E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 8:18
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E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 8:19
provoked . . . vanities. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:21 , same word). Compare Jeremiah 7:19 . graven Images. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 7:5 , same word). App-92 . read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:18
"Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me. Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not Jehovah in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?""The daughter of my people ..." (Jeremiah 8:19). Note the triple repetition of these pathetic words in these last verses of Jeremiah 8. These verses represent the people as asking why they must... read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:20
"The harvest is past, and the summer is ended, and we are not saved."We selected this verse as the title of the whole chapter. It simply means that the last opportunity for Israel to repent and turn to the Lord has already slipped away. The harvest mentioned here is the one that came in the early summer in the months of April through June. The summer's being ended is a reference to the approach of autumn and the end of the final harvest of the year. There will be nothing more for another year.... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:18
Jeremiah 8:18. When I would comfort myself— Comfort, or mirth flies from me: sorrow hangs over me, my heart is faint. Houb. read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:19
Jeremiah 8:19. Behold, the voice, &c.— The prophet anticipates in his imagination the captivity of his countrymen in Babylon, a far country; and represents them there as asking with a mixture of grief and astonishment, if there was no such a Being as JEHOVAH, who presided in Sion, that he so neglected his people, and suffered them to continue in such a wretched plight. Upon this complaint of theirs God justly breaks in with a question on his part; and demands why, if they acknowledged such... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:20
Jeremiah 8:20. The harvest is past— The people, besieged in Jerusalem, afflicted themselves on account of the length of the siege. "We flattered ourselves," say they, "with a speedy deliverance; the false prophets amused us with their vain predictions: behold, the harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we have no appearance of succour or deliverance." The last siege of Jerusalem continued two years; and the false prophets during all that time continued to seduce the people by their frivolous... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:18
18. ( :-). The lamentation of the prophet for the impending calamity of his country. against sorrow—or, with respect to sorrow. MAURER translates, "Oh, my exhilaration as to sorrow!" that is, "Oh, that exhilaration ('comfort', from an Arabic root, to shine as the rising sun) would shine upon me as to my sorrow!" in me—within me. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:19
19. The prophet in vision hears the cry of the exiled Jews, wondering that God should have delivered them up to the enemy, seeing that He is Zion's king, dwelling in her (Micah 3:11). In the latter half of the verse God replies that their own idolatry, not want of faithfulness on His part, is the cause. because of them that dwell in a far country—rather, "from a land of distances," that is, a distant land (Isaiah 39:3). English Version understands the cry to be of the Jews in their own land,... read more
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Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:18-22
Mourning for Judah (8:18-9:22)The prophet is overcome with grief as he foresees the tragic end of the nation. The people wonder why God their King does not save them. God replies that it is because of their idolatry. They now realize that they can no longer expect his salvation (18-20). Nothing can heal Judah’s spiritual sickness now; the end has come. And nothing can heal the wounds of grief in Jeremiah’s heart as he sees his people suffer (21-22).Jeremiah is unable to express the extent of... read more