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Jeremiah
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Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the LORD’s house, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. See also: 1 Chronicles 24:14Ezra 2:37-382 Kings 25:18Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the LORD’s house. See also: Jeremiah 37:13Zechariah 14:10Jeremiah 1:19On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib. See also: Jeremiah 20:10Psalms 31:13Jeremiah 46:5For the LORD says, ‘Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it. I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will carry them captive to Babylon, and will kill them with the sword. See also: Jeremiah 29:21Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 21:4-10Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all its gains, and all its precious things, yes, I will give all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies. They will make them captives, take them, and carry them to Babylon. See also: Jeremiah 15:13Ezekiel 22:252 Chronicles 36:10You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house will go into captivity. You will come to Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.’” See also: Lamentations 2:14Jeremiah 14:14-15Jeremiah 20:4LORD, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me. See also: Lamentations 3:14Psalms 22:6-7Hosea 9:7For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because the LORD’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day. See also: 2 Chronicles 36:16Jeremiah 6:10Jeremiah 4:19-22If I say that I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t. See also: Psalms 39:3Job 32:18-20Acts 4:20For I have heard the defaming of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.” See also: Psalms 41:9Psalms 31:13Isaiah 29:21But the LORD is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten. See also: Jeremiah 1:19Jeremiah 1:8Jeremiah 15:20But the LORD of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you. See also: Jeremiah 11:20Psalms 62:8Psalms 54:7Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers. See also: Isaiah 25:4Psalms 69:33Psalms 35:9-11Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. See also: Jeremiah 15:10Job 3:3-16Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad. See also: Genesis 21:5-6Luke 1:14Jeremiah 1:5Let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime, See also: Jeremiah 18:22Deuteronomy 29:23Jeremiah 48:3-4because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. See also: Job 10:18-19Job 3:10-11Job 3:16Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? See also: Job 3:20Lamentations 3:11 Peter 4:14-16
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)13 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 20:1
Ver. 1. Son, or descendant. His father was Melchia. C. xxi. 1. and 1 Par. ix. 12.
C. --- Chief: high priest, (Theod.) or rather a chief officer, (C. xxix. 25.) or prince, (Matt. xxvi. 27. Tolet.
Grot.) whose duty it was to take up impostors. He treated Jeremias in this light. C. --- See Lu.
xxii. 52. H.
↑ 1Jeremiah 20:2
Ver. 2. Struck, or seized. Grot. --- Upper gate, nearer the temple. C.
↑ 2Jeremiah 20:3
Ver. 3. Phassur. This name signifies, increase and principality; and therefore is here changed to Magor-Missabib, or "fear on every side," to denote the evils that should come upon him in punishment of his opposing the word of God.
Ch. --- Aquila renders Posseur, "a stranger," and S.
Jer. "blackness of visage." H. --- It may also mean, "one who causes paleness." C. --- Mogur may signify "fear or distress." Sept. and Syr. "an exile."
H. --- He deserved to be thus treated. v.
6. C. --- He would be terrified by many enemies. W.
↑ 3Jeremiah 20:6
Ver. 6. Lie. He was therefore a false prophet, and vexed that Jeremias should contradict him. C.
↑ 6Jeremiah 20:7
Ver. 7. Thou hast deceived, &c. The meaning of the prophet is not to charge God with any untruth; but what he calls deceiving, was only the concealing from him, when he accepted of the prophetical commission, the greatness of the evils which the execution of that commission was to bring upon him. Ch.
--- Heb. "thou hast enticed me," when I declined the office. T. --- God never promised that he should suffer no persecution. H. --- Jeremias might also have supposed that he was to be sent to the Gentiles. C. i. 5. S. Jer. in C. xxv. 18. ---
The oriental languages are much more lofty than ours, and express common things in the strongest manner. C. --- We may perceive the different emotions of fear and joy (D.) with which the prophet was actuated, like S.
Paul, and our Saviour himself. The saints evince the weakness of man and the power of divine grace. C. --- Heb. "If thou, Lord, hast deceived me, I am," &c.
Tournemine.
↑ 7Jeremiah 20:8
Ver. 8. Day. They keep asking where are these enemies from the north, the plagues? &c. C. ---
He is sorry to see the word of God despised, (Theod.) and is guilty of a venial pusillanimity, concluding that his words had no good effect. M.
↑ 8Jeremiah 20:9
Ver. 9. And there, or "for," &c. I was grieved continually. Sanctius. --- I could not however refrain from speaking. Acts xvii. 16. and 1 Cor. ix. 16. Job xxxii.
18.
↑ 9Jeremiah 20:10
Ver. 10. Side, seeking an opportunity to ruin me, as the Pharisees did our Saviour. Ps. xl. 10. C.
--- Prot. "familiars watched for my halting, saying, peradventure he," &c. H.
↑ 10Jeremiah 20:12
Ver. 12. Let me see, &c. This prayer proceeded not from hatred or ill-will, but zeal of justice.
Ch. --- He expresses in a human manner a future punishment.
↑ 12Jeremiah 20:13
Ver. 13. Sing. God having shewn that his prayer should be heard, he gives thanks, (C.) and thus shews that what he is going to say proceeds not from impatience. Theod.
↑ 13Jeremiah 20:14
Ver. 14. Cursed, &c. In these and the following words of the prophet, there is a certain figure of speech to express with more energy the greatness of the evils to which his birth had exposed him.
Ch. --- The wicked would deem the day of his birth cursed, or unlucky. M. ---
Jeremias was now in prison, (Grot.) and people in pain express themselves forcibly, particularly in the East. v. 7.
Job iii. 2. C. --- Perhaps no man had announced the tidings of his birth, or he might be no longer living to feel the effects of a curse: as the day was certainly irrevocably past. H.
↑ 14Jeremiah 20:16
Ver. 16. Repented, is decree for the ruin of Sodom being fixed. --- Noon. This is more extraordinary than at midnight. Let him always be terrified with dismal sounds. C.
↑ 16Jeremiah 20:17
Ver. 17. Who. Sept. "because he (the Lord. D. T.) slew me not in my mother's womb." H. ---
Syr. Grot. &c. explain the Heb. in the same sense, though it may also agree with the Vulg. from the womb, or as soon as I was born. O that I had never seen the light! C. --- He abstracts from the effects of original sin. T. --- It is better not to exist than to be in constant misery. Mat. xxvi.
S. Jer. W. --- The prophet bewailed the abuse which was made of God's word, by unbelievers. v.
8. H.
↑ 17License: 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