Bible Commentary

Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvest man, and none shall gather [them]. 22. Speak, Thus saith the Lord ] The words are not found in LXX and they break the connexion. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 9:22”

For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets. 21. is come up ] Cp. Joe 2:9. palaces ] See on Jer 6:5. from without ] Cp. Zec 8:5. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 9:21”

Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation. 20. No traditional formula will suffice; Jehovah will dictate a dirge, and it shall be for universal use. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 9:20”

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out. 19. Co. considers that the v. is a gloss as breaking the connexion between the summons to the wailers and the words which they … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 9:19”

And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. Let them make haste: as by the calling for their artificial mourners he did intimate the greatness of the misery that was coming upon them, that with all, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 9:18”

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning [women], that they may come: 17. cunning ] i.e. skilled. Cp. Gen 25:27; 1Sa 16:18 ; 2Ch 26:15. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 17, 18. “There are in every city … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 9:17”

I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. I will scatter them also among the heathen; either you shall wander up and down among strangers, like Cains curse; or rather, you shall have no … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 9:16”

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. 15. The coming troubles are likened to wormwood and water of gall. wormwood ] a generic word for the species Artemisia, found chiefly in desert places. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 9:15”

But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: 14. the Baalim ] See on ch. Jer 2:8. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Imagination, or stubbornness and obstinacy: see Jer 7:24. Baalim: see Jer 2:23. The prophet doth not charge them with new … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 9:14”

And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; 13. I set before them ] See e.g. Deu 4:8; Deu 4:44. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Jer 9:13-16 Because they have forsaken My law . . . … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 9:13”