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Jeremiah
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The LORD’s word which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations. See also: Jeremiah 1:10Zechariah 2:8Jeremiah 25:15-38Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah. See also: 2 Kings 23:29Jeremiah 25:19Jeremiah 25:1“Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle! See also: Isaiah 21:5Jeremiah 51:11-12Nahum 3:14Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand up with your helmets. Polish the spears, put on the coats of mail. See also: Ezekiel 21:9-11Jeremiah 51:31 Samuel 17:38Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and are turned backward. Their mighty ones are beaten down, have fled in haste, and don’t look back. Terror is on every side,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 6:25Jeremiah 49:29Jeremiah 46:21“Don’t let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. In the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen. See also: Daniel 11:19Jeremiah 46:12Amos 9:1-3“Who is this who rises up like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge? See also: Jeremiah 47:2Daniel 11:22Isaiah 8:7-8Egypt rises up like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He says, ‘I will rise up. I will cover the earth. I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.’ See also: Isaiah 37:24-26Ezekiel 29:3Exodus 15:9-10Go up, you horses! Rage, you chariots! Let the mighty men go out: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow. See also: Isaiah 66:19Ezekiel 27:10Nahum 3:9For that day is of the Lord, GOD of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satiated, and will drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, GOD of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. See also: Deuteronomy 32:42Joel 1:15Jeremiah 46:2Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you. See also: Jeremiah 8:22Micah 1:9Jeremiah 14:17The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they both fall together.” See also: Nahum 3:8-10Jeremiah 46:6Isaiah 19:2The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt: See also: Jeremiah 43:10-13Jeremiah 44:30Isaiah 29:1-24“Declare in Egypt, publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes; say, ‘Stand up, and prepare, for the sword has devoured around you.’ See also: Jeremiah 46:10Jeremiah 44:1Nahum 2:13Why are your strong ones swept away? They didn’t stand, because the LORD pushed them. See also: Isaiah 66:15-16Psalms 68:2Jeremiah 46:5He made many to stumble. Yes, they fell on one another. They said, ‘Arise! Let’s go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.’ See also: Leviticus 26:36-37Jeremiah 51:9Jeremiah 46:6They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.’ See also: Isaiah 19:11-161 Kings 20:10Exodus 15:9“As I live,” says the King, whose name is the LORD of Armies, “surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so he will come. See also: Jeremiah 48:15Judges 4:6Joshua 19:22You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis will become a desolation, and will be burned up, without inhabitant. See also: Isaiah 20:4Jeremiah 48:18Jeremiah 44:1“Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come. See also: Jeremiah 47:2Hosea 10:11Jeremiah 46:6Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall, for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation. See also: 2 Kings 7:6Jeremiah 46:5Obadiah 1:13Its sound will go like the serpent, for they will march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters. See also: Jeremiah 51:20-23Isaiah 29:4Isaiah 37:24They will cut down her forest,” says the LORD, “though it can’t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable. See also: Judges 7:12Judges 6:5Joel 2:25The daughter of Egypt will be disappointed; she will be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.” See also: Jeremiah 1:15Ezekiel 29:1-21Jeremiah 46:19-20The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him. See also: Zephaniah 2:11Isaiah 20:5-6Jeremiah 43:12-13I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants. Afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of old,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 44:30Ezekiel 32:11Ezekiel 29:8-14“But don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant. Don’t be dismayed, Israel; for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid. See also: Isaiah 43:5Jeremiah 30:10-11Isaiah 43:1Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says the LORD, “for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you, but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.” See also: Revelation 3:191 Corinthians 11:32Jeremiah 10:24
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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 46:1
Ver. 1. Gentiles, to whom Jeremias was sent. C. i. 5. What follows regards them, (C.) if we except the last chapter. H. --- It was thought proper to place these predictions here, though out of their chronological order, to which the Sept. have more adhered, placing them after C. xxv. C. ---
The punishment of the chief enemies of the Jews is foretold. W.
↑ 1Jeremiah 46:2
Ver. 2. Nechao. He slew Josias, and took all as far as Charcamis. 4 K. xxiii.
Four years after Nabopolasser associated his son, and sent him to conquer these countries, which he effected. 4 K.
xxiv. 7. Jos.
↑ 2Jeremiah 46:3
Ver. 3. Prepare Egyptians, the enemy is at hand. C.
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Ver. 5. Seen. The prophets usually speak as if things were already past. W.
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Ver. 6. Away. It will be in vain. C. --- Nechao went to defend Charcamis, but lost
"many myriads in the battle," and all the country "as far as Pelusium, except Judea." Joseph. x. 7.
↑ 6Jeremiah 46:7
Ver. 7. Rivers. He alludes to the Nile. The king of Egypt had a numerous army.
↑ 7Jeremiah 46:8
Ver. 8. City; Babylon, and every fort which shall oppose my progress. C.
↑ 8Jeremiah 46:9
Ver. 9. Men. Soldiers formed one of the principal classes among the Egyptians.
Herod. ii. 164.
--- Ethiopians. Heb. "Cush," in Lower Egypt, on the Red Sea. --- Lybians. Heb.
"Phut, another son of Cham, inhabiting the Nome Phtenethu." Ezec. xxx. 5.
Nah. iii. 2. --- Lydians. Their situation is not known.
↑ 9Jeremiah 46:10
Ver. 10. Devour. It seems animated, and eager to slay the victim. Ezec. xxxix.
17.
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Ver. 11. Of Egypt; or ye Egyptians, who have been wounded. The balm (H.) or resina of Galaad was then very famous. Gen. xxxvii. 25. C. --- Egypt thought itself invulnerable, and is derided.
Its cures was hopeless. v. 16. W.
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Ver. 13. Egypt, under Apries, about thirty-five years after the former expedition.
C. xliv. 30.
Ezec. xxix. and xxxi. This country was invaded the last. v. 14.
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Ver. 15. Men. Lit. "man." Heb. abir, (H.) where Apis has been perhaps formed.
C. --- Sept.
"Why has Apis (Comp. omits this word) fled from thee? thy calf, thy chosen one has not remained." H. --- He derides the chief idol of Egypt; or he alludes to those who fell at Charcamis, or rather who fled after they had come out to assist Sedecias. C. xxxvii. 5. Ezec. xxx. 21.
↑ 15Jeremiah 46:16
Ver. 16. Dove. Heb. also, "of the destroyer." Sept. "Greeks," or Ionians. C. ---
See C. xxv. 35.
Ch. --- Nebuchodonosor came with expedition, or had a dove on his standards.
M.
↑ 16Jeremiah 46:17
Ver. 17. Pharao. Sept. add, "Nechao." But Apries seems rather to be meant. C.
--- A. Heb.
shaon hehebir hamohed. Prot. " is but a noise, he hath passed the time appointed;" (H.) or, "the height which the crowd (or God, who raised) hath displaced." C. --- Sept. retain the original: but the middle word varies in their copies. H. --- All the boasts of Pharao ended in smoke. He lost the proper opportunity, and caused his own kingdom to be laid waste. Syr. "the disturber, who deranges the times." C.
↑ 17Jeremiah 46:18
Ver. 18. He, the destroyer; (v. 16.) or "it," my word (H.) shall surely stand as long as the mountains, (C.) yea, longer than heaven and earth. H. --- My decrees shall be put in execution in spite of the efforts of man. C.
↑ 18Jeremiah 46:19
Ver. 19. Furnish. Lit. "make thyself vessels of captivity," or pack up what thou mayst want there. H. Ezec. xii. 3. and xxix. 11. --- Many returned under Cyrus. v.
26.
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Ver. 20. Goad her. Nabuchodonosor shall subdue the country.
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Ver. 21. Hirelings. Apries had thirty thousand Carians, &c. who were defeated by Amasis.
Herod. ii. 163.
↑ 21Jeremiah 46:22
Ver. 22. Brass. Sept. "hissing serpent;" lamenting in secret. Is. xxix. 4. ---
Wood. Battle-axes were then used. Great cities and monarchs shall fall. Zac. xi.
2. Ezec. xxxi. 3. C.
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Ver. 23. Above, or "more than locusts," (H.) which destroy all herbs where they light.
↑ 23Jeremiah 46:25
Ver. 25. Visit upon. That is, punish. --- Alexandria. In the Heb. No; which was the ancient name of the city, to which Alexander gave afterwards the name of Alexandria; (Ch.) or this city was built near Rachotes, the harbour. "Ammon of No" was rather Diospolis, (Ezec. xxx. 14. Sept.) in the Delta, north of Busiris.
Ammon was the chief god adored at No. Nah. iii. 8. Sept. Alex. "I will revenge myself on Ammon, her son, on Egypt, or Pharao, and on them." H. --- Ammon was of their invention, and for this the people were justly punished. It means also, "a multitude." ---
Kings. C. xlii. 12. Apries was slain, (C. xliv. 33. C.) and his two successors perished miserably by sentence of Cambyses. Herod. iii. 14. and 16.
↑ 25Jeremiah 46:26
Ver. 26. Afterwards, forty years being expired (Ezec. xxix. 14.) from the time when Apries made his unsuccessful attack on Cyrene, and his subjects revolted.
↑ 26Jeremiah 46:27
Ver. 27. Off from all countries, (C.) particularly from Egypt; (H.) on occasion of which country's deliverance, that of Jacob is foretold. C. --- If God would bring the Egyptians back, much more would he deliver the Jews. W.
↑ 27Jeremiah 46:28
Ver. 28. Nations of Assyria, Chaldea, &c. C. xxx. 11. C.
↑ 28License: 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