Jeremiah 8:4--9:26
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.]
