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Jeremiah
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Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, house of Israel! See also: 1 Thessalonians 2:13Amos 7:16Hosea 4:1The LORD says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them. See also: Leviticus 20:23Leviticus 18:3Luke 21:25-28For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax. See also: 1 Peter 1:18Isaiah 44:9-20Leviticus 18:30They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it can’t move. See also: Isaiah 46:7Isaiah 40:19-20Psalms 135:15They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak. They must be carried, because they can’t move. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.” See also: Isaiah 46:71 Corinthians 12:2Psalms 115:5-8There is no one like you, LORD. You are great, and your name is great in might. See also: Psalms 96:4Exodus 15:11Psalms 48:1Who shouldn’t fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you. See also: Revelation 15:4Psalms 22:28Jeremiah 5:22But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood. See also: Zechariah 10:2Jeremiah 10:14Romans 1:21-22There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the engraver and of the hands of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple. They are all the work of skillful men. See also: Psalms 115:4Daniel 10:5Isaiah 40:19But the LORD is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation. See also: Deuteronomy 32:4Isaiah 57:15Psalms 76:7“You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’” See also: Psalms 96:5Isaiah 2:18Zephaniah 2:11God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens. See also: Job 9:8Genesis 1:1Proverbs 3:19When he utters his voice, the waters in the heavens roar, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries. See also: Psalms 135:7Job 38:22Job 38:34-35Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. See also: Psalms 135:16-18Psalms 115:4-8Isaiah 46:7-8They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish. See also: Isaiah 41:24Jeremiah 14:22Jeremiah 51:18The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. The LORD of Armies is his name. See also: Deuteronomy 32:9Jeremiah 32:18Jeremiah 31:35Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege. See also: Ezekiel 12:3-12Jeremiah 6:1Matthew 24:15For the LORD says, “Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.” See also: 1 Samuel 25:29Zechariah 1:6Jeremiah 23:20Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.” See also: Micah 7:9Lamentations 3:18-21Jeremiah 14:17My tent has been destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My children have gone away from me, and they are no more. There is no one to spread my tent any more, to set up my curtains. See also: Jeremiah 4:20Jeremiah 31:15Isaiah 49:20-22For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks have scattered. See also: Ezekiel 34:2-10Jeremiah 12:10Jeremiah 23:1-2The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals. See also: Jeremiah 9:11Malachi 1:3Habakkuk 1:6-9LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps. See also: Proverbs 20:24Proverbs 16:1Psalms 37:23LORD, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing. See also: Psalms 38:1Psalms 6:1Jeremiah 30:11Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation. See also: Psalms 79:6-7Jeremiah 8:16Job 18:21
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)18 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Jeremiah 10:2
Ver. 2. Ways. Religious rites. v. 3. --- Fear. Worship. Lev. xix. 14. --- Signs. They were designed to point out the seasons. Gen. i. 14. C. --- Heathens thought that they had a divine power. W.
↑ 2Jeremiah 10:4
Ver. 4. Asunder. Is. xliv. 8. Bar. vi. 3. Wisd. xiii. 11. The pagans themselves laughed at such folly. C. --- If such things were gods, the makers and tools deserved more adoration: Fabri deorum vel parentes numinum, says Prudentius. The vanity of such idols was more easily discerned than that of the stars. W.
↑ 4Jeremiah 10:5
Ver. 5. Tree. The ancient statues were ill-formed, (Diodor. 4.) before Dedalus brought the art to greater perfection, and gave them a living attitude.
↑ 5Jeremiah 10:6
Ver. 6. There. Sept. omit the three following verses; and from v. 9. all these, &c.
to the end of v.
10. which Grabe inserts in a different character. H.
↑ 6Jeremiah 10:7
Ver. 7. Wise. MS. 2. has in the margin "kings," perhaps more correctly.
Kennicott.
↑ 7Jeremiah 10:8
Ver. 8. Vanity, and shews them clearly to be foolish (C.) and wicked. H.
↑ 8Jeremiah 10:9
Ver. 9. Ophaz, or Phison, (Gen. ii. 11. C.) the coast of Pegu, Faprobana, &c. M.
↑ 9Jeremiah 10:10
Ver. 10. Wrath. God is the true cause of all that terrifies mankind.
↑ 10Jeremiah 10:11
Ver. 11. Heaven. This verse is in Chaldee, for the captives to use at Babylon, to defend themselves. It should be in a parenthesis, as it interrupts the discourse. Perhaps it was added during the captivity.
↑ 11Jeremiah 10:13
Ver. 13. Voice. Thunder, (Ps. xxviii. 3.) which is usually the forerunner of rain.
Lightning is occasioned by the inflamed exhalations of conflicting clouds.
↑ 13Jeremiah 10:14
Ver. 14. Knowledge. If it were real, he would see the vanity of idols. v. 8. C.
↑ 14Jeremiah 10:16
Ver. 16. Portion. The Lord. H. Ps. lxxii. 6. --- Rod, to measure, (Ps. lxxiii. 2.) or the sceptre and ruler. M.
↑ 16Jeremiah 10:17
Ver. 17. Shame. Idols. See if they will keep thee. Heb. "thy merchandise," or most precious effects.
↑ 17Jeremiah 10:18
Ver. 18. Found by the enemy. Heb. also, "find" me, being taught by affliction. C.
xxix. 13. C.
--- Entering into sentiments of penance, they shall say, Woe, &c. H.
↑ 18Jeremiah 10:22
Ver. 22. North. He has announced this conqueror eight times. --- Dragons.
Tannim means "huge reptiles," whether of sea or land. C.
↑ 22Jeremiah 10:23
Ver. 23. The way, &c. Notwithstanding man's free-will, yet he can do no good without God's help, nor evil without his permission. So that, in the present case, all the evils which Nabuchodonosor was about to bring upon Jerusalem, could not have come but by the will of God.
Ch. W. --- This prince succeeds by thy order. Theod. --- Yet chastise us as a father, and have us not to his fury. v. 24. C. --- "Let new preachers blush, who say that each one is governed by his own will," (S. Jer. C. ix. 23.) and able to do good without God's grace. H.
↑ 23Jeremiah 10:24
Ver. 24. Judgment. C. xxx. 11. Ps. vi. 1. Justice is not contrary to mercy. C.
↑ 24Jeremiah 10:25
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 25. Glory. This is repeated from Ps. lxxviii. 6. M. --- The prophet supposes that these nations will not repent, and that their sins are more enormous. To see God's people treated with greater severity, might scandalize the weak, while infidels would take occasion to abuse their own impunity. C.
↑ 25License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses