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Jeremiah
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This is the LORD’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: See also: Jeremiah 17:8“Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground. The cry of Jerusalem goes up. See also: Isaiah 3:26Jeremiah 8:211 Samuel 5:12Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. See also: 2 Samuel 15:302 Kings 18:31Psalms 40:14Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed. They cover their heads. See also: Joel 1:11Joel 1:19-20Jeremiah 3:3Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young, because there is no grass. See also: Psalms 29:9Isaiah 15:6Job 39:1-4The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation. See also: Jeremiah 2:24Job 39:5-6Joel 1:18Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, LORD; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you. See also: Psalms 25:11Hosea 5:5Jeremiah 14:20-21You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night? See also: Jeremiah 17:13Jeremiah 50:7Isaiah 43:3Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, LORD, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us. See also: Isaiah 59:1Isaiah 63:19Jeremiah 15:16The LORD says to this people: “Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins.” See also: Hosea 9:9Psalms 119:101Hosea 8:13The LORD said to me, “Don’t pray for this people for their good. See also: Jeremiah 7:16Jeremiah 11:14Exodus 32:32-34When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.” See also: Jeremiah 11:11Proverbs 1:28Ezekiel 8:18Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, the prophets tell them, ‘You will not see the sword, neither will you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.’” See also: Jeremiah 6:14Jeremiah 23:17Micah 3:11Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart. See also: Ezekiel 13:6-7Jeremiah 29:8-9Lamentations 2:14Therefore the LORD says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, but I didn’t send them, yet they say, ‘Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine. See also: Jeremiah 5:12-13Ezekiel 14:102 Peter 2:1-3The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them. See also: Jeremiah 15:2-3Jeremiah 7:33Psalms 79:2-3“You shall say this word to them: “‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound. See also: Jeremiah 8:21Lamentations 1:15-16Lamentations 2:13If I go out into the field, then behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’” See also: Ezekiel 7:15Lamentations 1:20Jeremiah 8:10Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay! See also: Jeremiah 8:15Lamentations 5:221 Thessalonians 5:3We acknowledge, LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you. See also: Jeremiah 3:25Psalms 32:51 John 1:7-9Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us. See also: Jeremiah 14:7Psalms 106:45Jeremiah 3:17Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, the LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things. See also: Joel 2:23Jeremiah 5:24Psalms 135:7
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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 14:1
Ver. 1. Drought, during the last siege, (v. 18. S. Jer.) or after the captivity of Jechonias; (C. viii.
13.) though the famine might happen in the days of Josias. Joel i. C. --- This scourge was in punishment of sin, and signified the privation of grace. W.
↑ 1Jeremiah 14:3
Ver. 3. Water. Siloe was the only spring near, and it was often dry, (S. Jer.) though it was formerly abundant, (Jos. Bel. vi. 6.) as well as the fountain of Gehon. The city was furnished with cisterns. C. --- But all was now dry. H. ---
Heads; mourning. 2 K. xv. 30.
↑ 3Jeremiah 14:5
Ver. 5. Field. They prefer places frequented by men. Pliny viii. 32.
↑ 5Jeremiah 14:6
Ver. 6. Wind, for refreshment. --- Failed, through want, though they be very piercing.
↑ 6Jeremiah 14:7
Ver. 7. Sake. We have the honour to be called thy people. We urge no merit of our own.
↑ 7Jeremiah 14:8
Ver. 8. Lodge. The Fathers apply this to our Saviour, in a spiritual sense. C.
↑ 8Jeremiah 14:9
Ver. 9. Wandering. Sept. "sleeping;" (H.) or as a boaster, who thinks himself strong. W. ---
Upon us. Shall strangers rule over thy people?
↑ 9Jeremiah 14:10
Ver. 10. Rested. They are inconstant, fond of novelties, and apply to idols.
↑ 10Jeremiah 14:11
Ver. 11. Good, that the drought may be removed. C. See C. vii. 16. and xi. 14. M.
--- "It is folly to pray for him who has sinned unto death," (S. Jer. 1 Jo. v. 16.) by final impenitence. C. ---
Sacrifices will not benefit the impenitent. S. Jer.
↑ 11Jeremiah 14:13
Ver. 13. Ah. Hebrew has only one exclamation, or three letters, which Aquila renders, Ah, ah, ah. C. i. 6. Ezec. iv. 14. H. --- Jeremias lays the blame on false prophets. C. --- Yet they afford no excuse to thy followers. Both fall into the ditch. W.
↑ 13Jeremiah 14:17
Ver. 17. My. Sept. "your eyes." Jeremias shews by his tears the future misery.
C. --- Virgin.
Though many were sinners, the Church had some just souls. W.
↑ 17Jeremiah 14:18
Ver. 18. Famine. Under Jechonias many were slain, and the chiefs carried into captivity. 4 K.
xxiv. 12. --- Into. Heb. "through the land, and are ignorant." Chal. "they apply to their business, to earthly concerns, and care not." C. v. 31.
↑ 18Jeremiah 14:21
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 21. Glory; heaven, the temple or Jerusalem. How will infidels blaspheme!
↑ 21Jeremiah 14:22
Ver. 22. Rain. Let not the people have recourse to idols, (C.) in despair. H.
↑ 22License: 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