Jeremiah 9:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. ”

Jeremiah 9:18 - 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...
Jeremiah 9:18 - 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...
Jeremiah 9:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Let them, he says, take up for us a wailing, and let our eyes come down to tears, and let our eyelids flow down into waters These are hyperbolical words, and yet they do not exceed the int...
Jeremiah 9:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah 9:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. That our eyes may run down with tears ... - ( Jeremiah 14:1...
Jeremiah 9:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom.
Jeremiah 9:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Take up a wailing for us. — There is in all such figures of speech an inevitable blending of metaphors. The mourners wail for the dead nation, and yet the members of the nation are sharers in the o...
Jeremiah 9:18 - 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...
Jeremiah 9:18 - 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...
Jeremiah 9:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Perhaps these mourning women means true weepers, and the cunning women those which were counterfeit. And the counterfeit would have found cause to change their cries into real sorrow, had they forese...
Jeremiah 9:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us ,.... Deliver out a mournful song, as the Arabic version; setting forth their miseries and distresses, and affecting their minds with them. The...
Jeremiah 9:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. Ver. 18. And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us...
Jeremiah 9:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Punishment Predicted. B. C. 606. 12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? a...
Jeremiah 9:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Let them make haste: as by the calling for their artificial mourners he did intimate the greatness of the misery that was coming upon them, that with all, their art they could not sufficiently bewa...
Jeremiah 9:18 - 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...
Jeremiah 9:18 - 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...
Jeremiah 9:18 - 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...
Jeremiah 9:18 - 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...
Jeremiah 9:18 - 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...
Jeremiah 9:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Desolation of the Land
Jeremiah 9:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 22:4 ; Jeremiah 13:17 ; Jeremiah 14:17 ; Jeremiah 6:26 ; Jeremiah 9:1 ; Jeremiah 9:10 ; Jeremiah 9:20 ; Lamentations 1:2 ; Lamentations 2:11 ; Lamentations 2:18 ; Luke 19:41

Jeremiah 9:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 9:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 9:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 9:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 9:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 9:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 9:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 9:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 9:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 9:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 9:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 9:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge