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Jeremiah
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Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon, See also: Jeremiah 29:25-29Hebrews 13:22Acts 15:23(after Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem), See also: Jeremiah 22:24-282 Kings 24:12-16Jeremiah 27:20by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon). It said: See also: 1 Chronicles 6:13Jeremiah 36:252 Chronicles 34:20The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the captives whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon: See also: Jeremiah 24:5Isaiah 10:5-6Isaiah 45:7“Build houses and dwell in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit. See also: Jeremiah 29:28Jeremiah 29:10Ezekiel 28:26Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished. See also: Judges 12:9Genesis 24:51Genesis 29:19Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have peace.” See also: 1 Timothy 2:1-2Ezra 6:101 Peter 2:13-17For the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. See also: Ephesians 5:62 Thessalonians 2:9-11Jeremiah 5:31For they prophesy falsely to you in my name. I have not sent them,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 27:15Jeremiah 29:31Jeremiah 29:23For the LORD says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. See also: Daniel 9:2Zechariah 7:5Jeremiah 24:6-7For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. See also: Isaiah 55:8-12Psalms 33:11Micah 4:12You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. See also: Matthew 7:7-8Jeremiah 33:3Psalms 50:15You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart. See also: Deuteronomy 4:29-31Psalms 119:2Matthew 7:7I will be found by you,” says the LORD, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you,” says the LORD. “I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.” See also: Ezekiel 36:1-38Jeremiah 30:31 Chronicles 28:9Because you have said, “The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon,” See also: Jeremiah 29:8-9Jeremiah 28:1-17Ezekiel 1:3the LORD says concerning the king who sits on David’s throne, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t gone with you into captivity, See also: Jeremiah 38:2-3Jeremiah 38:17-23Ezekiel 6:1-9the LORD of Armies says: “Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eaten, they are so bad. See also: Jeremiah 24:8-10Jeremiah 29:18Ezekiel 5:12-17I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them, See also: 2 Chronicles 29:8Jeremiah 42:18Jeremiah 15:4because they have not listened to my words,” says the LORD, “with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 6:19Jeremiah 26:5Jeremiah 7:24-26Hear therefore the LORD’s word, all you captives whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. See also: Jeremiah 24:5Micah 4:10Ezekiel 3:15The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: “Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he will kill them before your eyes. See also: Lamentations 2:14Jeremiah 14:14-15Jeremiah 29:8-9A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘The LORD make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’ See also: Daniel 3:6Isaiah 65:15Genesis 48:20because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says the LORD. See also: Hebrews 4:13Malachi 3:5Jeremiah 23:14Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying, See also: Jeremiah 29:31-32“The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying, See also: Jeremiah 52:24Jeremiah 29:29Jeremiah 37:3“The LORD has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the LORD’s house, for every man who is crazy and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles. See also: Jeremiah 20:1-22 Kings 9:11Hosea 9:7Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you, See also: Numbers 16:3Acts 4:17-21Jeremiah 29:26because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long. Build houses, and dwell in them. Plant gardens, and eat their fruit?”’” See also: Jeremiah 29:5Jeremiah 29:1Jeremiah 29:10Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet. See also: Jeremiah 29:25Then the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah, saying, “Send to all of the captives, saying, ‘The LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn’t send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie,” See also: Jeremiah 29:9Jeremiah 14:14-15Ezekiel 13:22-23therefore the LORD says, “Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. He will not have a man to dwell among this people. He won’t see the good that I will do to my people,” says the LORD, “because he has spoken rebellion against the LORD.”’” See also: Jeremiah 28:16Jeremiah 17:62 Kings 7:19-20
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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 29:1
Ver. 1. Letter. Lit. "book." H. --- It was probably sent at the beginning of the reign of Sedecias by his ambassadors, and is different from that sent by Baruch i. and C. lii. 28. --- Prophets. Chal.
"scribes." C. --- Sept. "false prophets." v. 8. H. --- Daniel had begun to prophesy, A. 3402.
Ezechiel commenced only five years after the captivity of Jechonias. One prophet frequently instructs another, as Nathan did David. Dan. ix. 2. and 1 Pet.
i. 11. C. --- Jeremias declares that the captivity would continue long. He comforts and rebukes to C. xl. W.
↑ 1Jeremiah 29:2
Ver. 2. Queen. Nohesta. --- Eunuchs. Real, (Heb.) or "Grandee." Chal. ---
Engravers. C. xxiv.
2.
↑ 2Jeremiah 29:3
Ver. 3. Gamarias, the son of Saphan, is different. These two are unknown.
↑ 3Jeremiah 29:5
Ver. 5. Build. Establish yourselves, as you must remain a long time in captivity.
We are exhorted not to be attached to the things of the world, to remind us that we shall not live long. C.
xvi. 2. and xxxv. 7. and 1 Cor. vii. 29.
↑ 5Jeremiah 29:7
Ver. 7. Peace. We must submit to the magistrates, where we reside. Bar. i. 11.
and 1 Tim. ii. 1.
↑ 7Jeremiah 29:8
Ver. 8. Prophets. There were many false ones. v. 21. Ezec. xiii. --- Dreams. The prophets, or people. They are vain.
↑ 8Jeremiah 29:10
Ver. 10. Seventy. Dating from the 4th of Joakim to the 1st of Cyrus, A. 3468. C.
See C. xxv. 1.
11. H.
↑ 10Jeremiah 29:11
Ver. 11. An end. Sept. "these things." This version is much abridged. From v.
15. to 21. is omitted in S. Jerom's and the Rom. edit.; but not in the Comp. or Theodoret. C. --- Grabe inserts what is wanting, and places the 15th at the end of our 20th verse. H.
↑ 11Jeremiah 29:15
Ver. 15. Said. Expressing your confidence in Providence; or rather, if we join this with what follows, he rebukes them for trusting in false prophets, who represented their condition as worse than that of their brethren, who were left behind; whereas it was really better. v. 17. and C. xxiv.
2. 8. C. --- The deluded people suppose that the false prophets had been sent by God. W.
↑ 15Jeremiah 29:19
Ver. 19. By night, or "early," de nocte, as soon as the night was over. H.
↑ 19Jeremiah 29:22
Ver. 22. Curse. v. 18. The malediction which has befallen the Jews, "overtake thee." W. ---
Fire, in frying-pans, (see 2 Mac. vii. 5.) or cauldrons of boiling oil. This death shews that these were not the infamous judges who tempted Susanna, (C.) as the Jews quoted by (H.) S. Jerom, Salien, &c. would infer from v. 23. and Dan.
xiii. 57. They were stoned to death by the people.
ib. lxii. C. --- Yet the king might order their dead bodies to be cut in two and burnt, to express his horror of their wicked conduct. Dan. xiii. 55. 59. H.
↑ 22Jeremiah 29:23
Ver. 23. Folly. A crime. Judge xix. 23. and 2 K. xiii. 12. --- Witness, the sovereign truth. C.
↑ 23Jeremiah 29:24
Ver. 24. And. God orders his prophet what to say, to an accusation sent from Babylon, in consequence of the former letter. v. 5. 28. H. --- Nehelamite,
"torrent," (S. Jer.) or "dreamer."
We know of no place of this name.
↑ 24Jeremiah 29:25
Ver. 25. The second priest, (4 K. xxv. 18.) a chief officer of the temple. C. xxi. 1.
↑ 25Jeremiah 29:26
Ver. 26. Joiada, whose zeal had been conspicuous long before, under Joas, in persuading him to destroy the false prophets. 4 K. xi. 17. Sophonias is exhorted to imitate him, by treating Jeremias in like manner. C. --- Thou. Heb.
"ye should be officers." Prot. H. --- There were many chief priests. --- Raveth.
Heb. "is possessed, and counterfeits the prophet." Such were to be slain, being confined till sentence had been passed. Deut. xviii. 20. C.
↑ 26Jeremiah 29:28
Ver. 28. Time, before you will return. H. --- Sophonias read the letter, approving of its contents, (S. Jer.) though this is not certain. He took no violent steps against Jeremias, as Phassur had done. H.
↑ 28Jeremiah 29:32
Ver. 32. Sit, in an honourable station, or they shall all die. C.
↑ 32License: 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