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Jeremiah
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“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says the LORD. See also: Deuteronomy 24:1-4Ezekiel 16:26Hosea 14:1-4“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness. See also: Ezekiel 16:24-25Ezekiel 8:4-6Jeremiah 2:20Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed. See also: Leviticus 26:19Jeremiah 5:24Isaiah 5:6Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth!’? See also: Jeremiah 2:2Jeremiah 3:19Jeremiah 31:9“‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.” See also: Micah 7:3Isaiah 57:16Jeremiah 3:12Moreover, the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has played the prostitute there. See also: Jeremiah 3:8Jeremiah 17:2Ezekiel 20:28I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. See also: Ezekiel 16:46Hosea 6:1-4Hosea 14:1I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear, but she also went and played the prostitute. See also: Deuteronomy 24:1Isaiah 50:1Hosea 4:15-17Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood. See also: Jeremiah 2:27Isaiah 57:6Jeremiah 3:2Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says the LORD. See also: Hosea 7:14Jeremiah 12:2Psalms 78:36-37The LORD said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. See also: Ezekiel 23:11Ezekiel 16:51-52Hosea 11:7Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says the LORD; ‘I will not look in anger on you, for I am merciful,’ says the LORD. ‘I will not keep anger forever. See also: Ezekiel 33:11Psalms 86:15Deuteronomy 4:29-31Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’” says the LORD. See also: Deuteronomy 12:2Jeremiah 3:25Jeremiah 2:25“Return, backsliding children,” says the LORD, “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. See also: Hosea 2:19-20Jeremiah 2:19Jeremiah 31:32I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. See also: Jeremiah 23:4Acts 20:28Ephesians 4:11-12It will come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days,” says the LORD, “they will no longer say, ‘the ark of the LORD’s covenant!’ It will not come to mind. They won’t remember it. They won’t miss it, nor will another be made. See also: Amos 9:14-15Isaiah 65:17Ezekiel 37:26At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The LORD’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the LORD’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart. See also: Ezekiel 43:7Jeremiah 17:12Micah 4:1-5In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers. See also: Jeremiah 31:8Jeremiah 23:8Amos 9:15“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’ See also: Romans 8:15-17Jeremiah 3:4Jeremiah 31:9“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says the LORD. See also: Isaiah 48:8Jeremiah 5:11Ezekiel 16:15-52A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God. See also: Jeremiah 3:2Jeremiah 31:9Jeremiah 2:32Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; for you are the LORD our God. See also: Hosea 14:1Hosea 14:4Zechariah 13:9Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God. See also: Psalms 121:1-2Psalms 3:8Isaiah 12:2But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. See also: Hosea 9:10Ezekiel 16:63Ezekiel 16:61Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the LORD our God’s voice.” See also: Jeremiah 22:21Lamentations 5:16Proverbs 5:13
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)20 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 3:1
Ver. 1. It. Heb. "a saying." Sept. "If," &c. Deut. xxiv. 1. H. --- Woman. Heb.
"land." ---
Lovers. Sept. "shepherds," C. seeking aid from idols and foreigners.
↑ 1Jeremiah 3:2
Ver. 2. High. Lit. "straight forward." H. --- On the hills, idolatry and immorality prevailed. ---
Ways, where harlots used to sit. Gen. xxxviii. 14. Prov. vii. 9. and xxxiii. 27. ---
Robber; "Arab,"
(Chal. &c.) or "crow." (Sept.) C. --- No sin is so great as to be irremissible to the true penitent.
W.
↑ 2Jeremiah 3:3
Ver. 3. Rain; about November. Deut. xi. 14. This drought happened under Josias, (C. v. 24.) and was different from that specified, C. viii. 13. and xiv. 1.
↑ 3Jeremiah 3:4
Ver. 4. Guide. Husband. Prov. ii. 16. and Joel i. 8.
↑ 4Jeremiah 3:5
Ver. 5. Wilt. Heb. "will he," &c. The faithless people will not use this language, but do all the evil possible.
↑ 5Jeremiah 3:6
Ver. 6. Days, before the 18th year. God now pronounces sentence (C.) on all. H.
--- Rebellious, a faithless wife. The kingdom of Israel gave way to idolatry first.
But the people were less favoured than Juda, which had many prophets and good kings, the temple, &c. Moreover, the misfortunes of Israel did not open the eyes of their brethren. C. --- Both the ten tribes, and the two tribes (W.) which adhered to the line of David, prevaricated. H.
↑ 6Jeremiah 3:10
Ver. 10. Falsehood. Their reform was only apparent, under Joas, &c. C.
↑ 10Jeremiah 3:11
Ver. 11. Soul, and appeared comparatively innocent. v. 6. Ezec. xvi. 51. S. Jer.
--- Yet neither of them was excusable. W.
↑ 11Jeremiah 3:12
Ver. 12. North. Samaria, or rather Assyria, where the people were captives. ---
Face, in anger.
↑ 12Jeremiah 3:13
Ver. 13. Ways, dividing thy love, and adoring idols with me.
↑ 13Jeremiah 3:14
Ver. 14. Kindred. Only few Israelites returned under Cyrus. The rest came by degrees, though it was more fully accomplished by the conversion of the Gentiles.
↑ 14Jeremiah 3:15
Ver. 15. Pastors. Zorobabel, &c. but more particularly Christ and his apostles.
↑ 15Jeremiah 3:16
Ver. 16. Ark. It was no longer at Jerusalem. The law and its figures cease.
↑ 16Jeremiah 3:17
Ver. 17. All. Many might embrace the Jewish religion. But the predictions of the prophets on this head, were not verified, till the gospel was preached. C. ---
Then many embraced the faith: several captives also returned to God. W.
↑ 17Jeremiah 3:18
Ver. 18. North. Sept. add, "and from all places" where the Jews were in captivity. H. --- Many thus returned to their own country. v. 14. C. --- Israel had been led into captivity sooner, but all were released at once. Theodor. W.
↑ 18Jeremiah 3:19
Ver. 19. Gentiles, which they all covet, or to which they are invited in the Church. C. --- Me. On these conditions thou shalt be restored. H.
↑ 19Jeremiah 3:21
Ver. 21. God. Hence proceed these miseries and lamentations.
↑ 21Jeremiah 3:23
Ver. 23. Liars, unfruitful; and the idols have left us empty. C. --- They were placed on the hills.
Houbigant.
↑ 23Jeremiah 3:24
Ver. 24. Confusion. Thus Baal was styled Boseth, contemptuously. Jer. xi. 13.
↑ 24Jeremiah 3:25
Ver. 25. Shame. We are justly punished with exile, (C.) and death. M.
↑ 25License: 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