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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 23:39

Translate, “Therefore, behold, I will even take you up (or will burden you), and I will cast you, and the city which I gave you and your fathers, out of my presence.” read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 23:25-27

Jeremiah 23:25-27. I have heard what the prophets say, &c. I am perfectly acquainted with what these prophets have thought and said, though they think I take no notice of it, and so continue to act the same counterfeit part over again. Saying, I have dreamed I have had a divine vision, or have received information from God in a dream. This, it appears, the false prophets often pretended, when they had received nothing of the kind. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets? ... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 23:28-29

Jeremiah 23:28-29. The prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream Or, as some render it, let him tell it as a dream. Let him lay no more stress upon it than men do upon their dreams, nor expect any more regard to be paid to it. Or, he that pretends to have a message from God, either by dream, or vision, or voice, or otherwise, let him declare it. And he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully Let him speak it, as truth; so some read the clause; let him keep close to... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 23:30-32

Jeremiah 23:30-32. Behold, I am against the prophets that steal my words, &c. “That imitate the true prophets, speaking in my name, as they do, and saying, Thus saith the Lord, (see Jeremiah 23:31,) and using their words, but applying them to their own purpose: or, it may be, adding their own inventions to them.” So Lowth. Others paraphrase the verse thus, “That conspire together what to say to deceive the people, and to steal what they say one from another.” Or, perhaps the meaning... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 23:33

Jeremiah 23:33. When this people, or the prophet, &c., shall ask thee, &c. “The remaining part of this chapter is directed against those who called the word of God, spoken by the true prophets, A BURDEN, by way of reproach; meaning that it always portended evil, and never good;” the word משׁא , a burden, generally signifying a calamitous prophecy. See note on Isaiah 13:1. “Ahab intended to cast the same slur on the Prophet Micaiah when he represented him as one that never prophesied... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 23:36

Jeremiah 23:36. For every man’s word shall be his burden You shall be made severely to account for your loose and profane speeches, wherewith you deride and pervert the words and messages of God himself. Or, “Every man shall have most reason to regard his own word as hurtful and prejudicial to him. For the words of God were delivered with a salutary tendency, to warn sinners of the danger of their situation, and to call them to repentance. Those, therefore, who made a right use of them... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 23:39

Jeremiah 23:39. Therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you The Vulgate renders this clause, Propterea ecce ego tolam vos portans, Therefore, behold, I will take you away removing you, (taking the verb נשׁה , nashah, in the sense of נשׂא , nasa, as words of a like sound are often of a promiscuous signification,) which makes the sense more pertinent to the foregoing verses. The LXX. interpret the clause to the same purpose, Δια τουτο ιδου εγω λαμβανω και ρασσω υμας , &c. ... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 23:33-40

God’s burden (23:33-40)Prophets often spoke of their message as a ‘burden’ from God. It was a responsibility they had to discharge by announcing it to the people. Sometimes people went to prophets, particularly those whom Jeremiah calls false prophets, to ask them for a message, or burden, that would give them direction or guidance. God tells Jeremiah that if they ask him for a burden, he is to tell them that they are the burden. They are a burden so heavy that God cannot carry them any longer.... read more

E.W. Bullinger