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Jeremiah

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You are righteous, LORD, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously? See also: Malachi 3:15 Psalms 92:7 Psalms 37:1You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart. See also: Isaiah 29:13 Titus 1:16 Matthew 15:8But you, LORD, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. See also: 2 Kings 20:3 Jeremiah 17:18 Psalms 139:1-4How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, “He won’t see our latter end.” See also: Jeremiah 9:10 Psalms 107:34 Jeremiah 4:25“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan? See also: 1 Peter 4:12 Proverbs 24:10 Hebrews 12:3-4For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you. See also: Proverbs 26:25 Jeremiah 9:4 Psalms 12:2“I have forsaken my house. I have cast off my heritage. I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. See also: Psalms 78:59-60 Isaiah 2:6 Jeremiah 11:15My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me. Therefore I have hated her. See also: Amos 6:8 Hosea 9:15 Zechariah 11:8Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field. Bring them to devour. See also: Isaiah 56:9 Jeremiah 7:33 Revelation 19:17-18Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. See also: Jeremiah 23:1 Isaiah 5:1-7 Isaiah 63:18They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares. See also: Isaiah 42:25 Jeremiah 23:10 Jeremiah 14:2Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of the LORD devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace. See also: Amos 9:4 Jeremiah 47:6 Isaiah 34:6They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of the LORD’s fierce anger.” See also: Deuteronomy 28:38 Haggai 1:6 Micah 6:15The LORD says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them. See also: Zechariah 2:8 Jeremiah 3:18 Zechariah 10:6-12It will happen that after I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them. I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land. See also: Jeremiah 49:6 Jeremiah 48:47 Jeremiah 49:39It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As the LORD lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people. See also: Jeremiah 4:2 Joshua 23:7 Zephaniah 1:5But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it,” says the LORD. See also: Isaiah 60:12 Psalms 2:8-12 1 Peter 2:6-8

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 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 12:1

Ver. 1. Is just. Heb. "judgment." Sept. "I will make my apology to thee."

Jeremias had been grievously persecuted by his countrymen: he therefore mentions a subject which has been the source of much perplexity. The success of the wicked is a temptation for weak souls. See Job xxi. Ps. lxxii. 3.

Hab. i. 13. C. --- The prophets often speak in their names, not being ignorant or doubtful of the justice of divine providence. W.

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Jeremiah 12:2

Ver. 2. Reins. They have thy name in their mouth, but not in their heart. Is. xxix.

13. Mat. xv. 8.

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Jeremiah 12:3

Ver. 3. Gather. God orders his prophet to announce the misery of the wicked.

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Jeremiah 12:4

Ver. 4. Mourn? Is not this a proof of my providence in chastising Juda? This famine is specified C. viii. 13. and xiv. 4. C. --- Last end. Two letters seem to be transposed in Heb. as the Sept. read

"ways." Kennicott. --- The impious blaspheme as if all were ruled by chance. C.

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Jeremiah 12:5

Ver. 5. Horses. If thou hast been terrified at the threats of thy fellow-citizens, how wilt thou withstand those of Jerusalem? (M.) or he speaks to Juda, who would not be able to resist the Chaldees, since the Philistines, &c. had routed the Jews, though destitute of cavalry. --- Jordan, or the nations of Ammon, &c.

on that side. C. --- Prot. "if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt," &c. H.

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Jeremiah 12:6

Ver. 6. To thee. Edom, &c. made a league with Sedecias, which they broke.

They always bore a hatred to the Jews, though sprung from the same stock. C.

xxvii. 1. Lam. iv. 21. C.

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Jeremiah 12:7

Ver. 7. Soul; people, (H.) whose punishment was decreed. Say not, therefore, that the wicked always prosper.

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Jeremiah 12:9

Ver. 9. As a. Sept. "a den of the hyena:" Alex. "robbers." Grabe inserts, "or a den around it?" H.

--- They have read auss, "a den," instead of hait, "a bird." Bochart, (iii. 11.) however, shews that the latter word denotes various wild beasts, and nearly follows the Sept. Though the inheritance be most charming, it shall not pass unpunished. C.

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Jeremiah 12:10

Ver. 10. Pastors; princes of my people, as well (H.) as of the Chaldees. C. vi. 3.

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Jeremiah 12:11

Ver. 11. Heart, to seek God and the cause of their misfortunes.

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Jeremiah 12:13

Ver. 13. Fruits. They shall not satisfy your expectations or wants.

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Jeremiah 12:14

Ver. 14. Land. Nabuchodonosor led the Ammonites, &c. into captivity, five years after the Jews.

Jos. Ant. x. 11. C. --- After the children are chastised, the rod is burnt. W.

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Jeremiah 12:15

Ver. 15. Land; the Jews, as well as their neighbours. C. xlix. 6. M. Is. xxiii. 15.

Ezec. xvi. 55.

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Jeremiah 12:16

Ver. 16. People. After the captivity, converts were more cherished. Yet the predictions concerning the call of the Gentiles were accomplished only by the preaching of the gospel. C.

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License: 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

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