“ For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. ”
Incurable - Mortal, fatal.
Description of the people's terror ( Jeremiah 30:5 mg. ) at the Day of Yahweh ( Amos 5:18 ); but this Day shall bring deliverance from the (heathen) yoke ( Jeremiah 30:8 ), and Israel shall have (r...
The design of the Prophet is first to be noticed: he was fighting with those impostors who gave hope of a return in a short time to the people, while seventy years, as it has been said, were to...
For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. Thy bruise is incurable - אנוש anush, desperate, not incurable; for the cure is promised in Jeremiah 30:17 , I will...
Thy bruise is incurable— That is, "By all human means, and therefore I will work the greater miracle, and restore health to thee:" Jeremiah 30:17 . Houbigant renders it, Thy bruise is deadly;...
For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. Thy bruise is incurable. The desperate circumstances of the Jews are here represented as an incurable wound. Their...
1-9. When the gloom is deepest, deliverance shall come.
Thy bruise is incurable... — The mind of the prophet dwells on the seeming hopelessness, in words which sound like an echo from his Lamentations ( Jeremiah 2:13 ), in order to enhance the blessedne...
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3-8 ; Jeremiah 24:6-7 ; Jeremiah 30:1-24 ; Jeremiah 31:1-40 ; Jeremiah 33:1-26 "In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem sh...
Following this action of the prophet a word of Jehovah came to him which he was especially commanded to write in a book. In a remarkable way it first set forth two things side by side. The first and...
I stay not to detain the Reader with any observations upon this blessed passage, though in itself it would invite some of the most delightful. But the gracious things here spoken of, both in a way of...
For thus saith the Lord, thy bruise [is] incurable ,.... By themselves or others, in all human appearance; there was no help for them from men; their case seemed desperate; there was no likelihood o...
For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise [is] incurable, [and] thy wound [is] grievous. Ver. 12. Thy bruise is incurable, ] i.e., Inevitable, by God's irrevocable decree. Or, It is incurable in itse...
Thy bruise is incurable In all human appearance. The state that the Jews should be in would be so miserable that it would be incurable from any hand except that of God. There is none to plead thy...
Promises of Mercy. B. C. 594. 10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith th...
Interpreters generally understand by bruise or wound here the state that the Jews should be in the captivity of Babylon, which would be miserable, and so miserable that it would be incurable from any...
SECTION 2 ( Jeremiah 26:1 to Jeremiah 45:5 ). (continued). As we have seen this Section of Jeremiah from Jeremiah 26:1 to Jeremiah 45:5 divides up into four main subsections, which are as fo...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Chronology of the Chapter .—Though without a date, yet the probability is that it was “ written in a book ” (see Jeremiah 30:2 ) in the tenth year of Zedekiah; and th...
Jeremiah 30:1-2 . The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. We believe i...
Jeremiah 30:6 . Ask ye now whether a man doth travail with child. The anguish of a people once lords in Judea, now servants in Babylon, was great. But they were happier weeping there than worshipp...
EXPOSITION This and the three next chapters form a kind of book in themselves, which contrasts admirably with Jermiah 27-29. In the latter Jeremiah aimed at casting down the delusive hope that t...
For thus saith the Lord, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous, the stroke delivered to the Jews as a nation is mortal, the hopes which they entertained of having their exile end soon we...
2 Chronicles 36:16 ; Ezekiel 37:11 ; Isaiah 1:5 ; Isaiah 1:6 ; Jeremiah 14:17 ; Jeremiah 15:18 ; Jeremiah 30:15
For — They had sinned to that degree that God had resolved they should go into captivity.