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Jeremiah
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“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her. See also: Genesis 18:23-322 Chronicles 16:9Ezekiel 22:30Though they say, ‘As the LORD lives,’ surely they swear falsely.” See also: Titus 1:16Jeremiah 4:2Leviticus 19:12O LORD, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return. See also: Jeremiah 2:30Jeremiah 7:282 Chronicles 16:9Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the LORD’s way, nor the law of their God. See also: Hosea 4:6Jeremiah 8:7Matthew 11:5I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. See also: Jeremiah 2:20James 2:5-7Psalms 2:2-3Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased. See also: Jeremiah 4:7Habakkuk 1:8Zephaniah 3:3“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses. See also: Joshua 23:7Galatians 4:8Jeremiah 2:11They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife. See also: Jeremiah 13:27Deuteronomy 5:182 Samuel 11:2-4Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says the LORD. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? See also: Jeremiah 9:9Jeremiah 5:29Isaiah 1:24“Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not the LORD’s. See also: Jeremiah 4:27Ezekiel 12:16Hosea 1:9For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 3:20Isaiah 48:8Hosea 6:7They have denied the LORD, and said, “It is not he. Evil won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine. See also: 2 Chronicles 36:16Psalms 10:61 Samuel 6:9The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.” See also: Jeremiah 14:15Job 8:2Jeremiah 14:13Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them. See also: Jeremiah 23:29Jeremiah 1:9Hosea 6:5Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says the LORD. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say. See also: Deuteronomy 28:49Jeremiah 4:16Isaiah 33:19Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men. See also: Isaiah 5:28Psalms 5:9Romans 3:13They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword. See also: Leviticus 26:16Deuteronomy 28:33Hosea 8:14“But even in those days,” says the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you. See also: Jeremiah 4:27Jeremiah 5:10Romans 11:1-5It will happen when you say, ‘Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’ See also: 1 Kings 9:8-9Deuteronomy 28:47-48Jeremiah 22:8-9“Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear: See also: Ezekiel 12:2Acts 28:26Isaiah 6:9-10Don’t you fear me?’ says the LORD; ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’ See also: Job 38:10-11Psalms 104:9Job 26:10“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone. See also: Jeremiah 6:28Deuteronomy 21:18Hebrews 3:12They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’ See also: Psalms 147:8Joel 2:23Genesis 8:22“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you. See also: Isaiah 59:2Psalms 107:34Psalms 107:17For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men. See also: Proverbs 1:11Psalms 64:5Ezekiel 22:2-12As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich. See also: Jeremiah 9:6Hosea 12:7-8Revelation 18:2They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy. See also: Isaiah 1:23Deuteronomy 32:15Psalms 73:12“Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says the LORD. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? See also: Malachi 3:5Jeremiah 5:9James 5:4“An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land. See also: Jeremiah 23:14Hosea 6:10Isaiah 1:2The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it? See also: Ezekiel 13:6Jeremiah 14:14Micah 2:11
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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 5:1
Ver. 1. Go, Jeremias, and you who publicly adhere to me. --- Man. Sodom would have been spared for the sake of ten just people. Gen. xviii. 32. Before the reform of Josias, Jerusalem was strangely corrupted, though these expressions be hyperbolical, and spoken as it were in the heat of debate.
Josias, Holda, and others, were living at this time, and renowned for their piety.
↑ 1Jeremiah 5:2
Ver. 2. Falsely. Some may confess my name. But they swear falsely. C. iv. 2. C.
--- Unless the requisite conditions be observed, an oath is unlawful. W.
↑ 2Jeremiah 5:3
Ver. 3. Return. The miseries with which, Achaz, &c. were afflicted, produced no amendment.
↑ 3Jeremiah 5:4
Ver. 4. Foolish idiots, (C.) who have had no means of receiving instruction. H.
--- Such might be more excusable; but when the chiefs offend, the evil is irremediable.
↑ 4Jeremiah 5:6
Ver. 6. Lion. Nabuchodonosor. --- Wolf. Cambyses, (C.) and leopard.
Epiphanes. H. --- The Chaldees, Persians and Greeks afflicted them. S. Jer. ---
The first beast may designate Nabuc: the second Nabuzardon: the third, Alexander or Epiphanes. W.
↑ 6Jeremiah 5:7
Ver. 7. How can. I have only the character of judge left. C.
↑ 7Jeremiah 5:8
Ver. 8. Stallions. Heb. mashcim, (H.) "stretching out," as others translate. Ezec.
xxiii. 20. S. Jer.
--- The horse is the most intemperate of all animals but man. Aristot. Hist. vi.
22.
↑ 8Jeremiah 5:10
Ver. 10. Destroy, at the first taking of the city, v. 18. and C. iv. 27. --- Branches.
Children of Jechonias, (C. xxii. 30.) and the people. C. --- Heb. "her battlements," (H.) Chal. "palaces."
↑ 10Jeremiah 5:13
Ver. 13. Them. The evil shall fall on the head of these impostors. So the wicked deride the prophets (C.) impugning the known truth. H.
↑ 13Jeremiah 5:14
Ver. 14. Fire. Thou shalt declare their impending ruin.
↑ 14Jeremiah 5:15
Ver. 15. Ancient. Nemrod founded the empire of Ninive and of Babylon. Gen. x.
10.
Nabopolassar had succeeded to the ancient Assyrian and Chaldee sovereigns.
Under his son, Nabuchodonosor, the dominions were much enlarged. --- Say. 4
K. xviii. 26.
↑ 15Jeremiah 5:17
Ver. 17. Devour. Heb. "destroy." They did not eat human flesh.
↑ 17Jeremiah 5:19
Ver. 19. Own. You shall thus know the difference between the masters. C.
↑ 19Jeremiah 5:21
Ver. 21. Understanding. Lit. "heart." C. iv. 22. H.
↑ 21Jeremiah 5:22
Ver. 22. It. Nature and chance are improper terms. God regulates all, and has established those laws which preserve the world.
↑ 22Jeremiah 5:24
Ver. 24. Rain, in autumn and in spring. Deut. xi. 14. C. --- Fulness. Heb. "the weeks for harvest." H. --- That of barley began at the Passover, and that of wheat ended before the feast of weeks, (Ex. xxxiv. 22. Lev. xxiii. 10. C.) or Pentecost. H.
↑ 24Jeremiah 5:25
Ver. 25. Away. The rain comes unseasonably.
↑ 25Jeremiah 5:26
Ver. 26. Man. As some tyrants have done, though this implies (C.) the eagerness with which the wicked strive to corrupt mankind. H.
↑ 26Jeremiah 5:28
Ver. 28. Of the widow, is not in Heb. C. --- Fatherless. Prot. add, "yet they prosper, and they, "
&c. H.
↑ 28Jeremiah 5:29
Ver. 29. Nation? It is contrary to God's justice not to punish the guilty. W.
↑ 29Jeremiah 5:31
Ver. 31. Clapped. Heb. "came down to, or received in, or domineered by their hands." The priests concurred with these impostors for their own ends. 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