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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 4:28

For this shall the earth mourn ,.... That is, for the full end that will be made hereafter, though not now; the earth may be said to mourn when the inhabitants of it do; or when it is destroyed, and is become desolate, as the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi, explain it; when it is uncultivated and uninhabited: and the heavens above be black ; with thick clouds, and storms, and tempests; in allusion to mourners, that are clothed with black: these figures, of the earth's mourning, and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 4:29

The whole city shall flee ,.... Or, "every city"; for not Jerusalem only is meant, but every city, or the inhabitants of every city; and so the Targum paraphrases it, "all the inhabitants of the land,' who would be put into a panic, and flee: "for" or at the noise of the horsemen and bowmen ; of which the army of the enemy would greatly consist: it intimates that the inhabitants of Judea would not stand a battle; but at hearing the sound of the trampling of the horses, and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 4:30

And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do ?.... Or, "O thou spoiled" F11 ואתי שדוד "et tu vastata", Pagninus, Montanus "et tu, res vastata", Cocceius. , wasted, and undone creature, how wilt thou help thyself? by what means dost thou think thou canst be delivered? it suggests that her ruin was inevitable; that she could not be recovered from it by herself, or any other: though thou clothest thyself with crimson ; and so look like some rich and noble person; hoping thereby to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail ,.... So the distress of the Jews, at the time of their destruction, is compared to the sorrows of a woman in travail; and a word, that signifies that is used to express it, Matthew 24:8 , and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child ; whose time is more difficult, her pains sharper, her anguish greater, and, having less experience, the more impatient: the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself ; her... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 4:19

My bowels - From this to the twenty-ninth verse the prophet describes the ruin of Jerusalem and the desolation of Judea by the Chaldeans in language and imagery scarcely paralleled in the whole Bible. At the sight of misery the bowels are first affected; pain is next felt by a sort of stricture in the pericardium; and then, the heart becoming strongly affected by irregular palpitations, a gush of tears, accompanied with wailings, is the issue. - "My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 4:20

Destruction upon destruction - Cities burnt, and their inhabitants destroyed. My tents spoiled - Even the solitary dwellings in the fields and open country do not escape. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 4:23

I beheld the earth, (the land), and lo it was without form and void - ובהו תהו tohu vabohu ; the very words used in Genesis to denote the formless state of the chaotic mass before God had brought it into order. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 4:24

The mountains - hills - Princes, rulers, etc., were astonished and fled. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 4:25

The birds of the heavens were fled - The land was so desolated that even the fowls of heaven could not find meat, and therefore fled away to another region. How powerfully energetic is this description! See Zephaniah 1:3 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 4:30

Though thou rentest thy face with painting - This probably refers to the custom of introducing stibium a preparation of antimony, between the eye and the lids, in order to produce a fine lustre, which occasions a distension of the eye-lid in the time of the operation. In order to heighten the effect from this some may have introduced a more than ordinary quantity, so as nearly to rend the eye-lid itself. Though thou make use of every means of address, of cunning, and of solicitation, to... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 4:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 4:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 4:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 4:31

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 4:19

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 4:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 4:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 4:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 4:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 4:30

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