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Jeremiah
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The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.” See also: Hebrews 1:1Acts 9:6Jeremiah 23:22Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels. See also: John 15:14Jonah 1:3Acts 26:19When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. See also: Romans 9:20-23Jeremiah 18:6Isaiah 45:9Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying, “House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says the LORD. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. See also: Isaiah 64:8Romans 9:20-21Jeremiah 18:4At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it, See also: Jeremiah 1:10Jeremiah 45:4Jeremiah 12:14-17if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them. See also: Ezekiel 18:21Jeremiah 26:13Jonah 3:9-10At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, See also: Jeremiah 31:28Amos 9:11-15Jeremiah 1:10if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they don’t obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them. See also: 1 Samuel 2:30Ezekiel 33:181 Samuel 13:13“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The LORD says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.”’ See also: 2 Kings 17:13Isaiah 55:6-7Jeremiah 35:15But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’” See also: Jeremiah 2:25Jeremiah 16:12Deuteronomy 29:19Therefore the LORD says: “Ask now among the nations, ‘Who has heard such things?’ The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. See also: Jeremiah 5:30Isaiah 66:8Hosea 6:10Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? Will the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up? See also: John 6:68For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up, See also: Jeremiah 6:16Jeremiah 2:32Isaiah 57:14to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head. See also: Psalms 22:7Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 19:8I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity. See also: Jeremiah 13:24Jeremiah 2:27Job 27:21Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.” See also: Psalms 52:2Malachi 2:7Jeremiah 11:19Give heed to me, LORD, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me. See also: Nehemiah 6:9Psalms 109:28Jeremiah 20:12Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. See also: Psalms 35:7Psalms 57:6Psalms 106:23Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle. See also: Psalms 109:9-20Jeremiah 15:8Deuteronomy 32:25Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet. See also: Jeremiah 6:26Psalms 140:5Jeremiah 25:34-36Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger. See also: Psalms 69:22-28Psalms 35:4Nehemiah 4:4-5
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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 18:2
Ver. 2. Potter's. Thus God would shew his dominion over all. Rom. ix. 21.
↑ 2Jeremiah 18:3
Ver. 3. Wheel. Heb. "stones." Sept. "seats;" or "wheel." Chal. Ex. i. 16. See Eccle. xxxviii. 32.
C.
↑ 3Jeremiah 18:4
Ver. 4. Broken. So Providence ordered it. S. Jer. --- How should this idea humble man! C. --- A potter may mould afresh the clay as long as it is soft, but God can change the hardest heart. W.
↑ 4Jeremiah 18:8
Ver. 8. Shall repent, having free-will, though prevented by grace. S. Jer.
↑ 8Jeremiah 18:12
Ver. 12. Hopes. C. ii. 25. Sept. "we are valiant men." H.
↑ 12Jeremiah 18:13
Ver. 13. Virgin. The disorders of Israel are thus enhanced. C.
↑ 13Jeremiah 18:14
Ver. 14. Snow. It continues on Libanus seven or eight months, (La Roque quoted. Univ. Hist. ii.
p. 363) or all the year; (Tacit. Hist. v. 6.) and hence the mountain is justly denominated "white,"
as the Alps and Albion are from albon. Bochart. Parkhurst, p. 155. H. --- Away.
Yet my people abandon me, to serve idols! Heb. may have many other senses to the same purpose. Sept. "Shall the mountain springs fail, or snow from Libanus? Shall a stream forcibly driven by the wind, turn aside?" H. --- The laws of nature are observed by inanimate things, and shall my people be so foolish as to follow mere vanity.
↑ 14Jeremiah 18:15
Ver. 15. Ancient; followed by the patriarchs. C. vi. 16.
↑ 15Jeremiah 18:16
Ver. 16. Head, through contempt (C.) and pity. Lam. ii. 15.
↑ 16Jeremiah 18:17
Ver. 17. Burning. Heb. kadim, "eastern," (H.) coming from Desert Arabia. Ex. x.
13. C. ---
Back. Thus the Lord now treats the synagogue. S. Jer.
↑ 17Jeremiah 18:18
Ver. 18. Prophet. Jeremias will not cease to upbraid us with our transgressions; or we have guides as good as him, and we shall not be left destitute, as he would intimate. --- Tongue, detraction; or make him suffer for what he says. In all the transactions of this prophet, Christ was foreshewn; (C.) and here, particularly, the Jews demand the crucifixion. S. Jer. W.
↑ 18Jeremiah 18:20
Ver. 20. Remember, &c. This is spoken in the person of Christ, persecuted by the Jews, and prophetically denouncing the evils that should fall upon them in punishment for their crimes. Ch.
--- Jeremias had prayed earnestly for the people. C. xiv. 17. H.
↑ 20Jeremiah 18:21
Ver. 21. Therefore. He foretells of the event, and approves of the chastisement of the impenitent, (C.) whose "impurity might be a bad precedent for others. S.
Jer. See C. xvii. 18.
↑ 21Jeremiah 18:22
Ver. 22. For. Prot. "when." H. --- Robber. So Nabuchodonosor and all professional conquerors are styled. C.
↑ 22Jeremiah 18:23
Ver. 23. Destroy. Heb. "with them." use them as vessels of ignominy: abutere.
H.
↑ 23License: 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