Or,It shall eat “thine harvest and thy bread:”They shall eat “thy sons and thy daughters.”It shall eat thy sheep and thy cattle:It shall eat “thy vines and thy fig-trees.”They shall impoverish ... - Or, It shall batter thy “fortified cities, wherein thou” trustest, with weapons of war. There is probably reference here to an instrument like a battering-ram, with which the Assyrians beat down the walls of their enemies. read more
Jeremiah 5:14-18. Wherefore, thus saith the Lord God of hosts The prophet now, in the name of God, answers the blasphemous speeches of these infidels, ascribing to Jehovah that power and supremacy which were calculated to give his words the greater influence. Because you speak this word because these scoffers express themselves in this manner; I will make my words in thy mouth fire, &c. Thy words shall take effect, and thy predictions begin to be accomplished suddenly and... read more
Sins of Jerusalem and Judah (5:1-19)A search of Jerusalem reveals that the city is wholly corrupt. Injustice and selfishness abound. People claim they belong to God and they swear oaths by his name, but they remain untouched by the lessons he is trying to teach them (5:1-3). There may be some excuse for the poor and uneducated if they know nothing of God’s law, but the upper classes are just as ignorant. This indicates that the problem lies not with people’s social background or material... read more
the LORD God of hosts. Hebrew. Jehovah. the Elohim of Zebaioth. Occurs in Jeremiah only here, Jeremiah 15:16 ; Jeremiah 35:17 ; and Jeremiah 49:5 . read more
I will bring. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:49 ). App-92 . a nation: i.e. the Chaldeans, but not yet named as such. ancient. Compare Genesis 10:10 . understandest = hearest. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), for what is understood. Compare 1 Corinthians 14:2 . read more
they shall eat up. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:16 ). App-92 . Repeated three times by Figure of speech Anaphora , for great emphasis. harvest, &c. Note the similar enumeration in Habakkuk 3:17 . impoverish = beat down. Only again in Malachi 1:4 . trustedst = confidedst. Hebrew. batah. App-69 . read more
"Wherefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, which thy... read more
14. ye . . . thy . . . this people—He turns away from addressing the people to the prophet; implying that He puts them to a distance from Him, and only communicates with them through His prophet ( :-). fire . . . wood—Thy denunciations of judgments shall be fulfilled and shall consume them as fire does wood. In Jeremiah 23:29 it is the penetrating energy of fire which is the point of comparison. read more
15. (Jeremiah 1:15; Jeremiah 6:22). Alluding to Jeremiah 6:22- :, c. Israel—that is, Judah. mighty—from an Arabic root, "enduring." The fourfold repetition of "nation" heightens the force. ancient—The Chaldeans came originally from the Carduchian and Armenian mountains north of Mesopotamia, whence they immigrated into Babylonia like all mountaineers, they were brave and hardy (see on Jeremiah 6:22- :). language . . . knowest not— Isaiah 36:11 shows that Aramaic was not understood by the... read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 5:16
Their quiver - See Jeremiah 4:29, note. read more