耶利米書 14:18 RCUVTS

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 14:18

Jeremiah 14:18. The prophet and the priest go about, &c.— Jeremiah is here manifestly describing what he saw when he entered the city; namely, men sick and worn out with famine; and among these even the priests and the prophets, panting on the ground, half dead, and not able to distinguish anybody. See Psalms 38:11. And in this view the passage should be rendered, Yea, both the prophet and the priest lie panting on the ground, nor do they know any one. This is Houbigant's interpretation,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 14:18

18. go about—that is, shall have to migrate into a land of exile. HORSLEY translates, "go trafficking about the land (see :-, Margin; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Peter 2:3), and take no knowledge" (that is, pay no regard to the miseries before their eyes) (Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 58:3). If the literal sense of the Hebrew verb be retained, I would with English Version understand the words as referring to the exile to Babylon; thus, "the prophet and the priest shall have to go to a strange land to practise... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 14:18

Wherever Jeremiah went he saw dead corpses and people about to die from famine and its related diseases. Even the prophets and priests, who knew the land well, were wandering around in it as though they were in a foreign country. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 14:1-21

Jeremiah’s Eighth Prophecy (Reign of Jehoiakim?). The Impending Drought and other WoesDialogue between the prophet and God. He intercedes; but in vain, for the nation persists in sin. In this section we probably see the state of matters in the early part of Jehoiakim’s reign. There is no historical allusion to the drought which formed the occasion of the prophecy. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 14:1-22

1-6. Description of the drought.2. The gates thereof languish] Figurative of the people who collect there. They are black unto] RV ’They sit in black (mourning) upon.’3. Covered their heads] as a sign of grief or confusion: cp. David (2 Samuel 19:4) and Haman (Esther 6:12). 6. They snuffed up the wind] RV ’They pant for air.’ Dragons] RV ’jackals.’7-22. Jeremiah’s pleadings and God’s replies.7. Do thou it] RV ’work thou.’8. As a stranger, etc.] one who has no interest in the people. Turneth... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 14:18

(18) Them that are sick with famine.—Literally, with even a more awful force, as summing all individual sufferings in one collective unity, the sickness of famine—the pestilence that follows on starvation.Go about into a land that they know not.—Literally, go about (as in Genesis 34:10, where the Authorised version has “trade”) in a land and know not, i.e., whither they go—are in a land of exile, and know not where to find a home, or where they may be dragged next, or, perhaps, with some... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 14:1-22

CHAPTER IXTHE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONSJeremiah 14:1-22; Jeremiah 15:1-21 (17?)VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these chapters. They have been cut up into short sections, supposed to be more or less independent of each other; and they have been regarded as constituting a well-organised whole, at least so far as the eighteenth verse of chapter 17. The truth may lie between these extremes. Chapters 14, 15 certainly hang together; for in them the prophet... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Jeremiah 14:1-22

II. THE PROPHET’S MINISTRY BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, THE PROPHECIES OF JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF JEREMIAH, HIS FAITHFULNESS AND His SUFFERING CHAPTER 14 The Great Drought, the Sword, the Famine, and the Pestilence 1. The description of the drought (Jeremiah 14:1-6 ) 2. The prophet’s priestly intercession (Jeremiah 14:7-9 ) 3. The answer (Jeremiah 14:10-18 ) 4. The renewed prayer (Jeremiah 14:19-22 ) Jeremiah 14:1-6 . The vivid description of the great... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jeremiah 14:18

14:18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about {m} into a land that they know not.(m) Both high and low will be led captive into Babylon. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 14:1-22

“ IN THE SWELLING OF JORDAN ” God told the prophet worse was to come. The Swelling of Jordan would be experienced later, and in the present lesson, especially towards the close, we have an illustration of it. There are things of interest to look at in the meantime, for example, an illustration of that symbolic teaching mentioned earlier. In chapter 13 we have what two symbols? See Jeremiah 13:1-11 for the first and Jeremiah 13:12-14 for the second. The prophet acted these out before the... read more