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Jeremiah
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“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars. See also: Proverbs 3:32 Corinthians 3:3Proverbs 7:3Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills. See also: 2 Chronicles 24:18Jeremiah 2:20Isaiah 1:29My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a plunder, and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders. See also: Jeremiah 15:132 Kings 24:13Jeremiah 26:18You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you. I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don’t know, for you have kindled a fire in my anger which will burn forever.” See also: Jeremiah 15:14Lamentations 5:2Isaiah 5:25The LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from the LORD. See also: Psalms 118:8-9Psalms 146:3-4Isaiah 2:22For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land. See also: Job 20:17Deuteronomy 29:23Psalms 1:4“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose confidence is in the LORD. See also: Isaiah 26:3-4Psalms 34:8Psalms 40:4For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit. See also: Psalms 1:3Isaiah 58:11Ezekiel 47:12The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it? See also: Mark 7:21-22Matthew 15:19Ecclesiastes 9:3“I, the LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.” See also: 1 Samuel 16:7Romans 8:27Jeremiah 11:20As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool. See also: Proverbs 28:20Proverbs 21:6Jeremiah 22:17A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary. See also: Psalms 96:6Ezekiel 43:7Jeremiah 3:17LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living waters. See also: Revelation 7:17John 4:14John 7:37-38Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise. See also: Psalms 6:2Deuteronomy 32:39Psalms 106:47Behold, they ask me, “Where is the LORD’s word? Let it be fulfilled now.” See also: Isaiah 5:19Ezekiel 12:22Ezekiel 12:27-28As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face. See also: Acts 20:20Acts 20:27Jeremiah 4:19-20Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil. See also: Nahum 1:7Jeremiah 16:19Psalms 59:16Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but don’t let me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction. See also: Psalms 35:4Psalms 40:14Psalms 25:2-3The LORD said this to me: “Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem. See also: Jeremiah 7:2Jeremiah 26:2Acts 5:20Tell them, ‘Hear the LORD’s word, you kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: See also: Jeremiah 19:3Psalms 49:1-2Jeremiah 22:2The LORD says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. See also: Nehemiah 13:15-21Numbers 15:32-36John 5:9-12Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers. See also: Ezekiel 20:12Exodus 20:8-10Isaiah 56:2-6But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction. See also: Proverbs 29:1Acts 7:51Jeremiah 11:10It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says the LORD, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein; See also: Deuteronomy 11:13Jeremiah 17:21-222 Peter 1:5-10then there will enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on David’s throne, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city will remain forever. See also: Jeremiah 22:4Isaiah 9:7Jeremiah 33:17They will come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the lowland, from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, sacrifices, meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving to the LORD’s house. See also: Zechariah 7:7Jeremiah 32:44Jeremiah 33:13But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.”’” See also: 2 Kings 25:9Jeremiah 7:20Jeremiah 21:14
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)18 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 17:1
Ver. 1. The. Grabe (de Vit. p. 8.) observes that the four first verses were omitted in the Sept. by some careless transcriber, long before the days of Origen, who restored them from the Heb. and the other Gr. versions. On such occasions his work was very useful; but the marks being soon neglected, great confusion ensued. S. Jer. Kennicott, Dis. ii. --- Grabe has restored these verses in his edition. H. --- Eusebius (Dem. x.) and Theodoret acknowledged them; and Nobilius found the first verse thus expressed in many copies, (C.) as it is in Grabe: "The sin of Juda is expressed in writing with a finger nail of adamant, cleaving to the breast of," &c. H. --- Altars, to appear more conspicuously to the latest times. This excited God's indignation. C. --- These figurative expressions shew the inveterate malice of the people. W.
↑ 1Jeremiah 17:3
Ver. 3. Sin of idolatry. C. xv. 13.
↑ 3Jeremiah 17:4
Ver. 4. Be left. Prot. "discontinue from thine," &c. H. --- The land shall have its sabbaths, which thou wouldst not allow. Chal. Ex. xxii. 11. Lev. xxvi. 34.
↑ 4Jeremiah 17:5
Ver. 5. Thus. Sept. continue from the last chapter, "cursed," &c. H. --- Sedecias had formed alliances with several princes, instead of turning to the Lord. C.
xxvii. and xxxvii. C. --- Our chief dependence must be on God, not on human policy. W.
↑ 5Jeremiah 17:6
Ver. 6. Tamaric. A barren shrub, that grows in the driest parts of the wilderness.
Ch. --- Harhar denotes some sort (H.) of "useless wood." Sym. See C. xlviii. 6.
Isai. xvii. 2. --- Salt, like the environs of Sodom, the fruits of which were bad.
↑ 6Jeremiah 17:8
Ver. 8. Fruit. See Ps. i. 3. Pindar, Nem. viii. How different from the wicked! C.
↑ 8Jeremiah 17:9
Ver. 9. Perverse. Sept. "deep." --- Unsearchable. Sept. "man, who shall know him?" H. --- God alone can search the heart by his own power. He enables saints to do it by the light of glory, or of prophecy; as Eliseus and S. Peter knew secret transactions. W.
↑ 9Jeremiah 17:11
Ver. 11. Partridge. Heb. kore, (H.) may mean the "coucou." The kra lays many eggs, all of which she does not hatch. C. --- Prot. " As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not,"
&c. H. --- It is rare that all produce birds; so the unjust do not succeed (C.) in the end. H.
↑ 11Jeremiah 17:12
Ver. 12. Throne. The temple. We may also read "O high," &c. C. xiv. 21.
↑ 12Jeremiah 17:13
Ver. 13. Earth, where alone their portion shall be, (Apoc. iii. 5,) or they shall be forgotten. It is a proverbial expression, like that of Catullus: Dixit: sed mulier cupido quod dixit amanti
In vento et rapidâ scribere oportet aquâ.
--- Living, which never fail, unlike those of the wicked. C. ii. 13.
↑ 13Jeremiah 17:15
Ver. 15. Come. We have several instances of such impious sarcasms. Isa.
xxviii. 10. and xxxiv.
13. Amos ii. 12. Mic. ii. 6. C. --- We fear not the Chaldees. M.
↑ 15Jeremiah 17:16
Ver. 16. Troubled. Heb. "in haste to be a pastor after thee." Chal. "I delay not, at thy command, to announce thy truths to them." C. i. 6. Jeremias was aware of the dangers attending his office, yet not dismayed. --- Day: approbation, (1 Cor.
iv. 3.) or advantages of the world. C. --- Of man.
Heb. also, "of the wretched:" anush. I wished rather for the people's welfare, (H.) and sought not their ruin. Chal. Theodor.
↑ 16Jeremiah 17:18
Ver. 18. Let them be confounded, &c. Such expressions as these in the writings of the prophets, are not to be understood as imprecations proceeding from malice or desire of revenge, but as prophetic predictions of evils that were about to fall upon impenitent sinners, and approbations of the ways of the divine justice. Ch. --- The prophet has already prevented this objection. v.
16. H.
↑ 18Jeremiah 17:19
Ver. 19. Gate of the palace, or that by which the kings entered the temple, on the west. The time when this admonition was given is not ascertained.
↑ 19Jeremiah 17:21
Ver. 21. Souls. Those who broke the sabbath were to die. Ex. xxx. 15. Num. xv.
32. ---
Burdens, or servile work. C. --- The Jews trifle in deciding what is a burden.
Orig. prin. iv. 2. ---
Sabbath often denotes the observance of the whole law. W.
↑ 21Jeremiah 17:25
Ver. 25. David. I will observe my covenant. 2 K. vii. 12. --- Horses: in prosperity, (M.) provided this law, as well as all the rest, be observed. H. --- Such temporal rewards were commonly proposed under the law, as spiritual ones are now. W.
↑ 25Jeremiah 17:26
Ver. 26. Sacrifices. Heb. mincha, (H.) "offerings" of flour, wine, &c. C.
↑ 26Jeremiah 17:27
Ver. 27. Fire, by means of Nabuzardan. M. --- The city shall be entirely destroyed. C.
↑ 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