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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:17

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you ,.... The Chaldeans, comparable to these noxious and hurtful creatures, because of the mischief they should do unto them. The Targum is, "for, lo, I will raise up against you people that kill as the destroying serpents.' These were raised up by the Lord, and sent by him, just as he sent fiery serpents among the Israelites in the wilderness, when they sinned against him; there literally, here metaphorically. Which will not be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:18

When I would comfort myself against terror ,.... Either naturally, by eating and drinking, the necessary and lawful means of refreshment; or spiritually, by reading the word of God, and looking over the promises in it: my heart is faint in me ; at the consideration of the calamities which were coming upon his people, and which were made known to him by a spirit of prophecy, of which he had no room to doubt. So the Targum takes them to be the words of the prophet, paraphrasing them, ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:19

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people ,.... This was what made his heart faint, such was his sympathy with his countrymen, his people in distress, whom he affectionately calls the daughter of his people, whose cry was loud, and whose voice he heard lamenting their case: because of them that dwell in a far country ; because of the Chaldeans, who came from a far country; see Jeremiah 5:15 who were come into their land, and devoured it; through fear of them, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:20

The harvest is past ,.... Which was in the month of Ijar, as Jarchi observes, and answers to part of April and May: the summer is ended ; which was in the month Tammuz, and answers to part of June and July: and we are not saved ; delivered from the siege of the Chaldeans; and harvest and summer being over, there were no hopes of the Egyptians coming to their relief; seeing winter was approaching; and it may be observed, that it was in the month of Ab, which answers to part of July... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:21

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt ,.... These are the words, not of God, as Jerom; nor of Jerusalem, as the Targum; but of the prophet, as Kimchi observes, expressing his sympathy with the people in their affliction: and they may be rendered, "for the breach of the daughter of my people" F15 על שבר "super contritione", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "super confractione", Schmidt; "ob fractionem", Cocceius. , which was made when the city was broken up and destroyed, ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead ?.... Which was famous for it; see Genesis 37:25 , or rather turpentine or rosin, a gum which drops from pine trees and the like; since balm or balsam grew on this side Jordan, near Jericho and Engedi, and not beyond Jordan, in the land of Gilead; and rosin is good for healing. Some render it "treacle", but very wrongly, since, as Calvin observes, that is a composition of many things, Is there no physician there ? or surgeon, anyone that heals wounds and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:8

The pen of the scribes is in vain - The deceitful pen of the scribes. They have written falsely, though they had the truth before them. It is too bold an assertion to say that "the Jews have never falsified the sacred oracles;" they have done it again and again. They have written falsities when they knew they were such. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore will I give their wives - From this to the end of Jeremiah 8:15 ; is repeated from Jeremiah 6:13-15 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:16

The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan - From this to the end of Jeremiah 8:15 ; is repeated from Babylon to Jerusalem; and it was by this city, after the battle of Carchemish, that Nebuchadnezzar, in pursuing the Egyptians, entered Palestine. The whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones - Of his war horses. This is a fine image; so terrible was the united neighing of the cavalry of the Babylonians that the reverberation of the air caused the ground to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:17

I will send serpents - These were symbols of the enemies that were coming against them; a foe that would rather slay them and destroy the land than get booty and ransom. read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:17

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