Jeremiah 2:1--45:5
spoke <01697> [the word.]
declare <07121> [cry.]
devoted <02617> [thee. or, for thy sake. the kindness.]
bride <03623> [thine espousals.]
<03212> [when.]
set apart <06944> [holiness.]
first fruits <07225> [the first-fruits.]
devour <0398> [all that.]
listen ... what <08085 01697> [Hear ye.]
family <04940> [all the families.]
fault <05766> [What.]
far <07368> [are gone.]
<03212> [walked.]
worthless <01891> [and are.]
Lord .......................................... one <03068 0120> [Where.]
delivered <05927> [brought us up.]
wilderness <03212 04057> [led us.]
deep darkness <06757> [the shadow.]
brought .................... entered <0935> [brought.]
fertile land ........................ land <0776 03759> [a plentiful country. or, the land of Carmel. ye defiled.]
priests <03548> [priests.]
responsible <08610> [and they that.]
rulers <07462> [the pastors.]
prophets <05030> [prophets.]
help <03276> [do not.]
state ............ state <07378> [I will.]
children ... grandchildren <01121> [with your.]
Go ... across <05674> [over. or, over to. the isles.]
Kedar <06938> [Kedar.]
see ............ See <07200> [and see.]
nation <01471> [a nation.]
gods ........ gods <0430> [no gods.]
changed ................. exchanged .... glorious <03235 03519 04171> [changed their glory.]
people <05971> [For my.]
rejected <05800> [forsaken.]
fountain <04726> [the fountain.]
cisterns .... cracked cisterns <0877 07665> [broken cisterns.]
Israel <03478> [Israel.]
<01004> [he a home-born.]
carried off <0957> [spoiled. Heb. become a spoil.]
lions <03715> [young lions.]
raise <05414> [yelled. Heb. gave out their voice. they made.]
cities <05892> [his cities.]
soldiers <01121> [Also the.]
Memphis <05297> [Noph.]
Tahpanhes <08471> [Tahapanes.]
[Tahpanhes.]
cracked ... skulls <07462 06936> [have broken the crown. or, feed on thy crown.]
<06213> [Hast thou.]
deserting <05800> [in that.]
when .... leading <06256 03212> [when he.]
go down to ................ go over <01870> [what hast.]
<07883> [Sihor.]
go down to ................ go over <01870> [or what hast.]
wickedness ..................... utterly harmful <07451> [Thine.]
unfaithful acts <04878> [and thy.]
utterly harmful <04751> [bitter.]
show ... respect <06345> [and that my.]
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.]
wash <03526> [For though.]
guilt <05771> [yet thine iniquity.]
say <0559> [How canst.]
look at <07200> [see.]
Valley <01516> [valley.]
rushes <07031> [thou art a swift. or, O swift.]
wild female donkey <06501> [A wild ass. or, O wild ass, etc.]
brought up ......... sniffs <03928> [used. Heb. taught. her pleasure. Heb. the desire of her heart. turn her away. or, reverse it. in her mouth.]
not chase after <04513> [Withhold.]
useless <02976> [There is no hope. or, Is the case desperate?]
love <0157> [for I have.]
pursue <0310> [after.]
thief <01590> [the thief.]
kings <04428> [their kings.]
wooden <06086> [to a stock.]
birth <03205> [brought me forth. or, begotten me. for they.]
[their back. Heb. the hinder part of the neck. but in the time.]
gods ........................ gods <0430> [But where.]
trouble <07451> [trouble. Heb. evil. to the number.]
refute <07378> [will ye plead.]
rebelled <06586> [ye all have.]
no good <07723> [In vain.]
<02719> [your own sword.]
listen <07200 01697> [see ye.]
wilderness <04057> [Have I been.]
wander <07300> [We are lords. Heb. We have dominion.]
young woman <01330> [a maid.]
people <05971> [yet my people.]
good <03190> [Why.]
teach <03925> [hast.]
clothes <03671> [Also.]
stained ............... did not catch <04672> [I.]
breaking <04290> [secret search. Heb. digging.]
say ............................... say <05352 0559> [Because.]
judgment <08199> [I will.]
go <0235> [gaddest.]
get no help ....... got no help <0954> [thou also shalt.]
get no help ....... got no help <0954> [as thou wast.]
hands <03027> [thine hands.]
Lord <03068> [for the Lord.]
successful <06743> [and thou.]
<0559> [They say. Heb. Saying. If a man.]
land <0776> [shall not that.]
prostitute <02181> [but thou hast.]
back ............................. return <07725> [yet return.]
up <05375> [Lift.]
hilltops <08205> [unto.]
desert <01870 04057> [In the.]
sex with other gods ...................... defiled <07693 02610> [thou hast.]
rains <07241> [the showers.]
spring rains <04456> [latter rain.]
prostitute <02181> [a whore's.]
refuse <03985> [thou refusedst.]
say <07121> [Wilt thou.]
father <01> [My father.]
companion <0441> [the guide.]
angry <05201> [he reserve.]
say <01696> [thou hast spoken.]
wayward <04878> [A.M. 3292. B.C. 612. backsliding.]
went <01980> [she is.]
prostitute <02181> [played.]
back <07725> [Turn thou.]
unfaithful <0901> [her treacherous.]
because <0182> [when for.]
gave ...... papers <05414 05612> [and given her.]
afraid <03372 03212> [feared not.]
<06963> [lightness. or, fame.]
defiled <02610> [she defiled.]
adulterous <05003> [committed.]
Judah <03063> [Judah.]
pretended <08267> [feignedly. Heb. in falsehood.]
wayward <04878> [The backsliding.]
considered <06663> [justified.]
north <06828> [toward the north.]
Come back <07725> [Return.]
look .... with displeasure ............. angry <06440 05201> [and I will not.]
merciful <02623> [for I am.]
look .... with displeasure ............. angry <06440 05201> [I will.]
confess <03045> [acknowledge.]
confess <06340> [and hast scattered.]
green <07488> [under every.]
wayward <07726> [O backsliding.]
true master <01166> [for I am married.]
one ...... town <05892 0259> [one of a city.]
give <05414> [And I.]
leaders <07462> [which shall.]
greatly <07235> [when.]
<0559> [say.]
ark <0727> [The ark.]
mind <03820> [to mind. Heb. upon the heart. that be done. or, it be magnified.]
throne <03678> [the throne.]
nations <01471> [and all the nations.]
name <08034> [to the name.]
<03212> [walk.]
stubborn inclinations <08307> [imagination. or, stubbornness.]
time <03117> [In.]
nation ...... nation <01004> [with. or, to. out.]
gave <05157> [given, etc. or, caused your fathers to possess.]
treat <07896> [How.]
treat ..... son <07896 01121> [put thee.]
pleasant land <0776 02532> [pleasant land. Heb. land of desire.]
beautiful piece of property <05159 06643> [goodly heritage. Heb. heritage of glory, or beauty.]
call <07121> [Thou shalt.]
cease <07725> [shalt not.]
being loyal <0310> [from me. Heb. from after me.]
husband <07453> [husband. Heb. friend.]
unfaithful ......... unfaithful <0898> [so have.]
noise <06963> [A voice.]
followed sinful <05753> [for they have.]
forgotten <07911> [and they have.]
Come back <07725> [Return.]
come <0857> [we.]
<08267> [in vain.]
Lord <03068> [in the Lord.]
acknowledge <07901> [lie down.]
sinned <02398> [for we have sinned.]
ancestors <01> [we and our.]
obeyed <08085> [and have not.]
back .......... back <07725> [wilt return.]
back .......... back <07725> [return.]
get <05493> [put away.]
go astray <05110> [then shalt.]
oath <07650> [shalt swear.]
truthful <0571> [in truth.]
nations <01471> [and the nations.]
boasting <01984> [and in him.]
breaking up <05214> [Break.]
cuts away <05493> [take.]
anger <02534> [lest.]
said ..... Judah <05046 03063> [Declare ye.]
Sound <08628> [Blow.]
Gather together <0622> [Assemble.]
signal flag <05251> [the standard.]
safety <05756> [retire. or, strengthen. for I will.]
great <01419> [and a great.]
destruction <07667> [destruction. Heb. breaking.]
lion <0738> [lion.]
destroys <07843> [destroyer.]
lay <07760> [to.]
So put <02296> [gird.]
wail <03213> [howl.]
fierce ..... Lord <02740 03068> [the.]
courage <03820> [that the heart.]
priests <03548> [and the priests.]
Ah <0162> [Ah.]
surely <0403> [surely.]
safe <07965> [Ye shall have.]
sword <02719> [the sword.]
scorching <06703> [A.]
dear <01323> [daughter.]
winnowing <02219> [not.]
wind ... strong <07307 04392> [a full wind from those. or, a fuller wind than those. give sentence. Heb. utter judgments.]
approaching <05927> [Behold.]
chariots <04818> [his chariots.]
horses <05483> [his horses.]
doomed <0188> [Woe.]
purify <03526> [wash.]
wicked <0205> [How long.]
heralding <06963> [a voice.]
hills ... Ephraim <0669 02022> [mount Ephraim.]
Announce <02142> [ye.]
besiege <05341> [watchers.]
distant <04801> [from.]
raise <05414> [give out.]
guarding <08104> [keepers.]
rebelled <04784> [because.]
way <01870> [Thy way.]
it <05060> [it reacheth.]
pit .... stomach <04578> [My bowels.]
pain <07023> [my very. Heb. the walls of my. O my.]
sound <06963> [sound.]
destruction ... another <07667> [upon destruction.]
suddenly <06597> [suddenly.]
instant <07281> [in.]
see <07200> [How long.]
see <07200> [shall I.]
people <05971> [For my.]
know .............. understanding ........... know <03045 0995> [they have.]
skilled <02450> [they are wise.]
land <0776> [the earth.]
sky <08064> [the heavens.]
mountains <02022> [mountains.]
people <0120> [there was no man.]
fruitful land <03759> [the fruitful.]
Lord ..... land <03068 0776> [The.]
<06213> [yet.]
land <0776> [the earth.]
sky <08064> [the heavens.]
made <01696> [because.]
flee <01272> [shall flee.]
hide <0935> [they shall go.]
town ..................... cities <05892> [every.]
destruction <07703> [And when.]
dress decking ... out ....... putting on <03847 05710 07167> [Though.]
eye <05869> [face. Heb. eyes.]
nothing <07723> [in vain.]
hear <08085> [I have heard.]
cry .......... cry <06963> [the voice.]
<06566> [spreadeth.]
<0188> [Woe.]
life <05315> [for my.]
murderers <02026> [because.]
Go up and down through <07751> [Run ye.]
Search <01245> [seek.]
find <04672> [if ye can.]
any .......... deals <03426> [if there.]
Search <01245> [that seeketh.]
<0559> [though.]
look <05869> [are not thine.]
punish <05221> [thou hast stricken.]
<06440> [they have made.]
leaders <03212 01419> [get me.]
all <03162> [but these.]
lion <0738> [a lion.]
wolf <02061> [and a wolf.]
desert <06160> [evenings. or, deserts. a leopard.]
rebelled <06588> [because.]
so many <06105> [increased. Heb. strong.]
How .... leave ... unpunished <0335 05545> [How shall.]
worshiped ..... not .... all <07650 03808> [sworn by.]
not gods <0430 03808> [no gods.]
worshiped ........ all <07650> [I had fed.]
unfaithful wife <05003> [they then.]
went flocking <01413> [by troops.]
Each <0376> [every one.]
punish <06485> [I not visit.]
<05315> [and shall.]
commanded <05927> [ye up.]
destroy <06213> [but make.]
Lord <03068> [they are not.]
nations ..... Judah <01004> [the house.]
denied <03584> [have belied.]
harm ......... experience <07451 07200> [neither.]
prophets <05030> [the prophets.]
make <05414> [I will make.]
bring <0935> [I will.]
<01004> [O house.]
<0386> [a mighty.]
nation .......... nation ............ nation .................. nation <01471> [a nation.]
eat up ......... kill off ......... eat up ......... destroy <0398> [And they.]
batter down <07567> [they shall impoverish.]
<06213> [I will not make.]
Why <08478> [Wherefore.]
rejected <05800> [Like as.]
foolish <05530> [O foolish.]
understanding <03820> [understanding. Heb. heart.]
fear ... says <03372 05002> [Fear ye not.]
tremble <02342> [tremble.]
made <07760> [placed.]
stubborn <05637> [a revolting.]
revere <03372> [Let us now.]
gives <05414> [that giveth.]
regular <02708> [the appointed.]
people <05971> [For.]
scoundrels <07789> [lay wait. or, pry as fowlers lie in wait.]
catch <03920> [catch.]
cage <03619> [cage. or, coop.]
This is, without doubt, a reference to a decoy or trap-cage, as Dr. Blayney renders; in which fowlers place several tame birds, to decoy the others into the snare prepared for them.
houses <01004> [so are.]
they .... fat <08080> [waxen.]
<05674> [overpass.]
plead .................. defend <01777 08199> [judge.]
win <06743> [yet.]
horrible ... shocking <08047 08186> [A wonderful and horrible thing. or, Astonishment and filthiness.]
prophets <05030> [prophets.]
exercise <07287> [bear rule. or, take into their hands. my people.]
<06213> [and what.]
people <01121> [O ye.]
Run for safety <05756> [gather.]
Sound <08628> [blow.]
Tekoa <08620> [Tekoa.]
Beth Hakkerem <01021> [Bethhaccerem.]
disaster <07451> [evil.]
Daughter <01323> [daughter.]
maiden <06026 05116> [comely and delicate woman. or, a woman dwelling at home.]
<07462> [shepherds.]
Prepare <06942> [Prepare.]
noon <06672> [at noon.]
day ....... shadows <03117 06752> [for the.]
shadows <06752> [shadows.]
destroy <07843> [let us destroy.]
well <0953> [a fountain.]
violence <02555> [violence.]
take warning <03256> [Be thou.]
you ..... make <05315 07760> [lest.]
abandon <03363> [depart. Heb. be loosed, or disjointed. lest I.]
gleaned <05953> [They shall.]
spoke <01696> [To whom.]
warned <05749> [give.]
ears <0241> [their ear.]
what .... says <01697> [the word.]
like it <02654> [delight.]
full <04392> [Therefore.]
Vent <08210> [I will.]
Husbands <0376> [for even.]
houses <01004> [And their.]
unleash <05186> [I will.]
least <06996> [For.]
Prophets <05030> [and.]
<07495> [healed.]
suffered <07667> [hurt. Heb. bruise, or breach.]
Everything .... all right ...... all right <07965> [Peace.]
ashamed ............... ashamed <03001 0954> [Were.]
blush <03637> [blush.]
die ...... died <05307> [therefore.]
<06256> [at the time.]
standing <05975> [Stand.]
<03212> [and walk.]
find <04672> [ye shall.]
<03212> [We will.]
appointed <06965> [I.]
warn ..... attention .... warning ............. attention <07181> [Hearken.]
warn ..... attention .... warning ............. attention <07181> [We.]
Hear <08085> [hear.]
earth <0776> [O earth.]
punishment <06529> [even.]
law <08451> [nor to.]
comes <0935> [To what.]
Sheba <07614> [Sheba.]
cane imported <07070 06149 02896> [sweet cane.]
burnt offerings <05930> [your burnt.]
make <05414> [I will.]
Parents <01> [fathers.]
army <05971> [a people.]
armed with <02388> [They shall.]
cruel <0394> [cruel.]
sound <06963> [their.]
heard <08085> [We have.]
Anguish <06869> [anguish.]
out <03318> [Go not.]
sword <02719> [the sword.]
dear <01323> [daughter.]
put on <02296> [gird.]
Mourn <06213 060> [make thee.]
destructive army <07703> [for the.]
stubborn <05493> [all grievous.]
go <01980> [walking.]
bronze <05178> [they are brass.]
deal corruptly <07843> [corrupters.]
process ... refining <06884> [the founder.]
useless <07723> [in vain.]
rejected silver ..... rejects <03988 03701> [Reprobate silver. or, Refuse silver.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
Stand <05975> [A.M. 3394. B.C. 610. Stand.]
Listen <08085> [Hear.]
passed through <0935> [that enter.]
Change <03190> [Amend.]
confidence <0982> [Trust.]
temple ........ temple ........ temple <01964> [The temple.]
change <03190> [For if.]
change ............... treat <03190 06213> [if ye throughly.]
oppressing <06231> [oppress.]
killing <08210> [and shed.]
<03212> [neither walk.]
live in <07931> [will I.]
land <0776> [in the land.]
confidence <0982> [ye trust.]
steal <01589> [steal.]
sacrifice <06999> [and burn.]
allegiance <01980> [and walk.]
come <0935> [come.]
claimed <07121> [which is called, etc. Heb. whereupon my name is called.]
temple <01004> [this.]
seen <07200> [even.]
place <04725> [my place.]
<07931> [where.]
See <07200> [and see.]
spoken ........ But <01696> [and I spake.]
called <07121> [and I called.]
trusting <0982> [wherein.]
destroy .................................... destroyed <06213> [as.]
drive ... out ........ drove <07993> [I will.]
people <02233> [the whole.]
pray <06419> [pray.]
listen <08085> [I will.]
Children <01121> [children.]
Queen ... Heaven <08064 04446> [queen of heaven. or, frame, or workmanship of heaven.]
Though several MSS. and editions have {melachath,} "workmanship," instead of {melecheth,} "queen" yet the latter reading seems the true one, as the LXX. in the parallel place, and the Vulgate uniformly have "the queen of heaven;" by which there can be little doubt, is meant the Moon.
pouring <05258> [to pour.]
trouble <03707> [that they.]
troubled <03707> [they provoke.]
shame <01322> [the confusion.]
raging <0639> [Behold.]
extinguished <03518> [and shall.]
add <05595> [Put.]
merely <06680> [nor.]
burnt offerings <05930> [burnt offerings. Heb. the matter of burnt offerings.]
Obey <08085> [Obey.]
God <0430> [and I.]
well <03190> [that it.]
listen <08085> [they.]
<03212> [walked.]
stubborn <08307> [imagination. or, stubbornness.]
worse and worse <0268> [went. Heb. were. backward.]
time ...................... day ... day <03117> [the day.]
sent .......... again <07971> [sent.]
listen <08085> [they hearkened.]
obstinate <07185> [but.]
wicked <07489> [they did.]
said <01696> [thou shalt speak.]
listen <08085> [hearken.]
call <07121> [also.]
accepted <03947> [nor.]
correction <04148> [correction. or, instruction.]
Faithfulness <0530> [truth.]
Cut off <01494> [Cut.]
Sing <05375> [and take.]
Lord <03068> [for.]
generation <01755> [generation.]
set up <07760> [they.]
places of worship <01116> [the high.]
Valley <01516> [the valley.]
sacrifice <08313> [to burn.]
commanded <06680> [which I.]
entered ... mind <05927 03820> [came it into. Heb. came it upon.]
time <03117> [the days.]
bury <06912> [for.]
put an end <07673> [to cease.]
land <0776> [for.]
stars <06635> [and all.]
manure <01828> [they shall be.]
died <04194> [death.]
places <04725> [in all.]
said .... Tell <0559> [Moreover.]
Blayney justly observes, that the change of speakers here requires to be carefully attended to. The prophet first, in the name of God, reproves the people, and threatens them with grievous calamities, ver. 4-13. Then, apostrophising his countrymen, he advises them to retire with him to some fortified city, ver. 14-16. God then threatens to bring foes against them, that are irresistible, ver. 17. The prophet next commiserates the daughter of his people, who is heard bewailing her forlorn case; whilst the voice of God breaks in upon her complaints, and shows that all this ruin is brought upon her by her infidelities, ver. 18-20. The prophet regrets that her wounds had not been healed, and laments over her slain, ver. 21; ch. 9:1.
fall <05307> [Shall they.]
back .......... turn <07725> [turn.]
turn away ............... turn back <07725> [slidden.]
hold fast <02388> [they hold.]
refuse <03985> [they refuse.]
<07181> [hearkened.]
<0376> [no.]
says <0559> [saying.]
horse <05483> [as.]
stork <02624> [stork.]
turtledove <08449> [turtle.]
people <05971> [people.]
knows ........................ pay ... attention <03045> [know.]
wise <02450> [We.]
law <08451> [the law.]
<0403> [Lo.]
not really mean <08267> [in vain, etc. or, the false pen of the scribes worketh for falsehood.]
wise <02450 03001> [The wise men are. or, Have they been, etc.]
rejected <03988> [lo.]
wisdom <02451> [what wisdom. Heb. the wisdom of what thing, etc.]
give <05414> [will I.]
least <06996> [for.]
Prophets <05030> [from the prophet.]
<07495> [they.]
ashamed ..... done .......... all ashamed <0954 03001 06213> [ashamed when.]
die ...... died <05307> [therefore.]
when <06256> [in the.]
take away <0622 05486> [I will surely consume. or, In gathering I will consume.]
grapes <06025> [there.]
leaves <05929> [the leaf.]
sitting <03427> [do.]
inside <0935> [enter.]
die ............. die <01826> [be silent.]
waters <04325> [water.]
poison <07219> [gall. or, poison.]
snorting <05170> [The snorting.]
Grotius observes, after Jerome, that Nebuchadnezzar, having subdued Phoenicia, passed through Dan, in his way to Jerusalem.
heard <08085> [was heard.]
land ............ land <0776> [the whole.]
sound <06963> [at the.]
stallions <047> [of his strong ones. Of his war-horses.]
This is a fine image; so terrible was the united neighings of the cavalry of the Babylonians, that the reverberation of the air caused the ground to tremble.
everything .......... cities <04393 05892> [all that is in it. Heb. the fulness thereof.]
sending <07971> [I will.]
charmed <03908> [which.]
heart <03820> [my.]
[in. Heb. upon.]
hear <06963> [the voice.]
length and breadth <04801> [them, etc. Heb. the country of them that are afar off. the]
Lord.
King <04428> [her king.]
provoke .... anger <03707> [Why.]
crushed <07667> [the hurt.]
crying and grieving <06937> [I am.]
medicinal ointment <06875> [no balm.]
physician <07495> [no physician.]
<03588> [why.]
<05927> [recovered. Heb. gone up.]
[O that. Heb. Who will give, etc.]
cry <01058> [weep.]
dear <01323> [the daughter.]
wish ... had <05414 04057> [that I had.]
unfaithful <05003> [for.]
congregation <06116> [an assembly.]
ready ... shoot <01869> [they bend.]
powerful <01396> [valiant.]
<03318> [for they.]
pay attention <03045> [they know.]
guard <08104> [ye heed.]
friends ........................... friends <07453> [neighbour. or, friend. every brother.]
<01980> [walk.]
deceives <02048> [they will.]
deceives <02048> [deceive. or, mock.]
trained <03925> [taught.]
unable to repent <03811> [weary.]
<03427> [habitation.]
refuse <03985> [refuse.]
purify them in the fires of affliction <06884> [I will.]
do <06213> [shall.]
tongues <03956> [tongue.]
telling <01696> [one.]
minds <07130> [in heart. Heb. in the midst of him. his wait. or, wait for him.]
mountains <02022> [the mountains.]
pastures <04999> [habitations. or, pastures. because.]
scorched <03341> [burned up. or, desolate. so.]
birds <05775> [both, etc. Heb. from the fowls even to, etc.]
Jerusalem <03389> [Jerusalem.]
make their home <04583> [a den.]
towns <05892> [the cities.]
destroy <08077> [desolate. Heb. desolation.]
wise <02450> [the wise.]
land <0776> [for.]
<03212> [walked.]
stubborn inclinations <08307> [imagination. or, stubbornness. which.]
eat <0398> [I will.]
scatter <06327> [scatter.]
send <07971> [and I.]
Call <07121> [call.]
women who mourn <06969> [the mourning women.]
Those whose office it was to sing mournful dirges, and make public lamentations at funerals.
sing <05375> [take.]
eyes <05869> [our eyes.]
sound <06963> [a voice.]
completely <03966> [we are.]
houses <04908> [our.]
hear <08085> [hear.]
Open <03947> [receive.]
Teach <03925> [and teach.]
lie scattered <05307> [fall.]
Wise people <02450> [wise.]
Powerful people <01368> [neither.]
Rich people <06223> [rich.]
boast ......... boast <01984> [let him.]
know <03045> [knoweth.]
faithfulness <02617> [loving-kindness.]
desire <02654> [for.]
punish <06485> [that.]
punish <06485> [punish. Heb. visit upon.]
Egyptians <04714> [Egypt.]
Judeans <03063> [Judah.]
cut .... short .... temples <06285 07112> [in the utmost corners. Heb. cut off into corners; or, having the corners of their hair polled.]
Dr. Durell and others justly consider the marginal reading as far preferable; as being descriptive of the mode in which the Arabians cut their hair and beard. (See Notes on Le 21:5.)
none .......... circumcised ....... none ........ circumcised ....... hearts <06189 03820> [uncircumcised in.]
[A.M. 3397. B.C. 607.]
<03925> [Learn.]
awe ................ awe <02865> [be.]
religion <02708> [customs. Heb. statutes, or ordinances, are vanity.]
cut down <03772> [one.]
decorates <03302> [deck.]
fasten ... together <02388> [fasten.]
talk <01696> [speak.]
carried <05375> [be borne.]
<07489> [do evil.]
Lord <03068> [there.]
great ..... renowned <01419> [thou.]
revere <03372> [would.]
King <04428> [O King.]
deserve to be revered <02969> [to thee. or, it liketh thee.]
wise people <02450> [among.]
people <0259> [altogether. Heb. in one, or at once. brutish.]
wooden idol <06086> [the stock.]
silver <03701> [Silver.]
Tarshish <08659> [Tarshish.]
Uphaz <0210> [Uphaz.]
handiwork ................. made <04639> [are all.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
true God ...... God <0430 0571> [true God. Heb. God of truth.]
living <02416> [the living.]
everlasting King <04428 05769> [everlasting king. Heb. King of eternity.]
anger <07110> [at.]
nations <01471> [the nations.]
this <01836> [Thus.]
"In the Chaldean language." The gods.
disappear <07> [they.]
under <08460> [under.]
made <06213> [hath made.]
established <03559> [established.]
spread <05186> [stretched.]
thunders <05414> [uttereth.]
ocean <01995> [multitude. or, noise. He causeth.]
unleashes <06213> [maketh.]
rain <04306> [with. or, for. bringeth.]
idolaters <0120> [man.]
[brutish in his knowledge. or, more brutish than to know. founder.]
breath <07307> [and.]
worthless <01892> [vanity.]
time <06256> [in the.]
inheritance <02506> [portion.]
created <03335> [former.]
Israel <03478> [Israel.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
belongings <03666> [A.M. 3404. B.C. 600. thy wares.]
people <03427> [inhabitant. Heb. inhabitress.]
throw <07049> [I will.]
actually <04672> [that.]
cried out <0188> [Woe.]
only <0389> [Truly.]
tents ................................ tents <0168> [tabernacle.]
children <01121> [my children.]
survivor <05186> [there.]
leaders <07462> [the pastors.]
people <04830> [their.]
Listen <06963> [the noise.]
places where only ... live <04583> [a den.]
Correct <03256> [correct.]
reduce <04591> [lest.]
reduce <04591> [bring me to nothing. Heb. diminish me.]
Vent <08210> [Pour.]
acknowledge <03045> [that know.]
worship <07121> [call.]
destroyed ......... destroyed <0398> [eaten.]
[A.M. 3406. B.C. 598.]
charged ....................................... commanded <06680> [I commanded.]
iron-smelting <01270> [iron.]
Obey <08085> [Obey.]
people <05971> [ye be.]
keep <06965> [perform.]
land <0776> [a land.]
Amen <0543> [So be it. Heb. Amen.]
Announce <07121> [Proclaim.]
Listen <08085> [Hear.]
solemnly warned ........ warned <05749> [I earnestly.]
day <03117> [in the.]
listen <08085> [obeyed.]
stubborn inclinations <08307> [imagination. or, stubbornness.]
brought <0935> [therefore.]
back <07725> [turned.]
evil ways <05771> [iniquities.]
nation ... Israel .... nation <03478 01004> [the house of Israel.]
bring <0935> [I will bring.]
able <03201> [which.]
escape <03318> [escape. Heb. go forth of. cry.]
Then <01980> [go.]
disaster <07451> [trouble. Heb. evil.]
fact ......... many ................ many <04557> [For according.]
set ..... altars <04196 07760> [up altars.]
disgusting <01322> [shameful thing. Heb. shame.]
pray <06419> [pray.]
people .......................... listen ............. disaster <05971 08085 07451> [for.]
disaster <07451> [trouble. Heb. evil.]
beloved <03039> [What, etc. Heb. What is to my beloved in my house?]
beloved <03039> [my.]
temple <01004> [to do.]
done <06213> [seeing.]
sacred offerings <06944> [the holy.]
evil <07451> [thou doest evil. or, thy evil is.]
thriving <07488> [A green.]
roar <06963> [with.]
planted <05193> [that.]
decree <01696> [pronounced.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
lamb <03532> [I was.]
know <03045> [and I.]
destroy <07843> [destroy.]
"Let us kill the prophet, and burn his prophecies." tree with the fruit. Heb. stalk with his bread. let us cut.
world <0776> [from.]
<08034> [that his.]
judge <08199> [judgest.]
examine <0974> [triest.]
see <07200> [let.]
vindicate <01540> [revealed.]
<01245> [that seek.]
prophesying <05012> [Prophesy.]
kill <04191> [thou.]
punish <06485> [punish. Heb. visit upon. young.]
survive <07611> [no.]
day <08141> [the year.]
fair <06662> [Righteous.]
speak <01696> [talk. or, reason the case.]
<01870> [Wherefore doth.]
<0899> [deal.]
plant <05193> [hast.]
<03212> [grow. Heb. go on. near.]
know <03045> [knowest.]
Drag ..... away <05423> [toward. or, with. pull.]
time <03117> [the day.]
land <0776> [long.]
grass <06212> [the herbs.]
animals <0929> [the beasts.]
see <07200> [He.]
raced <07323> [thou hast.]
compete <08474> [canst.]
thick undergrowth <01347> [swelling.]
brothers <0251> [thy brethren.]
plotted <07121> [yea.]
plotted <07121> [have called, etc. or, cried after thee fully. though.]
kind things <02896> [fair words. Heb. good things.]
abandon <05800> [have forsaken.]
turn <05414> [I have given.]
beloved <03033> [dearly beloved. Heb. love.]
roared <05414> [crieth out. or, yelleth. Heb. giveth out his voice.]
hate <08130> [therefore.]
people <05159> [Mine.]
Or rather, as the learned Bochart renders, "Is then my heritage (people) to me as a fierce hy‘na? Is there a wild beast all around upon her?" i.e., the land of Canaan. The hy‘na is a kind of wolf, a little bigger than a mastiff; colour grey, streaked with black: it is of a solitary and savage disposition.
birds of prey .... hyenas .... birds of prey <05861 06641> [speckled bird. or, a bird having talons. the birds.]
gather together ....... come <0857 03212 0622> [come ye.]
come <03212 0857> [come. or, cause them to come.]
rulers <07462> [pastors.]
land where I planted my people <03754> [my vineyard.]
trample all over <0947> [trodden.]
chosen land ...... beautiful land <02513 02532> [pleasant portion. Heb. portion of desire.]
lay ... waste ........................ pay <07760 08076> [made it.]
lie parched <056> [it mourneth.]
lay .......................... pay <07760> [layeth.]
destructive army <07703> [spoilers.]
against <02719> [the sword.]
one <01320> [no.]
sow <02232> [sown.]
work until .... exhausted <02470> [put.]
sow ......... work until .... exhausted ........... disappointed <02232 02470 0954> [they. or, ye.]
wicked <07451> [A.M. 3401. B.C. 603. against.]
who surround <05060> [that.]
have something ................................. uproot ..... those nations ... their lands ... I will free <05428> [I will.]
have something ................................. uproot ..... those nations ... their lands ... I will free <05428> [and pluck.]
after <0310> [after.]
lands <05159> [heritage.]
name <08034> [my name.]
learn .......... Once ... taught ..................................... things <03925> [as they.]
using ......... then <01129> [built.]
heed <08085> [if.]
uproot <05428> [pluck.]
Go <01980> [A.M. 3405. B.C. 599. Go.]
told <01697> [according.]
spoke <01697> [the word]
<03212> [go.]
Intending to point out, by this distant place, the country, Chaldea, into which they were to be carried captive.
Lord <03068> [as.]
<06965> [Arise.]
<06743> [it was.]
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ruin <07843> [After.]
exalted ......... pride <01347> [the pride.]
<07227> [the great.]
wicked <07451> [evil.]
follow ........... allegiance <01980 03212> [walk.]
stubborn inclinations <08307> [imagination. or, stubbornness.]
shorts <0232> [shall.]
cling ......... bound <01692> [I caused.]
fame <08034> [for a name.]
obey <08085> [but.]
tell ......... says ................ say <0559> [and they shall.]
fill <04390> [I will.]
smash <05310> [I will dash.]
one another <0251 0376> [one against another. Heb. a man against his brother. even.]
pity <02550> [I will not.]
destroying <07843> [but destroy. Heb. from destroying.]
attention <0238> [and.]
arrogant <01361> [be.]
Lord <03068> [for.]
Show <05414> [Give.]
darkness ........ stumble <02821 07272> [before.]
God ..................... stumble <0430 07272> [your.]
hope <06960> [while.]
darkness <06757> [the shadow.]
gloom of exile <06205> [gross.]
pay attention <08085> [if.]
<05315> [my soul.]
because <06440> [for.]
Lord's <03068> [because.]
king <04428> [unto.]
Surrender <08213> [Humble.]
thrones <03427> [sit.]
heads <04761> [principalities. or, head-tires.]
towns <05892> [cities.]
shut tight <05462> [shut.]
Judah <03063> [Judah.]
see <07200> [and.]
flock <05739> [where.]
say <0559> [wilt.]
appoints <06485> [punish. Heb. visit upon. for.]
anguish ... agony <02256> [shall not.]
ask <0559> [if.]
happened <07122> [Wherefore.]
much <07230> [the greatness.]
skirt <07757> [skirts.]
exposed <02554> [made bare. or, shall be violently taken away.]
Ethiopian <03569> [Ethiopian.]
accustomed <03928> [accustomed. Heb. taught.]
scatter <06327> [will.]
chaff <07179> [as.]
fate <01486> [thy lot.]
forgotten <07911> [because.]
trusted <0982> [trusted.]
adulterous <05004> [thine adulteries.]
disgusting acts <08251> [abominations.]
doomed <0188> [Woe.]
unclean <02891> [wilt.]
long <05750> [when, etc. Heb. after when yet? shall.]
spoke .... about <01697> [A.M. 3399. B.C. 605. The word.]
This discourse is supposed to have been delivered after the fourth year of Jehoiakim. The Hebrew {batzaroth,} rendered dearth, signifies restraint, that is, "when the heaven is shut up that there is no rain;" which Houbigant thinks happened early in the reign of Zedekiah.
drought <01226> [the dearth. Heb. the words of the dearths, or restraints.]
mourning <056> [mourneth.]
cities <08179> [the gates.]
sorrow <06937> [they.]
Cries of distress <06682> [the cry.]
leading men <0117> [their nobles.]
cisterns <01356> [pits.]
Disappointed <0954> [they were.]
bury <02645> [covered.]
ground <0127> [the ground.]
farmers <0406> [the plowmen.]
Wild donkeys <06501> [the wild.]
pant <07602> [they.]
They sucked in the air, for want of water, to cool their internal heat.
eyes <05869> [their.]
sins <05771> [though.]
intervene <06213> [do.]
turned away <04878> [for our.]
hopes <04723> [the hope.]
saved <03467> [saviour.]
when <06256> [in time.]
resident foreigner <01616> [why.]
traveler <0732> [a wayfaring.]
cannot <03201> [cannot.]
us <07130> [art.]
you <08034 07121> [we are called by thy name. Heb. thy name is called upon us.]
abandon <03240> [leave.]
love <0157> [have they.]
keep .... away <02820> [refrained.]
Lord ..................... I <03068> [the Lord.]
call to mind <02142> [he will.]
fast <06684> [they fast.]
offer <05927> [and when.]
famines <03615> [but.]
Oh <0162> [Ah.]
prophets <05030> [behold.]
lasting peace <07965 0571> [assured peace. Heb. peace of truth.]
prophets <05030> [The prophets.]
send <07971> [I sent.]
predictions <07081> [divination.]
delusions <08649> [and the.]
war ... famine ............... War ... starvation <02719 07458> [Sword and famine shall not.]
people <05971> [the people.]
thrown <07993> [be cast.]
pour <08210> [for.]
eyes <05869> [let mine.]
dear children <01330> [for.]
serious <03966> [with a very.]
out <03318> [go forth.]
prophet <05030> [yea.]
business <05503> [go about, etc. or, make merchandise against a land, and men acknowledge it not.]
completely rejected <03988> [utterly.]
you <05315> [hath.]
recovery ................... relief <04832> [no healing.]
hope <06960> [we.]
confess <03045> [We acknowledge.]
sinned <02398> [for.]
treat <05006> [not abhor.]
name <08034> [for.]
treat <05034> [disgrace.]
mindful ...... us <02142> [remember.]
<03426> [Are.]
worthless idols <01892> [vanities.]
Lord <03068> [Art.]
put ... hopes <06960> [wait.]
Moses <04872> [Though.]
Moses <04872> [Moses.]
stood <05975> [stood.]
pleading <05315> [my mind.]
<07971> [cast.]
die of disease ..... death by disease <04194> [for death.]
punish <06485> [I will.]
different ways <04940> [kinds. Heb. families.]
make <02189 05414> [cause them to be removed. Heb. give them for a removing.]
because <01558> [because.]
pity <02550> [For who.]
<07965> [how thou doest. Heb. of thy peace.]
deserted <05203> [forsaken.]
<03212> [thou art.]
unleashed <05186> [stretch.]
tired <03811> [I am.]
<02219> [I will fan.]
purge ................ will ... off <07921> [bereave.]
destroy <06> [children. or, whatsoever is dear.]
change <07725> [since.]
widows <0490> [widows.]
mothers <0517> [the mother, etc. or, the mother city a young man spoiling, etc. or, the mother and the young men. a spoiler.]
had <03205> [She that hath.]
She that hath had a numerous offspring, Jerusalem, the mother city, the parent of so many cities, villages, and families in the land.
sun <08121> [her sun.]
who are still left alive <07611> [and the.]
mother <0517> [my.]
<0376> [a man.]
lent money ........ borrowed <05383> [I have.]
treating me with contempt <07043> [curse.]
surely ........ good .... surely <03808 0518 02896> [Verily it.]
surely ........... surely .... enemy <03808 0518 0341> [verily I.]
bring ... enemy upon <06293 0341> [cause the enemy to entreat thee. or, entreat the enemy for thee.]
iron ...... iron <01270> [Shall iron.]
wealth <02428> [substance.]
charge <04242> [without.]
serve <05674> [pass.]
fire <0784> [a fire.]
know <03045> [thou.]
I .................................... mindful <02142> [remember.]
Take ...................... so <03947> [take.]
know <03045> [know.]
drank <0398> [I did.]
words <01697> [thy word.]
belong <08034 07121> [I am called by thy name. Heb. thy name is called upon me.]
spend ... time .... company <03427 05475> [sat not.]
spend ... time ............... stayed to myself <0910 03427> [sat alone.]
filled <04390> [for.]
painful <03511> [my pain.]
wound <04347> [my wound.]
brook <0391> [as a.]
water <04325> [and as.]
relied on <0539> [fail. Heb. be not sure.]
repent ............ restore ............................... become ......... become <07725> [return.]
serving <05975> [stand.]
say <03318> [take.]
spokesman <06310> [as my.]
repent ............ restore ............................... become ......... become <07725> [let them.]
make <05414> [I will.]
able <03201> [but.]
rescue <03467> [for.]
deliver <05337> [deliver.]
clutches <06184> [the terrible.]
<01697> [The word.]
tell <0559> [thus saith]
die <04191> [die.]
mourn <05594> [not.]
buried <06912> [neither.]
manure <01828> [as dung.]
<03615> [consumed.]
food <03978> [meat.]
go <0935> [Enter.]
funeral <04798> [mourning. or, mourning feast. I have.]
Rich <01419> [the great.]
buried <06912> [they.]
cut <01413> [nor cut.]
take ....... mourn <06536 060> [tear themselves. or, break bread.]
<03563> [cup.]
put an end <07673> [I will.]
Lord ..................... Lord <03068> [Wherefore.]
ancestors <01> [Because.]
<03212> [walked.]
wickedly <07489> [worse.]
stubborn inclinations <08307> [imagination. or, stubbornness.]
wicked <07451> [evil.]
throw <02904> [will I.]
land .... land <0776> [into a.]
worship ...... night <05647 03915> [and.]
time <03117> [behold.]
delivered <05927> [that brought.]
delivered <05927> [that brought.]
send ............... send <07971> [I will send.]
I will raise up enemies against them, some of whom shall destroy them by wiles, and others shall ruin them by violence. The Chaldeans shall make an entire conquest of the whole land, and strip it of its riches and inhabitants; and those who may escape one party shall fall into the hands of another.
hunters <06719> [hunters.]
mountains <02022> [every mountain.]
Before <07223> [first.]
polluted <02490> [they have defiled.]
lifeless statues <05038> [the carcases.]
strength <05797> [my strength.]
Nations <01471> [Gentiles.]
ancestors <01> [Surely.]
help <03276> [wherein.]
let <06471> [I will this.]
know ...... know .......... know <03045> [and they.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord. or, JEHOVAH.]
engraved <03789> [written.]
point <06856> [point. Heb. nail. graven.]
horns <07161> [and upon.]
children <01121> [their children.]
altars <04196> [their altars.]
mountains <02042> [my.]
give <05414> [I will.]
price <01116> [and thy.]
lose your hold <08058> [thyself. Heb. in thyself. shalt.]
serve <05647> [and I.]
burn ....... never be put out <06919 05704> [for.]
curse <0779> [Cursed.]
flesh <01320> [flesh.]
hearts <03820> [whose.]
<06199> [like.]
experience <07200> [and shall.]
salt <04420> [a salt.]
tree <06086> [he shall.]
drought <01226> [drought. or, restraint.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
give <05414> [even.]
deserve <06529> [fruit.]
broods over eggs <01716> [sitteth, etc. or gathered young which she hath not brought forth. he that.]
lose <05800> [shall leave.]
fool <05036> [a fool.]
hope <04723> [the hope.]
leave ...................... rejected <05800> [all that.]
turn away <03249> [they that.]
consigned <03789> [written.]
leave ...................... rejected <05800> [forsaken.]
relief ........... relief <07495> [Heal.]
Rescue ............. rescued <03467> [save.]
<08416> [thou.]
pestered <0213> [I have.]
bring ...... desired .................... spoken <0310 06440 0183> [to follow thee. Heb. after thee. neither.]
spoken <04161> [that.]
dismay <04288> [a terror.]
source of safety <04268> [thou.]
disgraced ....... disgraced <0954> [confounded.]
disgraced ....... disgraced <0954> [but let not me be confounded.]
days <03117> [the day.]
destruction <04932 07670 07665> [destroy them with double destruction. Heb. break them with a double breach.]
[A.M. cir. 3393. B.C. cir. 611.]
careful <08104> [Take.]
carry <05375> [bear.]
do ......... observe <06213> [neither do.]
however .... listen ............... attention .... respond <08085> [they obeyed.]
ancestors <06203> [made.]
respond <03947> [nor.]
obey <08085> [if.]
bring <0935> [to bring.]
apart <06942> [but hallow.]
enter <0935> [shall there.]
follow ............................... citizens <03427> [sitting.]
ride <07392> [riding.]
city <05892> [and this.]
towns <05892> [from the cities.]
foothills <08219> [the plain.]
come .................................... come bringing ......... burnt offerings <0935 05930> [bringing burnt.]
thank offerings <08426> [sacrifices of.]
obey <08085> [ye will.]
set ..... apart <06942> [to hallow.]
set <03341> [then.]
burn down <0398> [shall devour.]
put it out <03518> [shall not.]
down <03381> [A.M. 3396. B.C. 608. and go.]
further <08085> [cause.]
went down <03381> [I went.]
wheel <070> [wheels. or, frames, or seats.]
something wrong ....... molding .... clay ........ rework <02563 07843 06213> [made of clay was marred in. or, made was marred, as clay in. made it again. Heb. returned and made. as.]
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uproot <05428> [to pluck.]
nation <01471> [that nation.]
cancel <05162> [I will.]
build <01129> [to build.]
does <06213> [do.]
cancel <05162> [then.]
tell .............. says <0559> [go to.]
<02803> [and devise.]
<07725> [return.]
<02976> [There.]
<03212> [we will walk.]
Ask <07592> [Ask.]
heard <08085> [who.]
virgin <01330> [virgin.]
utterly <03966> [a very.]
Does ...... vanish <05800> [Will.]
snow <07950> [the snow, etc. or, my fields for a rock, or for the snow of]
Lebanon? shall the running waters be forsaken for the strange cold waters? Parkhurst renders, "Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or will the issuing cold flowing waters (from that mountain namely) be exhausted?" (See Targ., LXX., and Vulg.) No more could I fail my people if they trusted in me. (Compare ch. 2:13.) Maundrell says, "The chief benefit the mountain of Lebanon serves for, is, that by its exceeding height, it proves a conservatory for abundance of snow, which thawing in the heat of summer, affords supplies of water to the rivers and fountains in the valleys below."
people <05971> [my people.]
offered sacrifices <06999> [burned.]
stumble <03782> [caused.]
old <05769> [the ancient.]
<03212> [to walk.]
become <07760> [make.]
forever <05769> [a perpetual.]
horror <08074> [shall be.]
scatter <06327> [scatter.]
look <07200> [shew.]
when <03117> [the day.]
<03212> [Come.]
<08451> [for the.]
advice <06098> [counsel.]
get rid of <03212 05221> [Come and let us smite.]
<03956> [with. or, for. and let us not.]
attention <07181> [Give.]
Listen <08085> [hearken.]
evil <07451> [evil.]
virtually <03738> [digged.]
remember <02142> [Remember.]
let <05414> [deliver.]
cut down by <05064 03027> [pour out their blood. Heb. pour them out. let their wives.]
younger men <0970> [let their young.]
cries <02201> [a cry.]
dug .............. step <03738 07272> [for.]
hidden <02934> [and hid.]
know <03045> [thou.]
kill ..... pardon <04194 03722> [to slay me. Heb. for death. forgive.]
<06256> [in the.]
Go <01980> [A.M. 3397. B.C. 607. Go.]
leaders .... people ...... leaders <05971 02205> [the ancients of the people.]
Valley <01516> [the valley.]
[east-gate. Heb. sun-gate.]
Announce <07121> [and proclaim.]
Listen ......................................... hears <08085> [Hear.]
ears <0241> [his ears.]
rejected <05800> [they have.]
defiled <05234> [estranged.]
offered sacrifices <06999> [burned.]
filled <04390> [filled.]
places ... for worship <01116> [the high.]
sacrifice <08313> [to burn.]
commanded <06680> [which.]
entered <05927> [neither.]
place <04725> [this.]
thwart <01238> [I will make.]
deliver ... over <05307> [I will cause.]
dead bodies <05038> [and their.]
eat ... flesh .......... flesh <0398 01320> [eat the.]
do just ... Jeremiah has done <03602> [Even.]
repair <07495> [made whole. Heb. healed. bury.]
make <05414> [make. lit. give.]
defiled <02931> [defiled.]
roofs <01406> [upon.]
poured out <05258> [have poured.]
Topheth <08612> [from.]
stood <05975> [he stood.]
stubbornly <07185> [because.]
stubbornly <07185> [hardened.]
This is a metaphor taken from unruly and unbroken oxen, who resist the yoke, and break and run away with their gears.
attention <08085> [that they.]
Immer <0564> [Immer.]
chief <06496> [chief.]
flogged <05221> [smote.]
stocks <04115> [the stocks.]
{Hammahpecheth,} from {haphach,} "to overturn, subvert, distort," generally denotes an overthrow, (De 29:22. Isa 1:7; 10:19,) and seems to signify here a sort of stocks, by which the limbs were distorted into uneasy postures. So the Chaldee, {keephtha} and Jerome, {nervus,} which he explains in his comment as "a kind of wooden fetter, into which the feet were thrust, {vinculi lignei genus, cui pedes inseruntur.} Some learned men understand it as merely signifying a place of confinement, or house of correction; but the word is never used for any of the prisons into which the prophet was afterwards cast; and the punishment seems to have been public and ignominious.
Upper <05945> [in the high.]
Pashhur ..................... Pashhur <06583> [Pashur.]
<07121> [hath.]
Terror is Everywhere <04036> [Magor-missabib. this is, Fear round about.]
make ........................... I will <05414> [I will make.]
<05869> [thine.]
make ........................... I will <05414> [I will give.]
hand over <05414> [I will deliver.]
fruits of the labor <03018> [labours.]
The word labours is here used for the produce of labour.
Pashhur .............. die ................. friends ...... prophesied <06583 0935 04191 0157 05012> [thou. Pashur.]
friends <0157> [thy friends.]
prophesied <05012> [thou hast.]
coerced <06601> [deceived. or, enticed.]
overcame <02388> [thou art.]
laughingstock <07814> [I am.]
cry out <02199 07121> [I cried.]
message <01697> [the word.]
mention <02142> [I will.]
heart <03820> [was in.]
hear <08085> [I heard.]
terror <04032> [fear.]
publicly denounce <05046> [Report.]
friends <0582> [All my familiars. Heb. Every man of my peace.]
prevail over .... get <03201 03947> [we shall.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
warrior <01368> [a mighty.]
persecute <07291> [my.]
prevail <03201> [and they.]
never <05769> [everlasting.]
test <0974> [that.]
see <07200> [let me.]
vindicate <01540> [for.]
rescues <05337> [for.]
boy <02145> [A man.]
cities <05892> [as.]
showing ... mercy <05162> [repented.]
hear <08085> [let him.]
kill <04191> [he slew.]
forth <03318> [came.]
experience <07200> [to see.]
shame <01322> [with.]
spoke <01697> [A.M. cir. 3415. B.C. cir. 589. The word.]
This discourse was delivered about the ninth year of the reign of Zedekiah. This chapter, observes Dr. Blayney, contains the first of those prophecies which were delivered by Jeremiah subsequent to the revolt of Zedekiah, and the breaking out of the war thereupon; and which are continued on to the taking of Jerusalem, related in ch. 39, in the following order: ch. 21; 34; 32; 33; 38; 39.
King <04428> [when.]
Pashhur <06583> [Pashur.]
Zephaniah <06846> [Zephaniah.]
ask <01875> [Enquire.]
Nebuchadnezzar <01157 05019> [for.]
miracles <06381> [according.]
<05437> [Behold.]
gather <0622> [and I.]
fight <03898> [I.]
mighty power <05186> [with an.]
kill <05221> [I will.]
die <04191> [they.]
hand <05414> [I will.]
kill them .... slaughter ....... will ......... pity <05221 02347> [he shall.]
give <05414> [I set.]
stay <03427> [that abideth.]
lives <05315> [and his.]
determined <07760> [I have.]
handed over <05414> [it shall.]
family <01004> [house.]
See <01777> [Execute. Heb. Judge.]
day <01242> [morning.]
Deliver <05337> [deliver.]
wrath <02534> [lest.]
put out <03518> [none.]
sit enthroned <03427> [I am.]
sit enthroned <03427> [inhabitant. Heb. inhabitress. of the valley.]
swoop down ....... penetrate <05181 0935> [Who.]
punish <06485> [punish. Heb. visit upon.]
deserve <06529> [according.]
palace <03293> [in the.]
burn up <0398> [shall.]
down <03381> [A.M. cir. 3406. B.C. cir. 598. Go.]
Listen <08085> [Hear.]
follows <03427> [that sittest.]
pass through <0935> [enter.]
Do <06213> [Execute.]
exploit <03238> [do no wrong.]
mistreat <02554> [do no violence.]
kill <08210> [neither.]
come <0935> [then.]
David's succession <03678 01732> [upon the throne of David. Heb. for David upon his throne.]
obey <08085> [if.]
solemnly <07650> [I.]
palace <01004> [that.]
king ................... wooded heights <04428 07218> [unto.]
Gilead <01568> [Thou.]
Gilead was the most fertile part of the country, and renowned for its rich pastures; and Lebanon was the highest mountain in Israel, celebrated for its stately cedars; and both were, therefore, proper emblems of the reigning family. "But though thou art the richest and most powerful, I, who raised thee up, can bring thee down, and make thee a wilderness."
make <07896> [surely.]
send <06942> [I.]
hack up <03772> [cut.]
weep ....... killed ........ weep mournfully <01058 04191> [Weep ye.]
weep .............. weep mournfully <01058> [weep sore.]
Shallum <07967> [Shallum.]
[Jehoahaz.]
builds <01129> [unto.]
builds <01129> [buildeth.]
build <01129> [I will.]
spacious <07304> [large. Heb. through-aired. windows, or, my windows. ceiled with cedar.]
father <01> [thy.]
food <0398> [eat.]
did <06213> [and do.]
well <02896> [then.]
upheld <01777> [judged.]
know <01847> [was not.]
eyes <05869> [thine eyes.]
dishonest <01215> [covetousness.]
<08210> [to shed.]
fraud <04835> [violence. or, incursion.]
mourn .................... mourn <05594> [They.]
sad ... brother ..... sad <0251 01945> [Ah my brother.]
cry out .............. Cry out <06817> [and cry.]
allies <0157> [for.]
gave ... warning <01696> [I spake.]
feeling secure <07962> [prosperity. Heb. prosperities. This.]
wind <07307> [wind.]
leaders .... storm <07462> [thy pastors.]
allies <0157> [thy lovers.]
disgraced <0954> [surely.]
<03427> [inhabitant. Heb. inhabitress. Lebanon.]
nesting <07077> [makest.]
groan <02603> [how.]
pains <02256> [when.]
Jeconiah <03659> [Coniah.]
[Jehoiachin.]
[Jeconiah.]
earthly representative <02368> [the signet.]
I will <05414> [I.]
<06440> [whose.]
land <0776> [to the.]
<05375> [desire. Heb. lift up their mind.]
man .................. vessel ..... wants <0376 03627 02656> [Is.]
This appears to be the application of the whole discourse to Zedekiah; for it is to be observed, that Jeconiah is spoken of as absent, and already in captivity. Now if he and his seed had been for their sins thrown aside as a broken idol, or as a vessel which a man despises, how could Zedekiah, who copied and far exceeded them, expect to prosper on the throne of David?
Jeconiah <03659> [Coniah.]
threw away <0959> [a despised.]
children <02233> [his seed.]
know <03045> [which.]
Enroll <03789> [Write.]
Zedekiah was taken prisoner by Nebuchadnezzar; his sons slain before his eyes; and his eyes being put out, he was carried to Babylon; and we read no more either of him or his posterity.
occupying <03427> [sitting.]
judged <01945> [Woe.]
shepherds <07462> [pastors.]
them So .... punish <06485> [and have.]
them So .... punish <06485> [I.]
I ... install .......................... up <06965> [I.]
missing <06485> [neither.]
time <03117> [the days.]
raise <06965> [I.]
branch <06780> [Branch.]
rule <04427> [reign.]
do <06213> [and shall.]
Judah <03063> [Judah.]
live <07931> [dwell.]
name <08034> [and this.]
<03072> [THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Heb. JEHOVAH-tsidkenu.]
heart .... mind <03820> [A.M. 3399. B.C. 605. heart.]
prophets ............................. because .......... word <05030 06440 01697> [because.]
drunk <07910> [like a drunken.]
full <04390> [full.]
under <06440> [because.]
curse <0423> [swearing. Heb. cursing. the land.]
pastures <04999> [the pleasant.]
lives <04794> [course. or, violence.]
prophets <05030> [both.]
temple <01004> [in.]
slippery <02519> [as.]
dark <0653> [in the.]
day <08141> [the year.]
something that was disgusting <08604> [folly. or, an absurd thing. Heb. unsavoury. prophets.]
prophesied <05012> [prophesied.]
saw ....................... people <07200 05971> [and.]
prophets <05030> [in the.]
something .... shocking <08186> [an horrible thing. or, filthiness.]
unfaithful <05003> [they commit.]
prophesy <01980> [walk.]
encouragement <02388> [strengthen.]
Sodom <05467> [Sodom.]
eat <0398> [will.]
ungodliness <02613> [profaneness. or, hypocrisy.]
listen <08085> [Hearken.]
filling ... with false hopes <01891> [they make.]
visions <02377> [a vision.]
reject <05006> [that despise.]
well <07965> [Ye.]
stubborn inclinations <08307> [imagination. or, stubbornness.]
bad <07451> [No.]
stood ........................ attention <05975 07181> [who.]
circle <05475> [counsel. or, secret.]
<06213> [until.]
come <0319> [in the.]
stood <05975> [if.]
turn <07725> [then.]
hide <05641> [hide.]
<04392> [Do.]
heard <08085> [heard.]
I ..... dream ...... dream <02492> [dreamed.]
<03426> [How.]
prophets ........ prophesying ... delusions <05030 08649> [prophets of.]
plotting <02803> [think.]
ancestors <01> [as.]
dream ....... dream ......... message .... message <02472 01697> [that hath. Heb. with whom is. speak.]
straw <08401> [What.]
That is, when the dreamers declare their dreams, and the true prophets faithfully declare their message, the difference between them will be as evident as that between "the chaff and the wheat."
using <03947> [use. or, smooth.]
affirm ................... declares <05002> [He.]
misleading my <08582> [to err.]
reckless <06350> [and by.]
them ..... helping <03276> [therefore.]
burdensome .............. burden <04853> [What.]
I ... cast ... away I ... Lord <05203> [I.]
punish <06485> [punish. Heb. visit upon.]
person <0376> [for every.]
misrepresenting <02015> [for ye.]
Lord's .......................... living .... Lord <03068 02416> [of the.]
says ............. say <0559> [ye say.]
you <05377> [I, even I.]
I <05203> [and I.]
sight <06440> [cast.]
Lord <03068> [A.M. 3406. B.C. 598. Lord.]
two <08147> [two.]
after <0310> [after.]
metal workers <04525> [smiths.]
One basket ................. other basket <0259 01731> [One basket.]
ripened early <01073> [first ripe.]
The {boccore,} or figs of the early sort; perhaps those which are ripe about six weeks before the full season, which are reckoned a great dainty. See Note on Isa 28:4.
bad-looking <07451> [naughty.]
The winter fig, probably, then in its crude or unripe state.
bad <07455> [they were so bad. Heb. for badness.]
see <07200> [What.]
consider <05234> [I acknowledge.]
exiles <01546> [them that are carried away captive. Heb. the captivity. for.]
<07760> [For I will.]
restore <07725> [and I will bring.]
build <01129> [I will build.]
give <05414> [I will give.]
people <05971> [and they.]
return <07725> [for they.]
bad <07451> [as.]
<05414> [So will.]
live <03427> [and them.]
<02189> [to be removed. Heb. for removing, or vexation.]
object of reproach <02781> [to be a.]
curses <07045> [a curse.]
fourth <07243> [A.M. 3398. B.C. 606. in the.]
first <07224> [the first.]
Nebuchadnezzar was associated with his father Nabopollasar two years before the death of the latter; and from this time the Jewish computation of Nebuchadnezzar's reign begins; that is, from the end of the third year of Jehoiakim; and therefore, according to them, the fourth year of Jehoiakim was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar. But the Babylonians date the commencement of his reign two years later, that is, on the death of his father; which computation is followed by Daniel, who wrote in Chaldee.
twenty-three ..... thirteenth <07969> [thirteenth.]
again <07925> [rising.]
servants <05650> [all.]
Urijah the son of Shemaiah, and Huldah the prophetess, lived about this time. Zephaniah also prophesied during part of the time; and it is probable that Habakkuk was contemporary with them.
again <07925> [rising.]
have ... listened ... paid attention <08085> [ye.]
turn <07725> [Turn.]
as <05704> [for.]
angry <03707> [that ye.]
send <07971> [I.]
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [Nebuchadrezzar.]
land .... inhabitants ..... nations <0776 03427 01471> [against.]
horror <08047> [an astonishment. See on ch.]
put an end .... sounds ........ glad celebration ................ sound <06 06963> [take from. Heb. cause to perish from.]
sounds ... joy ...... glad celebration ................ sound <08342 06963> [voice of mirth.]
sounds ........ glad celebration ................ sound <06963> [the sound.]
Sir J. Chardin remarks, that in the East, every where in the morning may be heard the noise of the mills, which often awakens people; for they generally grind every day just as much as may be necessary for the day's consumption. Where, then, the noise of the mill is not heard in the morning, nor the light of the candle seen in the evening, there must be an utter desolation.
seventy <07657> [seventy.]
This prophecy was delivered in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, and began to be accomplished immediately; and it was exactly seventy years from this time to the proclamation of Cyrus for the return of the Jews.
seventy <07657> [when.]
punish <06485> [that I.]
punish <06485> [punish. Heb. visit upon. See on ch.]
everlasting <05769> [perpetual.]
prophesied <05012> [hath. See on ch.]
many <07227> [many.]
repay <07999> [I.]
Take <03947> [Take.]
nations <01471> [all.]
nations <01471> [and made.]
Jerusalem <03389> [Jerusalem.]
did <05414> [to make.]
already becoming <03117> [as it.]
Pharaoh <06547> [Pharaoh.]
<06153> [the mingled.]
Uz <05780> [Uz.]
Philistines <06430> [Philistines.]
Ashkelon <0831> [Ashkelon.]
[Askelon, Gaza. remnant.]
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
<01121> [the.]
Tyre <06865> [Tyrus.]
Sidon <06721> [Zidon.]
coastlands along ... sea <05676 03220 0339> [isles which are beyond the sea. or, region by the sea side.]
Dedan <01719> [Dedan.]
short .... temples <06285 07112> [in the utmost corners. Heb. cut off into corners, or having the corners of the hair polled.]
Arabia <06152> [Arabia.]
<06153> [the mingled. See on ver.]
Zimri <02174> [Zimri.]
[Zimran. Elam.]
Media <04074> [Medes.]
kings ...................................... king <04428> [all the kings.]
kings ...................................... king <04428> [and the.]
drink <08354> [drink.]
Drink <08354> [Drink.]
<06440> [because.]
refuse <03985> [if.]
drink ................ must drink <08354> [Ye.]
bring <02490> [I begin.]
call ... own .................. proclaiming <07121 08034> [which is called by my name. Heb. upon which my name is called.]
avoid ... punished ...... unpunished <05352> [Ye shall.]
call .................... proclaiming <07121> [I will.]
roar ................... roar mightily <07580> [roar.]
holy <06944> [his holy.]
<06030> [give.]
sounds of battle <07588> [A noise.]
The dreadful devastations made by the Chaldeans through all the nations of the East, and afterwards the destruction of Babylon by the Medes and Persians, are here primarily foretold in this awful language; but it also accords very much with the passages in which the ruin of all the anti- christian powers is evidently predicted.
judgment <08199> [plead.]
Disaster <07451> [evil.]
military <01419> [and a.]
killed <02491> [the slain.]
mourned <05594> [they shall not. See on ch.]
manure <01828> [they shall be.]
Wail <03213> [Howl.]
shepherd <07462> [ye shepherds. Ye kings and chiefs of the people. wallow.]
rulers <0117> [ye principal.]
time ...... slaughtered <03117 02873> [the days of your. Heb. your days for.]
fallen <05307> [ye shall.]
fine pottery <03627 02532> [pleasant vessel. Heb. vessel of desire.]
leaders <07462> [the shepherds, etc. Heb. flight shall perish from the shepherds, and escaping from, etc.]
shepherds <0117> [nor.]
[See on ver.]
left <05800> [hath.]
waste <08047> [desolate. Heb. a desolation.]
[A.M. 3394. B.C. 610.]
stand <05975> [Stand.]
courtyard <02691> [court.]
This was the great outer court, where the people assembled for the purpose of religious worship on ordinary occasions, when they brought no sacrifices; but when they offered a sacrifice, they were to bring it into the inner court, or that of the priests.
word <01697> [all the words.]
single <01639> [diminish.]
attention <08085> [so.]
forgo <05162> [that I.]
[See on ch.]
obey <08085> [If.]
<05414> [which.]
servants <05650> [my.]
must .............. sent <07971> [whom. See on ch.]
do ............. make <05414> [will I. See on ch.]
curses <07045> [a curse.]
priests <03548> [the priests.]
prophesy <05012> [Why.]
people <05971> [And all.]
claim ................... temple <08034 01004> [in the.]
officials <08269> [the princes.]
entrance <06607> [in the entry. or, at the door. the new.]
said <0559> [saying.]
man ...... die <0376 04941 04194> [This man is worthy to die. Heb. The judgment of death is for this man. for he.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
correct <03190> [amend. See on ch.]
forgo <05162> [repent.]
power <03027> [As for.]
deem fair ... proper <02896 03477 05869> [as seemeth good and meet unto you. Heb. as it is good and right in your eyes.]
<05414> [ye shall.]
truth <0571> [for of. See on ver.]
Then <06965> [Then rose.]
Micah <04320> [Micah.]
Zion <06726> [Zion.]
Josephus relates that Titus, after he had taken Jerusalem, ordered his soldiers to demolish it, except three of the largest and most beautiful towers, and the western wall of the city; all the rest was levelled, so that they who had never before seen it, could scarcely persuade themselves it had been inhabited. The Jewish writers also inform us, that Turnus Rufus, whom Titus had left in command, ploughed up the very foundations of the temple. When Dr. Richardson visited this sacred spot in 1818, he found one part of Mount Zion supporting a crop of barley, and another undergoing the labour of the plough: the soil turned up consisted of stone and lime mixed with earth, such as is usually met with in foundations of ruined cities. It is nearly a mile in circumference; is highest on the west side, and, towards the east, falls down in broad terraces on the upper part of the mountain as it slopes down toward the brook Kidron.
[See on]
Jerusalem <03389> [Jerusalem. See on ch.]
mount <02022> [the mountain.]
reverence <03373> [did he.]
Lord ... seek ... Lord's ...... Lord <03068 02470> [besought the Lord. Heb. besought the face of the Lord. and the Lord. See on ver.]
we <0587> [Thus.]
Kiriath Jearim <07157> [Kirjath-jearim.]
king .............. king sought <04428 01245> [the king sought.]
fear <03372> [he was.]
<0582> [men.]
Achbor <05907> [Achbor.]
executed <05221> [who.]
thrown <07993> [and cast.]
common people <05971 01121> [common people. Heb. sons of the people.]
Ahikam <0296> [Ahikam.]
<05414> [that.]
early <07225> [A.M. 3409. B.C. 595. the beginning.]
Lord told <03068 0559> [saith the Lord. or, hath the Lord said.]
Make <06213> [Make.]
put <05414> [put.]
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
envoys <04397> [the messengers.]
masters ... message .... Tell ................ masters <0113 0559> [to say unto their masters, Thus. or, concerning their masters, saying, Thus. the Lord.]
made <06213> [made.]
give <05414> [and have.]
placed .... nations <05414 0776> [I given all.]
servant <05650> [my.]
placed ........................ animals <05414 02416> [and.]
nations ................. nation <01471> [all.]
time <06256> [until.]
many <07227> [many.]
nation ................................... nation <01471> [And it.]
There is a peculiar grandeur, as well as propriety, in this method of predicting Nebuchadnezzar's rapid successes. The God of Israel, declaring himself to be the Lord of armies, and the Creator and Owner of the whole earth, with all its inhabitants and productions, and claiming full sovereignty over his creatures, avows his determination, for reasons he does not deign to assign, to give all the countries of the world to the king of Babylon, whom he calls his servant, because he would accomplish an important part of his most righteous designs. They, therefore, who would escape the most dreadful judgments, must submit to the God of Israel, by submitting to Nebuchadnezzar; they must hearken to the prophets of Israel, and not to their own diviners; and they must observe, that Nebuchadnezzar, his son, and his grandson, would whatever opposition should be made, possess the full dominion of all these countries, till the appointed time was expired; and then, these haughty conquerors would in their turn become the prey of other powerful conquerors; all of which was most exactly fulfilled.
nation ................................... nation <01471> [that nation.]
war <02719> [with the sword.]
listen <08085> [hearken.]
dreams <02472> [dreamers. Heb. dreams.]
prophecies <05012> [they.]
far <07368> [to.]
drive ... out <05080> [I.]
[to bring.]
leave <03240> [those.]
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
Submit <0935> [Bring.]
die <04191> [Why.]
war <02719> [by the sword.]
listen <08085> [hearken.]
prophesying <05012> [they.]
lies <08267> [a lie. Heb. in a lie, or lyingly. that I.]
prophets .............. die <06 05030> [ye.]
articles <03627> [Behold.]
prophesying ........................ prophesying <05012> [for.]
subject <05647> [serve.]
city <05892> [wherefore.]
prophets <05030> [they.]
pray earnestly <06293> [let them.]
pillars <05982> [the pillars.]
carried <01540> [when.]
[Coniah.]
[Jehoiachin.]
carried off <0935> [carried.]
time <03117> [until.]
bring <05927> [then.]
year ....................... year <08141> [the same.]
Hananiah <02608> [Hananiah.]
prophet <05030> [the prophet.]
break <07665> [I.]
years ... over <08141 03117> [two full years. Heb. two years of days.]
everything <03627> [all the.]
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [that.]
back <07725> [I will bring.]
This was doubtless grateful news to the people, who looked upon Zedekiah only as Nebuchadnezzar's deputy. Hananiah seems to have been more desirous of popular than regal favour; for this prediction could not be altogether agreeable to Zedekiah. But he was evidently a weak as well as a wicked prince, and very generally despised.
Jeconiah <03204> [Jeconiah.]
[Coniah]
[Jehoiachin. captives. Heb. captivity.]
break <07665> [I will break.]
temple <01004> [the house.]
Amen <0543> [Amen.]
make <03068 06965> [the Lord perform.]
prophets <05030> [The prophets.]
As Hosea, Joel, Amos, Isaiah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, and others, all of whom had denounced similar evils against a corrupt people. So that they who opposed Jeremiah also opposed those who preceded him; and it was altogether unprecedented for a true prophet to promise deliverance to a guilty nation, without calling them to repentance.
prophesied <05012> [prophesied.]
prophesied <05012> [which.]
<0227> [then.]
took <03947> [took.]
spoke ............ says <0559> [Thus.]
break <07665> [Even.]
broken <07665> [Thou hast.]
have <06213> [thou shalt.]
By encouraging an unavailing resistance to Nebuchadnezzar.
put ............................ given <05414> [I have put.]
serve .......... serve <05647> [that they.]
put ............................ given <05414> [and I.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
This was a bold speech, in the presence of those priests and people who were prejudiced in favour of the false prophets, who prophesied to them smooth things.
remove <07971> [I will.]
year <08141> [this year.]
counseled <01696> [because.]
rebellion <05627> [rebellion. Heb. revolt.]
Hananiah <02608> [Hananiah.]
seventh month <02320 07637> [the seventh month.]
The prophecy was delivered in the fifth month, (ver. 1,) and Hananiah died in the seventh month; exactly two months after he had delivered his false prophecy, which he declared, in the name of God, would be fulfilled in two years. Here then the true prophet was demonstrated, and the false prophet detected. The death of Hananiah, thus predicted, was God's seal to the words of His prophet, and must have gained his other predictions great credit among the people; though it is evident that it did not induce them to forsake their sins and return to the God of Israel.
<01697> [Cir. A.M. 3407. B.C. 597. Now.]
This transaction is supposed to have taken place in the first or second year of Zedekiah.
letter <05612> [of the letter.]
elders <02205> [the elders.]
Jeconiah <03204> [Jeconiah.]
[Coniah.]
[Jehoiachin. eunuchs. or, chamberlains.]
Shaphan <08227> [Shaphan.]
Gemariah <01587> [Gemariah.]
sent <01540> [whom.]
Marry ....... Find wives ......... get married so <03947 0802> [Take ye.]
Marry ....... Find wives ......... get married so <03947 0802> [take wives.]
<01875> [seek.]
Pray <06419> [pray.]
prophets <05030> [Let.]
dreams <02472> [your dreams.]
lies <08267> [falsely. Heb. in a lie.]
fulfill <06310> [after.]
consideration <06485> [I will.]
know <03045> [I know.]
planned ......... plans <04284> [thoughts.]
future .... hope <0319 08615> [expected end. Heb. end and expectation.]
seek ................ seek <01245 01875> [ye shall.]
heart <03824> [with.]
I ..... available <04672> [I will be.]
Then .... reverse ............................ back <07725> [and I will turn.]
bring <07971> [Behold.]
<08182> [them like.]
make <05414> [will deliver.]
cursed <0423> [to be a curse. Heb. for a curse.]
attention <08085> [hear.]
Dr. Blayney thinks there were two letters written by the prophet to the captives in Babylon, and the first ends with this verse. That having heard, on the return of the embassy, that the captives had received his advices favourably, and because they were deceived by false prophets, who promised them a speedier deliverance, he therefore wrote a second letter, beginning with the fifteenth verse, and going on with the twenty-first, etc. (in which order these verses are read in the Septuagint,) in which he denounces God's judgments on the three chief of those, Ahab, Zedekiah, and Shemaiah.
exiles <01473> [all ye.]
sent <07971> [whom.]
prophesying <05012> [which.]
<03947> [shall be.]
roasted <07033> [roasted.]
done ................. spoken <06213 01696> [and have.]
lies <08267> [lying.]
<03045> [even I.]
Shemaiah <08098> [Shemaiah.]
Nehelamite <05161> [Nehelamite. or, dreamer.]
sent <07971> [Because.]
Zephaniah <06846> [Zephaniah.]
in charge <06496> [officers.]
<0376> [for every.]
prophet <05012> [and maketh.]
made .................................. put <05414> [that thou.]
reprimanded <01605> [therefore.]
to be a prophet <05012> [which.]
Send ................................. send <07971> [Send.]
Shemaiah .... Shemaiah <08098> [Because.]
punish <06485> [punish.]
any <0376> [he shall.]
punish .................. experience <06485 07200> [behold.]
rebellion <05627> [rebellion. Heb. revolt.]
[Cir.A.M. 3417. B.C. 587.]
time <03117> [the days.]
back ...... gave <07725 05414> [that I.]
back <07725> [and I.]
cries <06963> [a voice.]
terror ..... peace <06343 07965> [of fear, and not of peace. or, there is fear, and not peace.]
man <02145> [a man. Heb. a male. every.]
pale <03420> [paleness.]
time <03117> [for.]
There has never <0369> [so.]
time <06256> [it is.]
rescued <03467> [but.]
<07665> [I.]
subjugate <05647> [serve.]
afraid <03372> [fear.]
rescue <03467> [I.]
enjoy peace <08252> [and shall.]
affirm <05002> [I am.]
<06213> [though.]
discipline <03256> [but I.]
plead <01777> [none.]
wounds <04205> [that, etc. Heb. for binding up, or pressing.]
healing <08585> [hast.]
allies <0157> [lovers.]
attacked <05221> [I.]
sin <02403> [because.]
complain <02199> [Why.]
[thy sorrows.]
great <07230> [for the.]
<05927> [For I.]
called <07121> [they.]
restore <07725> [Behold.]
city <05892> [the city.]
former ruins <08510> [heap. or, little hill. the palace.]
Out <03318> [out.]
increase their number <07235> [and I.]
increase their number ............ honor <07235 03513> [I will.]
descendants <01121> [children.]
punish <06485> [and I.]
leader <0117> [nobles.]
ruler <04910> [governor.]
invite <07126> [and I.]
dare <06148> [for.]
dare <06148> [engaged.]
storm .... raging storm <05591> [the whirlwind.]
rage down <01641> [continuing. Heb. cutting. fall. or, remain.]
anger <02740> [fierce.]
come <0319> [in.]
time <06256> [same.]
God <0430> [will.]
clans ... Israel <04940 03478> [of.]
people <05971> [The people.]
find <04672> [found.]
journey <01980> [when.]
far-off <07350> [of old. Heb. from afar. I have.]
everlasting <05769> [an.]
[with loving-kindness have I drawn. or, have I extended loving-kindness unto.]
rebuild .............. built up <01129> [build.]
dear children <01330> [O.]
rebuild .............. built up ...... take up <01129 05710> [again.]
tambourine <08596> [tabrets. or, timbrels.]
plant .......... plant ...... enjoy <05193> [yet.]
hills <02022> [mountains.]
enjoy <02490> [eat. Heb. profane.]
when <03117> [a day.]
mountains <02022> [upon.]
<06965> [Arise.]
Sing <07442> [Sing.]
Lord .......................... Lord <03068> [O.]
remain alive <07611> [remnant.]
bring <0935> [I.]
distant parts <03411> [the coasts.]
Blind <05787> [them the.]
come back <0935> [come.]
praying prayers <08469> [supplications. or, favours. I will.]
smooth <03477> [in a.]
father <01> [for I.]
Ephraim <0669> [Ephraim.]
Proclaim <05046> [declare.]
scattered <02219> [He.]
watch <08104> [and keep.]
rescue <06299> [redeemed.]
overpowered <02389> [stronger.]
come <0935> [Therefore.]
Mount <04791> [the height.]
radiant <05102> [and shall.]
grain <01715> [wheat.]
<05315> [and their.]
grow faint or weary <01669> [and they.]
young women <01330> [shall.]
turn <02015> [for.]
provide <07301> [satiate.]
people <05971> [my people.]
sound <06963> [A.]
Ramah <07414> [Ramah.]
[Rama.]
her <03985> [refused.]
[because.]
Stop <04513> [Refrain.]
heartfelt <06468> [for.]
return <07725> [they.]
heard <08085> [surely.]
Israel <0669> [Ephraim.]
disciplined <03256> [Thou hast.]
calf <05695> [as a.]
come back <07725> [turn.]
Lord <03068> [for.]
after ......... After <0310> [Surely after.]
beat <05606> [I smote.]
ashamed <0954> [I was ashamed.]
<05375> [I did.]
people of Israel <0669> [Is Ephraim.]
even though ................... pity ........ compassion <01767 07355> [for.]
deeply <04578> [my bowels.]
moved <01993> [are troubled. Heb. sound.]
pity ........ compassion <07355> [I will.]
keep in mind <05324> [Set thee.]
took .......... your minds <07896 03820> [set thine.]
Return ....... Return <07725> [turn.]
dear children <01330> [O.]
vacillate <02559> [How.]
unfaithful <07728> [backsliding.]
bring <01254> [created.]
woman <05347> [A woman.]
[nqbh tcwbb gbr <\\See definition 05347\\>,] literally "A female ('one who is only a woman, not a wife, namely a virgin,' says Cocceius) shall encompass a man," or a male child: comp. Job 3:3. Which, together with the addition of a new creation, may well be understood to denote the miraculous conception. Hence the Jews have applied it determinately to the Messiah. In Berashith Rabba, (Parash 89) it is said, that as God punished Israel in a virgin, so would he also heal; and in Midrash Tillim, on Ps. 2, R. Huna, in the name of R. Idi, speaking of the sufferings of the Messiah, says, that when his hour is come, God shall say, "I must create him with a new creation; and so he saith, This day I have begotten thee."
says ...................... say <0559> [As.]
Lord ................................... Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
dwells <05116> [O.]
mountain <02022> [and mountain.]
time <03117> [the days.]
<02232> [that I.]
saw ..................... see <08245> [that like.]
uprooted <05428> [to pluck.]
saw ..................... see <08245> [so.]
time <03117> [the days.]
make <03772> [I.]
people of <01004> [with.]
covenant .................. covenant <01285> [Not.]
when <03117> [in the.]
covenant .................. covenant <01285> [which.]
husband <01166> [although I was. or, should I have continued?]
covenant <01285> [But this shall be the.]
God <0430> [and will.]
teach <03925> [teach.]
know ................ know ..... Lord <03045 03068> [Know the.]
know ................ know <03045> [for they.]
forgive <05545> [for I.]
promises <05414> [which giveth.]
stirs <07280> [which divideth.]
waves <01530> [when.]
Lord ............................................................ Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
fixed ordering <02706> [those.]
cease <07673> [cease.]
heavens <08064> [If.]
reject <03988> [I.]
time <03117> [the days.]
city <05892> [that.]
Tower <04026> [the tower.]
Gate <08179> [the gate.]
valley <06010> [the whole.]
Valley <05158> [the brook.]
[Cedron.]
Valley ...... far north ................. Lord <05158 06438 03068> [unto.]
sacred <06944> [shall be.]
torn down <05428> [it shall.]
tenth <06224> [A.M. 3415. B.C. 589. in the.]
eighteenth <08083> [the eighteenth.]
king ..................... royal <04428> [then.]
The siege had commenced on the tenth month of the preceding year, and continued a year after, ending in the fifth month of the following year; consequently the siege must have lasted eighteen months and twenty-seven days. See 2 Ki 25:18.
Jeremiah <03414> [Jeremiah.]
king .............. courtyard ........ royal <02691 04428> [in the.]
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
prophesying <05012> [Wherefore.]
hand <05414> [Behold.]
dealt <06485> [until.]
fight <03898> [though.]
Hanamel <02601> [Behold.]
Anathoth <06068> [Anathoth.]
entitled <04941> [for.]
courtyard <02691> [court.]
Anathoth <06068> [Anathoth.]
recognized <03045> [Then I.]
said .............................................................. spoken <01697> [that this.]
That it was by His appointment that I was to make this purchase; the whole of which was designed as a symbolical act, to shew the people, that although Judah and Jerusalem should be desolated, and the inhabitants carried captive to Babylon, yet there should be a restoration, when lands and possessions should be again enjoyed by their legal owners, in the same manner as formerly. During the famine that prevailed in the city, Hanameel probably wanted money to purchase bread, and his field would not be thought of much value in such circumstances, which may account for the stipulated sum being so very small; for at 2s. 6d. the shekel, it would only amount to about 2Å“. 2s. 6d.
weighed out <08254> [weighed.]
seven ounces ... silver <08255 03701 07651> [seventeen shekels of silver. or, seven shekels, and ten pieces of silver.]
signed <03789> [I.]
signed ... deed <05612 03789> [subscribed the evidence. Heb. wrote in the book.]
sealed <02856> [and sealed.]
purchase <05749> [and took.]
order of transfer <04687> [according.]
Baruch <01263> [Baruch.]
Neriah <05374> [Neriah.]
presence <05869> [and in.]
Take <03947> [Take.]
Houses <01004> [Houses.]
prayed <06419> [I Prayed.]
Oh <0162> [Ah.]
make <06213> [thou.]
<01697> [there.]
[to hard for thee. or, hid from thee.]
show <06213> [shewest.]
punish <07999> [recompensest.]
great <01419> [the Great.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
great <01419> [Great.]
deeds <05950> [work. Heb. doing.]
see <05869> [for.]
reward <05414> [to give.]
did <07760> [hast set.]
<06213> [and hast.]
brought ..... out <03318> [brought.]
great <02389> [with a strong.]
oath <07650> [which.]
kept ... promise .............. land <0776> [a land.]
took possession <03423> [possessed.]
obey <08085> [but.]
do ........ do <06213> [they have.]
disaster <07451> [therefore.]
ramps <05550> [mounts. or, engines of shot.]
The mounts were huge terraces raised up to plant their engines on; and so formed as to be capable of being moved forwards towards the city. See Note on 2 Sa 20:15.
city .............. make ... city <05892 05414> [the city is.]
<06440> [because.]
threatened <01696> [what.]
said <0559> [thou.]
city ............................ silver <03701 05892> [for. or, though.]
God <0430> [God.]
<01697> [is.]
hand <05414> [Behold.]
set <03341> [and set.]
rooftops <01406> [upon.]
people <01121> [children.]
earliest history <05271> [from.]
city <05892> [this city.]
anger <0639> [a provocation of mine anger. Heb. for my anger. that I.]
do so .......... made .......... kings ................... have done <06213 04428> [they.]
turned <06437> [turned.]
turning <06203> [back. Heb. neck. rising.]
built <01129> [they built.]
Valley .......................... commanded <01516 06680> [which.]
Ben ......... sons ................................... Judah <01121 03063> [to cause.]
saying <0559> [now.]
make <05414> [It.]
regather <06908> [I will gather.]
"This promise," says Jerome, "taken in its full extent was not made good to those that returned from captivity; because they were frequently infested with wars, as well by the kings of Syria and Egypt as by the rest of their neighbours; and they were finally subdued and destroyed by the Romans." God's word cannot fail; therefore there remaineth yet a rest for the ancient people of God.
live <03427> [I will cause.]
give <05414> [I.]
single-minded ....... way <01870 0259> [one way.]
respect <03372> [they may.]
[for every. Heb. all days. for the.]
make <03772> [I will make.]
<07725> [that I.]
stop <0310> [from them. Heb. from after them. but I.]
delight <07797> [Yea, I.]
plant <05193> [and I.]
faithfully <0571> [assuredly. Heb. in truth, or stability.]
bring ............................. bringing <0935> [Like.]
bring ............................. bringing <0935> [so.]
bought <07069> [buy.]
territory <0776> [in the land.]
restore <07622> [for I.]
As an earnest of these promises, houses and lands shall again take a good price in Judah and Jerusalem; and though they now are almost valueless, there shall again be a sufficiency of purchasers. Trade shall revive, for they shall have money enough to buy land with; husbandry shall revive, for those that have money, shall covet to lay it out upon lands; laws shall again have their due course, for they shall subscribe evidences, and seal them.
spoke <01697> [A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. Moreover.]
This was the eleventh year of Zedekiah, Jeremiah being still shut up in prison; but he was now in the court of the prison, where the elders and the king's officers might consult him with the greater ease.
confined <06113> [he.]
do <06213> [the maker.]
Osah, rather, "the Doer of it:" that is, He who is to perform that which He is now about to promise; thus rendered by Dahler; {Voici ce qui dit l'Eternel, qui fait ce qu'il a dit.} "Thus saith the Eternal, who doeth that which he hath said."
Lord ....... Lord .............. Lord <03068> [the Lord. or, Jehovah.]
Call <07121> [Call.]
show <05046> [shew.]
mysterious <01219> [mighty. Heb. hidden.]
torn down <05422> [thrown.]
go out <0935> [come.]
turn my back on <05641> [I have hid.]
will <05927> [I will bring.]
heal the wounds <0724> [health.]
{Aruchah;} not a plaister, as some, or progress, as others; but health, or the healing or closing of a wound, as the cognate Arabic {areekat} signifies, from {araka,} to heal.
show <01540> [and will.]
<07622> [will cause.]
rebuild <01129> [and will.]
fame <08034> [a name.]
nations <01471> [before.]
awe <06342> [fear.]
say ....... saying <0559> [which ye.]
sounds ... joy ... gladness ..... celebrations <08342 06963> [voice of joy.]
sounds ..... gladness ..... celebrations ...................... say <06963 0559> [the voice of them.]
Give thanks .... Lord ........ Lord ............. Lord <03034 03068> [Praise the.]
thank offerings <08426> [sacrifice.]
restore <07725> [For I.]
people ... animals <0120 0929> [without.]
towns <05892> [in all.]
sheep <06629> [shall.]
descendant <06780> [the Branch.]
do <06213> [and he.]
Judah <03063> [shall Judah.]
live <07931> [shall dwell.]
<03072> [The Lord our righteousness. JEHOVAH-tsidkenu.]
David ... never lack <01732 03808 03772> [David shall never want. Heb. There shall not be cut off from]
David.
covenant <01285> [may.]
descendant <01121> [that he.]
From the destruction of Jerusalem to the present time, a period of nearly eighteen hundred years, the Jews have had neither a king nor any form of government whatever; nor has the office of high priest, or priest of any kind offering sacrifice, been exercised among them during the same period. Hence this must be understood of the spiritual David, Jesus Christ, both the king and High Priest of his church, "the Israel of God," (Ga 6:16,) in whom the covenant of royalty with David and his seed, and that of priesthood with Aaron and his seed, have received their full accomplishment; and all the sacrifices of that dispensation were superseded by his "one oblation of himself," the efficacy of which remains for ever.
Levites <03881> [and with.]
stars in the sky <06635> [the host.]
numerous <07235> [so.]
Levites <03881> [the Levites.]
two <08147> [The two.]
surely noticed ....... haven't .............. Israel ... Judah ...... they have little regard ...... ever <05006> [thus.]
covenant <01285> [If my.]
governing <07760> [and if.]
reject .......... refuse <03988> [will I.]
choose ..................... restore <03947 07622> [I will.]
mercy <07355> [and have.]
spoke <01697> [A.M. 3415. B.C. 589. The word.]
This chapter contains two discourses, one concerning the taking of the city, and Zedekiah's captivity and death, ver. 1-7; and the other containing an invective against the inhabitants of Jerusalem for retaining their Hebrew slaves, ver. 8-22; both of which were delivered in the tenth year of Zedekiah.
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [when.]
kingdoms <04467> [all the kingdoms.]
consisted ......... from <03027> [of his dominion. Heb. the dominion of his hand.]
go <01980> [Go.]
give ..................... hand <05414> [Behold.]
escape ................................ go <04422 0935> [And thou.]
confront <05869> [and thine.]
answer <06310 01696> [he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth. Heb. his mouth shall speak to thy mouth.]
die <04191> [But thou.]
burn <04955> [and with.]
<08313> [so.]
mourn <05594> [and they.]
attacking Jerusalem <03898 03389> [fought against.]
Lachish <03923> [Lachish.]
fortified <04013> [for.]
made <03772> [had.]
grant <07121> [to proclaim.]
Hebrew <05680> [Hebrew.]
keep ..... enslaved <05647> [serve.]
leaders <08269> [when.]
agreed ....................... complied <08085> [then.]
made <03772> [I made.]
when <03117> [in the.]
Every <07093> [At the.]
sold <04376> [been sold. or, sold himself.]
ancestors <01> [but.]
It appears from this and several other passages, that the sabbatical year had been wholly neglected some centuries before the captivity; and the author of the second book of Chronicles (ch. 36:21) assigns this as a reason for the captivity, "that the land might enjoy her sabbaths." Now, if we reckon the seventy years' captivity as a punishment for this neglect, it will follow that the law on this subject had been disregarded for about 490 years.
Recently .......................... made <03117 03772> [ye.]
Recently <03117> [now. Heb. to-day. in proclaiming.]
made <03772> [ye had.]
granted ........................ claimed .... own <07121 08034> [which is called by my name. Heb. whereupon my name is called.]
turned right around ............. took back <07725> [ye turned.]
did not honor <02490> [polluted.]
forced <03533> [and brought.]
freedom <07121> [behold.]
When they proclaimed liberty to their slaves, God restrained the sword from cutting them off; but now having resumed their authority over them, He proclaimed liberty to these dire judgments to seize upon, and destroy them.
die ... war ... by <02719> [to the sword.]
make <05414> [I will.]
<02189> [to be removed. Heb. for a removing.]
violated .................. passed <05674> [have transgressed.]
cut <03772> [when.]
This was the ancient mode of making a covenant. (See on De 29:12 Jos 9:7.)
leaders <08269> [princes.]
court officials <05631> [the eunuchs.]
hand <03027> [and into.]
dead bodies <05038> [and their.]
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
withdrawn <05927> [which are.]
order <06680> [I will command.]
back <07725> [cause.]
They did return, and reinvested the city; and, after an obstinate defence, took it, plundered it, and burnt it to the ground, taking Zedekiah, his princes, and people, captive.
fight <03898> [shall fight.]
make <05414> [and I will.]
spoke <01697> [A.M. 3397. B.C. 607. The word.]
This discourse was probably delivered in the fourth year of Jehoiakim's reign, when the king of Babylon made war against him.
when <03117> [in the.]
temple <01004> [the house.]
one <0259> [into one.]
room .............. room ............... room <03957> [into the chamber.]
one <0376> [a man.]
temple officers <08269> [the princes.]
doorkeepers <08104> [the keeper.]
doorkeepers <05592> [door. Heb. threshold, or vessel.]
Have <08354> [Drink.]
Jonadab <03122> [Jonadab.]
drink ....................... drink <08354> [Ye shall.]
Jonadab, a man of fervent zeal for the pure worship of God, and who lived about three hundred years before this time, (2 Ki 10:15, 16, etc.) had probably practised these rules himself; and having trained up his children to habits of abstemiousness, he enjoined them and their posterity to adhere to them. In these regulations he seems to have had no religious, but merely a prudential view, as is intimated in the reason annexed to them "that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers." And this would be the natural consequence of observing these rules; for their temperate mode of living would very much contribute to preserve health and prolong life; and they would avoid giving umbrage, or exciting the jealousy or envy of the Jews, who might have been provoked, by their engaging and succeeding in the principal business in which they themselves were engaged, agriculture and vine-dressing to expel them their country; by which they would have been deprived of the religious advantages they enjoyed. In 1 Ch 2:55, they are termed scribes, which intimates that they were engaged in some kind of literary employments.
[all.]
[that ye.]
time <03117> [all.]
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [when.]
get up ... go to <0935> [Come.]
learn <03947> [Will.]
orders <01697> [words.]
over and over again <07925> [rising.]
obeyed ..................... obeyed <08085> [but ye.]
sent ....................................................... gave <07971 05414> [I have.]
<07725> [Return.]
live in <03427> [ye shall dwell.]
pay <05186> [ye have.]
<0559> [Therefore.]
God having, by the conduct of the Rechabites, convicted the Jews of ingratitude and rebellion, He now proceeds to pass sentence against them.
bring <0935> [Behold.]
threatened ............ spoke <01696> [because.]
obeyed <08085> [Because.]
Jonadab <03122> [Jonadab, etc. Heb. There shall not a man be cut off from]
Jonadab the son of Rechab to stand, etc.
serve <05975> [stand.]
scroll <04039> [a roll.]
Write <03789> [write.]
Israel <03478> [against Israel.]
nations <01471> [against all.]
since .......... reign ..... now <03117> [from the days.]
people <01004> [may be.]
hear <08085> [hear.]
<07725> [they may.]
forgive <05545> [that I.]
Baruch ................... Baruch <01263> [Baruch.]
wrote <03789> [wrote.]
Baruch is supposed to have been a disciple of Jeremiah; and being a ready scribe, he was employed by the prophet as his amanuensis.
scroll <04039> [upon.]
Read <07121> [and read.]
told <01697> [the words.]
fast <06685> [upon.]
then <05307> [It may.]
then .... ask .... for mercy <08467 05307> [they will present their supplication. Heb. their supplication shall fall. and will.]
great <01419> [for.]
So <06213> [did.]
Lord ...... scroll ....... Lord <05612 03068> [in the.]
fifth <02549> [A.M. 3398. B.C. 606. in the fifth.]
observe <07121> [they.]
came ........................... fifth <02549 0935> [came.]
read <07121> [Then.]
entrance of the room <03957> [in the chamber.]
Gemariah <01587> [Gemariah.]
Shaphan <08227> [Shaphan.]
royal secretary <05608> [the scribe.]
entrance <06607> [entry. or, door.]
Shaphan <08227> [Shaphan.]
Elishama <0476> [Elishama.]
Elnathan <0494> [Elnathan.]
Gemariah <01587> [Gemariah.]
Hananiah <02608> [Hananiah.]
Nethaniah <05418> [Nethaniah.]
Cushi <03570> [Cushi.]
bring ...................... carrying <03947> [took.]
read .......... read <07121> [and read.]
alarm <06342> [they were.]
<05046> [We.]
<05046> [Tell.]
dictated <07121> [He.]
ink <01773> [with ink.]
{Baddeyo} is rendered by some, after him; but {deyo} (in Chaldee and Syriac {deyootha,} and in Welsh {du,}) certainly denotes ink; whence are derived the Arabic {dawat} and {deweet,} and Persian {deeveet,} an ink-holder; the Syriac {dayowo}, and Persian {div,} the devil. So the Alexandrian copy of the LXX. has [en melani,] and Vulgate {atramento,} "with ink." Perhaps the princes supposed that Baruch had written this roll from memory; and that it was rather to be considered as his composition, than the substance of Jeremiah's prophecies; and they might ask this apparently frivolous question in order to allay the alarms excited by considering it as the word of God. But Baruch, with great simplicity, so answered their question, as to shew that he only acted as Jeremiah's amanuensis, and wrote verbatim what he had dictated.
Jehudi .................... he <03065> [Jehudi.]
Jehudi .................... he <03065> [And Jehudi.]
A warm apartment suited to the season of the year, (December, when snow is often upon the ground in Palestine,) in which was a pan or brazier ({ach,} or {ikhkh,} as it is pronounced in Arabic) of burning charcoal; for we learn from Bp. Pococke, and Dr. Russel, that this was the mode in which the Orientals warmed their apartments.
cut ... off <07167> [he cut.]
alarm <06342> [they.]
tear <07167> [nor rent.]
Elnathan <0494> [Elnathan.]
urged <06293> [made.]
<08085> [but.]
<04429> [Hammelech. or, the king. to take.]
royal ....................... Lord <04428 03068> [but.]
burned <08313> [Thou hast.]
write <03789> [Why.]
King ........................ king <04428> [The king.]
occupy <03427> [He shall.]
dead body <05038> [and his.]
day ..... night <03117 03915> [in the.]
Sir J. Chardin observes, "In the Lower Asia, in particular, the day is always hot; and as soon as the sun is fifteen degrees above the horizon, no cold is felt in the depth of winter itself. On the contrary, in the height of summer the nights are as cold as at Paris in the month of March. It is for this reason that in Persia and Turkey they always make use of furred habits in the country, such only being sufficient to resist the cold of the nights. I have travelled in Arabia, and in Mesopotamia, (the theatre of the adventures of Jacob,) both in winter and in summer, and have found the truth of what the Patriarch said, "That he was scorched with the heat in the day, and stiffened with cold in the night." (Ge 31:40.) This contrariety in the qualities of the air in twenty-four hours is extremely great in some places, and not conceivable by those that have not felt it; one would imagine that he had passed in a moment from the violent heats of summer to the depth of winter. Thus it had pleased God to temper the heat of the sun by the coldness of night, without which the greatest part of the East would be barren, and a desert."
punish <06485> [punish. Heb. visit upon.]
bring <0935> [will bring.]
heed <08085> [but.]
<03947> [took.]
wrote <03789> [who.]
several other <03254> [there.]
scroll .......................... messages <01992 01697> [like words. Heb. words as they.]
Zedekiah <06667> [A.M. 3406-3416. B.C. 598-588. Zedekiah.]
Jeconiah <03659> [Coniah.]
[Jeconiah.]
[Jehoiachin. made.]
officials <05650> [neither.]
prophet <05030> [the prophet. Heb. the hand of the prophet.]
Zephaniah <06846> [Zephaniah.]
pray <06419> [Pray.]
put <05414> [for.]
Pharaoh <06547> [Pharaoh's.]
This was Pharaoh Hophra, or Apries, as he is called by Herodotus, who succeeded his father Psammis on the throne of Egypt, A.M. 3410, B.C. 594, and reigned twenty-five years. Having entered into a confederacy with Zedekiah, (Eze 17:15,) he marched out of Egypt with a great army to his relief; which caused Nebuchadnezzar to raise the siege of Jerusalem to meet him; during which period the transactions detailed here took place.
withdrew <05927> [they.]
<0559> [Thus.]
Pharaoh <06547> [Pharaoh's.]
deceive <05377> [Deceive.]
yourselves <05315> [yourselves. Heb. your souls.]
defeat <05221> [though.]
wounded <0582 01856> [wounded men. Heb. men thrust through.]
get up <06965> [yet.]
forces ......... army <02428> [that.]
withdrawn <05927> [broken. Heb. made to ascend.]
leave <03318> [went.]
territory <0776> [the land.]
divided ... among <02505 08432> [separate himself thence. or, slip away from thence.]
Gate <08179> [in the.]
Hananiah <02608> [Hananiah.]
deserting <05307> [Thou.]
answered <0559> [said.]
lie <08267> [false. Heb. falsehood. or, a lie.]
officials <08269> [the princes.]
put <05414> [put.]
house <01004> [in the.]
prison <01004> [A.M. 3415. B.C. 589. into the dungeon.]
cell <02588> [cabins. or, cells.]
questioned him .... asked him <07592> [asked.]
message <01697> [Is there.]
<05414> [thou shalt.]
Where <0346> [Where.]
prophets <05030> [your.]
grant <06440 05307> [be accepted before. Heb. fall before.]
die <04191> [lest.]
courtyard ...................................... courtyard <02691> [into the.]
ordered <05414> [and that.]
bread ............... bread <03899> [until.]
Jeremiah ...................................... Jeremiah <03414> [Thus.]
Shephatiah <08203> [Shephatiah.]
Jehucal <03116> [Jucal.]
[Jehucal. Pashur.]
[Melchiah.]
[Malchijah.]
Now <08085> [heard.]
stay .................... surrender ............ lives <03427 03318 05315> [He.]
lives <05315> [shall have.]
officials <08269> [the princes.]
<03651> [thus.]
<07965> [welfare. Heb. peace.]
King <04428> [for.]
took <03947> [took.]
cistern ................................. cistern <0953> [into.]
<04428> [Hammelech. or, the king.]
lowered <07971> [and they.]
cistern ................................. cistern <0953> [And in.]
This dungeon, which seems to have belonged to one of Zedekiah's sons, appears to have been a most dreadful place; the horrors of which were probably augmented by the cruelty of the jailor. "The eastern people," observes Sir J. Chardin, "have not different prisons for the different classes of criminals; the judges do not trouble themselves about where the prisoners are confined, or how they are treated, considering it merely as a place of safety; and all that they require of the jailor is, that the prisoner be forthcoming when called for. As to the rest, he is master to do as he pleases; to treat him well or ill; to put him in irons or not; to shut him up close, or hold him in easier restraint; to admit people to him, or to suffer nobody to see him. If the jailor and his servants have large fees, let the person be the greatest rascal in the world, he shall be lodged in the jailor's own apartment, and the best part of it; and on the contrary, if those that have imprisoned a man give the jailor greater presents, or that he has a greater regard for them, he will treat the prisoner with the greatest inhumanity." This adds a double energy to those passages which speak of "the sighing of the prisoner," and to Jeremiah's supplicating that he might not be remanded to the dungeon of Jonathan. (ver. 26; ch. 37:20.)
Ebed Melech <05663> [Ebed-melech.]
An Ethiopian <03569> [Ethiopian.]
court official <05631> [eunuchs.]
royal .............. king <04428> [the king.]
<0582> [these.]
die <04191> [is like to die. Heb. will die. for there]
king <04428> [the king.]
<03027> [with thee. Heb. in thine hand.]
let ... down <07971> [let them.]
Put <07760> [Put.]
pulled <04900> [So.]
Jeremiah ........ Jeremiah <03414> [Jeremiah.]
sent <07971> [sent.]
third <07992> [third. or, principal.]
ask <07592> [I will.]
So .... made .... promise ........ an oath ... promised <07650> [sware.]
<06213> [that made.]
<0582> [of these.]
God who rules over all ... God <0430 06635> [the God of hosts.]
God ....... God ... Israel <0430 03478> [the God of Israel.]
surrender <03318> [If thou.]
surrender <03318> [if thou.]
city <05892> [then.]
afraid <01672> [I.]
torture <05953> [mock.]
obey <08085> [Obey.]
life <05315> [and thy.]
refuse <03986> [if thou.]
what <01697> [this is.]
women <0802> [all.]
saying <0559> [and those.]
Mr. Harmer would render, "and here ({hennah,} or reading {hinneh,} behold,) the women (wont to sing on public occasions) shall say," etc.; observing "that these bitter speeches much better suit the lips of women belonging to the conquering nation, singing before a captive prince, than of his own wives and concubines." This he illustrates by the following extract from Della Valle: When he was at Lar, in Persia, the king of Ormuz was brought thither in triumph; and "this poor unfortunate king entered Lar, with his people, in the morning, music playing, and girls and women singing and dancing before him, according to the custom of Persia, and the people flocking together with a prodigious concourse, and conducting him in a pompous and magnificent manner, particularly with colours displayed, like what the Messenians formerly did to Philopoemen, the general of the Athenians, their prisoner of war, according to the report of Justin."
<0582> [Thy friends. Heb. The men of thy peace.]
misled <05496> [have set.]
feet <07272> [thy feet.]
turned <05472> [they are.]
turned <03318> [they shall.]
city <05892> [shalt cause, etc. Heb. shalt burn, etc.]
told <05046> [and he told.]
what .......... stopped questioning ............ conversation <02790 01697> [left off speaking with him. Heb. were silent from him.]
ninth <08671> [A.M. 3414. B.C. 590. the ninth.]
tenth <06224> [the tenth.]
This was the month Tebeth, (Es 2:16,) which began with the first moon of January; and it was on the 10th of this month that Nebuchadnezzar invested the city.
fourth <07243> [A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. the fourth.]
This was the month Tammuz, which commences with the first moon of July: the siege had lasted just eighteen months.
broke <01234> [was.]
other officers <08269 07611> [all the.]
Nergal-Sharezer .......... Nergal-Sharezer <05371> [Nergalsharezer.]
Nebo-Sarsekim <08310> [Sarsechim.]
These were the principal commanders; but Dr. Blayney thinks that, instead of six persons, we have in reality but three, as the name that follows each is the title of the office. Thus Nergal-Sharezer, who was Samgar-nebo, or keeper, i.e., priest of Nebo; Sarsechim, who was Rab-saris, or chief eunuch; and Nergal-sharezer, who was Rab-mag, or chief magi; as the words {mog} in Persian, {magoos} in Arabic, {magooshai} in Syriac, and [magos <\\See definition 3097\\>,] in Greek, signify; and we learn from Justin and Curtius that the magi attended the king in war.
Zedekiah <06667> [when]
walls <02346> [betwixt.]
[Chaldeans'.]
plains <06160> [in the plains.]
Riblah <07247> [Riblah.]
Hamath <02574> [Hamath.]
sentence <04941 01696> [gave judgment upon him. Heb. spake with him judgments.]
sons put to death ................... put to death <07819 01121> [slew the.]
forced to watch <05869> [before.]
put to death ................ nobles .... put to death <07819 02715> [slew all.]
put out <05786> [he put.]
chains <05178> [chains. Heb. two brasen chains, or fetters.]
burned down <08313> [burned.]
tore <05422> [and brake.]
Nebuzaradan <05018> [Nebuzar-adan.]
captain .... royal guard <02876 07227> [captain of the guard. or, chief marshal. Heb. chief of the executioners, or slaughter-men. and so.]
captive .............. carried <01540> [carried.]
left behind .......... poor <07604 01800> [left of.]
time <03117> [at the same time. Heb. in that day.]
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [Now.]
Nebuchadnezzar must have frequently heard of Jeremiah's predictions, many of which were now fulfilled, which would dispose him to respect his character and treat him with kindness.
orders <06680> [gave.]
through <03027> [to. Heb. by the hand of.]
look ....... do ....... do <05869 06213> [look well to him. Heb. set thine eyes upon him.]
do anything ...... do <06213 03972> [do him.]
Nebuzaradan <05018> [Nebuzar-adan.]
brought ........................ take <03947> [took.]
over <05414> [committed.]
Ahikam <0296> [Ahikam.]
had ......... confined <06113> [while.]
Ebed-Melech <05663> [Ebed-melech.]
carry out <0935> [Behold.]
<06440> [before thee.]
rescue <05337> [I will.]
<06440> [of whom.]
life <05315> [but.]
trust <0982> [because.]
spoke <01697> [The word.]
This, and the four following chapters, record the events which occurred in Judea from the taking of Jerusalem to the retreat of the remnant of the people to Egypt; and contain several prophecies of Jeremiah concerning them there; which were "the word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord." It appears that Jeremiah, after being freed from prison, continued among the Jews, till he was bound, with others of them, and carried to Ramah; where he was set a liberty in the manner related.
after <0310> [after.]
Ramah <07414> [Ramah.]
<0631> [bound.]
chains <0246> [chains. or, manacles.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
sinned <02398> [because.]
turn to leave ........ Go back <07725> [Go back.]
Ahikam <0296> [Ahikam.]
<03212> [or go.]
gave .... food <05414 0737> [gave him.]
food .... present <04864 0737> [victuals and a reward.]
Rather, "victuals, ({aruchah,} a stated allowance, sufficient for the journey,) and a present," {masse„th.}
went <0935> [Then.]
It has been doubted whether Jeremiah acted prudently in this decision, as the event seems to indicate the contrary, and as it was the evident meaning of all his predictions that the Jews should not prosper in their own country till the expiration of seventy years. But he was evidently influenced by the most unbounded love to his country, for whose welfare he had watched, prayed, and lived; and he now chose rather to share her adversities, her sorrows, her wants, her afflictions, and her disgrace, than to be the companion of princes, and to sit at the table of kings. His patriotism was as unbounded as it was sincere: he only ceased to live for country when he ceased to breathe.
Mizpah <04708> [Mizpah.]
[Mizpeh.]
officers <08269> [all the.]
poorer <01803> [the poor.]
So ........ came <0935> [came.]
Ishmael <03458> [even.]
Johanan <03110> [Johanan.]
Jonathan <03129> [Jonathan.]
Netophathite <05200> [Netophathite.]
Maacathite <04602> [Maachathite.]
oath <07650> [sware.]
afraid <03372> [Fear.]
represent <05975> [serve. Heb. stand before.]
harvest <0622> [gather.]
<07019> [summer.]
Judeans <03064> [all the Jews.]
Johanan <03110> [Johanan.]
Johanan and his companions seem to have acted honestly in this affair. They had received intelligence of designs formed against Gedaliah's life, and consequently against the whole new settlement. Ishmael, being a branch of David's family, was probably displeased that another was preferred above him; and the king of the Ammonites, out of hatred to the Jews, employed him to slay Gedaliah. But Gedaliah, conscious of his own integrity and benevolence, took the portrait of others from his own mind; and therefore believed evil of no man, because he felt none towards any in his own breast. He may be reproached for being too credulous and confiding; but this only serves to shew the greatness of his soul; for a little mind is always suspicious, and ready to believe the worst of every person and thing.
son ......... son <01121> [Ammonites.]
Ishmael <03458> [Ishmael.]
kill <05221> [slay thee? Heb. strike thee in soul. believed.]
<03212> [Let.]
kill ............... kill <05221> [wherefore.]
do <06213> [Thou shalt.]
seventh month <02320 07637> [the seventh month.]
This was the month {Tisri,} answering to the new moon of September, the seventh of the sacred, but the first of the civil year; on the third day of which the Jews keep a fast, in commemoration of the death of Gedaliah, to which the prophet Zechariah refers, ch. 8:19; 39:2; 52:6. 2 Ki 25:3, 8, 25. Zec 7:5; 8:19.
Ishmael <03458> [Ishmael.]
Elishama <0476> [Elishama.]
member ........... Zedekiah's <02233 04428> [of the.]
member <02233> [seed.]
eating <0398> [they did.]
killed <05221> [and smote.]
king <04428> [whom.]
murdered <04191> [after.]
arrived ................................ present <0935> [came.]
Shechem <07927> [Shechem.]
Shiloh <07887> [Shiloh.]
Samaria <08111> [Samaria.]
beards <02206> [their beards.]
All these were signs of deep mourning; which, though forbidden on funeral occasions, were customary, and perhaps counted allowable, on seasons of public calamity, and this mourning was probably on account of the destruction of Jerusalem.
temple <01004> [to the.]
cry <01058> [weeping, etc. Heb. in going and weeping.]
slaughtered <07819> [slew.]
kill ............................... kill <04191> [Slay.]
hidden <04301> [treasures.]
These "treasures hid in the field" were doubtless laid up in subterranean pits, similar to the {mattamores} in Barbary, in which, Dr. Shaw informs us, they deposit the grain when winnowed; two or three hundred of them being sometimes together, and the smallest holding four hundred bushels. The same mode of keeping corn prevails in Syria and the Holy Land.
cistern <0953> [the pit.]
This was probably a large reservoir for receiving rain water, which Asa had caused to be made in the midst of the city, in case of a siege.
<03027 01436> [because of Gedaliah. or, near Gedaliah. Heb. by the hand, or the side of Gedaliah. was it.]
<06440> [for fear.]
people ................. rest .... people <07611 05971> [all the.]
royal <04428> [even.]
Nebuzaradan <05018> [whom.]
son ..... son ................. Ammonites <01121> [to the.]
Johanan <03110> [Johanan.]
fight <03898> [to fight.]
large <07227> [the great.]
people <05971> [that when.]
They appear to have been weary of the tyranny of Ishmael, and glad of an opportunity to abandon him.
escape <04422> [escaped.]
eight <0582 08083> [eight men.]
soldiers <01397> [even.]
<03643> [Chimham.]
<03212> [to go.]
As Johanan and the other princes had taken a decided part against Ishmael, they had no sufficient reason to fear that the Chaldeans would revenge on them the murder of Gedaliah; but perhaps Johanan was unwilling to be superseded in the command which he had rightly assumed, and so used his influence to induce the whole company to take refuge in Egypt; and their old attachment to the Egyptians rendered them more ready to concur in this ruinous measure.
were afraid ... what .... might do <03372> [for they.]
Ishmael <06440 03458> [because.]
king <04428> [whom.]
officers ............... people <08269 05971> [all the.]
Jezaniah <03153> [Jezaniah.]
[Jaazaniah.]
every class <06996> [from.]
went <05066> [came.]
grant <05307 06440> [be accepted before thee. Heb. fall before thee.]
pray <06419> [and pray.]
left out <07604> [left.]
Jeremiah <03414> [Jeremiah.]
The princes seem to have wholly neglected Jeremiah, till on this occasion they wanted his sanction to their purpose of going to Egypt. In order to induce him to favour them, they applied to him with one consent, in the most respectful and plausible manner: they used language to prepossess him with a favourable opinion of them, and to move his compassion; and, in words expressing great humility, they entreated his prayers in their behalf, and that he would enquire of the Lord what he would have them to do. The prophet readily acquiesced; and doubted not but that he should receive an answer from God, which he would unreservedly declare to them; and they called the Lord to witness that they would implicitly follow his directions.
pray <06419> [I will pray.]
as <01697> [whatsoever.]
anything <04513> [I will keep.]
Lord .... true ............... Lord <03068 0571> [The Lord be.]
do <06213> [if we.]
<02896> [it be good.]
well <03190> [that it.]
At this time he was waiting for a revelation from God in answer to the enquiries of the people; who probably thus delayed to make known his will, in order to shew them that Jeremiah did not speak of his own mind, but when and as he was directed. The delay was also suited to give time for consideration, and to retard their rash project; and, as it would render them impatient, it tended to detect their hypocrisy, and to shew more clearly their determined rebellion against God.
Johanan <03110> [Johanan.]
said ..... sent .................... says <0559 07971> [unto.]
stay <03427> [abide.]
build <01129> [then.]
sorrow <05162> [for I.]
afraid .......... fear ..... afraid <03372 03373> [afraid.]
save <03467> [for I.]
go <0935> [we will go.]
hear <08085> [nor hear.]
so determined <07760> [If.]
If ye are determined to go into Egypt, the evils which ye dreaded by staying in your own land shall overtake and destroy you there; "and there shall ye die." God turned the policy of the wicked to their own destruction; for while they thought themselves safe in Egypt, there Nebuchadnezzar destroyed both them and the Egyptians.
wars <02719> [that the sword.]
follow <01692> [follow close. Heb. cleave. there ye.]
<0582> [it be with all the men. Heb. all the men be. they shall.]
survive <08300> [none.]
wrath <0639> [As mine.]
The people had witnessed the tremendous effects of the wrath of God, in the siege and destruction of Jerusalem; and had they not been past feeling, this denunciation must have made their ears tingle, and appalled their very souls.
cursed <0423> [ye shall be.]
see <07200> [and ye shall see.]
go <0935> [Go.]
God knew, that such was their miserable propensity to idolatry, that they would adopt the idolatrous worship of Egypt. Add to which, their going thither for protection was in effect refusing to submit to the king of Babylon, to whom God had decreed the rule of Judah and the neighbouring kingdoms.
sure <03045> [know.]
warn ..... now <05749 03117> [admonished you. Heb. testified against you.]
fatal <08582> [For ye.]
God made known to the prophet their dissimulation; which he shunned not to declare to them.
fatal <05315 08582> [dissembled in your hearts. Heb. have used deceit against your souls.]
Pray <06419> [Pray.]
day <03117> [I have.]
obey <08085> [but.]
sure <03045> [know.]
place <04725> [in the.]
go ... live <0935 01481> [to go and to sojourn. or, to go to sojourn.]
finished <03615> [had made.]
things <01697> [all the words.]
Azariah <05838> [Azariah.]
[Jezaniah. Johanan.]
arrogant <02086> [all the.]
telling <01696> [Thou speakest.]
They had no other colour for their rebellion than flatly to deny that God had spoken what the prophet had declared, the constant method of hypocrites and infidels, who pretend that they are not satisfied of the truth of Divine revelation, when the true cause of their unbelief is, that the commands of God contradict their lusts and appetites.
Baruch <01263> [Baruch.]
wants ... hand ....... so that ... will <05414 04616> [to deliver.]
obey <08085> [obeyed.]
stay <03427> [to dwell.]
Instead <03947> [took.]
royal <04428> [the king's.]
off <05315> [every.]
Jeremiah <03414> [Jeremiah.]
went ............. came <0935> [So.]
Tahpanhes <08471> [Tahpanhes.]
[Tahapanhes.]
[Hanes.]
[Tehaphnehes.]
large <01419> [great.]
pavement <04404> [in the brick-kiln.]
<07971> [I will send.]
servant <05650> [my servant.]
royal tent <08237> [his royal.]
attack <05221> [he shall smite.]
die of disease ... die of disease <04194> [such as are for death.]
temples <01004> [in the.]
clean like ...... lice <05844> [array.]
clean like ...... lice <05844> [putteth.]
sacred pillars <04676> [images. Heb. statues, or standing images. Beth-shemesh. or, the house of the sun.]
temples <01004> [and the.]
spoke <01697> [Cir. A.M. 3433. B.C. 571. The word.]
Dahler supposes this discourse to have been delivered in the seventeenth or eighteenth year after the taking of Jerusalem.
Judeans <03064> [concerning.]
Migdol <04024> [Migdol.]
Tahpanhes <08471> [Tahpanhes.]
{Tahpanhes,} rendered [Taphne] and [Taphnai] by the LXX., is no doubt the [Daphnai] of Herodotus, a royal city of Lower Egypt, situated, according to the Itinerary of Antoninus, sixteen miles south from Pelusium, from which it was called Daphn‘ Pelusic‘. Forster says that there is now a place situated in the vicinity of Pelusium called Safnas, which may be a vestige of the ancient name. It appears to have been the very first town in Egypt, in the road from Palestine, that afforded tolerable accommodation for the fugitives. It was at this place that, according to Jerome and several of the ancients, tradition says the faithful Jeremiah was stoned to death by these rebellious wretches, for whose welfare he had watched, prayed, and suffered every kind of indignity and hardship.
[Tehaphnehes. Noph.]
southern <06624> [Pathros.]
[Pathrusim.]
seen <07200> [Ye have.]
ruins <02723> [a desolation.]
wickedness <07451> [of their.]
gods <0430> [gods.]
sent ............. warning <07971> [I sent.]
disgusting <08441> [this.]
people ........ listen <08085> [they.]
sacrificing <06999> [burn.]
anger <02534> [my fury.]
ruins <02723> [wasted.]
yourselves <05315> [against.]
<03772> [to cut.]
child <05768> [child.]
Judah <03063> [Judah. Heb. the midst of Judah. to leave.]
angry <03707> [ye provoke.]
destroyed <03772> [that ye might cut.]
curses <07045> [a curse.]
forgotten <07911> [ye forgotten.]
wicked ..................... by ........ wives by <07451> [wickedness. Heb. wickedness, or punishments, etc. the wickedness of your.]
shown ... contrition <01792> [are not.]
shown ... contrition <01792> [humbled. Heb. contrite.]
revered <03372> [neither.]
determined <07760> [I will.]
see <03947> [I will take.]
every class <06996> [from the.]
curse <0423> [and they shall be.]
remnant <07611> [So.]
It is evident from ver. 28, that some Jews were to escape the general destruction in Egypt, and to return into their own country, though but a few; and the same thing is implied in the latter clause of this verse. But the former part excludes from the number of those who should escape every individual of those who are properly termed "the remnant of Judah;" those who had willingly and rebelliously "set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to dwell there," on a presumption that they knew better than God how to consult their own restoration. The few, then, who were destined to escape, were to be such as had come into the land of Egypt with Johanan by compulsion, or had previously fled thither, or in some other less offensive manner, and chanced to be there when the storm burst upon them.
come <0935> [which are.]
escape ........................... fugitives <06412 06405> [shall escape.]
<05375> [which they.]
long <05315 05375> [have a desire. Heb. lift up there soul. for none.]
wives ............ wives .............. people <0582 0802 05971> [all the.]
listen <08085> [we.]
vowed <01697> [whatsoever.]
Queen ... Heaven <08064 04446> [queen of heaven. or, frame of heaven.]
As the Sun was worshipped, not only under the name of {baal shamayim,} "Lord of heaven," but also by that of {Molech,} or King; it is likely also that the Moon was adored as {melecheth hashshamayim,} "the Queen of heaven." So the Orphic hymn addressed to the Moon begins [Klythi thea BASILEIA,] Hear, goddess Queen. And Homer, in his Hymn to the Moon, addresses her, [Chaire, anassa, thea] All hail, Queen, goddess. In Epiphanius, we find some women of Arabia, towards the end of the fourth century, had set up another queen of heaven, the Virgin Mary, too well known since under that name and character, whom they likewise worshipped as a goddess, by holding stated assemblies every year to her honour, and by offering a cake of bread in her name; whence these heretics were called Collyridians, from the Greek [kollyris,] a cake.
do .................................... did <06213> [as we.]
ancestors <01> [our fathers.]
towns <05892> [in the cities.]
plenty <07646> [then.]
food <03899> [victuals. Heb. bread.]
have been .......... wars <02637> [we have.]
sacrifice <06999> [we burned.]
But <01107> [without.]
husbands <0582> [men. or, husbands.]
streets <02351> [and in.]
Lord <03068> [did.]
could <03201> [could.]
land <0776> [your land.]
sacrificed <06999> [ye have burned.]
followed <01980> [nor walked.]
statutes <02708> [nor in his statutes.]
decrees <05715> [nor in his testimonies.]
disaster <07451> [therefore.]
Listen <08085> [Hear.]
Judah <03063> [all Judah.]
women <0802> [Ye and.]
carry out ..................... Carry ... out <06213> [We will.]
fulfill <06965> [ye will.]
swear <07650> [I have sworn.]
name .................... name <08034> [that my name.]
Lord ................... Lord ................................................. Lord God <03068 0136 03069> [The Lord God.]
see <08245> [will watch.]
<08552> [shall be.]
<04962> [a small.]
know <03045> [shall know.]
[mine, or theirs. Heb. from me or them.]
<0226> [a sign.]
threats <01697> [my words.]
hand .......................... handed <05414> [I will.]
hand .......................... handed <05414> [as I.]
Baruch <01263> [A.M. 3397. B.C. 607. Baruch.]
writing down in <03789> [when.]
fourth <07243> [in the.]
Baruch <01263> [unto.]
hopeless <0188> [Woe.]
added <03254> [added.]
worn out <03021> [I fainted.]
planted <05193> [that which.]
looking ......... look <01245> [seekest.]
looking ......... look <01245> [seek.]
bring <0935> [I will bring.]
life <05315> [thy life.]
