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Jeremiah
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Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying, See also: Jeremiah 1:4Jeremiah 1:2Jeremiah 2:1“You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.” See also: Luke 23:29Genesis 19:14Luke 21:23For the LORD says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land: See also: Jeremiah 16:9Jeremiah 6:21Jeremiah 16:5“They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.” See also: Jeremiah 25:33Psalms 83:10Jeremiah 9:22For the LORD says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says the LORD, “even loving kindness and tender mercies. See also: Ezekiel 24:16-23Isaiah 27:11Jeremiah 15:1-4Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them. See also: Deuteronomy 14:1Jeremiah 41:5Jeremiah 47:5Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. See also: Hosea 9:4Ezekiel 24:17Deuteronomy 26:14“You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.” See also: Ecclesiastes 7:2-4Jeremiah 15:17Isaiah 22:12-14For the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. See also: Hosea 2:11Ezekiel 26:13Jeremiah 7:34It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity?’ or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’ See also: Jeremiah 5:191 Kings 9:8-9Jeremiah 13:22then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says the LORD, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law. See also: Psalms 106:35-41Jeremiah 8:2Nehemiah 9:26-29You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me. See also: Jeremiah 13:10Jeremiah 7:26Ecclesiastes 9:3Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’ See also: Deuteronomy 28:36Deuteronomy 4:26-28Jeremiah 15:14“Therefore behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that it will no more be said, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’ See also: Jeremiah 23:7-8Deuteronomy 15:15Exodus 20:2but, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers. See also: Jeremiah 3:18Jeremiah 24:6Jeremiah 32:37“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says the LORD, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks. See also: Habakkuk 1:14-15Amos 4:2Micah 7:2For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes. See also: Proverbs 15:3Proverbs 5:21Jeremiah 23:24First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.” See also: Isaiah 40:2Numbers 35:33-34Revelation 18:6LORD, my strength, my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit. See also: Isaiah 25:4Nahum 1:7Jeremiah 17:17Should a man make to himself gods which yet are no gods?” See also: Isaiah 37:19Psalms 115:4-8Galatians 4:8“Therefore behold, I will cause them to know, this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might. Then they will know that my name is the LORD.” See also: Psalms 9:16Jeremiah 33:2Psalms 83:18
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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 16:2
Ver. 2. Place. It was going to be destroyed, and the cares of a family might interrupt the prophet.
The Fathers believe that Jeremias never married, (see S. Jer. in C. xxii. Isidor.) which was then a rare example. C. --- He always lived a single life, and not only in time of tribulation. S. Jer. c.
Jov. 1. W. --- The Church enforces this law of God for her sacred ministers, in subdeacons and the higher orders. S. Paul shews the propriety of such a regulation, (1 Cor. vii.) which innovators deem unnatural and tyrannical. How then could God enforce it once? With his grace we may observe celibacy like Jeremias. H.
↑ 2Jeremiah 16:4
Ver. 4. Illnesses, denoting God's wrath. S. Jer. --- Earth. The privation of sepulture was accounted one of the greatest evils.
↑ 4Jeremiah 16:5
Ver. 5. Feasting: usual at burials for all relations. C. --- This custom reduced many to poverty.
Jos. Bel. ii. 1. ---
Sed cænam funerishæres
Negliget iratus quod rem curtaverit. Pers. vi.
--- Mourn, if thou shouldst meet a funeral. Lu. vii. 32.
↑ 5Jeremiah 16:6
Ver. 6. Cut. Moses prohibited this being done in honour of Adonis. Lev. xix. 27.
Deut. xiv. 1.
Ezec. xxvii. 31. "The custom of cutting the arms and hair still subsists in Judea," says S. Jerom; and in other countries. Plut. Herodot. iv. 71.
↑ 6Jeremiah 16:7
Ver. 7. Cup. Most exquisite things were sent on such occasions. Buxtorf, Syn.
xxxv. Prov. xxxi.
6. Tob. iv. 18. John xi. 19.
↑ 7Jeremiah 16:8
Ver. 8. Feasting. Heb. "of drinking," in times of joy.
↑ 8Jeremiah 16:12
Ver. 12. Fathers. Hence you are justly partakers of their punishment. Mat. xxiii.
32. C. --- A continuance in sin brings on severe punishments; after which, God again shews mercy. W.
↑ 12Jeremiah 16:13
Ver. 13. Gods. Elohim, "masters," &c. C. xvii. 4. Chal. "idolatrous nations."
↑ 13Jeremiah 16:15
Ver. 15. Fathers. He joins consolation with distressing predictions, and alludes to the redemption of mankind, of which the return of the Jews was the most striking pledge.
↑ 15Jeremiah 16:16
Ver. 16. Rocks. They shall be found in all their lurking places. Ezec. xii. 12. Hab.
i. 4. C. ---
The apostles shall save them. Orig. --- The Medes and Persians shall grant them liberty; or rather Nabuchodonosor shall fish at first, and afterwards hunt or destroy more of the Jews. C. ---
Apostolical men (W.) shall be like rocks, (S. Jer.) for the protection of their hearers.
↑ 16Jeremiah 16:18
Ver. 18. Double: enormous. H. C. xvii. 18. --- I will punish them doubly. ---
Carcasses. So he styles the victims, or idols, the representations of dead men.
↑ 18Jeremiah 16:19
Ver. 19. Them. After the captivity many were converted. Esth. viii. and 1 Esd. vi.
21. Edom was forced to receive circumcision. But this was nothing in comparison with the crowds which embraced the gospel.
↑ 19Jeremiah 16:20
Ver. 20. Make gods. This consideration alone suffices to shew their absurdity.
C. --- "Man must now be merciful to god!" Tert. Apol. --- No one can make even a man, much less a god. S. Jer.
W.
↑ 20Jeremiah 16:21
Ver. 21. Power, in taking vengeance on idolatry. --- Lord. "He who is;" (C.) Jehova. H.
↑ 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