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Jeremiah 14
A grievous famine prophesied, its miseries, ver. 1-6. The
prophet prays, but God will not be entreated for them, ver. 7-12.
Lying prophets no excuse for them, ver. 13-16. The prophet's
complaint, ver. 17-22.
Verse 5. The hind - Hinds use not to get their food in fields, but upon
mountains and in wildernesses, but the drought was such, that
these creatures came into the lower grounds, and there brought
forth their young. The hinds are loving creatures and as all
creatures love their young, so hinds especially; but their moisture
being dried up, they could not suckle them, but were forced to
leave them, running about to seek grass to eat.
Verse 6. The wild asses - The wild asses wanting water, got upon high
places, where was the coolest air, and sucked in the wind; and this
it is said they did like dragons, of whom Aristotle and Pliny
report, that they ordinarily stand upon high places sucking in the
cool air.
Verse 7. Testify - That thou art righteous in what thou hast done. Do
thou it - Do thou what we stand in need of; give us rain, though
not for our sake, we deserve no such kindness from thee, yet for
thy names sake: thy promise, or for thine honour and glory.
Verse 9. Astonished - In such disorder through some great passion, that
he is able to do nothing. A mighty man - Like a man who in his
own nature is strong, but through sickness so weakened, that he
cannot put forth any strength for the succor of his friends. Yet -
Yet (saith the prophet) thou art in the midst of us; of the whole
land, according to what God had declared, Num. v, 3; xxxv, 34.
Defile not the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I
the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.
Verse 10. Thus - Here begins the answer to the prophet's complaint and
prayer in the nine first verses. The substance is, that for their
manifold sins, he was resolved to punish them. They loved - They
have been fond of their idols, and they have persisted in those
sinful courses, notwithstanding all counsels.
Verse 21. The throne - The words are either to be understood of the
throne of the house of David, called the Lord's throne, 1 Chron.
xxix, 23, or else the temple, and the ark in it, the more special
symbol of God's presence.
Verse 22. Rain - The present judgment under which they groan, was a
drought, which he had described in the six first verses; the prophet
imploring God for the removal of it, argues, from the
impossibility of help in this case from any other way, none of the
idols of the Heathens, which he calls vain things, nothing in
themselves, and of no use, or profit to those that ran after them.
Give showers - Without thy will? Art not - Lord, art not thou he
alone who is able to do it? The scripture constantly gives God the
honour of giving rain.
Chapter 14:
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| Geneva
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| Jamieson Faussett Brown
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 isaiah lamentations
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