Jeremiah 2:20-21
long ago <05769> [For of.]
said <0559> [and thou saidst.]
<05674> [transgress. or, serve. when upon.]
prostitute <02181> [playing.]
planted <05193> [Yet I.]
best <0571> [wholly.]
produces rotten foul-smelling grapes <05494> [into the degenerate.]
Jeremiah 3:1
<0559> [They say. Heb. Saying. If a man.]
land <0776> [shall not that.]
prostitute <02181> [but thou hast.]
back ............................. return <07725> [yet return.]
Lamentations 1:8-9
committed terrible <02399> [hath.]
object of scorn <05206> [removed. Heb. become a removing, or wandering.]
admired <03513> [all.]
seen <07200> [they.]
groans <0584> [she sigheth.]
menstrual flow ... soiled <02932> [filthiness.]
consider <02142> [she remembereth.]
demise <03381> [came.]
comfort <05162> [she had.]
Look <07200> [behold.]
enemy <0341> [for.]
Ezekiel 16:1-63
Jerusalem <03389> [cause.]
abominable practices <08441> [abominations.]
origin <04351> [Thy birth. Heb. Thy cutting out, or habitation.]
Amorite <0567> [Amorite.]
Hittite <02850> [Hittite.]
birth <04138> [for.]
rubbed down ... salt <04935 04414> [to supple thee. or, when I looked upon thee. nor.]
eye <05869> [eye.]
thrown out <07993> [but thou.]
saw <07200> [and saw.]
kicking around helplessly <0947> [polluted. or, trodden under foot.]
Live ............. Live <02421> [Live.]
made <05414> [caused, etc. Heb. made thee a million.]
jewelry <05716> [excellent ornaments. Heb. ornament of ornaments.]
naked <05903> [whereas.]
noticing that <06256> [thy time.]
spread <06566> [and I.]
solemn <07650> [I sware.]
bathed ..... washed <07364 07857> [washed.]
blood <01818> [blood. Heb. bloods.]
fragrant <05480> [anointed.]
dressed <03847> [clothed.]
embroidered clothing <07553> [broidered.]
fine leather <08476> [badgers' skin.]
wrapped <02280> [I girded.]
covered <03680> [covered.]
put <05414> [I put.]
necklace <07242> [a chain.]
[forehead. Heb. nose.]
[ear-rings.]
necklace <07242> [and a.]
ate .............. attained the position <0398 06743> [thou didst.]
extremely <03966> [and thou wast.]
attained the position <06743> [and thou didst.]
fame <08034> [thy renown.]
splendor <01926> [through.]
trusted <0982> [thou didst.]
prostitute <02181> [and playedst.]
fame <08034> [because.]
Raised from the most abject state to dignity and splendour by Jehovah, Israel became proud of her numbers, riches, strength, and reputation, forgetting that it was "through his comeliness which he had put upon them;" and thus departing from God, made alliances with heathen nations, and worshipped their idols.
capitalized <08210> [and pouredst.]
took <03947> [hast also.]
male <02145> [men. Heb. a male. and didst.]
This seems to intimate that the Israelites not only spent their own wealth and abundance in building and decorating idol temples, and in maintaining their worship, but that they made use of the holy vestments, and the various kinds of offerings which belonged to Jehovah, in order to honour and serve the idols of the heathen.
food <03899> [meat.]
soothing aroma <07381 05207> [a sweet savour. Heb. a savour of rest.]
sons <01121> [thy sons.]
sacrificed <02076> [and these.]
eat <0398> [be devoured. Heb. devour. Is this.]
children <01121> [my children.]
sacrificed <05674> [to pass.]
Woe Woe <0188> [woe.]
built <01129> [thou hast.]
chamber <01354> [eminent place. or, brothel house. and hast.]
head <07218> [at every.]
beauty <03308> [and hast made.]
Egyptians <01121> [with the.]
stretched <05186> [I have.]
cut off <01639> [and have.]
rations <02706> [thine.]
{Chukkach,} "thy portion;" the household provision of a wife--food, clothes, and money.
delivered <05414> [delivered.]
The Jews, under Manasseh, and the succeeding kings of Judah, made the temple itself the scene of their open and abominable idolatries, in addition to all their idol temples! which appears to be meant by "the eminent place," and "highplaces in every street," ver. 24. Allured by the prosperity of the Egyptians, they also connected themselves with them, and joined in their multiplied and abominable idolatries. And when Jehovah punished them by wars and famines, and by the Philistines, whose daughters are represented as ashamed of their enormous idolatries, instead of being amended, they formed alliances with the Assyrians, and worshipped their gods: and they even followed every idol which was worshipped between Canaan and Chaldea.
daughters <01323> [daughters. or, cities.]
ashamed <03637> [which.]
land <0776> [in the land.]
Babylonia <03778> [unto.]
sick <0535> [weak.]
deeds <04639> [the work.]
built ... chamber <01129 01354> [In that thou buildest thine. or, In thy daughters is thine, etc.]
<06213> [makest.]
scoffed <07046> [in that thou scornest.]
receive ...... give <05414> [give.]
receive ...... give <05414> [but thou.]
bribe <07809> [hirest. Heb. bribest.]
prostitute <02181> [O harlot.]
hear <08085> [hear.]
lust <05178> [Because.]
nakedness <06172> [and thy.]
blood <01818> [and by.]
adulteress <05003> [as women. Heb. with judgments of women, etc.]
murderer <08210> [shed.]
give <05414> [And I.]
For the enormous idolatries and cruelties of Judah and Jerusalem, Jehovah determined to gather together the surrounding nations, both those with whom they had formed alliances, as the Egyptians and Assyrians, and such as had always been inimical to them, as Edom, Ammon, Moab, and Philistia, to inflict, or to witness, his judgments upon them. Having exposed their enormous crimes to view, He would pass sentence upon them: He would give Jerusalem into the hands of the Chaldeans, who would destroy the city and temple which they had polluted; level their cities and high places with the ground; slay, plunder, and enslave the people.
destroy <02040> [they shall throw.]
strip <06584> [shall strip.]
beautiful jewelry <08597 03627> [thy fair jewels. Heb. instruments of thine ornament.]
summon <05927> [shall also.]
hack .... pieces <01333> [and thrust.]
burn down <08313> [burn.]
execute <06213> [and execute.]
Thus I will put ... stop <07673> [and I.]
rage <02534> [will I.]
angry <03707> [and will.]
remember <02142> [thou hast.]
enraged <07264> [but hast.]
repay <05414> [I also.]
proverbs ... quote ...... Like <04911> [every.]
mother <0517> [As is.]
[that loatheth.]
mother ......................... mother <0517> [your mother.]
older <01419> [elder.]
sister .............. younger sister <0269 06996> [thy younger sister. Heb. thy sister lesser than thou.]
daughters ............... daughters <01323> [her daughters.]
short ...... more <04592 06985> [as if that were a very little thing. or, that was loathed as a small thing.]
depraved <07843> [thou wast.]
majesty <01347> [pride.]
abundance <07653> [fulness.]
ease <02388> [neither.]
practiced <06213> [and committed.]
removed <05493> [therefore.]
Samaria <08111> [Samaria.]
righteous <06663> [justified.]
<06419> [which hast.]
bear ... disgrace .................................. So ...... bear ... disgrace <05375 03639> [bear thine.]
justify ............. than .......................... righteous <06663> [they are more.]
restore ... fortunes ... fortunes ......... fortunes .......... fortunes <07725 07622> [bring.]
among <08432> [in the midst.]
bear <05375> [thou mayest.]
consoling <05162> [in that.]
daughters ............ daughters ............. daughters <01323> [then.]
byword <08052> [was not.]
byword <08052> [mentioned. Heb. for a report, or a hearing. pride. Heb. prides, or excellencies.]
evil <07451> [thy wickedness.]
scorn <02781> [reproach.]
Aram <0758> [Syria. Heb. Aram.]
daughters ............ daughters <01323> [the daughters.]
despise <07590> [despise. or, spoil.]
bear <05375> [hast.]
bear <05375> [borne. Heb. borne them.]
deal ......... done <06213> [I will.]
despised <0959> [which.]
remember <02142> [I will remember.]
establish <06965> [I will establish.]
remember <02142> [remember.]
receive <03947> [when.]
give <05414> [I will.]
covenant <01285> [but not.]
establish <06965> [I will.]
know <03045> [and thou.]
remember <02142> [remember.]
silent <06610> [and never.]
atonement <03722> [when.]
Ezekiel 22:1--23:49
pronounce judgment .... bloody <08199> [judge. or, plead for.]
bloody city <05892 01818> [bloody city. Heb. city of bloods.]
Then confront <03045> [thou shalt.]
[shew her. Heb. make her know. her abominations.]
spills <08210> [sheddeth.]
doom <06256> [that her.]
makes <06213> [and maketh.]
shed <08210> [that thou.]
day <03117> [and thou hast.]
make <05414> [have I.]
bad ... full ... turmoil <07227 04103 02931> [infamous and much vexed. Heb. polluted of name, much in vexation.]
princes <05387> [the princes.]
authority <02220> [power. Heb. arm.]
contempt <07043> [set.]
<06213> [dealt.]
oppressed <06233> [oppression. or, deceit.]
Slanderous men <07400 0582> [men that carry tales. Heb. men of slanders.]
eat <0398> [they eat.]
acts <06213> [they commit.]
sex <01540> [discovered.]
violate <06031> [humbled.]
obscenely <0376> [one. or, every one. committed.]
obscenely <0376> [another. or, every one. hath lewdly. or, hath by lewdness.]
sister <0269> [his sister.]
take bribes ............ charge <07810 03947> [taken gifts.]
take ............. charge .... extort <03947 01214> [thou hast.]
extort <01214> [greedily.]
forgotten <07911> [and hast.]
strike <05221> [I have.]
dishonest profit <01215> [thy dishonest.]
bloodshed <01818> [and at.]
heart <03820> [Thine heart.]
Lord <03068> [I the.]
scatter <06327> [scatter.]
<08552> [consume.]
profaned ...... sight <02490 05869> [take thine inheritance in thyself. or, be profaned in thyself.]
know <03045> [thou shalt know.]
house <01004> [the house.]
bronze <05178> [brass.]
in <08432> [in the midst.]
slag ..................... slag <05509> [dross. Heb. drosses.]
gather <06908> [I will.]
Jerusalem is here represented as the fining pot; all the people, who had become dross, are to be gathered together in it; and the fire of the Chaldeans, blown by the wrath of God, is to melt the whole. No ordinary means will avail to purge their impurities; the most violent must therefore be resorted to.
gathered <06910> [As they gather. Heb. According to the gathering. to blow.]
anger <0639> [in mine.]
blow <05301> [and blow.]
melted <05413> [and ye.]
know <03045> [ye shall know.]
princes <07195> [a conspiracy.]
roaring <07580> [like.]
tearing <02963> [ravening.]
That is, from the Saxon {reafian}, seizing and devouring it with eagerness and rapacity.
devoured <0398> [they have devoured.]
priests <03548> [priests.]
abuse <02554> [violated. Heb. offered violence to. profaned.]
distinguish <0914> [put no.]
ignore <05956 05869> [hid their.]
desecrated ................................ profaned <02490> [I am profaned.]
officials <08269> [princes.]
get dishonest <01214> [to get.]
prophets <05030> [prophets.]
The prophets employed all their ingenuity to varnish over the crimes of the princes, (the antecedent to them,) to palliate their offences, and to conceal their faults, while they were like ravening wolves, and took bribes to shed innocent blood. By these means they shared the dishonest gains with the princes, or availed themselves of their authority to gratify their avarice or revenge.
see <02374> [seeing.]
saying ...... sovereign ... says <0559 0136> [Thus saith the Lord.]
people <05971> [people.]
practiced extortion .............. oppressed <06231> [oppression. or, deceit. oppressed.]
justice <04941> [wrongfully. Heb. without right.]
looked <01245> [I sought.]
God, speaking after the manner of men, sought for some Moses, Phinehas, or Samuel, to stand in the gap on this occasion; but as he found none, its destruction was inevitable.
repair <01443> [make.]
poured <08210> [have I poured.]
hereby <01870> [their own.]
two <08147> [two.]
Egypt <04714> [in Egypt.]
youth <05271> [in their.]
name ........ name <08034> [the names.]
The kingdom of Israel, of which Samaria was the capital, containing ten tribes, and occupying a larger extent of country than that of Judah, is therefore called "her elder sister;" and Aholah, the name given to her, implies that the whole religious establishment in Israel was a human invention, a temple and service of their own, and not of God's appointment. Aholibah, the name given to Judah, implies that the worship established there was from God, and that His temple was truly at Jerusalem.
older <01419> [the elder.]
birth <03205> [they were.]
Oholah .......................... Oholah <0170> [Aholah. that is, His tent, or tabernacle.]
Oholibah ...................... Oholibah <0172> [Aholibah. that is, My tabernacle in her.]
Oholah <0170> [Aholah.]
The Israelites, in addition to their former gross idolatries, received the impure idolatrous worship of the Assyrians, who became their neighbours by the conquest of Syria.
lusted <05689> [doted.]
Assyrians <0804> [on the.]
desirable <02531> [all of.]
bestowed ... sexual favors <08457 05414> [committed her whoredoms with them. Heb. bestowed her whoredoms upon them.]
choicest young men ... Assyria <01121 0804 04005> [the chosen men of Assyria. Heb. the choice of the children of Asshur.]
idols <01544> [with all their.]
prostitution ..................... ravished <08457> [whoredoms.]
exposed <01540> [discovered.]
seized ........ her <03947> [they took.]
notorious <08034> [famous. Heb. a name.]
sister .............................. sister <0269> [her sister.]
corrupt .... lust <05691 07843> [was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she. Heb. she corrupted her inordinate love more than she. her sister in her whoredoms. Heb. the whoredoms of her sister.]
Assyrians ............ horses <01121 05483> [upon.]
governors <06346> [captains.]
both <08147> [that they.]
carved ......... carved <02707 02710> [pourtrayed.]
bright red <08350> [vermilion.]
belts <0232> [with girdles.]
officers <07991> [all of.]
looking like <04758> [look to.]
That is, "princes in appearance;" which seem to have been the deified men worshipped by the Chaldeans. The inhabitants of Judah, like the Israelites, connected themselves with the Assyrians, and were enamoured with their idols; and then with the Chaldeans, and followed their idols; still retaining their attachment to the Egyptians and their idolatrous rites.
saw <05869 04758> [as soon as she saw them with her eyes. Heb. at the sight of her eyes.]
sent <07971> [and sent.]
Babylonians <01121> [Babylonians. Heb. children of Babel.]
<05315> [and her.]
disgusted <03363> [alienated. Heb. loosed, or disjointed.]
exposed <01540> [discovered.]
I <05315> [then.]
increased <07235> [multiplied.]
remembering <02142> [in calling.]
stir <05782> [I will raise.]
<05315> [from.]
bring <0935> [and I.]
Babylonians ............. Assyrians <01121> [Babylonians.]
Chaldeans <03778> [the Chaldeans.]
Pekod <06489> [Pekod.]
Babylonians ............. Assyrians <01121> [the Assyrians.]
desirable <02531> [desirable.]
weapons <02021> [with chariots.]
assign <05414> [I will set.]
direct <05414> [I will set.]
cut off <05493> [they shall take away.]
This refers to the severe vengeance which enraged husbands took on their faithless wives: and implies that God would employ the Chaldeans to destroy the princes and priests of Judah, for violating their covenants and treaties. Such punishments were anciently common; and such is the present practice in one of the South Sea Islands.
seize ... sons <03947 01121> [they shall take thy.]
survivors ................ survivors <0319> [thy residue.]
strip <06584> [strip.]
beautiful jewelry <03627 08597> [fair jewels. Heb. instruments of thy decking.]
obscene <02154> [will I.]
prostitution <02184> [and thy.]
practiced <05375> [so that.]
These severe judgments shall effectually deter you from idolatry, and make you abhor the least approaches to it. This often repeated prediction has received a most wonderful accomplishment. For neither the authority, frowns, examples, or favour of their conquerors or powerful neighbours, nor their own fears, hopes, interests, or predilection for the sensual worship of idols, could prevail with them to run into gross idolatry, either during the captivity, or ever afterwards, to the present day, a period of 2,414 years.
hate <08130> [whom thou.]
treat <06213> [deal.]
nakedness <06172> [the nakedness.]
prostitution <02181> [thou hast.]
polluting <02930> [because thou art.]
followed ....... so <01980> [walked.]
cup <03563> [her.]
drink <08354> [drink.]
scorned <06712> [thou shalt be.]
overcome <04390> [filled.]
cup ........ cup ... horror <03563 08047> [with the cup of astonishment.]
drain ... dry <08354> [drink.]
tear out <05423> [and pluck.]
forgotten <07911> [Because.]
completely disregarded <07993> [and cast.]
says ............. bear <0559 05375> [therefore.]
willing ... pronounce <08199> [wilt.]
willing ... pronounce <08199> [judge. or, plead for.]
Oholah <0170> [Aholah.]
declare <05046> [declare.]
adultery ........... adultery ...... their <05003> [they have.]
blood <01818> [and blood.]
sons <01121> [have also.]
done ........... desecrated <06213 02930> [they have.]
profaned <02490> [and have.]
came <0935> [they came.]
done <06213> [thus.]
sent ............. set out <07971> [ye have.]
arrived <0935> [to come. Heb. coming.]
bathed <07364> [thou didst.]
painted <03583> [paintedst.]
{Kachalt aineych,} rendered by the LXX. [estibizou tous ophthalmous sou;] "thou didst paint thine eyes with stibium," and Vulgate {circumlinisti stibio oculos tuos,} "thou didst paint round thine eyes with stibium," or lead ore; whence it is called in Arabic {kochl,} and in Syriac {kecholo,} and {koochlo.}
decorated yourself <05710> [and deckedst.]
magnificent <03520> [stately. Heb. honourable.]
table <07979> [a table.]
placed <07760> [whereupon.]
sound <06963> [a voice.]
This seems to be an account of an idolatrous festival, perhaps that of Bacchus; in which a riotous and drunken multitude assembled, adorned with bracelets and chaplets, accompanied with music, songs, and dances.
men <07230> [common sort. Heb. multitude of men. were brought.]
<05436> [Sabeans. or, drunkards. bracelets.]
worn out <01087> [old.]
immoral acts <08457> [whoredoms with her. Heb. her whoredoms.]
had sex .............. had sex <0935> [so went.]
But ....... appropriately <06662> [the righteous.]
The Chaldeans, so called, because appointed by God to execute his judgment on these criminals.
adulteresses <05003 04941> [after the manner of adulteresses.]
adulteresses <05003> [because.]
up <05927> [I will.]
terror ... plunder <0957 02189> [to be removed and spoiled. Heb. for a removing and spoil.]
army <06951> [the company.]
slash ..... swords <01254 02719> [dispatch them. or, single them out.]
kill <02026> [shall slay.]
burn <08313> [and burn.]
obscene ................... obscene <02154> [I cause.]
women <0802> [that.]
repay <05414> [they shall.]
punished <05375> [ye shall bear.]
know <03045> [and ye shall know.]
Luke 13:34
Jerusalem Jerusalem <2419> [Jerusalem.]
kill <615> [killest.]
How often <4212> [how.]
your <4675> [thy.]
<3739> [as.]
and ........... I have longed ................ but you would have <2532 2309> [and ye.]
Revelation 11:2
courtyard <833> [the court.]
[leave out. Gr. cast out. it is.]
But ...................... and ....... holy .... forty-two <2532 40> [and the.]
they will trample <3961> [tread.]
forty-two <5062> [forty.]
Revelation 11:8
Their corpses ................... their <846 4430> [their dead.]
great <3173> [the great.]
Sodom <4670> [Sodom.]
Egypt <125> [Egypt.]
