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James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 9:17

"Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come: and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eye may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings. Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 9:21

"For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. Speak, thus saith Jehovah, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman; and none shall gather them."This is a continuation of the prophetic elegy, the saddest element of it being the wanton destruction of the children. This was the usual thing to be expected in the ancient conquest of a city... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 9:17

Jeremiah 9:17. Consider ye, &c.— The first lamentations for the dead consisted only in the sudden bursts of insuppressible grief, like that of David over his son Absalom, 2 Samuel 19:4. But, as men grew refined, it was not deemed sufficient for the surviving relation to vent his sorrows in these natural and artless expressions of woe; but, unsatisfied with the genuine language of sighs and tears, he endeavoured not only to vent his sorrow by terms of grief, but likewise joined others as... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 9:17

17. mourning women—hired to heighten lamentation by plaintive cries baring the breast, beating the arms, and suffering the hair to flow dishevelled (2 Chronicles 35:25; Ecclesiastes 12:5; Matthew 9:23). cunning—skilled in wailing. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 9:19

19. The cry of "the mourning women." spoiled—laid waste. dwellings cast us out—fulfilling Leviticus 18:28; Leviticus 20:22. CALVIN translates, "The enemy have cast down our habitations." read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 9:20

20. Yet—rather, "Only" [HENDERSON]. This particle calls attention to what follows. teach . . . daughters wailing—The deaths will be so many that there will be a lack of mourning women to bewail them. The mothers, therefore, must teach their daughters the science to supply the want. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 9:21

21. death . . . windows—The death-inflicting soldiery, finding the doors closed, burst in by the windows. to cut off . . . children from . . . streets—Death cannot be said to enter the windows to cut off the children in the streets, but to cut them off, so as no more to play in the streets without ( :-). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 9:17

The Lord instructed Jeremiah to summon the professional mourners (Heb. meqonenoth) to come forward."In the Middle East even today, on the occasion of deaths or calamities, mourning is carried out by professional women who follow the funeral bier uttering a high-pitched shriek. Some of the Egyptian tomb paintings depict boatloads of professional mourners with their hair and garments disheveled accompanying a corpse on its way to a burial." [Note: Thompson, p. 316.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 9:17-22

A dirge over Jerusalem 9:17-22What follows is a brilliant prophetic elegy. It contains two pronouncements from the Lord (Jeremiah 9:17-22). read more

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