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Jeremiah
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The LORD said to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.” See also: Hebrews 1:1Jeremiah 13:11Ezekiel 4:1-5So I bought a belt according to the LORD’s word, and put it on my waist. See also: Ezekiel 2:8John 15:14Proverbs 3:5The LORD’s word came to me the second time, saying, See also: Jeremiah 13:8“Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.” See also: Psalms 137:1Jeremiah 51:63-64Micah 4:10So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. See also: Exodus 40:16Exodus 39:42-43Acts 26:19-20After many days, the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there.” Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for nothing. See also: Isaiah 64:6Romans 3:12Zechariah 3:3-4Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying, “The LORD says, ‘In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. See also: Leviticus 26:19Proverbs 16:18Jeremiah 13:15-17This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing. See also: Jeremiah 16:12Jeremiah 9:142 Chronicles 36:15-16For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says the LORD; ‘that they may be to me for a people, for a name, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’ See also: Exodus 19:5-6Jeremiah 33:9Isaiah 43:21“Therefore you shall speak to them this word: ‘The LORD, the God of Israel says, “Every container should be filled with wine.”’ They will tell you, ‘Do we not certainly know that every container should be filled with wine?’ See also: Ezekiel 24:19Then tell them, ‘The LORD says, “Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. See also: Isaiah 51:17Isaiah 63:6Psalms 60:3I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,” says the LORD: “I will not pity, spare, or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.”’” See also: Deuteronomy 29:20Psalms 2:9Jeremiah 19:9-11Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud, for the LORD has spoken. See also: Isaiah 28:14-22Revelation 2:29Jeremiah 26:15Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness. See also: Isaiah 8:22Isaiah 59:9Proverbs 4:19But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive. See also: Malachi 2:2Jeremiah 9:1Jeremiah 14:17Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory. See also: Jeremiah 22:262 Kings 24:122 Kings 24:15The cities of the South are shut up, and there is no one to open them. Judah is carried away captive: all of them. They are wholly carried away captive. See also: Jeremiah 52:272 Kings 25:21Jeremiah 39:9Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock? See also: Jeremiah 6:22Habakkuk 1:6Jeremiah 1:14What will you say when he sets over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? Won’t sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail? See also: Isaiah 13:8Jeremiah 4:31Jeremiah 5:31If you say in your heart, “Why have these things come on me?” Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity, and your heels suffer violence. See also: Nahum 3:5Jeremiah 16:10-11Jeremiah 5:19Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil. See also: Jeremiah 2:22Jeremiah 9:5Matthew 19:24-28“Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness. See also: Psalms 1:4Leviticus 26:33Ezekiel 5:12This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says the LORD, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.” See also: Job 20:29Psalms 9:17Jeremiah 2:32Therefore I will also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame will appear. See also: Lamentations 1:8Hosea 2:10Ezekiel 16:37I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?” See also: Hosea 8:5Ezekiel 24:13Ezekiel 6:13
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)15 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 13:1
Ver. 1. Girdle, usually worn by women. S. Jer. Ex. xxviii. 42. --- It denoted the Jews, who became more corrupt during the captivity; (v. 7. 11.) so that God delivered them out of his pure mercy. Thus He explains this prophetical action.
C. --- Loins. God cherished his people. M. ---
Water. He made choice of them when they were rough and deformed. S. Jer. ---
Their sins cause their ruin. H.
↑ 1Jeremiah 13:4
Ver. 4. Euphrates, above 150 leagues distant. Some think this was only to be done in spirit: but it is generally supposed that the prophet made this long journey twice. Bochart suggests that Euphrates (Heb. Peratha) may be put for Ephrata, or Bethlehem, as the first syllable is often cut off. C. --- Yet a journey to the Euphrates would represent more strikingly the destination of the people; and it would not be difficult for God to convey Jeremias thither in a short time, if requisite, as he sent Habacuc through the air to carry a dinner to Daniel; (xiv.
32.) though this supposition is not here necessary, as the labour to which Jeremias was repeatedly exposed, might shew the people their manifold transgressions and captivities. H. --- Such prophetic actions make a deeper impression than words. Heb. i. The ingratitude of the people is here described, to C.
xxi. W.
↑ 4Jeremiah 13:9
Ver. 9. Rot. I will bring them low. M. --- They shall see that all their dependance must be on the divine mercy.
↑ 9Jeremiah 13:11
Ver. 11. Glory; that they might serve me for the edification of the world.
↑ 11Jeremiah 13:12
Ver. 12. Bottle, of earthen ware. C. xxv. 27. C. --- Every man shall suffer. v. 13. H.
--- This is another prophetical similitude denoting extreme perplexity. W. --- Do.
They deride the prophet, as if he said nothing worthy of notice. M.
↑ 12Jeremiah 13:16
Ver. 16. Dark. Jo. xii. 35. --- Mountains, beyond the Euphrates, resembling clouds.
↑ 16Jeremiah 13:17
Ver. 17. My soul. Jeremias can do no more. C. --- Sept. "your soul,...your eyes,"
&c. H.
↑ 17Jeremiah 13:18
Ver. 18. Queen; Nohesta, mother of Joachim, or to the consort of Sedecias. C.
--- Sept. "to the princes." H.
↑ 18Jeremiah 13:19
Ver. 19. South, belonging to Juda; (C.) or Egypt will afford no protection.
Tournemine. C.
xxxvii. 3. 10.
↑ 19Jeremiah 13:20
Ver. 20. North: ye Chaldees. H. --- Heb. and Sept. "see those who come." ---
Cattle. O king, what account wilt thou give of the people to the Almighty? C.
↑ 20Jeremiah 13:21
Ver. 21. Head. Achaz called the Assyrians into the country, and Ezechias had shewn his treasures to the Babylonians. Other kings excited God's indignation.
↑ 21Jeremiah 13:22
Ver. 22. Defiled. Thou art exposed to the brutality of the soldiers.
↑ 22Jeremiah 13:23
Ver. 23. Evil. Bad habits are a sort of second nature. I speak in vain. C. --- Yet God sometimes converts inveterate sinners, who cannot rise of themselves.
W.
↑ 23Jeremiah 13:26
Ver. 26. Appeared. Thou art treated as a wretched and vile captive. H.
↑ 26Jeremiah 13:27
Ver. 27. Me; to serve me. M.
↑ 27License: 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