Jeremiah 9:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. ”

Jeremiah 9:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins. Jeremiah 9:2 The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared his daily striving, and in some lone wilderness give way to his sor...
Jeremiah 9:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

O that I had in the wilderness a (b) lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [are] all (c) adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. (b) He shows t...
Jeremiah 9:2 - 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 9:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here the Prophet entertains another wish: He had before wished that his head were waters, that he might shed tears, and he had wished his eyes to be the fountains of tears; but now, after havin...
Jeremiah 9:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. O that I had in the wil...
Jeremiah 9:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

A lodging-place of wayfaring men— Travellers in the East are not, nor ever were, accommodated at inns on the road, after the manner of the European nations. In some places, indeed, there are large...
Jeremiah 9:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. Lodging place - a...
Jeremiah 9:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom.
Jeremiah 9:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Oh, that I had...! — Literally, as before, Who will give ... ? A lodging place of wayfaring men. — i.e., a place of shelter, a khan or caravanserai, such as were built for travellers, such...
Jeremiah 9:2 - 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 9:2 - 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...
Jeremiah 9:2 - 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 9:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

How blessed is it to behold faithful ministers, who enter into a deep concern for their people. What a beautiful portrait is here undesignedly drawn of Jeremiah. How endeared is that servant of the L...
Jeremiah 9:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men ,.... Such as travellers take up with in a desert, when they are benighted, and cannot reach a town or village. This the prophet chos...
Jeremiah 9:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. Ver. 2. Oh that I ha...
Jeremiah 9:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

O that I had in the wilderness , &c. The prophet here wishes that he had a lodging-place, or tent, such as travellers in this country were wont to lodge in when they travelled over the deserts,...
Jeremiah 9:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet's Lamentation; Wickedness of Judah. B. C. 606. 1 Oh that my head were waters...
Jeremiah 9:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He proceeds in his lamentation, which in the former verse he did, by way of compassion, in this in a way of indignation, Wishing for some retiring place, or sorry shed, or night cottage; See Poole o...
Jeremiah 9:2 - 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 9:2 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 9:1 . Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, then, I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Matthew Henry well observes that, in th...
Jeremiah 9:2 - 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 9:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Oh that my head were waters. Christian anguish over spiritual desolation There is a solemn beauty in Jeremiah’s devotion to the welfare of his fellow countrymen. Blinded as they were by sin, th...
Jeremiah 9:2 - 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 9:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Deceit of the People
Jeremiah 9:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 22:10 ; Ezekiel 22:11 ; Hosea 4:2 ; Hosea 5:7 ; Hosea 6:7 ; Hosea 7:4 ; James 4:4 ; Jeremiah 12:1 ; Jeremiah 12:6 ; Jeremiah 23:10 ; Jeremiah 5:7 ; Jeremiah 5:8 ; Malachi 2:11 ;...
Jeremiah 9:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A lodging place — Some retiring place, though it were but some mean hut in the wilderness.

Jeremiah 9:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 9:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 9:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 9:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jeremiah 9:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 9:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 9:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 9:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 9:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 9:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 9:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 9:2 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 9:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 9:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 9:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 9:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 9:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 9:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes