Jeremiah · WEB-C
Jeremiah
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“Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction. See also: Nehemiah 3:14Jeremiah 6:222 Samuel 14:2I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion. See also: Jeremiah 4:31Isaiah 1:8Isaiah 3:16-17Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.” See also: Luke 19:43Jeremiah 39:1-32 Kings 25:1-4“Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. See also: Jeremiah 15:8Zephaniah 2:4Joel 3:9Arise! Let’s go up by night, and let’s destroy her palaces.” See also: Jeremiah 52:13Isaiah 32:142 Chronicles 36:19For the LORD of Armies said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited. She is filled with oppression within herself. See also: Deuteronomy 20:19-20Jeremiah 32:24As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me. See also: Ezekiel 7:23Jeremiah 20:8Ezekiel 7:11Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.” See also: Ezekiel 23:18Hosea 9:12Jeremiah 17:23The LORD of Armies says, “They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.” See also: Jeremiah 49:9Obadiah 1:5-6Jeremiah 16:16To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, the LORD’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it. See also: Acts 7:51Jeremiah 7:26John 7:7Therefore I am full of the LORD’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days. See also: Jeremiah 20:9Jeremiah 9:21Micah 3:8Their houses will be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD.” See also: Jeremiah 8:10Isaiah 5:25Lamentations 5:3“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely. See also: Jeremiah 23:11Jeremiah 8:10Micah 3:11They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace. See also: Ezekiel 13:10Jeremiah 23:17Jeremiah 4:10Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I visit them, they will be cast down,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 8:12Matthew 15:14Jeremiah 3:3The LORD says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ See also: Isaiah 30:21Deuteronomy 32:7Jeremiah 18:15I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’ See also: Jeremiah 25:4Isaiah 58:1Zechariah 7:11Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them. See also: Micah 6:5Deuteronomy 29:24-28Jeremiah 31:10Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it. See also: Isaiah 1:2Jeremiah 17:10Acts 8:22To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.” See also: Isaiah 1:11Micah 6:6-8Amos 5:21-22Therefore the LORD says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish.” See also: Isaiah 8:14Ezekiel 3:20Jeremiah 13:16The LORD says, “Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth. See also: Jeremiah 10:22Jeremiah 50:41-43Jeremiah 5:15They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.” See also: Isaiah 13:18Jeremiah 50:42Isaiah 5:26-30We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor. See also: Jeremiah 4:31Jeremiah 50:43Jeremiah 49:24Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side. See also: Jeremiah 49:29Job 18:11Jeremiah 20:10Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us. See also: Zechariah 12:10Jeremiah 4:8Jeremiah 12:12“I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way. See also: Jeremiah 1:18Jeremiah 15:20Ezekiel 20:4They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly. See also: Jeremiah 9:4Jeremiah 5:23Jeremiah 18:18The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away. See also: Zechariah 13:9Isaiah 49:4Proverbs 17:3Men will call them rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.” See also: Hosea 9:17Psalms 119:119Isaiah 1:22
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)18 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 6:1
Ver. 1. Strengthen. Heb. also, "Flee, Benjamites, from the midst," &c.
Jerusalem belonged partly to this tribe, which prided itself on its valour. ---
Thecua was in the lot of Juda, 15 miles south of Jerusalem. --- North. The Chaldees approach. C. i. 13. C.
↑ 1Jeremiah 6:3
Ver. 3. Shepherds. So captains are styled, because they feed and govern soldiers. W.
↑ 3Jeremiah 6:4
Ver. 4. Prepare. Lit. "sanctify." Observe the usual formalities of demanding reparation, offering victims, &c. The Chaldees thus encourage one another, and will allow themselves no rest day or night. v. 5.
↑ 4Jeremiah 6:7
Ver. 7. Cold. Heb. "come forth." All the citizens imitate her vices.
↑ 7Jeremiah 6:8
Ver. 8. Instructed, by afflictions and prosperity, by public and internal admonitions. Willful ignorance is criminal, and drives God away. C. li. 9. Ps.
lxxx. 12.
↑ 8Jeremiah 6:9
Ver. 9. Basket. Chaldees, destroy all. Nabuchodonosor took Joakim twice, and afterwards Jechonias and Sedecias. C. xxix. 2.
↑ 9Jeremiah 6:10
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 10. Uncircumcised. Impure and deaf. C. --- Non vocat impossibilitas supplicio quæ de contemptu et infidelitate descendit. S. Jer.
↑ 10Jeremiah 6:11
Ver. 11. In. Jeremias is indignant. The Lord then orders him to pour, or declare what will ensue.
C.
↑ 11Jeremiah 6:13
Ver. 13. Prophet. Sept. "false prophet." C. iv. 31. H.
↑ 13Jeremiah 6:14
Ver. 14. Disgracefully. They shall be ashamed, when the contrary to what they declared shall come to pass. C. viii. 11.
↑ 14Jeremiah 6:16
Ver. 16. Paths, of patriarchs, and of Moses. Avoid novelty in religion. C. --- This advice is very applicable to the present generation. H.
↑ 16Jeremiah 6:17
Ver. 17. Watchmen. Prophets. Ezec. iii. 17. and xxxiii. 2.
↑ 17Jeremiah 6:18
Ver. 18. Congregation. Sept. "shepherds feeding their flocks have heard." The Chaldees are apprised of my resolution against Juda. C. --- After the Jews had been called repeatedly in vain, the Gentiles obey. Mat. x. 5. W.
↑ 18Jeremiah 6:20
Ver. 20. To me. For want of proper dispositions; otherwise the offerings of the best things were enjoined, and commendable. The Jews are taught not to depend on external observances, while they neglect the heart. C.
↑ 20Jeremiah 6:22
Ver. 22. North. As Babylon lay with respect to Jerusalem, (W.) or rather to the east. H.
↑ 22Jeremiah 6:26
Ver. 26. Only son. Let thy grief be extraordinary. Amos viii. 10. Zac. xii. 10.
↑ 26Jeremiah 6:27
Ver. 27. Trier of my people, as of gold in the furnace. Job xxii. 25.
↑ 27Jeremiah 6:29
Ver. 29. Bellows, or crucible. --- Lead, which was intermixed to purify the dross (S. Jer.) of gold and silver. But brass and iron could not be thus purified. All would be lost labour. Afflictions do not correct the obstinate. C.
↑ 29License: 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