耶利米书 14:4-6 CUNPSS

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 14:1-9

The first verse is the title of the whole chapter: it does indeed all concern the dearth, but much of it consists of the prophet's prayers concerning it; yet these are not unfitly said to be, The word of the Lord which came to him concerning it, for every acceptable prayer is that which God puts into our hearts; nothing is our word that comes to him but what is first his word that comes from him. In these verses we have, I. The language of nature lamenting the calamity. When the heavens were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 14:4

Because the ground is chapt ,.... Through the violent heat of the sun, and want of rain; or, is broken F25 חתה "confracta", Schmidt; "attritam", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. ; and crumbles into dust. The Targum is, "because of sins, the inhabitants of the earth are broken:' for there was no rain in the earth ; this was the reason of the dearth, and of the famine, and why there was no water in the pits, and the ground was parched. It is to be understood of the land of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 14:5

Yea, the hind also calved in the field ,.... Or brought forth her young in the field; of which see Job 39:1 , and which they sometimes did through fear, particularly when frightened with thunder and lightning; and which are common in a time of heat and drought, which is the case here; see Psalm 29:9 of these sort of creatures there were great plenty in Judea and the parts adjacent. Aelianus F26 De Anima. l. 5. c. 56. says, the harts in Syria are bred on the highest mountains,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 14:6

And the wild asses did stand in the high places ,.... To see where any grass was to be had, or where the wind blows more freely and cooly, to draw it in; as follows. The Targum renders it, "by the brooks"; and so Jarchi interprets it brooks of water; whither they came as usual to drink, and found them now dried up; and where they stood distressed and languishing, not knowing where to go for any: they snuffed up the wind like dragons : which, being of a hot nature, open their mouths, and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 14:4

The ground is chapt - The cracks in the earth before the descent of the rains are in some places a cubit wide, and deep enough to receive the greater part of a human body. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 14:6

Snuffed up the wind like dragons - תנים tannim here probably means the hippopotamus, who, after feeding under the water, is obliged to come to the surface in order to take in fresh draughts of air; or it may mean the wild asses. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 14:4

Verse 4 The Prophet had said, that though the whole common people were sent to the waters, yet none would be found. He now adds the same firing respecting the husbandmen. Ashamed, he says, shall be the husbandmen, for the ground shall be turned into dust, and God will pound it small. When the heavens supply moisture, the earth retains thus its solid character; but in a great heat we see the earth dissolving into dust, as though it was pounded in a mortar. So he says, On account of the chapt... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 14:5

Verse 5 Jeremiah now comes to animals: he said before, that men would be visited with thirst, and then that the ground would become dry, so theft husbandmen would be ashamed; he now says that the wild asses and the hinds would become partakers of this scarcity. The hind, he says, has brought forth in the field, which was not usual; but he says that such would be the drought, that the hinds would come forth to the plains. The hinds, we know, wander in solitary places and there seek their food,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 14:6

Verse 6 The same thing is said of the wild asses, And the wild asses, he says, stood on the rocks: and yet this animal, we know, can endure want for a long Lime. But the Prophet, as I have said, intended to shew that there would be in this scarcity some remarkable evidences of God’s vengeance. Stood then did the wild asses on the rocks, and thence drew in wind like serpents: for great is the heat of serpents; on account of inward burning they are constrained to draw in wind to allay the heat... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 14:1-6

A plague of drought. I. A PLAGUE OF DROUGHT IS AN INSTANCE OF A NATURAL CALAMITY OCCASIONING GREAT DISTRESS . Jeremiah gives a vivid picture of the trouble such a plague causes. Men of all classes, from the noble to the ploughman, suffer under it; the animal world is driven from its natural instincts; universal desolation and agony prevail. Yet this is all natural . It is not the result of war nor of any human interference; it is a natural calamity. Nature is... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 14:1-9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 14:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 14:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 14:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 14:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 14:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 14:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 14:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 14:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 14:1-6

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