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Jeremiah

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“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 10:21 Zechariah 11:15-17 Ezekiel 34:2-10Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says the LORD. See also: Micah 7:4 Jeremiah 21:12 Exodus 32:34“I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they will be fruitful and multiply. See also: Amos 9:14-15 Jeremiah 32:37 Isaiah 43:5-6I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 3:14-15 1 Peter 1:5 Acts 20:28-29“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch; and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land. See also: Luke 1:32-33 Isaiah 4:2 Isaiah 52:13In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: The LORD our righteousness. See also: 1 Corinthians 1:30 Philippians 3:9 Jeremiah 33:16“Therefore, behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that they will no more say, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’ See also: Jeremiah 16:14-15 Jeremiah 23:3 Isaiah 43:18-19but, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up and who led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will dwell in their own land.” See also: Amos 9:14-15 Isaiah 43:5-6 Ezekiel 34:13Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of his holy words. See also: Habakkuk 3:16 Lamentations 3:15 Isaiah 51:21“For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right; See also: Hosea 4:2-3 Psalms 107:34 Jeremiah 9:10for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says the LORD. See also: Zephaniah 3:4 Jeremiah 6:13 Matthew 21:12-13Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 13:16 Proverbs 4:19 Psalms 35:6“I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. See also: Isaiah 9:16 Jeremiah 2:8 1 Kings 18:18-21In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.” See also: Isaiah 1:9-10 Jeremiah 29:23 Ezekiel 22:25Therefore the LORD of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink poisoned water; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.” See also: Jeremiah 8:14 Jeremiah 9:15 Psalms 69:21The LORD of Armies says, “Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 14:14 Ezekiel 13:6 2 Corinthians 11:13-15They say continually to those who despise me, ‘The LORD has said, “You will have peace;”’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’ See also: Micah 3:11 Jeremiah 13:10 Amos 9:10For who has stood in the council of the LORD, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it? See also: Jeremiah 23:22 Amos 3:7 John 15:15Behold, the LORD’s storm, his wrath, has gone out. Yes, a whirling storm! It will burst on the head of the wicked. See also: Jeremiah 30:23 Jeremiah 25:32 Amos 1:14The LORD’s anger will not return until he has executed and performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly. See also: Jeremiah 30:24 Isaiah 55:11 Genesis 49:1I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran. I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied. See also: Jeremiah 14:14 Jeremiah 27:15 Jeremiah 23:32But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. See also: Jeremiah 23:18 Jeremiah 25:5 Zechariah 1:4“Am I a God at hand,” says the LORD, “and not a God afar off? See also: Psalms 139:1-10 1 Kings 20:23 Psalms 113:5Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says the LORD. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says the LORD. See also: Proverbs 15:3 Psalms 139:7 Psalms 90:8“I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’ See also: Jeremiah 23:32 Jeremiah 23:28 Jeremiah 29:8How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart? See also: 1 Timothy 4:1-2 Jeremiah 14:14 2 Timothy 4:3They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal. See also: Judges 8:33-34 Judges 3:7 Judges 10:6The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says the LORD. See also: 1 Timothy 1:12 2 Corinthians 2:17 Matthew 24:45“Isn’t my word like fire?” says the LORD; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? See also: Hebrews 4:12 Jeremiah 5:14 Luke 24:32“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who each steal my words from his neighbor. See also: Deuteronomy 18:20 Ezekiel 13:8 Jeremiah 14:14-15Behold, I am against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’ See also: Jeremiah 23:17 2 Chronicles 18:5 Isaiah 30:10Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says the LORD, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says the LORD. See also: Zephaniah 3:4 Lamentations 2:14 Ezekiel 13:7-18“When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from the LORD?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘“What message? I will cast you off,” says the LORD.’ See also: Malachi 1:1 Deuteronomy 32:19-20 Nahum 1:1As for the prophet, the priest, and the people, who say, ‘The message from the LORD,’ I will even punish that man and his household. See also: Zechariah 13:3 Lamentations 2:14You will say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, ‘What has the LORD answered?’ and, ‘What has the LORD said?’ See also: Hebrews 8:11 Jeremiah 42:4 Jeremiah 31:34You will mention the message from the LORD no more, for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of Armies, our God. See also: Jeremiah 10:10 Isaiah 3:8 2 Peter 3:16You will say to the prophet, ‘What has the LORD answered you?’ and, ‘What has the LORD spoken?’ Although you say, ‘The message from the LORD,’ therefore the LORD says: ‘Because you say this word, “The message from the LORD,” and I have sent to you, telling you not to say, “The message from the LORD,” See also: 2 Chronicles 11:13-14therefore behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off with the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence. See also: Jeremiah 23:33 Ezekiel 8:18 Ezekiel 34:11I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’” See also: Jeremiah 20:11 Ezekiel 5:14-15 Jeremiah 42:18

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)26 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 23:1

Ver. 1. Pastors. Successors of Josias (C.) and false prophets. M.

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Jeremiah 23:3

Ver. 3. Multiplied. The prophets subjoin tidings of peace to such as might cause affliction.

Theodoret.

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Jeremiah 23:4–5

Ver. 4-5. Pastors; Zorobabel, &c. as figures of Christ, and of the pastors of his Church. --- No more, as much as formerly. So many expressions must be understood. --- Branch. Sept. "orient."

--- Reign. Zorobabel was not chief governor, (C.) though at the head of his tribe. H. --- The kingdom of Christ was not of this world. Jo. xviii. 36. C. --- He alone imparts justice to others.

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Jeremiah 23:6

Ver. 6. Saved: less disturbed. The world shall be redeemed. Lu. ii. 14. Eph. ii.

14. --- Just.

Heb. "Justice," by whom we are made just. He is the true God. Col. ii. 9. 14. No man could bear this title: and Grotius insidiously attempts to apply it to the Jews, though the Chal. &c. clearly speak of the Messias. He must be read with great caution. C. --- Sept. "This is his name, which the Lord will call him, Josedech. In the prophets. 9. My," &c. H. --- Josedech means "the Lord justice." C. --- Sym. "Lord, justify us."

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Jeremiah 23:8

Ver. 8. Land. The deliverance from Egypt and Babylon were emblems of man's redemption, which was accomplished by far greater miracles.

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Jeremiah 23:9

Ver. 9. Prophets of falsehood. He directs his discourse to them, and afterwards to the priests, being filled with amazement at their impending ruin.

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Jeremiah 23:10

Ver. 10. Adulterers; impostors or idolaters. --- Cursing of the Lord, or the abuse of his sacred name. C. --- Unlike. Heb. "not right." H.

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Jeremiah 23:11

Ver. 11. Defiled. Heb. "hypocrites." My priests retain the appearance of religion, to join with impostors in deluding the people.

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Jeremiah 23:14

Ver. 14. Jerusalem. These were far worse, as they pretended to be inspired by God, whereas those of Samaria publicly adhered to Baal; so that the people must have been foolish to have been deceived by them. C.

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Jeremiah 23:15

Ver. 15. Gall, or something mortally bitter. C. ix. 15. H.

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Jeremiah 23:16

Ver. 16. Own. To rely on private judgment, and not on the Church, is a mark of falsehood. W.

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Jeremiah 23:17

Ver. 17. Blaspheme. Heb. "despise;" or Sept. "reject disdainfully the word of the Lord, you," &c.

C. vi. 14. and viii. 11.

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Jeremiah 23:18

Ver. 18. Counsel. Heb. "secret." Which of you is acquainted with his designs? I will inform you, that your perdition is at hand. v. 20. C.

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Jeremiah 23:21

Ver. 21. Not send. The want of mission proves a prophet or preacher to be false. W.

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Jeremiah 23:22

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

Ver. 22. I should. Some copies read avertissent, "they would have turned,"

conformably with the Heb. &c. and we should suspect that this was a mistake of the transcriber, if S. Jerom did not agree with the Vulg. in his commentary, (C.) though not in express terms: (H.) "I also should not have abandoned them to impurity...Let us behold how heretics, having once given way to despair,...seek the gratification of their sensual appetite." S. Jer.

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Jeremiah 23:23

Ver. 23. Off? Can you so easily penetrate my designs, or escape my fury? Am I like your idols of yesterday? Sept. and Theodot. "I am a God at hand," &c.

which agrees with the sequel. C.

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Jeremiah 23:27

Ver. 27. Dreams, as if God had favoured them with his revelations. H. ---

Fathers; the false prophets of Baal, whom these imitate.

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Jeremiah 23:28

Ver. 28. Dream, to those who are really sent by God, (C.) and recognized. 1 Cor.

xiv. 29. H.

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Jeremiah 23:29

Ver. 29. Pieces? True prophets will have a zeal fo the conversion of souls. C.

xx. 9. Heb. iv. 12.

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Jeremiah 23:30

Ver. 30. Neighbour, causing those whom I have sent to be disregarded.

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Jeremiah 23:31

Ver. 31. Use. Hebrew also, "sharpen, or render smooth," and insinuating. Ps.

xlix. 16. C.

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Jeremiah 23:32

Ver. 32. Wonders. Prot. "lightness." Sept. "frauds," or pretended miracles. H. ---

False prophets cannot work true miracles: but it is more difficult to distinguish these than the former mark of being lawfully sent. v. 21. W.

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Jeremiah 23:33

Ver. 33. Burden, Massa, (H.) denotes a weight, or sometimes a prediction. C.

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Jeremiah 23:34

Ver. 34. Burden of the Lord. This expression is here rejected and disallowed, at least for those times: because it was then used in mockery and contempt by the false prophets, and unbelieving people, who ridiculed the repeated threats of Jeremias under the name of his burdens. Ch.

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Jeremiah 23:35

Ver. 35. Answered. I will make you alter your language by chastisements.

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Jeremiah 23:39

Ver. 39. Take. Heb. of the Masorets, (C.) "I, even I, will utterly forget (Prot. H.) or abandon you." Chal. But the sense of the Sept. and Vulg. seems preferable. 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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