - 1. To convince people of th...

Keil-Delitzsch: Jer 9:21 - -- The numbers of the dead will be so great, that the bodies will be left lying unburied. The concluding touch to this awful picture is introduced by t...

Constable: Jer 2:1--45:5 - --II. Prophecies about Judah chs. 2--45 The first series of prophetic announcements, reflections, and incidents th...

Constable: Jer 2:1--25:38 - --A. Warnings of judgment on Judah and Jerusalem chs. 2-25 Chapters 2-25 contain warnings and appeals to t...

Constable: Jer 7:1--10:25 - --2. Warnings about apostasy and its consequences chs. 7-10 This is another collection of Jeremiah...

Constable: Jer 8:4--11:1 - --Incorrigible Judah 8:4-10:25 The twin themes of Judah's stubborn rebellion and her inevi...

Constable: Jer 9:17-22 - --A dirge over Jerusalem 9:17-22 What follows is a brilliant prophetic elegy. It contains two pronouncements from the Lord (vv. 17-21 and 22). 9:17 The ...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Jeremiah (Book Introduction) JEREMIAH, son of Hilkiah, one of the ordinary priests, dwelling in Anathoth of Benjamin (Jer 1:1), not the Hilkiah the high priest who discovered the ...

JFB: Jeremiah (Outline) EXPOSTULATION WITH THE JEWS, REMINDING THEM OF THEIR FORMER DEVOTEDNESS, AND GOD'S CONSEQUENT FAVOR, AND A DENUNCIATION OF GOD'S COMING JUDGMENTS FOR...

TSK: Jeremiah 9 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Jer 9:1, Jeremiah laments the Jews for their manifold sins; Jer 9:9, and for their judgment; Jer 9:12, Disobedience is the cause of their...

Poole: Jeremiah (Book Introduction) BOOK OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH THE ARGUMENT IT was the great unhappiness of this prophet to be a physician to, but that could not save, a dying sta...

Poole: Jeremiah 9 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 9 The prophet’ s lamentation continueth over their adultery, deceit, idolatry, which God would certainly punish, and they should be la...

MHCC: Jeremiah (Book Introduction) Jeremiah was a priest, a native of Anathoth, in the tribe of Benjamin. He was called to the prophetic office when very young, about seventy years afte...

MHCC: Jeremiah 9 (Chapter Introduction) (Jer 9:1-11) The people are corrected, Jerusalem is destroyed. (Jer 9:12-22) The captives suffer in a foreign land. (Jer 9:23-26) God's loving-kindn...

Matthew Henry: Jeremiah (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah The Prophecies of the Old Testament, as the Epistles of the New, are p...

Matthew Henry: Jeremiah 9 (Chapter Introduction) In this chapter the prophet goes on faithfully to reprove sin and to threaten God's judgments for it, and yet bitterly to lament both, as one that ...

Constable: Jeremiah (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book derives from its writer, the late seventh an...

Constable: Jeremiah (Outline) Outline I. Introduction ch. 1 A. The introduction of Jeremiah 1:1-3 B. T...

Constable: Jeremiah Jeremiah Bibliography Aharoni, Yohanan, and Michael Avi-Yonah. The Macmillan Bible Atlas. Revised ed. London: C...

Haydock: Jeremiah (Book Introduction) THE PROPHECY OF JEREMIAS. INTRODUCTION. Jeremias was a priest, a native of Anathoth, a priestly city, in the tribe of Benjamin, and was sanct...

Gill: Jeremiah (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH The title of the book in the Vulgate Latin version is, "the Prophecy of Jeremiah"; in the Syriac and Arabic versions, "the...

Gill: Jeremiah 9 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 9 This chapter is a continuation of the judgments of God upon the Jews for their sins and transgressions herein mentioned;...

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