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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (this was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), See also: Jeremiah 36:12 Kings 24:1-2Daniel 1:1which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: See also: Jeremiah 18:11Jeremiah 35:13Jeremiah 26:2From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, the LORD’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened. See also: Jeremiah 1:2Jeremiah 26:5Jeremiah 11:7The LORD has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear), See also: Jeremiah 25:3Jeremiah 26:5Jeremiah 36:31saying, “Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forever more. See also: Jeremiah 7:7Jeremiah 17:25Genesis 17:8Don’t go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don’t provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; then I will do you no harm.” See also: Deuteronomy 8:19Jeremiah 35:15Jeremiah 7:6“Yet you have not listened to me,” says the LORD, “that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.” See also: 2 Kings 21:15Proverbs 8:362 Kings 17:17Therefore the LORD of Armies says: “Because you have not heard my words, behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says the LORD, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. See also: Jeremiah 1:15Jeremiah 18:16Isaiah 13:3Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. See also: Jeremiah 7:34Jeremiah 16:9Ezekiel 26:13This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. See also: Daniel 9:2Zechariah 1:12Jeremiah 25:12“It will happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,” says the LORD, “for their iniquity. I will make the land of the Chaldeans desolate forever. See also: Daniel 9:2Isaiah 13:19Jeremiah 29:10I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. See also: Jeremiah 1:5Jeremiah 1:10Daniel 5:31For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.” See also: Jeremiah 51:6Jeremiah 27:7Jeremiah 50:9For the LORD, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it. See also: Psalms 75:8Isaiah 51:17Job 21:20They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them.” See also: Jeremiah 51:7Nahum 3:11Jeremiah 51:39Then I took the cup at the LORD’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom the LORD had sent me: See also: Jeremiah 1:10Jeremiah 25:28Jeremiah 27:3Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today; See also: Jeremiah 24:9Jeremiah 44:22Psalms 60:3Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants, his princes, and all his people; See also: Jeremiah 46:2Nahum 3:8-10Jeremiah 46:13-26and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; See also: Job 1:1Isaiah 20:1Ezekiel 30:5Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon; See also: Jeremiah 48:1Psalms 137:7Jeremiah 9:26and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea; See also: Jeremiah 47:4Zechariah 9:1-4Jeremiah 31:10Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off; See also: Jeremiah 9:26Jeremiah 49:32Jeremiah 49:8and all the kings of Arabia, all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness; See also: 2 Chronicles 9:14Jeremiah 25:20Jeremiah 50:37and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes; See also: Genesis 10:22Isaiah 11:11Jeremiah 49:34-39and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface of the earth. The king of Sheshach will drink after them. See also: Jeremiah 51:41Jeremiah 25:9Revelation 18:1-24“You shall tell them, ‘The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”’ See also: Habakkuk 2:16Jeremiah 25:16Isaiah 51:21It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “You shall surely drink. See also: Job 34:33Ephesians 1:11Daniel 4:35For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of Armies.”’ See also: Ezekiel 38:21Proverbs 11:311 Peter 4:17“Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and tell them, “‘The LORD will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation. He will mightily roar against his fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. See also: Amos 1:2Isaiah 42:13Joel 3:16A noise will come even to the end of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with the nations. He will enter into judgment with all flesh. As for the wicked, he will give them to the sword,”’ says the LORD.” See also: Hosea 4:1Joel 3:2Isaiah 66:16The LORD of Armies says, “Behold, evil will go out from nation to nation, and a great storm will be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.” See also: Jeremiah 23:19Isaiah 34:22 Chronicles 15:6The slain of the LORD will be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They won’t be lamented. They won’t be gathered or buried. They will be dung on the surface of the ground. See also: Isaiah 66:16Jeremiah 8:2Psalms 79:3Wail, you shepherds, and cry. Wallow in dust, you leader of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions have fully come, and you will fall like fine pottery. See also: Jeremiah 6:26Isaiah 33:1Jeremiah 22:28The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape. See also: Job 11:20Amos 2:14Jeremiah 52:8-11A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the leader of the flock, for the LORD destroys their pasture. See also: Jeremiah 4:8Jeremiah 25:34The peaceful folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of the LORD. See also: Isaiah 27:10-11Isaiah 32:14He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression, and because of his fierce anger. See also: Jeremiah 4:7Hosea 5:14Hosea 13:7-8
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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 25:1
Ver. 1. Babylon, when he was associated by Nabopolassar, three years before his death, A. 3397.
This year Joakim was taken to be conducted to Babylon, though he was afterwards permitted to remain on very hard conditions, while the sacred vessels, Daniel, &c. were taken away, and the 70 years of captivity commenced. They ended in the first of Cyrus, A. 3468. Usher --- This chap.
should be placed before the 24th and after the 26th. C. --- The prophets did not observe the order of time. C. xxi. W.
↑ 1Jeremiah 25:3
Ver. 3. Josias. He prophesied nineteen years under him, and three under his successors.
↑ 3Jeremiah 25:4
Ver. 4. All. We know of Joel, Habacuc, Sophonias, and Holda. C.
↑ 4Jeremiah 25:9
Ver. 9. My servant. So this wicked king is here called; because God made him his instrument in punishing the sins of his people. Ch. W. --- He thought himself more than man, but he was only the rod destined for the fire.
↑ 9Jeremiah 25:10
Ver. 10. Sound, or songs of women turning the mill. Mat. xxiv. 41. C. --- Lamp, or illuminations, on account of some victory, (H.) or festival. Pers. v. 180. The Jews "light a lamp for the sabbaths," (Sen. Ep. xcv.) before they commence. H.
↑ 10Jeremiah 25:11
Ver. 11. Years. Ver. 1. The neighbouring nations were also involved in this calamity, and were to be sent back by Cyrus. C. --- Another period of 70 years is specified, (C. xxix. 10.) during which the city and temple should remain in ruins, till the second of Hystaspes, A. 3485. Usher --- This system is not without difficulties. The present prediction seems rather to refer to the desolation, (Vatab. Agg. i. 2.) as appears from Zac. i. 12. or the prophet speaks of the same event in both places, dating from the year preceding the capture of Jerusalem, (A. 3415), till Darius gave entire liberty to the Jews, A. 3485. We differ from Usher in the years allotted to Cyrus, who began to restore the Jews.
1 Esd. i. 5. C. --- These 70 years are dated from the 11th of Sedecias. W.
↑ 11Jeremiah 25:12
Ver. 12. Punish. Literally, visit upon. Ch. --- Cyrus overturned the monarchy, and the city was ruined by degrees. Is. xiii. and xiv. and xxi. 1. Ezek. i. 5. C.
↑ 12Jeremiah 25:14
Ver. 14. Kings. They perfidiously joined the Chaldees, after making a league with Sedecias. C.
xxvii. 3. This is condemned, (C.) and not precisely their submitting to Nabuchodonosor. C.
xxviii. 8. Their league with Juda was indeed wrong; but the infringement of it was another crime.
Sept. is here much transposed almost to the end. See Grabe. H. --- Jeremias had prophesied against the nations, though his words are given. C. xlvi. &c.
↑ 14Jeremiah 25:15
Ver. 15. Fury. Chastisement. Is. li. 17. --- All, who might be then at Jerusalem.
Sanctius thinks Jeremias travelled into all these countries: most believe it was only done in vision. He might write to them. C. --- The cup metaphorically denotes God's wrath. Ps. lxxiv. 9. W.
↑ 15Jeremiah 25:18
Ver. 18. As, &c. He probably inserted this (H.) after the event, (Vat.) or the country was much distressed even under Sedecias.
↑ 18Jeremiah 25:19
Ver. 19. Pharao, who was defeated (Ezec. xxx. 25.) coming to assist Juda, (C.
xxxvii.) and again plundered after the taking of Tyre. Ezec. xxix. 18.
↑ 19Jeremiah 25:20
Ver. 20. In. Heb. "the mixed multitude," (Ex. xii. 38. C.) or "Arabs." Grot. ---
Ausitis, near Palmyra. Job i. 1. --- Azorus, taken by the Egyptians, and afterwards by the Chaldees. C. xlvii. 2.
↑ 20Jeremiah 25:21
Ver. 21. Ammon. The details are given in C. xlviii. and xlix. Ezec. xxv. to xxxiv.
Abdias and Sophonias.
↑ 21Jeremiah 25:22
Ver. 22. Kings. Ithobaal (Jos. Ant. x. 11.) had many governors under him.
Nabuchodonosor besieged Tyre for 13 years. Ezec. xxvi. &c. --- Sea, or Gibraltar. See Jos. sup. v. 22. H. --- He had navies on the Mediterranean. Ezec.
xxx. 9.
↑ 22Jeremiah 25:23
Ver. 23. Buz. Scenite Arabs, who cut off the hair of the eyebrows. C. ix. 26.
These Saracens left the hair below the ears long, as the Polonians and Hungarians do. W.
↑ 23Jeremiah 25:25–26
Ver. 25-26. Zambri, sprung from Cethura, and dwelling in Arabia, (C.) or Persia, (S. Jer.) where Pliny (vi. 28.) places the Zamarenians. --- Elam. Persians, (H.) by the sword of Alexander, (S.
Jer.) or Cyrus subdued those who were subject to the Medes, and united the two nations. ---
North. Armenia, &c. subdued by Cyrus and by Alexander. --- Brother. When Cyrus stood up for the Persians. All shall drink, as at a feast, (C.) of this bitter wine. --- Face, and forming the empire of Babylon. H. --- Sesac. That is Babel, or Babylon; which after bringing all these people under her yoke, should quickly fall and be destroyed herself. Ch. --- The Chaldees are not expressed, to avoid their resentment. The sh in sheshac, is at the same distance from the end as b in Babel is from the beginning of the alphabet. See S. Jer. H. 2 Tim. iv.
17. --- Yet they are not elsewhere spared. C. xlix. &c. Sesac was probably the idol, "anais or the moon." C. --- The Sacean feasts were very dissolute, like the saturnalia at Rome. Dio. Chrys. iv. Strabo xi. C. ---
Cyrus took Babylon after he had conquered the rest of Asia, and then seizing Nabonides at Borsippe, which was sacred to Anais, "the moon," (C.) or Diana, (Strabo xv.) suffered him to die in peace. Berosus in Jos. c. Ap. 1. --- Thus fell the king of Sesac, an idol worshipped both at Borsippe and at Babylon.
↑ 25Jeremiah 25:29
Ver. 29. City. Jerusalem first fell a prey.
↑ 29Jeremiah 25:30
Ver. 30. Beauty. The temple, which was like the palace (C.) of the great king. H.
--- Grapes.
Great feasting was then customary. The soldiers rushing to battle, "answer"
the Lord. Sept. C.
--- People encouraged one another by songs under the labour of the vine-press, as those in distress must do. W.
↑ 30Jeremiah 25:31
Ver. 31. Flesh. He will justify his conduct, particularly at the last day.
↑ 31Jeremiah 25:32
Ver. 32. To nation. Jerusalem, Tyre, Syria, desert Arabia, Ammon, Idumea, and Egypt, shall fall one after another. Thus Cyrus will attack the Medes, Asia, and Babylon.
↑ 32Jeremiah 25:34
Ver. 34. Leaders. Sept. "rams." He addresses the princes. --- Vessels. Sept.
"chosen rams,"
fattened for slaughter.
↑ 34Jeremiah 25:37
Ver. 37. Silent. The places where you fed your flocks so delightfully, are laid waste.
↑ 37Jeremiah 25:38
Ver. 38. The dove. This is commonly understood of Nabuchodonosor, whose military standard, they say, was a dove. But the Hebrew word Jonah, which is here rendered a dove, may also signify a waster or oppressor, which name better agrees to that unmerciful prince; or by comparison, as a dove's flight is the swiftest, so would their destruction come upon them. Ch. ---
Sept. "waste or impassible before the great sword. C. iv. 7. H. --- While God, like a lion, protected his people, none durst invade them. M. --- What is said respecting the Babylonian standards is very dubious, (Grot. C.) as the same expression is applied to the Persians, (C. l. 16.
M.) though it may there also be understood of the Chaldees. H. --- God is like a dove, yet terrible.
W.
↑ 38License: 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