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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Divine justice sets the fire of indignation burning. Nothing excites God’s wrath more than continued falsehood and deceit, unkindness, unbrotherly conduct, and unholiness of life. Put all these evils together, and you have more than...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing,.... Because of the desolation of them; because no pasture upon them, nor flocks feeding there; or "concerning" them, as the Arabic version; or "upon" them (y), in order to cause the lamentation to be heard the further; but the former sense seems best, as appears by what follows. The...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone. The prophet pictures what the Chaldeans would do. They...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I will make Jerusalem heaps,.... That is, the walls and houses of it shall be thrown down, and become heaps of stones and rubbish: and a den of dragons; only inhabited by wild beasts: and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without inhabitant; so that the calamity would be universal; not only Jerusalem, but all the cities of the land,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Jeremiah had to live to see all this. The thought of it pulled up the sluices of his tears, and made him wish that all the clouds and seas and rains would come, and dwell in his eyes, for his grief had need of all the watery...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Who is the wise man that may understand this?.... Not the calamity, but the cause of it; a man of wisdom would inquire into it, find it out, and understand it; but the intimation is, that there was not a wise man among them, at least very few; there were scarce any that took any notice of these things, or were concerned about them: and who is he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? The land would never have been desolate if it had not been for the wickedness of the people. Sin-sin it is that does the mischief....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the Lord saith,.... The Septuagint version adds, "to me"; there being no wise and understanding man, nor prophet (b), to take up this affair, and open the cause of it, therefore the Lord undertakes it himself: the question was put to them, but they not answering it, the Lord does it, because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; but have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, After many Baals, is the meaning; many are the gods that men make for themselves when they turn away from Jehovah.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart,.... What their own hearts devised, chose, and were best pleased with; [See comments on Jeremiah 7:24], and after Baalim; the idols of the Gentiles; these they served and worshipped, and not the true God: which their fathers taught them; which was so far from excusing them, that it was an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which their fathers taught them: therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. You cannot sin without suffering. If you will not drink of the waters of obedience, but will drink of the waters of rebellion, they shall be bitter.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,.... He calls himself "the Lord God of hosts", of armies above and below, in heaven and in earth, in opposition to Baalim, the idols of the Gentiles; which word signifies "lords"; which, though there be many who are called so, there is but one God, and one Lord, who is God over all, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will scatter them also among the Heathen,.... Besides the bitter judgments of famine and pestilence during the siege, what remained of them should be carried captive out of their own land into foreign countries, than which nothing could be more distressing: whom neither they or their fathers have known; a circumstance greatly aggravating their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. A patriot for man, a prophet for God, do you marvel that he wept?
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, consider ye,.... The punishment that was just coming upon them, as Kimchi; or the words that the Lord was about to say unto them; as follows: and call for the mourning women, that they may come; the same with the "praeficae" among the Romans; persons that were sent for, and hired by, the relations of the dead, to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: These were the hired mourners, the women who were paid to go to funerals, and simulate grief. “Send for your weepers now;” said the LORD of hosts, “for if you ever needed mourners, you need them now.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us,.... Deliver out a mournful song, as the Arabic version; setting forth their miseries and distresses, and affecting their minds with them. The prophet puts himself among the people, as being a party concealed in their sufferings, and sympathizing with them, as well as to show the certainty of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, These were no mock mourners; but real weepers, who had cause to mourn.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,.... Out of the fortress of Zion, out of the city of Jerusalem, which was thought to be inexpugnable, and could never be taken; but now a voice is heard out of that, deploring the desolation of it: how are we spoiled? our houses destroyed, and we plundered of our substance: we are greatly confounded:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, Why did they not say, “How have we sinned”? No; men will think of the punishment they suffer; but they will overlook the sin they commit. Jer_9:19. Because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. Why did not they say, “Because we have forsaken the LORD, because we have cast...