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Jeremiah

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The LORD’s word came to me, saying, See also: Jeremiah 23:28 Jeremiah 7:1 Ezekiel 7:1“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The LORD says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, your love as a bride, how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. See also: Ezekiel 16:60 Ezekiel 16:8 Jeremiah 11:6Israel was holiness to the LORD, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,”’ says the LORD.” See also: Revelation 14:4 James 1:18 Deuteronomy 7:6Hear the LORD’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel! See also: Jeremiah 44:24-26 Jeremiah 31:1 Jeremiah 19:3The LORD says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless? See also: 2 Kings 17:15 Romans 1:21 Jeremiah 10:14-15They didn’t say, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’ See also: Deuteronomy 32:10 Deuteronomy 8:14-16 Hosea 13:4I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination. See also: Deuteronomy 8:7-9 Jeremiah 16:18 Numbers 13:27The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is the LORD?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit. See also: Habakkuk 2:18 Jeremiah 5:31 Romans 2:17-24“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says the LORD, “and I will contend with your children’s children. See also: Ezekiel 20:35-36 Jeremiah 2:35 Exodus 20:5For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing. See also: Psalms 120:5 Isaiah 21:16 1 Corinthians 5:1Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit. See also: Romans 1:23 Isaiah 37:19 Psalms 106:20“Be astonished, you heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says the LORD. See also: Isaiah 1:2 Micah 6:2 Deuteronomy 32:1“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water. See also: John 4:14 John 7:37 Revelation 21:6Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive? See also: Exodus 4:22 Ecclesiastes 2:7 Isaiah 50:1The young lions have roared at him and raised their voices. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant. See also: Jeremiah 4:7 Jeremiah 50:17 Isaiah 5:29The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head. See also: Jeremiah 46:14 Jeremiah 43:7-9 Isaiah 19:13“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way? See also: Jeremiah 4:18 Jeremiah 2:19 Jeremiah 2:13Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? See also: Joshua 13:3 Isaiah 31:1 Hosea 7:11“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, GOD of Armies. See also: Isaiah 3:9 Jeremiah 4:18 Psalms 36:1“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute. See also: Deuteronomy 12:2 Leviticus 26:13 Jeremiah 17:2Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me? See also: Isaiah 5:4 Exodus 15:17 John 15:1For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord GOD. See also: Jeremiah 17:1 Job 14:17 Hosea 13:12“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways, See also: Jeremiah 7:31 Proverbs 30:12 Esther 8:16a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her. See also: Jeremiah 14:6 Job 39:5-8 Jeremiah 2:27“Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’ See also: Deuteronomy 32:16 Romans 8:24 Jeremiah 3:13As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed— they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, See also: Jeremiah 32:32 Ezra 9:7 Nehemiah 9:32-34who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face, but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’ See also: Isaiah 26:16 Hosea 7:14 Hosea 5:15“But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble, for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah. See also: Jeremiah 11:13 Deuteronomy 32:37 Isaiah 45:20“Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 5:1 Jeremiah 6:13 Daniel 9:11“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. See also: Nehemiah 9:26 Acts 7:52 1 Thessalonians 2:15Generation, consider the LORD’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more’? See also: Deuteronomy 32:15 2 Samuel 12:7-9 2 Chronicles 31:10“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number. See also: Psalms 106:21 Jeremiah 13:25 Jeremiah 2:11How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways. See also: Ezekiel 16:47 Isaiah 57:7-10 Jeremiah 2:23Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things. See also: 2 Kings 21:16 2 Kings 24:4 Jeremiah 19:4“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’ See also: Proverbs 28:13 1 John 1:8-10 Jeremiah 2:29Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria. See also: Jeremiah 31:22 Hosea 5:13 2 Chronicles 28:16You will also leave that place with your hands on your head; for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you won’t prosper with them. See also: 2 Samuel 13:19 Jeremiah 17:5 Jeremiah 37:7-10

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)27 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 2:2

Ver. 2. Espousals. He speaks ironically. Theod. --- Yet the Israelites at first shewed greater proofs of love than they did afterwards. It is true they often prevaricated, in the wilderness. Ex.

xxxii. 1. Amos v. 25. Ps. lxxvii. &c. C. --- The Lord declares his gratuitous love, and then upbraids his people. H. --- He had caused them to multiply in Egypt, and gratuitously made choice of them. W.

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Jeremiah 2:3

Ver. 3. Increase; most desirable. Osee ix. 10. God punished those who attempted to injure his people: yet they abandoned his service.

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Jeremiah 2:5

Ver. 5. Vanity; idols, whom he will not mention, to spare their shame. C.

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Jeremiah 2:7

Ver. 7. Carmel. That is, a fruitful, plentiful land. Ch. W. --- All Palestine is thus designated. M.

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Jeremiah 2:8

Ver. 8. Priests were silent, or abandoned themselves. --- Pastors; "princes."

Chal. Manasses, Amon, &c. --- In Baal, promoting his worship. H. --- The land was full of false prophets, and none stood up for the Lord.

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Jeremiah 2:9

Ver. 9. Children; the Israelites, under Moses, and their posterity transgressed.

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Jeremiah 2:10

Ver. 10. Cethim; Macedon. It here denotes the western nations, as Cedar does those of the east.

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Jeremiah 2:11

Ver. 11. Glory; the true God and his ark. Ps. iii. 4. and 1 K. iv. 21.

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Jeremiah 2:12

Ver. 12. Gates; angels, or the temple.

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Jeremiah 2:13

Ver. 13. Water. The idols and nations, to which they have had recourse, injure them. C. --- The Jews did just the reverse to what God commanded. W.

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Jeremiah 2:14

Ver. 14. Slave. From such, labour and tribute were required. Mat. xvii. 24. Jo.

viii. 33.

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Jeremiah 2:15

Ver. 15. Lions; kings of Assyria, &c. The decree for the devastation of Juda had already passed, though it was not put in execution.

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Jeremiah 2:16

Ver. 16. Taphnes, 16 miles from Pelusium, in Egypt. The nation proved only detrimental to the Jews, by engaging them in their abominations, instead of affording relief.

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Jeremiah 2:18

Ver. 18. Troubled. Heb. shichor, or Nile water, (Jos. xiii. 3.) which was thought as good as wine, and grew better for keeping. Strabo xvii. --- Hence the people adored it. Vitruv. viii. --- God often reproached the Jews for distrusting in his protection, and seeking aid from the Egyptians, who deceived them. We know not that Josias did so. C. --- He even opposed them, and lost his life in defending the country. 4 K. xxiii. 29. H. --- He was probably obliged to pay tribute to the Assyrians, whom Achaz had called in. 2 Par. xxviii. 23. These alliances the Lord condemned.

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Jeremiah 2:20

This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.

Ver. 20. Thou. Sept. Yet Heb. and Chal. have, "I have permissively broken," or foretold this infidelity.

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Jeremiah 2:21

Ver. 21. Chosen. Heb. Sorek. Judg. xvi. 4. Is. v. 2. and xvi. 8. C. --- God created all things good, planted his Church in justice, and no evil proceeds from Him.

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Jeremiah 2:22

Ver. 22. Borith. An herb used to clean clothes, and take out spots and dirt, (Ch.) like kali, soda, (C.) or soap. Langius. --- Prot. "and take thee much soap." H.

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Jeremiah 2:23

Ver. 23. Valley of Hinnom, under the very walls of Jerusalem. C. --- Runner.

Heb. "dromedary,"

which takes its name from its swiftness. H. --- The female camel continues all day with the male, and cannot be approached. Aristot. Pliny x. 63. --- Juda is represented as no less libidinous. C.

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Jeremiah 2:24

Ver. 24. Away. The female may easily be found by the poisonous hippo-manes.

Georg. iii. ---

Thus Jerusalem is an impudent prostitute. H.

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Jeremiah 2:25

Ver. 25. Foot, and the parts which modesty covers. My exhortations are slighted. C. --- Despair opens the door to every sort of impurity. Eph. iv. 19. H.

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Jeremiah 2:26

Ver. 26. Taken. Juda affected still to be very pious. v. 23.

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Jeremiah 2:28

Ver. 28. Cities. All were abandoned. Ezec. xvi. 24. Osee x. 1.

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Jeremiah 2:30

Ver. 30. Prophets; Zacharias, (2 Par. xxiv. 21.) Isaias, &c. Mat. xxiii. 34. C. ---

Punishment is designed by God to cause people to repent. W.

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Jeremiah 2:31

Ver. 31. See, or hear. The sword seems to be animated. C. --- Lateward. Heb.

"darksome land."

Have I not heaped blessings on my people? --- Revolted. Prot. "Lords." H.

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Jeremiah 2:33

Ver. 33. Thou who. Heb. "Therefore have I." C. --- Prot. "hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways." H. --- Thou hast opened a school of vice.

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Jeremiah 2:34

Ver. 34. Innocent children, immolated to Moloc, or people murdered, whose blood thou hast not concealed. 4 K. xxi. 16.

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Jeremiah 2:37

Ver. 37. Head, like the violated Thamar. 2 K. xiii. 19. The king of Egypt was routed, when coming to assist Sedecias. C. xxxvii. 3. 10. C.

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License: 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

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