THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation) Darby's Notes on Jeremiah

1:1e *: (The title of this book, 'Jermiah'), The name may mean, 'Jah is exalted.' Compare the large use made of the name Jehovah in this book; it occurs about 700 times: Adonai Jehovah 14 times.
1:5a appointed: Lit. 'gave:' so in ver. 18.
1:7b whomsoever: Or 'for everything for which.'
1:8c saith: See Note a, Isa. 1:24.
1:10d overthrow: Or 'to tear in pieces.'
1:11e almond-tree: Derived from a word meaning, 'watchful' or 'vigilant,' as ver. 12; ch. 31:28; Num. 17:8; Dan. 9:14.
2:7a land: Heb. 'land of Carmel;' as ch. 4:26.
2:8b transgressed: Or 'rebelled:' so ver. 29; chs. 3:13; 33:8: see Isa. 1:2.
2:16c Tahapanes: See Notes, Isa. 19:13; 30:4; Jer. 44:1.
2:16d on: Others, 'have broken.'
2:18e Shihor: i.e. the Nile.
2:20f broken: Or 'I had broken.'
2:34a these: Or '... innocent poor; I have not found it by violently breaking in i.e. into secret places, but upon all these.' For sense see Ex. 22:2, 3.
2:37b in: Lit. 'thy confidences.'
3:1c lovers: Strictly, 'companions,' 'friends:' see Cant. 5:16, and Note, Cant. 1:9.
3:2d heights: Or 'high places,' strictly, 'bare hills:' see Isa. 41:18; 49:9: so ver. 21; ch. 4:11, &c.
3:5a determined: Or 'hast known how to carry them out:' lit. 'thou prevailest,' Gen. 32:28.
3:9b lightness: Or 'cry' or 'fame.'
3:12c dark: Lit. 'cause my face to fall.'
3:13d thither: Lit. 'hast scattered thy ways.'
3:13e strangers: i.e. false gods.
3:16f mind: Or 'rise in the heart.'
3:16g done: Or 'made,' if the ark be meant.
3:17h to: Or 'because of.'
3:19i of: Or 'the most lovely inheritance of.'
3:19k me: Lit. 'from after me.'
3:20l companion: Or 'lover,' as ver. 1.
3:24a shame: Or 'the shameful idol:' see ch. 11:13.
4:6b destruction: Lit. 'breaking;' and so ver. 20.
4:11c heights: As chs. 3:2, 21; 7:29; 12:12; 14:6.
4:16a Besiegers: Lit. 'watchers.'
4:22b wise: Or 'clever.'
4:23c empty: See Isa. 34:11.
4:26d land: Or 'Carmel:' see ch. 2:7.
4:27e end: Or 'a consumption,' as Isa. 10:22, 23.
4:29f city: Or 'the whole city.'
4:30g rendest: By an irony for 'enlargest.'
5:3a sore: As 'writhing,' Ps. 55:4, and cf. Prov. 23:35.
5:5b altogether: Or 'with one consent.'
5:6c evenings: Or 'deserts.'
5:7d God: Or 'no gods,' as ch. 2:11.
5:7e satiated: Some read 'adjured.'
5:10f end: Or 'a consumption;' ch. 4:27.
5:10g battlements: Some, referring it to a vine, read 'tendrils' or 'shoots.'
5:12h not: Or 'It is not He.'
5:15i understandest: Lit. 'hearest.'
5:21k heartless: See Hos. 7:11.
5:28a prosper: Or 'that they might bring them through.'
5:31b means: Lit. 'hands.'
6:1c signal: Perhaps 'of fire:' see Judg. 20:38.
6:1d Beth-haccerem: i.e. the vineyard house.
6:1e destruction: Or 'breach,' as ver. 14; ch. 8:21.
6:4f Prepare: Lit. 'Hallow:' see chs. 22:7; 51:27, 28.
6:6g visited: Or 'punished.'
6:11a out: others 'I will pour it out.'
6:14b breach: Or 'wound.'
6:14c of: Many omit 'the daughter of,' but see ch. 8:11.
6:15d that: Or 'They have come to shame because:' so in ch. 8:12.
6:18e them: Or 'nations, and know the testimony that is among them.'
6:20f cane: As 'sweet myrtle,' Ex. 30:23; 'calamus,' Cant. 4:14; 'cane,' Isa. 43:24.
6:25g side: Heb. Magor-missabib: see ch. 20:3.
6:27h assayer: Or 'for a watch-tower.'
6:29a burned: * i.e. so that the current of air, needed to cause the lead to carry off the dross, ceased, leaving unrefined (reprobate) silver. It might read 'the bellows puff.'
6:29b fire: Others, 'out of their fire cometh lead.'
7:4c this: Lit. 'are these' (i.e. these buildings).
7:5d justice: Elsewhere 'judgment.'
7:10e delivered: Or 'hidden.'
7:12f, 7:14f Shiloh: See ch. 26:6, 9; Ps. 78:60.
7:18g heaven: See ch. 8:2; Judg. 2:11, 13.
7:23a people: Lit. 'I will be to you for God, and ye shall be to me for people.'
7:28b fidelity: Or 'truth.'
7:29c heights: Or 'bare hills:' see ch. 3:2.
7:32d place: Or 'for want of another place;' and so ch. 19:11.
8:6a to: Or 'turneth away in.'
8:13b them: Or 'pass through them.'
8:14c silent: Or 'let us perish.'
8:14d silence: Or 'made us to perish.'
8:14e gall: See Ps. 69:21.
8:16f steeds: Lit. 'mighty ones:' see Judg. 5:22; Ps. 22:12.
8:16g contains: Lit. 'all its fulness.'
8:21a breach: Or 'crushing,' or 'destruction' as ch. 6:1. The word is the same in ver. 11 and ch. 6:14, and as the verb 'crushed' in this verse, and 'ruin,' Lam. 2:11.
9:5b, 9:8b neighbour: Or 'friend,' as ver. 4: see ch. 3:1.
9:13c it: i.e. in the law.
9:22a men: The Adam.
9:24b exercise: Or 'for I, Jehovah, exercise.'
9:26c off: See Lev. 19:27.
10:3d chisel: Others, 'an axe.'
10:8e stock: Or 'wood is an instruction of vanity.'
10:11a *: This verse is in Aramaic.
10:15b delusion: Or 'mockery.'
10:16c rod: Or 'tribe.'
10:17d fortress: Or 'thou that dwellest in the straitness' (i.e. 'distress') or 'in the siege.'
10:19e wound: Lit. 'breach.'
10:21f wisely: Or 'succeeded,' see ch. 20:11.
11:4g God: See Note, ch. 7:23.
11:12a, 11:14a trouble: Lit. 'evil.'
11:13b Shame: See ch. 3:24, and Note.
11:17c for: Or 'against.'
11:19d lamb: Or 'like a lamb, an ox.'
11:20e revealed: Or 'committed:' see ch. 20:12.
12:3a proved: Or 'tried,' as ch. 11:20; Ps. 139:23.
12:5b security: Or 'if thou confidest in a land of peace.'
12:9c prey: According to others 'as a greedy hyena.'
12:10d destroyed: As 'corrupted,' Deut. 9:12.
12:14e up: See ch. 1:10.
13:11a glory: Or 'beauty,' 'adornment:' see Isa. 28:1, 62:3.
13:12b skin: See Isa. 22:24.
13:18c queen: i.e. 'the queen-mother;' lit. 'mistress:' see 1Kings 15:13.
13:19a south: Negeb: so chs. 17:26; 32:44: see Gen. 12:9.
13:21b thee: Or 'What wilt thou say, when he shall appoint as chief over thee those whom thou hast taught to be thy familiars?'
13:23c Ethiopian: Or 'Cushite.'
14:3d ones: Or 'their menials,' as also ch. 48:4.
14:10e to: Or 'concerning.'
14:17a cease: Or 'Mine eyes run down with tears, night and day, and they cease not.'
14:18b not: Or 'wander about in the land, and they know not what to do.'
14:21c disgrace: Or 'lightly esteem,' as Deut. 32:15.
14:22d HE: Or 'thou, the Same:' see Deut. 32:39.
15:3e kinds: Lit. 'families.'
15:3f tear: Lit. 'drag along.'
15:14a them: Or 'thee.'
15:16b name: Lit. 'thy name is called upon me.'
15:17c assembly: Elsewhere 'secret council.'
15:17d mockers: Or 'them that make merry,' as. ch. 31:4.
15:19e vile: Same word as 'profligate,' Deut. 21:20; 'vile,' Lam. 1:11.
15:20f strong: As. Zech. 11:2.
17:4a go: Or 'on thine own account thou shalt leave.' Some suppose a reference to Deut. 15:2.
17:5b, 17:7b man: Geber: see Job 3:3.
17:6c heath: Or 'a denuded (or, forlorn) man;' as ch. 48:6.
17:8d see: According to others, 'fear.'
17:26a lowland: The Shephelah: see Deut. 1:7.
17:26b south: The Negeb, Gen. 12:9: see chs. 13:19 and 32:44.
18:4c clay: Another reading is found in many MSS., 'that he made of clay was spoiled.'
18:14a field: It may be translated, 'Shall the snow of Lebanon be left which cometh from the rock of the field?'
18:14b up: Or 'be abandoned.'
18:16c astonishment: Or 'a desolation.'
18:21d off: Lit. 'slain.'
18:22e cry: Or 'A cry shall.'
18:23f me: Or 'their deadly counsel against me '
19:7a void: Or 'empty,' alluding to the empty 'earthen flagon' of ver. 1.
19:8b astonishment: Or 'a desolation,' see ch. 18:16.
20:3a Magor-missabib: Meaning, 'Terror on every side,' as ver. 10; chs. 6:25; 46:5; 49:29; Ps. 31:13; and Lam. 2:22.
20:9b in: Or 'with bearing it.'
20:10c stumbling: Or 'at my side.'
20:11d prospered: Or 'not dealt wisely:' see ch. 10:21.
20:12e revealed: Or 'committed:' see ch. 11:20.
21:7a and: Or 'that is.'
21:9b deserteth: Lit. 'falleth.'
21:13c plain: Mishor, generally applied to the table-land of Moab; here, Jerusalem.
22:7a prepare: Lit. 'consecrated,' 'hallow,' as ch 6:4.
22:11b Shallum: i.e. Jehoahaz, 2Kings 23:30.
22:14c wainscoted: Or 'covered,' 'ceiled,' as 1Kings 6:9; Hag. 1:4.
22:15d with: Or 'dost excel in.'
22:16e poor: Or 'afflicted.'
22:17f But: Lit. 'For.'
22:17g extortion: Or 'over-reaching,' as 'covetousness,' Ex. 18:21.
22:20h destroyed: Lit. 'broken.'
22:23a be: Or 'how thou wilt sigh.'
22:24b Coniah: Called Jeconiah in chs. 24:1; 28:4; 29:2; 1Chron. 3, &c. Jehoiachin in ch. 52:31 and 2Kings.
22:29c earth: Or 'land, land, land.'
23:3d pastures: Or 'folds.'
23:5e Branch: Strictly, 'Sprout:' see ch. 33:15; Isa. 4:2; Zech. 3:8; 6:12.
23:5f wisely: Or 'and prosper,' as ch. 20:11. See Note, Prov. 1:3, sachal.
23:5g land: Or 'earth.'
23:9h broken: Or 'My heart is broken for the prophets.'
23:11a profane, 23:15a profaneness: Or 'godless;' and in ver. 15, 'ungodliness.'
23:16b vanity: Or 'befool you:' see ch. 2:5, and 2Kings 17:15.
23:22c had: Or 'counsel, then would they have.'
23:26d be: Or 'How long? Is it ...?'
23:27e neighbour: Or 'friend:' as vers. 30, 35: see ch. 3:1.
23:27f for: Or 'through.'
23:33a What: Or 'Ye are the.'
24:5b are: Or 'those whom for good I have,' &c.
24:7c God: See Note, ch. 7:23.
25:14a also: Or 'shall reduce them to servitude, even them.'
25:20a people: Or 'people of Arabia.'
25:22b isles: Or 'maritime countries.'
25:23c Tema: Job 22:1; Isa. 21:14.
25:23d Buz: Job 32:2, Buzite.
25:23e off: See ch. 9:26.
25:26f Sheshach: An enigmatical name for Babel, formed by reversing the order of the Hebrew letters: see ch. 51:41, also 51:1, and Note.
25:29g unpunished: See ch. 30:11.
25:30h dwelling-place: Or 'against his fold (pasture):' see ch. 23:3; Isa. 65:10.
25:35a refuge: Or 'flight,' as Amos 2:14.
25:38b fierceness: Possibly 'sword,' as chs. 46:16; 50:16.
26:18a saying: See Mic. 3:12.
26:23b people: i.e. the common people.
27:1c Jehoiakim: Perhaps 'Zedekiah,' unless ver. 3 be wrong.
27:7d servitude: See ch. 25:14, and Note.
27:8a visit: Or 'punish,' as Isa. 10:12.
27:9b soothsayers: Or, 'those that use auguries,' as Lev. 19:26.
28:8a concerning: Or 'against.'
29:8a dream: Or 'cause to be dreamed.'
29:11b hope: Lit. 'a latter end and hope:' ch. 31:17.
29:26a shackles: A pillory, or neck-irons.
29:28b It: i.e. the captivity.
30:6c man: Geber: see Job 3:3.
30:11a end: See Note, ch. 4:27.
30:11b guiltless: Or 'leave thee wholly unpunished:' see ch. 25:29.
30:12c, 30:15c bruise: Lit. 'breach,' as chs. 8:21; 14:17.
30:13d medicines: Or 'there are no medicines nor healing for thee.'
30:17e bandage: Others, 'healing.'
30:18f habitations: Or 'tabernacles.'
30:18g heap: Or 'mound:' see Josh. 8:28; 11:13.
30:21h prince: Translated 'excellent,' Ps. 8:1, 9; 'mightier,' Ps. 93:4; 'noble ones,' ch. 25:34-36.
30:21i engageth: Or 'pledgeth,' as 'surety,' Gen. 44:32.
31:3a thee: Or 'I have prolonged toward thee my goodness.'
31:5b fruit: As Deut. 20:6, &c.
31:7c at: Or 'over him who is.'
31:12d, 31:14d goodness: Or 'good things,' and see Deut. 6:11.
31:20a troubled: Lit. 'sound:' see Isa. 16:11; 63:15; 'yearned,' Cant. 5:4.
31:22b man: Geber: see Job 3:3.
31:31c with: Or 'as regards.'
31:32d broke: Or 'because they broke my covenant.'
31:33e people: See Note, ch. 7:23.
31:34f neighbour: Or 'friend,' as ch. 3:1.
31:35g ordinances: Choq, as Ex. 12:24.
31:36a ordinances: Choq, as Ex. 12:24.
32:2b guard: Or 'keep;' see Neh. 3:25; 12:39.
32:3c For: Or 'where.'
32:19a mighty: Or 'abundant:' see Ps. 103:8; Isa. 63:1.
32:24b mounds: i.e. mounds cast up by the besiegers.
32:34a name: See 1Kings 8:43, and Note b.
32:40b good: Lit. 'in my doing them good.'
32:44c lowland: Shephelah: see Deut. 1:7.
32:44d south: Negeb: see ch. 13:19 and Josh. 10:40.
33:3e hidden: Lit. 'unattainable;' as 'strong,' Zech. 11:2.
33:4f mounds: As ch. 32:24.
33:5a men: The Adam, as Gen. 1:27.
33:9b glory: Or 'ornament.'
33:15c Branch: Or 'Sprout,' as ch. 23:5.
33:15d land: Or, 'upon the earth.'
33:17e, 33:18e fail: Lit. 'be cut off;' as ch. 35:19.
33:18f burn: See Notes, Lev. 1:9; 2:2.
33:18g continually: Lit. 'all the days.'
34:13a bondage: Lit. 'bondmen,' as Ex. 13:3; Judg. 6:8, &c.
34:14b himself: Or 'who hath been sold.'
35:2c Rechabites: See 2Kings 10:15; 1Chron. 2:55.
35:5a bowls: Or 'goblets.'
35:7b land: Lit. 'upon the face of the ground.'
35:19c ever: Lit. 'all the days.'
36:7a supplication: Lit. 'their supplication will fall.'
36:7b before: Lit. 'before the face of.'
36:23a columns: Or 'pages.'
36:26b Hammelech: Or 'son of the king;' one of the royal family: see ch. 38:6.
37:9a yourselves: Lit. 'your souls.'
37:12b among: Some translate 'thence to slip away through.'
37:16c dungeon: Lit. 'house of the pit,' as Ex. 12:29; or 'cistern,' Isa. 36:16: see ch. 41:9 and Gen. 37:20.
37:20d come: Lit. 'fall.'
38:6a dungeon: As ch. 37:16, and so throughout.
38:6b Hammelech: See Note, ch. 36:26.
38:7c Ethiopian: Heb. 'Cushite.'
38:22a friends: As ch. 20:10, and Ps. 41:9.
38:22b back: Or 'thy friends have withdrawn from thee.'
38:23c burned: Lit. 'thou shalt burn.'
39:1d *: To ver. 10, compare ch. 52:4-16, and 2Kings 25:1-12.
39:3e chamberlain: Or 'chief of the eunuchs.'
39:4a plain: The Arabah: Josh. 3:16.
39:7b brass: As 2Kings 25:7.
39:12c eye: Strictly, 'set thine eyes.'
40:5a answer: Or 'returned.'
40:5b provisions: Or 'rations.' As 'allowance,' ch. 52:34; 2Kings 25:30.
40:7c fields: Or 'open country,' so ver. 13.
41:7a, 41:9a pit: As ch. 37:16.
41:9b of: Or 'because of.'
41:17a Geruth-Chimham: Or 'in the caravanserai (i.e. inn) of Chimham.'
42:2b come: Lit. 'fall.'
42:20a souls: Or 'led astray your own souls.'
43:9a Jews: Lit. 'men (Enosh), Jews.'
43:13b pillars: Or 'obelisks.'
43:13c Beth-shemesh: Meaning, 'House (or Temple) of the sun;' hence called by the Greeks Heliopolis. The Egyptian name is On (Gen. 41:45).
44:1d Noph: See ch. 2:16.
44:9e wickedness: Lit. 'wickednesses,' in all this verse.
44:21a burned: See 2Chron. 28:3; 29:11.
44:28a company: See Note, Deut. 4:27.
46:5a side: See ch. 6:25.
46:9b Phut: Ethiopia and Libya.
46:9c Ludim: Lydians of Africa.
46:19d ruined: Or 'burnt up,' as ch. 2:15.
46:25e Amon: An Egyptian idol.
46:25f No: Thebes.
46:28a end: Or 'make a consumption,' see Note, ch. 4:27.
46:28b guiltless: See ch. 30:11.
47:3c steeds: Lit. 'strong ones:' see ch. 8:16.
47:4d waste: Or 'spoil,' as elsewhere.
47:4e island: Or 'sea-coast:' see Amos 9:7.
48:1f Misgab: Or 'the fortress.'
48:2g praise: Or 'exultation.'
48:2h devised: A play on words: B'Heshbon hashbu.
48:4i ones: See ch. 14:3.
48:6k shrub: Or 'a denuded person,' as ch. 17:6.
48:7l Chemosh: The Moabitish divinity.
48:8a said: Or 'for Jehovah hath spoken.'
48:17b staff: See Ezek. 19:14; as Ex. 4:2.
48:18c drought: Lit. 'in thirst.'
48:20d down: Or 'dismayed.'
48:28e mouth: See Isa. 16:6-10.
48:34a Eglath-shelishijah: See Isa. 15:5.
48:39b howl: Or 'Howl.'
48:41c is: Or 'The cities are.'
48:43d snare: As Isa. 24:17.
48:45e tumult: See Num. 21:28; 24:17.
48:46f undone: Or 'hath perished:' see Num. 21:29; 'ruined,' Ex. 10:7.
49:1g Malcam: Or 'their king;' but it may be another form of Milcom, the divinity of the Ammonites: see Amos 1:15; 5:26.
49:1h heir: Elsewhere 'possessor.'
49:2i towns: Lit. 'daughters;' and so often.
49:2a him: Or 'and Israel shall inherit them that were heirs to him:' see ver. 1.
49:3b Malcam: See Note g, ver. 1.
49:5c thee: Or 'more than are about thee.'
49:12d unpunished: See chs. 25:29; 30:11.
49:15e men: 'Mankind,' the Adam.
49:28a men: Lit. 'sons.'
50:1a concerning: Or 'against.'
50:2b Bel, Merodach: A Babylonian idol.
50:2c dismayed: Or 'broken in pieces.'
50:6d mountains: Or 'caused them to go astray on the perverting mountains,' alluding to the idolatrous high places.
50:11e grass: Or 'that treadeth out the corn.'
50:12f hindmost: Or 'the last,' as Amalek was said to be 'the first:' Num. 24:20.
50:15g hand: i.e. 'hath surrendered.'
50:21a rebellion: Or 'apostasy,' Heb. Merathaim. Some take the word as a symbolic name of Babylon: see ch. 51:1, and Note.
50:21b visitation: Or 'punishment:' Heb. Pekod: see Ezek. 23:23.
50:31c, 50:32c one: Lit. 'pride,' as ch. 49:16. It is Babylon personified.
51:1a me: Lit. 'the heart of Leb-kamai,' which is perhaps enigmatical for 'the Chaldeans:' see Note, ch. 25:26.
51:2b strangers: Or 'fanners.'
51:5c forsaken: Lit. 'not in widowhood.'
51:5d land: i.e. the land of the Chaldeans.
51:8a ruined: Or 'crushed:' see ch. 8:21.
51:10b righteousness: Lit. 'our righteousnesses,' as Isa. 64:6.
51:11c take: Lit. 'fill' (i.e. with arm, or body); as 'provideth,' 2Sam. 23:7.
51:14d himself: Lit. 'by his soul.'
51:15e *: Cf. vers. 15-19 with ch. 10:12-16.
51:18f delusion: Or 'mockery:' see ch 10:15.
51:19g rod: Or 'tribe.' See ch. 10:16.
51:23a rulers: As vers. 28, 57: see Ezra 9:2.
51:25b destruction: Or 'mount of corruption:' see 2Kings 23:13.
51:26c ever: Or 'perpetual desolations,' as ch. 25:12.
51:27d, 51:28d prepare: Lit. 'hallow:' see ch. 6:4.
51:36e sea: i.e. the Euphrates: see Isa. 19:5.
51:41f Sheshach: See Note, ch. 25:26.
51:46a earth: Or 'in the land.'
51:51b into: Or 'against.'
51:55c their: i.e. of the invaders.
51:56d �God: El, only twice in Jeremiah, here, and ch. 32:18; once in Lam., ch. 3:41.
51:58e bare: Or 'undermined.'
51:58f nations: Leummim, Ps. 2:1.
51:62a ever: As ver. 26.
52:1b *: See 2Kings 24:18-20.
52:4c *: Compare ch. 39:1-10 and 2Kings 25:1, et seq.
52:4d turrets: Or 'watch-towers.'
52:11e brass: Or 'with double chains of bronze:' see ch. 39:7.
52:18a, 52:19a bowls: Or 'basons,' see Note, 1Kings 7:40.
52:18b brass: Or 'copper.'
52:19c censers: Or 'fire-pans.'
52:20d bases: Or 'that were under the bases.'
52:23e sides: Lit. 'windwards.'
52:25f captain: Or 'scribe-in-chief.'
52:31g *: Cf. 2Kings 25:27-30.

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