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Jeremiah
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Then the LORD said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out! See also: Ezekiel 14:14Ezekiel 14:20-21Jeremiah 14:11It will happen when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘The LORD says: “Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.”’ See also: Jeremiah 43:11Zechariah 11:9Revelation 6:3-8“I will appoint over them four kinds,” says the LORD: “the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy. See also: Deuteronomy 28:26Leviticus 26:22Leviticus 26:16I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. See also: Jeremiah 24:92 Kings 24:3-42 Kings 21:16-17For who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn you? Who will come to ask of your welfare? See also: Isaiah 51:19Nahum 3:7Jeremiah 21:7You have rejected me,” says the LORD. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion. See also: Jeremiah 7:24Zephaniah 1:4Hosea 11:7I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land. I have bereaved them of children. I have destroyed my people. They didn’t return from their ways. See also: Jeremiah 51:2Matthew 3:12Isaiah 9:13Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas. I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly. See also: Isaiah 3:25Jeremiah 6:4-5Luke 21:35She who has borne seven languishes. She has given up the spirit. Her sun has gone down while it was yet day. She has been disappointed and confounded. I will deliver their residue to the sword before their enemies,” says the LORD. See also: 1 Samuel 2:5Isaiah 47:9Lamentations 1:1Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me. See also: Luke 6:22Psalms 120:5-6Matthew 10:21-23The LORD said, “Most certainly I will strengthen you for good. Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. See also: Proverbs 16:7Jeremiah 29:11-14Psalms 106:46Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and bronze? See also: Isaiah 45:9Jeremiah 21:4-5Jeremiah 28:14I will give your substance and your treasures for a plunder without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders. See also: Jeremiah 17:3Psalms 44:12Isaiah 52:3I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which will burn on you.” See also: Deuteronomy 32:22Jeremiah 16:13Deuteronomy 28:36LORD, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach. See also: Psalms 69:7-9Jeremiah 12:3Luke 21:17Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, LORD, God of Armies. See also: Revelation 10:9-10Ezekiel 3:1-3Psalms 119:101-103I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation. See also: Psalms 1:1Lamentations 3:28Psalms 26:4-5Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail? See also: Jeremiah 30:15Job 34:6Micah 1:9Therefore the LORD says, “If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them. See also: Zechariah 3:7Luke 21:15Leviticus 10:10I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall. They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 1:18-19Ezekiel 3:9Psalms 124:1-3“I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.” See also: 2 Corinthians 1:10Isaiah 49:24-25Jeremiah 50:34
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)19 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 15:1
Ver. 1. If. The Geneva Bible reads corruptly, "Though Moses...stood," contrary to Heb. and Gr.
W. --- And Samuel. These two had shewn a particular love for the people. Ex.
xxxii. and 2 K. xii.
C. --- Ezechiel (xiv. 4.) specifies Noe, Daniel, and Job, who were eminent for sanctity. Daniel was still alive. Yet God will not grant their request; and he forbids his prophet to pray for those who were resolved not to repent. C. xiv.
11. H. --- Their punishment was fixed, and God will not remit it at the request either of the living or of the dead. Hence it is evident, that the dead could and did sometimes make intercession, otherwise they would not here be mentioned. To evade this argument, Prot. in the Geneva Bible, suppose God's
"meaning to be, that if there were any man living, moved with so great zeal towards the people as were these two, yet he would not grant their request, for so much as he had determined the contrary." Yet surely Jeremias, Daniel, &c.
had a similar zeal; and therefore the text speaks of Moses and Samuel in a state of happiness, where their charity is greater than in this life, as S. Jer. S.
Chrys. (hom. 1. in 1 Thess.) and S.
Greg. (Mor. ix. 12.) explain it. W. --- Jeremias had been praying earnestly for the people in the temple. But God answers his request with a severity rarely witnessed in Scripture, ordering him to drive the people out, or to announce that they should be thus treated. C.
↑ 1Jeremiah 15:2
Ver. 2. Death. This Heb. phrase intimates that some should die by sickness, &c.
W.
↑ 2Jeremiah 15:3
Ver. 3. Kinds of persecutors, the sword, &c. C.
↑ 3Jeremiah 15:4
Ver. 4. Rage. Heb. "agitation." C. --- Sept. "necessities." Prot. "to be removed into all," &c. H.
This the event verified. Isai. xi. 11. --- Manasses. Though he obtained pardon, the people would not imitate his repentance. A dreadful warning for princes! C.
--- "The people generally perish by the fault of their governors." S. Jer.
↑ 4Jeremiah 15:5
Ver. 5. Peace. All will abhor thee. C. --- "The creatures cannot be so clement as the Creator." S.
Jer.
↑ 5Jeremiah 15:6
Ver. 6. Intreating thee. Heb. "of being intreated;" (S. Jer.) or, "of repenting," and suspending the effects of my wrath. C. --- Sept. "I will no longer spare them."
H.
↑ 6Jeremiah 15:7
Ver. 7. Will, or "have scattered" the ten tribes, and many of Juda, before the last siege. C.
↑ 7Jeremiah 15:8
Ver. 8. Man, or "a spoiler of the young man," (H.) so that the widow shall also be deprived of her children. Heb. "the young spoiler," Nabuchodonosor. He shall not come like a night thief, to attack the metropolis.
↑ 8Jeremiah 15:9
Ver. 9. Seven: many. It is not common for a mother to lose so numerous a family; yet such shall be the misfortune of Jewish parents. The synagogues shall decrease. --- Day. Her prosperity shall end on a sudden. C.
↑ 9Jeremiah 15:10
Ver. 10. Strife. Jeremias was under continual persecution, (M.) yet ceased not to reprimand the wicked. H. --- Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit. Cic. ---
Usury. Such people are exposed to contention. M.
↑ 10Jeremiah 15:11
Ver. 11. Remnant; posterity, (C.) or rather possessions, as the prophet never married. C. xvi. 2.
H. --- God assures him that he shall be protected. M. --- The Chaldees treated him with respect.
C. xxxix. 2. and xl. 1. Sedecias and the people had often recourse to him. Chal.
"They will come to intreat thee, when the enemy shall straiten them." C.
↑ 11Jeremiah 15:12
Ver. 12. Iron. Shall the iron (that is, the strength of Juda) stand against the stronger iron of the north, (that is, of Babylon) or enter into an alliance upon equal footing with it? No, certainly; but it must be broken by it. Ch. --- Iron is not easily united with brass, though Pliny (xxxiv. 4.) mentions a statue of this nature. Neither iron nor brass can stand against steel, which is meant by the iron from the north. The Jews shall not hurt Jeremias, v. 20. C. i. 17. C. --- Prot.
"shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?" The riches of Juda shall become a prey, v. 13. H. ---
Stronger kingdoms easily oppress their weak allies. W.
↑ 12Jeremiah 15:14
Ver. 14. Bring. Sept. "enslave thee to thy," &c. Chal. "thou shalt serve." H. ---
They have read (C.) hahabadti. Heb. has r instead of d, "I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a," &c.
Prot. H.
↑ 14Jeremiah 15:15
Ver. 15. Patience. That is, let not thy patience and long suffering, which thou usest towards sinners, keep thee from making haste to my assistance. Ch. ---
He is actuated by a zeal for God's glory. C. --- He is afraid of his own weakness, and begs to be delivered shortly. Ps. xii. 2. W.
↑ 15Jeremiah 15:16
Ver. 16. Eat them. I received them most cordially, (Ezec. iii. 1. H.) as one who is hungry. ---
Upon me. I was recognized as the prophet of the Lord.
↑ 16Jeremiah 15:17
Ver. 17. Jesters, who deride religion, (Ps. i. 1.) or sport away their time. C. ---
Hand, through vanity. Lit. and I boast of." H. --- I rejoiced in suffering, as this prophet. Many (C.) supply nor from the former part of the sentence. M. ---
Threats. I could not refrain from admonishing the people of their ways, (H.) which I would not countenance by my presence. C. --- All indeed kept at a distance from me.
↑ 17Jeremiah 15:18
Ver. 18. Trusted. It is not cured as soon as might be expected. H. --- It continually breaks out again, (M.) like a bog not properly drained. H. --- Heb.
"Thou art become," &c. Chal. "break not thy promise, as," &c. Do not reject me when I stand most in need of redress. C. --- My hopes seem (H.) vain. W.
↑ 18Jeremiah 15:19
Ver. 19. Converted, and cease to fear the people; (C.) and confide in my precious words, (H.) despising the vile threats of the people. M. --- Mouth; interpreter. Ex. iv. 16. Chal. "If thou wilt recall the wicked into the way of justice, though shalt fulfill my will." See S. Jer. in Ps. cv. 32. ---
To thee. Thus Sedecias and the people acted, C. xxi. 1. and xlii. 2. C. --- The prophet must not give way to sinners, but hey must be reclaimed. W.
↑ 19Jeremiah 15:21
Ver. 21. Mighty; Chaldees. Providence watched over Jeremias, amid all his enemies. C.
↑ 21License: 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