“ Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. ”
There is no resistance on Jeremiah’s part, but he shrinks back alarmed. I cannot speak - i. e., “I cannot prophesy,” I have not those powers of oratory necessary for success. The prophets of Is...
Then said I, (i) Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I [am] a child. (i) Considering the great judgments of God which according to his threatening would come on the world, he was moved with a...
The Prophet's Call. The account of this should be compared with similar accounts of the calls of other prophets (see Isaiah 6, Ezekiel 1:1 to Ezekiel 3:3 ; Amos 7:12 ff.) and the characteristi...
Lord GOD. Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. See App-4. behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6. I cannot speak, &c. Reference to Pentateuch ( Exodus 4:10 ). App-92. This is true of all God's me...
After having spoken of his call, the Prophet adds, that he at first refused his office, and he states this for two reasons; first, that he might clear himself from every suspicion of rashness,...
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. I cannot speak - Being very young, and wholly inexperienced, I am utterly incapable of conceiving aright, or of clothing these D...
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. Child - the same word is translated "young man," 2 Samuel 18:5 . From the long duration of his office, from Josiah's time...
The Call of Jeremiah (13th year of Josiah). First Prophecy 1-3. See Introduction.
Ah, Lord God! — Better, Alas, O Lord Jehovah! as answering to the Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. I cannot speak. — In the same sense as the “I am not eloquent” of Moses ( Exodus 4:10 ), literally, “a...
CHAPTER I THE CALL AND CONSECRATION IN the foregoing pages we have considered the principal events in the life of the prophet Jeremiah, by way of introduction to the more detailed study of his wr...
Courage Promised to a Fearful Messenger Jeremiah 1:1-19 God has a distinct purpose for each life, and our one aim should be to discover and work out His plan. See Psalms 139:16 ; Galatians 1:...
The first three verses constitute a title page naming the author and giving the dates of the period during which he exercised his ministry. The Book opens with the account of Jeremiah's call, and at...
Reader! do not fail to remark, how humbling grace is in the soul. Before the Prophet was conscious of the work wrought in him, the blessed effects were made to appear, in a lowliness suited to the me...
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! .... The word אהה, "Ah", or "Ahah", is used in distress and grief, as Kimchi observes; and is expressive of mourning and complaint, as Jarchi notes; and shows that the pro...
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I [am] a child. Ver. 6. Then said I, Ah, Lord God! ] Verbum angustiae. The old Latin hath it A, A, A, whereby is noted, say some, a threefo...
Then said I, Ah, Lord God , &c. He modestly excuses himself from a consideration of the weight of the work, and the tenderness of his age, as in the next expression. Behold, I cannot speak; for...
Jeremiah's Call to the Prophetic Office. B. C. 629. 4 Then the word of the L ORD came...
Ah! an introductory interjection, making way for his excuse in a way of grief and complaint, endeavouring with all reverence to clear himself of undertaking such a work rashly, it being properly th...
Jeremiah's Initial Call ( Jeremiah 1:4-10 ). YHWH's initial call assures Jeremiah that he had been chosen even before he was born, that he need not be afraid that he was still young and immature (...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology. Jeremiah 1:1-3 , penned cir. B.C. 578; Jeremiah 1:4 , sq. B.C. 629. But the recently discovered Assyrian chronology would make the date of the...
Jeremiah 1:1-13 I. ( Jeremiah 1:4 ). The two great blessings of election and mediation are here distinctly taught. God did not speak to the nations directly, but mediationally. He created a mini...
Jeremiah 1:1-3 . The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king...
Jeremiah 1:5 . Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee. In the creation God knew the nature and designations of every creature, whether of plants, or of living beings. He assigned laws and a...
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee. Seven points in Jeremiah’s life and call:-- 1. God knowing him. “I knew thee.” 2. God sanctifying him. “I sanctified thee.” 3. God ordaining...
EXPOSITION AN ACCOUNT OF THE CALL AND CONSECRATION OF JEREMIAH TO THE PROPHETIC OFFICE , FOLLOWED BY TWO EXPRESSIVE SYMBOLS OF THE MATTERS WHICH HE...
The Call and Commission of the Prophet
1 Kings 3:7-9 ; Exodus 4:1 ; Exodus 4:10-16 ; Exodus 6:12 ; Exodus 6:30 ; Isaiah 6:5 ; Jeremiah 14:13 ; Jeremiah 32:17 ; Jeremiah 4:10
Jeremiah, the Wailing Prophet Jeremiah 1:1-10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The ten tribes of Israel had passed into captivity before God called Jeremiah. Judah was following hard in the path of her sist...