Bible Commentary

Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? 12. Also very difficult. No satisfactory emendation has been proposed. If, which is very doubtful, the v. is to be retained as it stands, the speaker is either ( a) Jehovah, declaring that the Chaldaean foe shall prevail, or ( b) better, Jeremiah, as mg. Can … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 15:12”

The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee [well] in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. 11. The v. is difficult without applying considerable conjectural emendation. The whole is best taken as Jeremiah’s utterance. “The Lord said “is not … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 15:11”

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me. 10. Woe is me, etc.] Cp. Job 3:1 ff., also … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 15:10”

She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD. 9. She that hath borne seven ] and therefore, from … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 15:9”

Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused [him] to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city. 8. against the mother of the young men ] mg. against the mother … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 15:8”

And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people, [since] they return not from their ways. 7. I have fanned them with a fan ] “Fan, whether verb or noun, is now practically obsolete in the sense here intended.” … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 15:7”

Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. This verse gives the reason of the refusal of Yahweh to hear the prophets intercession. The punishment due has been delayed unto wearisomeness, and this seeming failure … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 15:6”

For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? Verse 5. Who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?] Perhaps there is not a more despised nor a more degraded people under the sun. Scarcely any one thinks himself … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 15:5”

And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for [that] which he did in Jerusalem. 4. The latter part (“because of in Jerusalem”) may be a gloss, founded on such passages as 2Ki 21:11 ff. Jeremiah does not elsewhere … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 15:4”

And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. 3. kinds ] lit. as mg. families. Four sorts of destructive agencies. Similar threats occur chs. Jer 19:7, Jer … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 15:3”