Jeremiah 1:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. ”

• Jeremiah 1:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Touched - “ Made it touch.” This was the symbol of the bestowal of divine grace and help, by which that want of eloquence, which the prophet had pleaded as a disqualification, was removed.

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Then the LORD put forth his hand, and (k) touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. (k) Which declares that God makes them meet and assures them, whom he c...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  hand... touched. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia . Compare Isaiah ( Isaiah 6:6 ; Isaiah 6:7 ); Ezekiel ( Ezekiel 2:8 ; Ezekiel 2:9 ); Daniel (Can. Jeremiah 10:16 ). I have put My words, &amp...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Here Jeremiah speaks again of his calling, that his doctrine might not be despised, as though it proceeded from a private individual. He, therefore, testifies again, that he came not of himself...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. Touched my mouth - a symbolical act in supernatural vision, implyi...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Call of Jeremiah (13th year of Josiah). First Prophecy 1-3. See Introduction.

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The Lord put forth his hand... — The symbolic act seems to imply something like a waking vision, like that of Isaiah ( Isaiah 6:6 ), and the act itself reminds us of the “live coal” laid upon the p...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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:...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then the Lord put forth his hand ,.... Who, according to Kimchi, was the Angel that appeared to the prophet, and spoke in the name of the Lord to him, and is called by his name; but rather it was th...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. Ver. 9. Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth. ] This...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth This appeared to the prophet to be done in his vision; whereby he was taught that the divine help should go along with him, that the gift of u...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Jeremiah's Call to the Prophetic Office. B. C. 629.       4 Then the word of the L ORD came...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Then the Lord put forth his hand: God having before excited the prophet to his work by command and promise, doth now in a vision establish and confirm him, either by the hand of an angel, Isaiah...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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 (...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  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...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION AN ACCOUNT OF THE CALL AND CONSECRATION OF JEREMIAH TO THE PROPHETIC OFFICE , FOLLOWED BY TWO EXPRESSIVE SYMBOLS OF THE MATTERS WHICH HE...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Call and Commission of the Prophet

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 4:11 ; Exodus 4:12 ; Exodus 4:15 ; Exodus 4:16 ; Ezekiel 3:10 ; Isaiah 49:2 ; Isaiah 50:4 ; Isaiah 51:16 ; Isaiah 6:6 ; Isaiah 6:7 ; Jeremiah 5:14 ; Luke 12:12 ; Luke 21:15 ; Mat...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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...

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• Jeremiah 1:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Then — God having excited the prophet by command and promise, now in a vision confirms him, either by the hand of an angel, or by himself in some visible shape.

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