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Jeremiah
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Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! See also: Jeremiah 13:17Isaiah 22:4Jeremiah 8:21-22Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. See also: Jeremiah 5:7-8Jeremiah 23:10Hosea 4:2“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 9:8Jeremiah 4:22Isaiah 59:13-15“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer. See also: Micah 7:5-6Proverbs 26:24-25Psalms 12:2-3Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity. See also: Micah 6:12Isaiah 59:13-15Job 15:5Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 13:10Hosea 4:6Proverbs 1:24Therefore the LORD of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people? See also: Isaiah 1:25Isaiah 48:10Jeremiah 6:27Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him. See also: Psalms 28:3Proverbs 26:24-26Psalms 120:3Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says the LORD. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this? See also: Jeremiah 5:29Jeremiah 5:9Isaiah 1:24I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone. See also: Jeremiah 12:4Hosea 4:3Jeremiah 12:10“I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.” See also: Isaiah 25:2Isaiah 34:13Jeremiah 51:37Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through? See also: Hosea 14:9Psalms 107:43Deuteronomy 32:29The LORD says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways, See also: 2 Chronicles 7:19Jeremiah 22:9Ezra 9:10but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.” See also: Jeremiah 3:17Jeremiah 7:241 Peter 1:18Therefore the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink. See also: Jeremiah 8:14Psalms 80:5Lamentations 3:15I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.” See also: Ezekiel 5:12Leviticus 26:33Ezekiel 5:2The LORD of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come. See also: Amos 5:16-17Ecclesiastes 12:52 Chronicles 35:25Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters. See also: Jeremiah 9:1Jeremiah 14:17Isaiah 22:4For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’” See also: Jeremiah 4:13Ezekiel 7:16-18Deuteronomy 28:29Yet hear the LORD’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation. See also: Luke 23:27-30Isaiah 32:9-13Job 22:22For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets. See also: Jeremiah 6:11Ezekiel 9:5-6Jeremiah 15:7Speak, “The LORD says, “‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester. No one will gather them.’” See also: Jeremiah 8:2Jeremiah 25:33Psalms 83:10The LORD says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches. See also: 1 Corinthians 1:27-29Isaiah 5:21Ecclesiastes 9:11But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am the LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for I delight in these things,” says the LORD. See also: 2 Corinthians 10:17Galatians 6:141 Corinthians 1:31“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh: See also: Galatians 5:2-6Romans 2:8-9Romans 2:25-26Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.” See also: Jeremiah 4:4Leviticus 26:41Romans 2:28-29
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)15 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 9:1
Ver. 1. To. Heb. is more expressive. C. --- "Who will give my head waters, (H.) or change it into water, and my eyes into a fountain." C. --- Prot. "Oh that my head were waters." H. --- The miseries of my people are so great, (C.) a few tears would not suffice to bewail them. W.
↑ 1Jeremiah 9:2
Ver. 2. Men. Why cannot I retire (M.) from this scene of misery, or afford some consolation to the captives? Sept. "Who will give me the last station in the desert?" H.
↑ 2Jeremiah 9:3
Ver. 3. Lies. They are bent on deceit (C.) and murder, (H.) v. 8. Ps. lxiii. 4. and cxix. 2.
↑ 3Jeremiah 9:4
Ver. 4. Deceitfully. A man must guard against his relations and domestics. Mic.
vii. 5. Mat. viii.
35. C.
↑ 4Jeremiah 9:5
Ver. 5. Iniquity. It is become natural to them. S. Jer. --- They cannot lay the blame on the violence of passion. They sin on purpose. C. --- Sept. "they have not left off, (6.) in order to be converted. Usury upon usury; fraud upon fraud; they," &c. H.
↑ 5Jeremiah 9:7
Ver. 7. Try them in the crucible of war. C. vi. 27. C.
↑ 7Jeremiah 9:10
Ver. 10. Owner. Heb. mikne, "cattle," or (H.) "substance." S. Jer. --- Departed.
Beasts and birds will not continue long after men cease to cultivate the country. Theod. C. iv. 25. and xii. 4.
Soph. i. 3.
↑ 10Jeremiah 9:11
Ver. 11. Sand. The stones were burnt to dust. 2 Esd. iv. 2. C.
↑ 11Jeremiah 9:15
Ver. 15. Gall. Heb. rosh, "poison," &c. Deut. xxix. 18. H.
↑ 15Jeremiah 9:16
Ver. 16. Consumed. C. xliv. 27. No country shall afford them protection. C. ---
The richer sort were made captives, and most of the people destroyed, but not all. C. iv. 25. W.
↑ 16Jeremiah 9:17
Ver. 17. Wise, in composing or singing the Nænia, or mournful songs, recording the praises of the deceased. C. --- "This custom still subsists in Judea: women go about with dishevelled hair and naked breasts, with mournful tunes, exciting all to tears." S. Jer. --- Music was also used.
Mat. ix. 23. Thus feigned tears, at least, would supply the want of real ones.
↑ 17Jeremiah 9:21
Ver. 21. For. This was the song. C. --- Streets. Death spares none. The least suspecting fall. H.
--- It enters by the windows, if the doors be shut. Joel ii. 8.
↑ 21Jeremiah 9:22
Ver. 22. Speak. Our editions of the Sept. omit this word, though S. Jerom found it in his copies, (C.) and in Theodotion, expressed by "death;" while others rendered it, "speak," as the same letters dbr, may have both meanings, according as people may please to pronounce them. S. Jer.
--- Grabe supplies, "by death. (22.) These things, says the Lord." H.
↑ 22Jeremiah 9:24
Ver. 24. Me. Virtue will save, when riches, &c. will prove useless. M. ---
Phocilides, a pagan, said, (C.) "Boast not of wisdom, strength, or riches great.
One God is wise, and potent too, and rich." H.
↑ 24Jeremiah 9:26
Ver. 26. Egypt. the uncircumcised shall be punished as well as Juda, if they transgress. Only the Jewish nation properly observed the right of circumcision generally, or at first. Others imitated them, but with various ceremonies. C.
Diss. Ezec. xxxi. 18. Judith xiv. 6. --- Hyrcan obliged the Idumeans to receive circumcision. Jos. Ant. xiii. 17. --- Round. The Arabs, &c. Lev. xix. 27. C.
--- Heart. All then became guilty. Rom. ii. 25. M. --- Neither these nations nor Juda was circumcised in heart, and of course were hypocrites. W.
↑ 26License: 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