Chapter 6:
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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
Jeremiah 6
God sends and strengthens the Babylonians against Judah, ver.
1-5. for her oppression and spoils, ver. 6-8. and obstinacy; which
provokes God's wrath, ver. 9-12. Their covetousness, false
confidence, and impudence; people and priests refuse to obey
God, ver. 13-17. Their hypocritical worship shall not prevent their
sure destruction, ver. 18-25. The people called to mourn, ver. 26.
The prophet encouraged under their wickedness, and the
fruitlessness of his ministry among them, ver. 27-30.
Verse 1. Benjamin - Judah, when the ten tribes fell off, the tribe of
Benjamin adhered to Judah, and was incorporated into them; if it
be asked why the prophet rather speaks to Benjamin than to
Judah, the reason probably may be, because he being of Anathoth
was of that tribe, and therefore mentions them as his own
countrymen. Gather - Gather yourselves together by the sound of
the trumpet at Tekoa, one of those fenced cities twelve miles from
Jerusalem that Rehoboam built. A sign - Fire a beacon. Beth-
haccerem - Signifies the house of the vineyard, probably some
high tower built among the vineyards for the keepers of them to
watch them.
Verse 3. The shepherds - The Chaldean princes, with their armies, as so
many flocks, shall come into this pleasant land. In his place -
Each one in his quarter or station.
Verse 4. Prepare - These seem to be the words of God calling them to
this work. Arise - This shews how ready they will be to obey
God's call. The day goeth - We delay, and tarry too long, and the
day spends apace. The shadows - They were so eagerly set upon
it, that they watched the lengthening of the shadow, which shews
the approach of the evening.
Verse 5. This night - They would lose neither day nor night; which
shews that, they were extraordinarily stirred up by God in this
expedition.
Verse 6. Said - To the Chaldeans: God would have the Jews to know,
that they have not so much to do with the Chaldeans as with him;
that they are his rod to scourge them for their sins. And thus God
is said to hiss for such whom he will employ in such work, Isaiah
v, 26; vii, 18. And he styles himself the Lord of hosts, to shew
that it is in vain to contend in battle with them, whom he sends
forth. Trees - Such as you may have need of to raise up works
against the strong places. Cast a mount - Throw up one continued
trench, as a mount round about it. Oppression - There are found in
her all kinds of oppression and injustice.
Verse 8. Be thou instructed - I would yet willingly spare them if it might
be. Depart - Hebrew. be disjointed, a most emphatical metaphor,
whereby God would express how great grief it is to him to
withdraw himself from them, even like the separating one limb
from another.
Verse 9. Glean - Judah shalt be gleaned over and over, 'till there be a full
end, none left. Turn back - As much as to say, they should not be
content with one spoiling, but they should go back a second and a
third time, to carry away both persons and spoil.
Verse 10. Their ear - An uncircumcised ear, signifies the rejecting of
instruction; an uncircumcised heart, an obstinate and rebellious
will. They cannot - They had brought themselves under that
incapacity by their obstinacy and wilfulness. A reproach - They
laugh at it, and scorn it.
Verse 11. I am full - I am, as it were, filled with the fire of God's wrath,
which I am forced to discharge myself of. Abroad - The streets
being the places where children are wont to sport. The husband -
One sex as well as the other, shall be a prey to the enemy. Full of
days - Such as had filled up the number of their days, as were at
the edge of the grave.
Verse 13. Falsely - Hebrew. doing falsehood, as if that were their whole
work, the proper sin of the priests and prophets, to deceive the
people, and to flatter them by false visions.
Verse 14. They have - This refers peculiarly to the prophets; making
light of these threatenings, daubing over the misery and danger
that was coming on the people, by persuading them, that it should
not come, or if it did, it would be easily cured.
Verse 15. Committed - Both by encouraging the people, and joining
with them in their idolatries.
Verse 16. Stand - He now turns his speech to the people, and gives them
counsel; by a metaphor taken from travelers, that being in doubt
of their way, stand still, and consider, whether the direction they
have received from some false guide, be right or not.
Verse 17. Trumpet - The voice of his prophet, intimating his loud crying
upon the account of eminent danger.
Verse 18. Nations - He calls upon the nations round about to be
spectators of his severity against Judah. What - The greatness of
their punishment, as the effect of the greatness of their sins.
Verse 20. Sheba - A country in Arabia Faelix, to which country
frankincense was peculiar. The sweet cane - The same that is
mentioned as an ingredient in the holy oil, Exod. xxx, 23. To what
purpose art thou at this trouble and charge to fetch these
ingredients for thy incense.
Verse 21. I will say - I will suffer such things to be laid in their way, as
shall be the occasion of their destruction. The neighbour - Men of
all sorts and conditions.
Verse 22. Behold - God shall stir up the Chaldeans like a great storm.
The sides - The uttermost parts of the Babylonian territories.
Verse 24. We - The prophet personates the peoples affections.
Verse 25. Go not forth - Expressing the great danger that there would be
everywhere.
Verse 26. Gird thee - The prophet calls upon them to mourn in the
deepest manner.
Verse 27. I have set thee - Here God speaks by way of encouragement to
the prophet, and tells him, he had made him a fortified tower, that
he might be safe, notwithstanding all the attempts against him.
And try - As refiners do metals; hereby be is encouraged to
reprove them more freely, God will give him prudence to see
what is amiss, and undauntedness to oppose it.
Verse 29. The bellows - The prophet prosecutes his metaphor taken from
refining of metals, intimating, that the prophets had spent their
breath to no purpose, and their strength was consumed by their
labour. The lead - The judgments which were heavy, as lead upon
them, are all wasted, and do no good. In vain - Let the artist use
his greatest skill and industry, yet is it all in vain.
Verse 30. Refuse - Such as will be rejected in payments.
Chapter 6:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
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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