예레미야 8:18-22 KRV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 8:13-22

In these verses we have, I. God threatening the destruction of a sinful people. He has borne long with them, but they are still more and more provoking, and therefore now their ruin is resolved on: I will surely consume them (Jer. 8:13), consuming I will consume them, not only surely, but utterly, consume them, will follow them with one judgment after another, till they are quite consumed; it is a consumption determined, Isa. 10:23. 1. They shall be quite stripped of all their comforts (Jer.... 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 8:20

The harvest is past - The siege of Jerusalem lasted two years; for Nebuchadnezzar came against it in the ninth year of Zedekiah, and the city was taken in the eleventh; see 2 Kings 25:1-3 . This seems to have been a proverb: "We expected deliverance the first year - none came. We hoped for it the second year - we are disappointed; we are not saved - no deliverance is come." read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead? - Yes, the most excellent in the world. "Is there no physician there?" Yes, persons well skilled to apply it. "Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?" Because ye have not applied to the physician, nor used the balm. Ye die because ye will not use the remedy. But to apply this metaphor: - The Israelites are represented as a man dying through disease; and a disease for the cure of which the balm of Gilead was well known to be a specific,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:18

Verse 18 Interpreters explain differently the word מבלגיתי, mebelgiti. Some take מ, mem, in the sense of ב, beth; but others, with whom I agree, regard it as a servile, deriving the word from בלג, belag; and this letter is prefixed to it to shew that it is a noun. The ת, tau, also at the end, is a servile. (230) The Prophet then means, that he sought strength in his sorrow, but that his heart was weak He no doubt, I think, sets forth in this verse the perverse character of the people, — that... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:19

Verse 19 The Prophet in this verse assumes different characters: he first denounces ruin, which, though near, was not yet dreaded by the people; he then represents the people, and relates what they would say; in the third place, he adds an answer in God’s name to check the clamors of the people. When he says that the daughter of his people uttered a cry, he is to be understood as referring to a future time; for the Jews as yet continued perversely in their sins, and ridiculed all threatenings,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 8:13-22

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 8:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:22

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:18

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:19

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