Jeremiah 9:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. ”

• Jeremiah 9:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length. Jeremiah 9:10 The habitations i. e - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Faithlessness and its Retribution: the Dirge of Death. The humblest caravanserai would be preferable to life among these evil men, with their calumnies and the unfaithful use of power by those in a...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  I will scatter. Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 26:33 . Deuteronomy 28:64 ; Deuteronomy 28:64 ). heathen . nations.

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  As he had said that the Jews were following what theyhad received from their fathers,so he says now that God would scatter them among nations, which had been unknown to them and to their fat...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. Nor their fathers have known - allud...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom.

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Jeremiah 8:1-22 ; Jeremiah 9:1-26 ; Jeremiah 10:1-25 ; Jeremiah 26:1-24 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a finished whole. The only possible exception...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  National Perversity Jeremiah 9:1-16 Jeremiah 9:1-6 Once the voice of joy and thanksgiving had been heard in Jerusalem, but now on every side there was bloodshed, and the patriot-prophet coul...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In answer to his own question, Jeremiah sighed for some adequate means of expressing the anguish of his heart, and then for escape to some lonely place in the wilderness. All this was in the nature o...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  It is blessed to remark, that in all the Lord's chastisements, he hath one uniform object in view for their reform. All his dispensations are to bring his people back to himself. Hence the wise among...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  I will scatter them also among the Heathen ,.... Besides the bitter judgments of famine and pestilence during the siege, what remained of them should be carried captive out of their own land into fo...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. Ver. 16. And I will scatter them also amo...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  I will feed them, &c., with wormwood See on Deuteronomy 29:18 . The word rendered wormwood here, it seems, had better be rendered wolfsbane , as signifying an herb which is not only bitter...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Punishment Predicted. B. C. 606.       12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? a...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I will scatter them also among the heathen; either you shall wander up and down among strangers, like Cain's curse; or rather, you shall have no friend abroad, but be sold as so many slaves from pe...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Those Who Are Truly Wise Will Know The Truth About God And Will Thus Understand Why He Acts Like He Does In Bringing Final Judgment On Judah ( Jeremiah 9:12-26 ). The passage commences by asking w...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. For Chronology and History, see chap. 7. 1. Geographical References. Jeremiah 9:26 . “ Egypt .” sit. on N.E. angle of Africa; a vast plain; in general features it m...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Jeremiah 9:1 . Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Jeremiah foresaw that the Chaldeans woul...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jeremiah 9:2 . Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodgingplace of wayfaring men. In countries where the peasantry are very poor, travellers provide for themselves as they can. Even in Spain many of...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Because they have forsaken My law. .. give them water of gall to drink. The wages of sin A quaint preacher, addressing miners, drew a picture of two mines. He represented payday at one of the m...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Jeremiah 9:1 The Hebrew more correctly attaches this verse to Jeremiah 8:1-24 . Oh that my head were waters , etc.! A quaint conceit, it may be said. But "if we have been going...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Desolation of the Land

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 28:25 ; Deuteronomy 28:36 ; Deuteronomy 28:64 ; Deuteronomy 32:26 ; Deuteronomy 4:27 ; Ezekiel 11:17 ; Ezekiel 12:15 ; Ezekiel 14:17 ; Ezekiel 20:23 ; Ezekiel 5:12 ; Ezekiel 5:...

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• Jeremiah 9:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  A sword — But I will follow them with the sword, 'till they be destroyed, such of them as were appointed for destruction; for otherwise, they were not all consumed, a full end was not to be made.

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