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Jeremiah
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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying, See also: Jeremiah 46:14Exodus 14:2Isaiah 11:11“The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah. Behold, today they are a desolation, and no man dwells in them, See also: Isaiah 6:11Jeremiah 34:22Jeremiah 9:11because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. See also: Deuteronomy 29:26Deuteronomy 13:6Deuteronomy 32:17However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.” See also: Jeremiah 26:5Jeremiah 7:13Jeremiah 7:25But they didn’t listen and didn’t incline their ear. They didn’t turn from their wickedness, to stop burning incense to other gods. See also: Jeremiah 11:10Jeremiah 19:13Psalms 81:11-13Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is today.’ See also: Jeremiah 7:20Jeremiah 42:18Jeremiah 21:5“Therefore now the LORD, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the middle of Judah, to leave yourselves no one remaining, See also: Habakkuk 2:10Jeremiah 51:22Numbers 16:38in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to live, that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? See also: Jeremiah 42:18Jeremiah 44:3Jeremiah 25:6-7Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? See also: Jeremiah 7:17-18Jeremiah 44:21Ezra 9:7-15They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’ See also: Proverbs 28:14Jeremiah 8:12Revelation 15:4“Therefore the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah. See also: Jeremiah 21:10Amos 9:4Psalms 34:16I will take the remnant of Judah that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they will all be consumed. They will fall in the land of Egypt. They will be consumed by the sword and by the famine. They will die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine. They will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach. See also: Jeremiah 42:22Jeremiah 42:15-18Isaiah 65:15For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; See also: Jeremiah 43:11Jeremiah 11:22Jeremiah 44:27-28so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will escape or be left to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there; for no one will return except those who will escape.’” See also: Romans 9:27Jeremiah 22:26-27Isaiah 10:20Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, See also: Jeremiah 5:1-5Proverbs 11:21Genesis 19:4“As for the word that you have spoken to us in the LORD’s name, we will not listen to you. See also: Luke 19:27Job 21:14-15Jeremiah 11:10But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil. See also: Jeremiah 7:18Nehemiah 9:34Philippians 3:19But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.” See also: Malachi 3:13-15Numbers 11:5-6Job 21:14-15The women said, “When we burned incense to the queen of the sky and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?” See also: Jeremiah 7:18Jeremiah 44:15Genesis 3:6Then Jeremiah said to all the people—to the men and to the women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying, “The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn’t the LORD remember them, and didn’t it come into his mind? See also: Jeremiah 44:17Jeremiah 14:10Isaiah 64:9Thus the LORD could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today. See also: Jeremiah 25:18Malachi 2:17Jeremiah 25:38Because you have burned incense and because you have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the LORD’s voice, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is today.” See also: Daniel 9:11-121 Kings 9:9Nehemiah 13:18Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, “Hear the LORD’s word, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt! See also: Jeremiah 43:7Jeremiah 44:15-16Jeremiah 44:26The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, “We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her.” “‘Establish then your vows, and perform your vows.’ See also: Matthew 14:9Acts 23:12-15Jeremiah 44:15-19“Therefore hear the LORD’s word, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by my great name,’ says the LORD, ‘that my name will no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “As the Lord GOD lives.” See also: Hebrews 6:13Ezekiel 20:39Genesis 22:16Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone. See also: Jeremiah 31:282 Kings 21:14Jeremiah 1:10Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah few in number. All the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will know whose word will stand, mine or theirs. See also: Jeremiah 44:14Isaiah 10:19Isaiah 27:12-13“‘This will be the sign to you,’ says the LORD, ‘that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for evil.’ See also: Proverbs 19:21Matthew 24:15-16Isaiah 40:8The LORD says, ‘Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, just as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and sought his life.’” See also: 2 Kings 25:4-7Ezekiel 30:21Jeremiah 39:5-7
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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 44:1
Ver. 1. Magdal, the third station of the Israelites, (Ex. xiv. 2.) or another "tower"
twelve miles from Pelusium. C. xlvi. 14. --- Memphis, the capital of Nome, near the western banks of the Nile, and famous for its pyramids, which are standing, though the town be no more. C. xlvi. 19. ---
Phatures; perhaps in higher Egypt. Jeremias might go or send to these cities, this his last prediction, (C.) to reclaim his countrymen from idolatry. H.
↑ 1Jeremiah 44:2
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 2. Inhabitant: or the number is exceedingly small. C. --- All the Jews had retired. H. --- It would be well if people would reflect, how those who have given way to heresy and infidelity have been treated. W.
↑ 2Jeremiah 44:6
Ver. 6. Forth, drop by drop. C. xlii. 18. I have repeatedly warned them by punishments. H.
↑ 6Jeremiah 44:8
Ver. 8. Gods. Their blindness and malice was inconceivable. They attribute their past miseries to the neglect of worshipping the moon! v. 18. They may be compared to a mixture of iron and brass, which is put through the crucible in vain. C. vi. 29. Ezec. xxii. 18.
↑ 8Jeremiah 44:11
Ver. 11. Face, to punish grievously. Ezec. iv. 3. and xx. 35. C. --- All did not perish, but the far greatest part. v. 14. 28. W.
↑ 11Jeremiah 44:14
Ver. 14. Desire and expectation. C. xxii. 27. They meant to return as soon as the Chaldees had left the country: but their hose were vain. The enemy would fall upon Egypt, after he had taken Tyre and the neighbouring provinces; and those who had not abandoned that country in time, would perish. v. 12. 26. C.
↑ 14Jeremiah 44:17
Ver. 17. The queen of heaven; the moon, which they worshipped under this name, (Ch.) as also under that of the Celestial Venus, (Theod.) Diana, and Isis.
It seems the Jews had engaged by vow (v. 27.) to restore her worship. C. ---
The women more particularly adored the moon: yet all were guilty. C. vii. 18.
and 4 K. xxiii. 5. W.
↑ 17Jeremiah 44:18
Ver. 18. Famine. They think nothing of the transgression of the law, &c. v. 23.
Could obduracy and blindness go greater lengths? 1 Mac. i. 12.
↑ 18Jeremiah 44:19
Ver. 19. Worship. Heb. "to represent." The cakes had a crescent on them. C.
See Hesychius in selenai. --- Husbands. The women are most zealous. But all partook of this idolatry. C. vii. 18.
C.
↑ 19Jeremiah 44:21
Ver. 21. Heart, or mind to punish you for idolatry. Sacrifices could be offered to the Lord only in his temple. H.
↑ 21Jeremiah 44:26
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 26. Liveth. They swore by his name as by that of idols. God could not abide such company.
C. --- Not one of these obstinate Jews shall be spared. v. 14. Others, like Jeremias, the Sept. and the holy family, no doubt called upon the Lord in the land of Egypt. H.
↑ 26Jeremiah 44:30
Ver. 30. Enemies. Herodotus (ii. 161. 169.) informs us that Apries reigned fortunately twenty-five years, when he lost many of his men fighting against the Cyreneans, and was dethroned by Amasis, and strangled by his subjects.
Usher (A. 3433) suspects that Amasis was assisted and confirmed by Nabuchodonosor, and he might this fulfill the prophecies. C. xliii. 11. &c. Ezec.
xxix. &c. Josephus (Ant. x. 11.) and Berosus (c. Ap. i.) assert, that Nabuchodonosor defeated and slew the king of Egypt, though Herodotus is silent on this subject, his account being communicated by the Egyptian priests, and full of fables. C.
↑ 30License: 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