The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 9:2-22
Complaint of the treachery and folly of the people; lamentation over their consequences. read more
Jeremiah 9:17-23 Niv
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 9:10-22
The terrible threatenings of love. There are few more awful passages of Scripture than this. The doom denounced on the guilty people is indeed dreadful. Nevertheless that doom had not yet descended. There was a merciful pause, during which space was given for repentance. Meanwhile the prophet was bidden to utter these threatenings. Notice— I. How TERRIBLE THEY ARE . 1. In themselves . The fertile hills and pastures of their country shall be laid waste, so that no living... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 9:17-22
A new scene is introduced. To give an idea of the greatness of the impending blow, all the skilled mourners are sent for to raise the cry of lamentation. But no, this is not enough. So large will be the number of the dead that all the women must take their part in the doleful office. The description of the mourning women is as true to modem as to ancient life in the East. "And, indeed," says Dr. Shaw, a thoughtful traveler and an ornament of Oxford in the dark eighteenth century, "they perform... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 9:18
That our eyes may run down , etc.; a justification of this artificial system-The piercing notes of the hired mourners are to relieve the sorrow of the afflicted by forcing for it a vent. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 9:19
Forsaken ; rather, left . Our dwellings have cast us out ; rather, they hare cast down our dwellings . read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 9:21
Death is come up , etc. "Death," equivalent to "pestilence" (as Jeremiah 15:2 ), the most dreaded foe of a besieged population. (For the figure, comp. Joel 2:9 .) The children from without . The ideal of Zechariah is that "the streets of the city should be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof" ( Zechariah 8:5 ). But the pitiless reaper, Death, shall cut off even "the playful child from the street" (so we might render more literally). Streets, in the parallel clause,... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 9:21
The death of the wicked contrary to nature. Various respects in which this is so: it is sudden; it defies all the resources of comfort and protection; it is untimely, and cuts off the young in their bloom—the children for the fathers' sin, the hope of the nation and the family. "Death will not, as an enemy lurking without, attack those only who venture out to him, but will assault the people, penetrating into all their houses, to fetch his sacrifices" (Naegelsbach, in Lunge). Why so? I.... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 9:21-22
Death's doings. Behold—. I. DEATH 'S CARNIVAL . In many an ancient continental city you may see portrayed in still vivid colors, on the roofs of their covered bridges, across on that of the old bridge at Lucerne,—on the walls of their churches, and elsewhere, the grim' Dance of Death.' These verses remind of those paintings, and tell in yet more fearful form of Death's dread carnival. With what diabolic zest he is represented at his work here! He is shown to us, not as coming in in... read more
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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 9:23
Verse 23 This is a remarkable passage, and often found in the mouth of men, as other notable sentences, which are known as proverbial sayings: but yet few rightly consider how these words are connected with the previous context. Hence there are many who are satisfied with a simple explanation, as though it were a subject abruptly introduced, and as though the Prophet commenced something new; and they confine themselves to those words: and thus they misrepresent the meaning of the Prophet, or at... read more