Jeremiah 18:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. ”

• Jeremiah 18:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Hissing - Not derision, but the drawing in of the breath quickly as men do when they shudder. Way his head - Or, “shake his head,” a sign among the Jews not of scorn but of pity. The desolati...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Potter and the Clay. The potter ( Jeremiah 18:1-4 ) moulding his clay on the upper stone, which he makes revolve by his feet resting on the connected lower stone, is compared with Yahweh in His...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  hissing. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect), for the contempt felt.

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prophet again denounces the punishment which they deserved, that desolation awaited the land. It would be, he says, their reward to have the land reduced to a solitude, and also to perpet...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. A perpetual hissing - שריקות sherikoth. a shrieking, hissing; an expressi...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing - which the Lo...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1-17. Figure of the potter's clay.

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Desolate... astonished. — Better, desolate in both clauses. The Hebrew verb is the same, and there is a manifest emphasis in the repetition which it is better to reproduce in English. A perpetu...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XI THE DIVINE POTTER Jeremiah 18:1-23 JEREMIAH goes down into the Lower Town, or the valley between the upper and lower city; and there his attention is arrested by a potter sitting at...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now come to the second series of messages before the fall of Jerusalem (18-20), which consists of declarations of God's absolute supremacy. In preparation for this, Jeremiah was sent to the house...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  What a striking expostulation is in the opening of these verses? The Lord sends his people to ask of the heathen, among whom it was never known, of such apostasy from their dunghill gods, as Israel m...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  To make their land desolate ,.... Not that this was the intention either of those that led them out of the right way into those wrong paths, or of them that went into them; but so it was eventually;...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  To make their land desolate, [and] a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. Ver. 16. To make their land desolate. ] Not intentionally so; but yet...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Because my people have forgotten me The fountain of living waters; have forgotten what I am in myself, and what I have been, and am still ready to be to them; have lost their knowledge of me, and t...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  People of God Accused and Threatened; Folly of Idolatry. B. C. 600.       11 Now therefore g...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Not that this was finis operantis , their end which they aimed at, none wisheth ill or doth any thing designedly to bring evil upon himself; but it was finis operis the end these courses would cer...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Because Of Their Refusal To Respond To His ‘Shaping' He Will Now ‘Shape' Evil Against Them Unless They Now Repent. His Offer Being Turned Down God Calls On The Nations To Be Astonished Witnesses Of...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter. Early in Jehoiakim’s reign (See Chronological Note on Section 19–27 of previous chapter). Probably about two years later than that mes...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jeremiah 18:6 . As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand. The sense is given in the next words; the exaltation, or the degradation of a nation, is wholly with the Lord. If they, u...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending to Jeremiah 25:1-24 .) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not been determined by chronological consid...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Parable Further Applied

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 9:8 ; 2 Chronicles 7:20 ; 2 Chronicles 7:21 ; Deuteronomy 28:59 ; Deuteronomy 29:23 ; Ezekiel 12:19 ; Ezekiel 33:28 ; Ezekiel 33:29 ; Ezekiel 6:14 ; Isaiah 37:22 ; Isaiah 6:11 ; J...

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• Jeremiah 18:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Desolate — Not that this was the end they aimed at, but it was the end these courses would certainly issue in.

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