Jeremiah 4:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. ”

Jeremiah 4:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In four verses each beginning with “I beheld,” the prophet sees in vision the desolate condition of Judaea during the Babylonian captivity. Jeremiah 4:23 Without form, and void - Desolate a...
Jeremiah 4:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Vision of Desolation ( Jeremiah 4:23-26 ) most impressively describes the Divine visitation of Judah. The earth becomes like the chaos before creation ( mg. ) under a sky that has lost its lamp...
Jeremiah 4:24 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah descends afterwards from heaven to mountains, and says that they trembled, and that all the hills moved or shook; some say, destroyed, but I know not for what reason, for the Prop...
Jeremiah 4:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. The mountains - hills - Princes, rulers, etc., were astonished and fled.
Jeremiah 4:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I beheld the earth, &c.— The images, under which the prophet represents the approaching desolation as foreseen by him, are such as are familiar to the Hebrew poets on the like occasions. (See L...
Jeremiah 4:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. Mountains - ( Isaiah 5:25 ). Moved lightly - shook vehemently.
Jeremiah 4:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet Sets Forth the Sin of the Nation and Points Out the Inevitable Result (Reign of Josiah, and Probably Before the Reforms of that King: cp. Jeremiah 3:6 ) This section furnishes us with...
Jeremiah 4:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The mountains, and, lo, they trembled. — The great earthquake in the days of Uzziah ( Amos 1:1 ), of which we find traces in Isaiah ( Isaiah 24:19-20 ), had probably made imagery of this kind famil...
Jeremiah 4:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 5:1-31 ; Jeremiah 6:1-30 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would understand what is written here and elsewhere in the pages of p...
Jeremiah 4:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in ext...
Jeremiah 4:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is somewhat uncommonly solemn and striking, when the Lord by his servants, as in many parts of scripture, calls upon the heavenly bodies, and the inanimate parts of nature, to lament by their a...
Jeremiah 4:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled ,.... At the presence of God, at the tokens of his displeasure, and at his awful vengeance in the destruction of the Jews, as they are sometimes said t...
Jeremiah 4:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. Ver. 24. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled. ] War is a woe that no words, how wide soever, can suffici...
Jeremiah 4:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form and void “The images under which the prophet here represents the approaching desolation, as foreseen by him, are such as are familiar to the Hebrew p...
Jeremiah 4:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Punishment Predicted. B. C. 620. 19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart...
Jeremiah 4:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He proceeds in his figurative elegancies: q.d. Behold how the mountains of Judea tremble! a like expression Psalms 18:7,8 Isa 5:25 ; as if the very senseless creatures were astonished at the great...
Jeremiah 4:24 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH Warns Judah That If They Will Not Repent For Them Too Invasion By A Fierce Adversary Is Threatening And Will Undoubtedly Come Because Of Their Sins ( Jeremiah 4:3-31 ). If Judah will not resp...
Jeremiah 4:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Chronology of the chapter, Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History as in chap. 3. 1. Geographical References. Jeremiah 4:5 . “ Defenced cit...
Jeremiah 4:24 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 4:1-2 . If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The L...
Jeremiah 4:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 4:3 . Break up your fallow ground. Hebrews ניר nir, novale; make new land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12 . Our old phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the...
Jeremiah 4:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

I am pained at my very heart. The prophet’s lamentations over his people’s doom I. The complaint or lamentation itself. 1. The parts affected. The soul and inward man. (1) The secrecy of...
Jeremiah 4:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Jeremiah 4:1 , Jeremiah 4:2 The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render, If thou wilt return , O Israel , saith Jehovah , wilt return unto me ; a...
Jeremiah 4:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Desolation Following the Lord's Judgment. The prophet here, in a most dramatic manner, introduces Israel as lamenting over the calamity which has struck the nation.
Jeremiah 4:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 19:11 ; Ezekiel 38:20 ; Habakkuk 3:10 ; Habakkuk 3:6 ; Isaiah 5:25 ; Jeremiah 10:10 ; Jeremiah 8:16 ; Judges 5:4 ; Judges 5:5 ; Micah 1:4 ; Nahum 1:5 ; Nahum 1:6 ; Psalms 114:4-7...
Jeremiah 4:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Trembled — He proceeds in his figurative expressions. Behold how the very mountains of Judea tremble! Moved — As easily as dust, or feathers in a whirl — wind.

Jeremiah 4:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:24 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 4:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 4:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 4:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 4:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 4:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 4:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 4:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 4:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 4:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 4:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 4:24 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 4:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 4:24 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 4:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 4:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 4:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 4:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 4:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 4:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes