Bible Commentary

Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law; The severe sentence passed upon them is the consequence of idolatry persisted in through many generations … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 16:11”

And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what [is] our iniquity? or what [is] our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God? 10. Cp. Jer 5:19, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 16:10”

For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. 9. Cp. Jer 7:34. Fuente: The Cambridge … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 16:9”

Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. 8. Co. omits the v., but on inadequate grounds. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Verse 8. Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting] Funeral banquets were made to commemorate the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 16:8”

Neither shall [men] tear [themselves] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall [men] give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. 7. break bread for them ] The same verb as in Isa 58:7 (“deal”). There the word for bread ( leem) stands … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 16:7”

Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall [men] lament for them: nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them: 6. nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald ] practices common among semi-civilized races. For both together, as here, cp. Jer 47:5; for the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 16:6”

For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, [even] lovingkindness and mercies. 5. Enter not ] The prophet’s abstinence from the accustomed marks of respect to the dead and sympathy with … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 16:5”

They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; [but] they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 16:4”

For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them, and concerning their fathers that begot them in this land; 3. and concerning their mothers this land ] Possibly these words are a gloss, as being apparently irrelevant, but not … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 16:3”

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place. 2. Thou shall not take thee a wife ] Marriage was a state of life in special favour with the Jews. By his act of self-denial therefore Jeremiah was to shew his full submission to the will of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 16:2”