Jeremias 9

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1 Ah, se minha cabeça se tornasse em águas, e meus olhos em um manancial de águas! Então eu choraria dia e noite pelos mortos da filha de meu povo. 2 Ah, se houvesse para mim no deserto uma hospedaria para caminhantes! Então eu deixaria o meu povo, e me afastaria deles; pois todos eles são adúlteros, são um bando de traiçoeiros. 3 Eles estendem suas línguas, como se lhes fossem arcos, para atirarem mentira; e se fortaleceram na terra, mas não por meio da verdade; porque se avançam de mal em mal, e não me conhecem, diz o SENHOR. 4 Guardai-vos cada um de seu amigo, nem em irmão algum tende confiança: porque todo irmão só faz enganar, e todo amigo anda com falsidades. 5 E cada um engana a seu amigo, e não falam a verdade; ensinaram sua língua a falar mentira, e agem perversamente até se cansarem. 6 Tua habitação é em meio ao engano; por meio do engano se negam a me conhecer,diz o SENHOR. 7 Portanto assim diz o SENHOR dos exércitos: Eis que que eu os fundirei, e os provarei; pois de que outra maneira agiria eu com a filha de meu povo? 8 A língua deles é uma flecha mortífera, que fala engano; com sua boca fala paz com seu próximo, mas em seu interior lhe arma ciladas. 9 Por acaso eu não os puniria por estas coisas? Diz o SENHOR. Por acaso minha alma não se vingaria de tal nação? 10 Sobre os montes levantarei choro e pranto, e lamentação as moradas do deserto; porque foram desoladas até não haver quem por ali passe, nem ali se ouve bramido de gado; desde as aves do céu e até os animais da terra fugiram, e foram embora. 11 E tornarei Jerusalém em amontoados de pedras,para morada de chacais; e tornarei as cidades de Judá em ruínas, de modo que não haja morador. 12 Quem é homem sábio, que entenda isto? E a quem falou a boca do SENHOR, para que possa anunciá-lo? Por que razão a terra pereceu, queimada como deserto, de modo que não há quem nela passe? 13 E disse o SENHOR: Foi porque abandonaram minha lei, que dei diante deles, nem deram ouvidos a minha voz, nem caminharam conforme a ela; 14 Ao invés disso, eles seguiram atrás da teimosia de seu coração, e atrás dos Baalins, que seus pais lhes ensinaram. 15 Por isso assim diz o SENHOR dos exércitos, Deus de Israel: Eis que a este povo eu lhes darei de comer absinto, e lhes darei de beber água de fel. 16 E os espalharei entre nações que nem eles, nem seus pais conheceram; e mandarei espada atrás deles, até que eu os acabe. 17 Assim diz o SENHOR dos exércitos: Considerai, e chamai carpideiras, que venham; e enviai as mais hábeis, que venham: 18 E se apressem, e levantem pranto sobre nós, e desfaçam-se nossos olhos em lágrimas, e nossas pálpebras se destilem em águas. 19 Porque uma voz de pranto foi ouvida de Sião: Como fomos destruídos! Nós nos tornamos muito envergonhados, por termos deixado a terra, por nossas moradas terem sido arruinadas. 20 Ouvi pois, vós mulheres, a palavra do SENHOR, e vossos ouvidos recebam a palavra de sua boca; e ensinai pranto a vossas filhas, e cada uma lamentação a sua companheira. 21 Porque a morte subiu a nossas janelas, e entrou em nossos palácios; para arrancar os meninos das ruas, os rapazes das praças. 22 Fala: Assim disse o SENHOR: Os cadáveres dos homens cairão como esterco sobre a face do campo, e como espigas de cereal atrás do ceifeiro, que não há quem as recolha. 23 Assim diz o SENHOR: Não se orgulhe o sábio em sua sabedoria, nem o valente se orgulhe em sua valentia, nem o rico se orgulhe em suas riquezas. 24 Mas aquele que se orgulhar, orgulhe-se nisto: em me entender e me conhecer, que eu sou o SENHOR, que faço bondade, juízo, e justiça na terra; porque destas coisas eu me agrado,diz o SENHOR. 25 Eis que vêm dias, diz o SENHOR, em que castigarei todo circunciso e todo incircunciso: 26 A Egito, a Judá, a Edom, aos filhos de Amom e de Moabe, e a todos os dos cantos mais distantes, que moram no deserto; pois todas as nações são incircuncisas; mas toda a casa de Israel é incircuncisa no coração.

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Jeremias 9:1

Jr 9:1-26. Jeremiah's Lamentation for the Jews' Sins and Consequent Punishment.

1. This verse is more fitly joined to the last chapter, as verse 23 in the Hebrew (compare Is 22:4; La 2:11; 3:48).

Jeremias 9:2

2. lodging-place--a caravanseral for caravans, or companies travelling in the desert, remote from towns. It was a square building enclosing an open court. Though a lonely and often filthy dwelling, Jeremiah would prefer even it to the comforts of Jerusalem, so as to be removed from the pollutions of the capital (Psa 55:7, 8).

Jeremias 9:3

3. bend ... tongues ... for lies--that is, with lies as their arrows; they direct lies on their tongue as their bow (Psa 64:3, 4).

not valiant for ... truth--(Jr 7:28). Maurer translates, "They do not prevail by truth" or faith (Psa 12:4). Their tongue, not faith, is their weapon.

upon ... earth--rather, "in the land."

know not me--(Ho 4:1).

Jeremias 9:4

4. supplant--literally, "trip up by the heel" (Ho 12:3).

walk with slanders--(Jr 6:28).

Jeremias 9:5

5. weary themselves--are at laborious pains to act perversely [Maurer]. Sin is a hard bondage (Ha 2:13).

Jeremias 9:6

6. Thine--God addresses Jeremiah, who dwelt in the midst of deceitful men.

refuse to know me--Their ignorance of God is wilful (Jr 9:3; 5:4, 5).

Jeremias 9:7

7. melt ... try them--by sending calamities on them.

for how shall I do--"What else can I do for the sake of the daughter of My people?" [Maurer], (Is 1:25; Mal 3:3).

Jeremias 9:8

8. tongue ... arrow shot out--rather, "a murdering arrow" [Maurer] (Jr 9:3).

speaketh peaceably ... in heart ... layeth ... wait--layeth his ambush [Henderson], (Psa 55:21).

Jeremias 9:10

10. Jeremiah breaks in upon Jehovah's threats of wrath with lamentation for his desolated country.

mountains--once cultivated and fruitful: the hillsides were cultivated in terraces between the rocks.

habitations of ... wilderness--rather, "the pleasant herbage (literally, 'the choice parts' of any thing) of the pasture plain." The Hebrew for "wilderness" expresses not a barren desert, but an untilled plain, fit for pasture.

burned up--because no one waters them, the inhabitants being all gone.

none can pass through them--much less inhabit them.

fowl--(Jr 4:25).

Jeremias 9:11

11. And--omit "And." Jehovah here resumes His speech from Jr 9:9.

heaps--(see on Is 25:2).

dragons--jackals.

Jeremias 9:12

12. Rather, "Who is a wise man? (that is, Whosoever has inspired wisdom, 2Pe 3:15); let him understand this (weigh well the evils impending, and the causes of their being sent); and he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken (that is, whosoever is prophetically inspired), let him declare it to his fellow countrymen," if haply they may be roused to repentance, the only hope of safety.

Jeremias 9:13

13. Answer to the "for what the land perisheth" (Jr 9:12).

Jeremias 9:14

14. (Jr 7:24).

Baalim--plural of Baal, to express his supposed manifold powers.

fathers taught them--(Ga 1:14; 1Pe 1:18). We are not to follow the errors of the fathers, but the authority of Scripture and of God [Jerome].

Jeremias 9:16

16. nor their fathers have known--alluding to Jr 9:14, "Their fathers taught them" idolatry; therefore the children shall be scattered to a land which neither their fathers nor they have known.

send a sword after them--Not even in flight shall they be safe.

Jeremias 9:17

17. mourning women--hired to heighten lamentation by plaintive cries baring the breast, beating the arms, and suffering the hair to flow dishevelled (2Ch 35:25; Ec 12:5; Mt 9:23).

cunning--skilled in wailing.

Jeremias 9:19

19. The cry of "the mourning women."

spoiled--laid waste.

dwellings cast us out--fulfilling Le 18:28; 20:22. Calvin translates, "The enemy have cast down our habitations."

Jeremias 9:20

20. Yet--rather, "Only" [Henderson]. This particle calls attention to what follows.

teach ... daughters wailing--The deaths will be so many that there will be a lack of mourning women to bewail them. The mothers, therefore, must teach their daughters the science to supply the want.

Jeremias 9:21

21. death ... windows--The death-inflicting soldiery, finding the doors closed, burst in by the windows.

to cut off ... children from ... streets--Death cannot be said to enter the windows to cut off the children in the streets, but to cut them off, so as no more to play in the streets without (Zec 8:5).

Jeremias 9:22

22. saith the Lord--continuing the thread of discourse from Jr 9:20.

dung--(Jr 8:2).

handful ... none ... gather them--implying that the handful has been so trodden as to be not worth even the poor gleaner's effort to gather it. Or the Eastern custom may be referred to: the reaper cuts the grain and is followed by another who gathers it. This grain shall not be worth gathering. How galling to the pride of the Jews to hear that so shall their carcasses be trodden contemptuously under foot!

Jeremias 9:23

23. wisdom--political sagacity; as if it could rescue from the impending calamities.

might--military prowess.

Jeremias 9:24

24. Nothing but an experimental knowledge of God will save the nation.

understandeth--theoretically; in the intellect.

knoweth--practically: so as to walk in My ways (Jr 22:16; Job 22:21; 1Co 1:31).

loving kindness--God's mercy is put in the first and highest place, because without it we should flee from God in fear and despair.

judgment ... righteousness--loving-kindness towards the godly; judgment towards the ungodly; righteousness the most perfect fairness in all cases [Grotius]. Faithfulness to His promises to preserve the godly, as well as stern execution of judgment on the ungodly, is included in "righteousness."

in the earth--contrary to the dogma of some philosophers, that God does not interfere in terrestrial concerns (Psa 58:11).

in these ... I delight--as well in doing them as in seeing them done by others (Mi 6:8; 7:18).

Jeremias 9:25

25. with the uncircumcised--rather, "all that are circumcised in uncircumcision" [Henderson]. The Hebrew is an abstract term, not a concrete, as English Version translates, and as the pious "circumcised" is. The nations specified, Egypt, Judah, &c., were outwardly "circumcised," but in heart were "uncircumcised." The heathen nations were defiled, in spite of their literal circumcision, by idolatry. The Jews, with all their glorying in their spiritual privileges, were no better (Jr 4:4; De 10:16; 30:6; Ro 2:28, 29; Col 2:11). However, Eze 31:18; 32:19, may imply that the Egyptians were uncircumcised; and it is uncertain as to the other nations specified whether they were at that early time circumcised. Herodotus says the Egyptians were so; but others think this applies only to the priests and others having a sacred character, not to the mass of the nation; so English Version may be right (Ro 2:28, 29).

Jeremias 9:26

26. Egypt--put first to degrade Judah, who, though in privileges above the Gentiles, by unfaithfulness sank below them. Egypt, too, was the power in which the Jews were so prone to trust, and by whose instigation they, as well as the other peoples specified, revolted from Babylon.

in the utmost corners--rather, "having the hair shaven (or clipped) in angles," that is, having the beard on the cheek narrowed or cut: a Canaanitish custom, forbidden to the Israelites (Le 19:27; 21:5). The Arabs are hereby referred to (compare Jr 25:23; 49:32), as the words in apposition show, "that dwell in the wilderness."

uncircumcised ... uncircumcised in the heart--The addition of "in the heart" in Israel's case marks its greater guilt in proportion to its greater privileges, as compared with the rest.

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