Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 18:22
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
22. The havoc wrought in battle outside the walls is followed by the sacking of the houses of the city.
they have digged a pit and hid snares ] Cp. Psa 57:6.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The sack of the city follows with all the horrible cruelties practiced at such a time.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
That is, Let the enemy break into their houses, which are, in an ordinary course of providence, mens castles and sanctuaries, and cause such shrieks as use to be heard in such cases, for their malicious seeking my life by all secret practices.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
22. cryby reason of the enemybursting in: let their houses be no shelter to them in theircalamities [CALVIN].
digged . . . pit(Jer 18:20; Psa 57:6;Psa 119:85).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Let a cry be heard from their houses,…. A shrieking of women and children, not only for the loss of husbands and parents, but because of the entrance of the enemy into the city, and into their houses, to take away their lives and their substance; as follows:
when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; or an army, as the Targum; either the Chaldean army, or rather the Roman army:
for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet: and therefore it was a just retaliation, that a troop or army should suddenly come upon them, and seize their persons and substance; though Kimchi understands it, as before, of poison, which they would have given him; but Jarchi, of a suspicion and vile calumny they raised of him, that he was guilty of adultery with another man’s wife; a “whore” being called a “deep ditch” by the wise man, Pr 23:27; and so it is in the Talmud h.
h T. Bab. Kama, fol. 16. 2.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
He proceeds with his imprecation, he then wishes that a cry should he heard from the houses, as though he had said, “Let there be no refuge for them when their calamity shall happen:” For his own house is to every one his place of safetyin a disordered state of things. The Prophet then wished them to be slain by their enemies even when concealed in their houses; for it appears from the preceding verse that he meant slaughter. For why should a cry be, except on account of enemies breaking in and raging against them, while they, being not able to defend their life, were driven to lamentations and howlings? Let a cry then be heard from their houses, when thou bringest an army upon them suddenly; and he adds: For they have digged a pit to take me
The Prophet indeed seems here to be the defender of his own cause: but there is no doubt, but that apart from anything personal, he hated the impiety of those of whom he speaks, because they insidiously assailed him, when yet he was doing the work of God. For the Prophet neither sowed nor reaped for himself, but only labored to obey God. When therefore they artfully assailed and circumvented him, what was it but openly to carry on war with God? Let us then remember, that the Prophet does not here complain of troubles which he underwent, or of injuries, but that he only pleads a public cause; for these ungodly men treated him perfidiously, while he was doing nothing else but spending his labor for God, and indeed for their salvation. At last he adds —
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(22) Let a cry be heard from their houses.i.e., let their city be taken by the enemy and the people suffer all the outrage and cruelty which their heathen invaders can inflict. What these were, the history of all wars, above all of Eastern wars, tells us but too plainly (2Ki. 8:12; Hos. 13:16). Some of them, prisoners impaled or flayed alive, are brought vividly before our eyes by the Assyrian sculptures.
The snares are those of the bird-catcher (Psa. 140:5; Psa. 142:3).
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
22. From their houses To the terrors of war and famine are added the sack and pillage of the city.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Jer 18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
Ver. 22. When thou shalt bring a troop. ] The Vulgate rendereth it, Latronem, a thief, or robber – viz., Nebuchadnezzar, that arch-thief, whose monarchy was grande latrociuium, grand thief, and whose regiment, without righteousness, was robbery by authority.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
troop = marauders.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
a cry: Jer 4:19, Jer 4:20, Jer 4:31, Jer 6:26, Jer 9:20, Jer 9:21, Jer 25:34-36, Jer 47:2, Jer 47:3, Jer 48:3-5, Isa 10:30, Isa 22:1-4, Zep 1:10, Zep 1:11, Zep 1:16
for: Jer 18:20
and hid: Jer 20:10, Psa 38:12, Psa 56:5-7, Psa 64:4, Psa 64:5, Psa 140:5, Mat 22:15
Reciprocal: Exo 21:33 – General Job 6:27 – ye dig Psa 94:13 – until the pit Psa 119:110 – wicked Psa 124:7 – as a bird Psa 141:9 – from the snares Psa 142:3 – In the way Jer 5:26 – lay wait Jer 14:2 – the cry Jer 20:16 – let him
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 18:22. This prediction was to he literally fulfilled when the troop (the Babylonian army) came against the city of Jerusalem. When the people observed the siege that was set np against, them they would cry out in dismay.