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Jeremiah
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“If you will return, Israel,” says the LORD, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed; See also: Joel 2:12Jeremiah 3:22Jeremiah 3:1and you will swear, ‘As the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.” See also: Isaiah 65:16Jeremiah 9:24Genesis 22:18For the LORD says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns. See also: Hosea 10:12Luke 8:7Luke 8:14Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. See also: Deuteronomy 10:16Colossians 2:11Deuteronomy 30:6Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’ See also: Jeremiah 8:14Joshua 10:20Jeremiah 6:1Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.” See also: Jeremiah 50:2Jeremiah 1:13-15Jeremiah 51:27A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant. See also: Jeremiah 2:15Isaiah 6:11Isaiah 1:7For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the LORD hasn’t turned back from us. See also: Jeremiah 6:26Isaiah 22:12Isaiah 5:25“It will happen at that day,” says the LORD, “that the heart of the king will perish, along with the heart of the princes. The priests will be astonished, and the prophets will wonder.” See also: Isaiah 22:3-5Ezekiel 13:9-16Isaiah 29:9-10Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.” See also: 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12Jeremiah 5:12Jeremiah 14:13-14At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind blows from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse. See also: Hosea 13:15Ezekiel 17:10Isaiah 41:16A full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them.” See also: Jeremiah 1:16Ezekiel 5:8Ezekiel 7:8-9Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined. See also: Isaiah 19:1Isaiah 66:15Lamentations 4:19Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you? See also: James 4:8Isaiah 55:7Romans 1:21For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim: See also: Jeremiah 8:16Judges 18:29Jeremiah 6:1“Tell the nations, behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah. See also: Ezekiel 21:22Jeremiah 5:15Isaiah 39:3As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 5:232 Kings 25:1-4Isaiah 1:8“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.” See also: Psalms 107:17Jeremiah 2:19Jeremiah 2:17My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. See also: Habakkuk 3:16Isaiah 22:4Isaiah 16:11Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment. See also: Psalms 42:7Joel 1:15Matthew 10:28How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet? See also: Jeremiah 6:12 Chronicles 36:172 Chronicles 36:10“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.” See also: 1 Corinthians 14:20Romans 16:19Jeremiah 5:21I saw the earth and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light. See also: Matthew 24:29Mark 13:24-25Isaiah 13:10I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth. See also: Ezekiel 38:20Isaiah 5:25Jeremiah 10:10I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled. See also: Zephaniah 1:2-3Jeremiah 12:4Hosea 4:3I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD, before his fierce anger. See also: Psalms 107:34Deuteronomy 29:23-28Psalms 76:7For the LORD says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end. See also: Jeremiah 5:18Jeremiah 46:28Jeremiah 5:10For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it. I have planned it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.” See also: Numbers 23:19Jeremiah 12:4Isaiah 50:3Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers. They go into the thickets and climb up on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein. See also: Isaiah 2:19-21Jeremiah 4:7Luke 23:30You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life. See also: Lamentations 1:192 Kings 9:30Lamentations 1:2For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.” See also: Lamentations 1:17Isaiah 1:15Jeremiah 13:21
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)21 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 4:1
Ver. 1. Blocks; idols, (C.) and other occasions of sin. H.
↑ 1Jeremiah 4:2
Ver. 2. Swear, when requisite. C. --- Thus thou wilt learn to confess one God.
Theod. --- If all were upright, oaths would be unnecessary. Mat. v. 34. But as they are not so, (C.) this may be a religious act. W. --- Justice. These three conditions are essential. H. --- Him; the people, (C.) or God. S. Jer. --- An oath must attest God, and be used when a thing is true and of moment. W.
↑ 2Jeremiah 4:3
Ver. 3. Thorns. Your misconduct hinders your advancement. C.
↑ 3Jeremiah 4:4
Ver. 4. Hearts. Understand, and act with purity. H.
↑ 4Jeremiah 4:5
Ver. 5. Cities. Nabuchodonosor is at hand.
↑ 5Jeremiah 4:7
Ver. 7. Robber. Nabuchodonosor attacks unjustly, (C.) though he be God's scourge.
↑ 7Jeremiah 4:9
Ver. 9. Heart; counsel and vigour. --- Prophets of falsehood.
↑ 9Jeremiah 4:10
Ver. 10. Alas! Prot. "Then I said: Ah! Lord God, surely thou hast deceived," &c.
(H.) by permitting the people to follow false prophets. Is. lxi. 17. Ps. xliii. 19.
↑ 10Jeremiah 4:11
Ver. 11. Desert of Arabia. It may designate Nechao, (2 Par. xxxv. 20.) who slew Josias, after whose death all fell to ruin.
↑ 11Jeremiah 4:15
Ver. 15. Ephraim. At Bethel and Dan the calves were adored. C. --- But they were now no more. H. --- The irruption of Nabuchodonosor is announced. He set himself up for a god.
↑ 15Jeremiah 4:16
Ver. 16. Guards. The Chaldees will besiege the city, and prevent provisions from entering. 4 K.
xxv. 1. C.
↑ 16Jeremiah 4:19
Ver. 19. My. God, (S. Jer.) the people, (Grot.) or rather Jeremias speaks.
↑ 19Jeremiah 4:20
Ver. 20. Moment. The cities are destroyed as easily as a tent.
↑ 20Jeremiah 4:22
Ver. 22. Me, practically. They have not honoured me as they ought. C. --- If they were indeed devoid of sense, they would be excused. W.
↑ 22Jeremiah 4:23
Ver. 23. Void. Heb. " Thohu and bohu, " like chaos. Gen. i. 2. H.
↑ 23Jeremiah 4:25
Ver. 25. Gone. Beasts feel the wrath of God, and in a land uninhabited; not even birds will remain. Osee iv. 3. S. Jer.
↑ 25Jeremiah 4:26
Ver. 26. Carmel: the beautiful country of Palestine, (H.) Jerusalem, (Theod.) or the mountain so called.
↑ 26Jeremiah 4:27
Ver. 27. Destroy, when Jechonias was led captive. God allowed the people still eleven years to repent; and he afterwards restored the Jews. C. --- He will never suffer his church to perish. W.
↑ 27Jeremiah 4:28
Ver. 28. Repented. Only a finite being can do this. God's resolution is here unconditional and fixed.
↑ 28Jeremiah 4:30
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 30. Stone, or antimony, like Jazabel, (4 K. ix. 30.) to darken and enlarge the eye-lids. ---
Lovers. Infidel nations of Egypt, &c.
↑ 30Jeremiah 4:31
Ver. 31. Child. Heb. and Sept. "a first-born," when the pains are most acute. C.
↑ 31License: 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