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<p id="Chapter9" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 9
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<p id="Jer9_1"><a onclick="return mV('Jer',9,'1-26');">Jer 9:1-26</a>. JEREMIAH'S LAMENTATION FOR THE JEWS' SINS AND CONSEQUENT PUNISHMENT.
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<p><b>1.</b> This verse is more fitly joined to the last chapter, as <a onclick="return mV('Jer',9,23);">Jer 9:23</a> in the <i>Hebrew</i> (compare <a onclick="return mV('Isa',22,4);">Isa 22:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Lam',2,11);">Lam 2:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Lam',3,48);">3:48</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_2"><b>2. lodging-place</b>—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 (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',55,7,8);">Psa 55:7-8</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_3"><b>3. bend...tongues...for lies</b>—that is, with lies as their arrows; they direct lies on their tongue as their bow (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',64,3,4);">Psa 64:3-4</a>).
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<br><br><b>not valiant for...truth</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,28);">Jer 7:28</a>). MAURER translates, "They do not <i>prevail by</i> truth" or <i>faith</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',12,4);">Psa 12:4</a>). Their <i>tongue,</i> not <i>faith,</i> is their weapon.
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<br><br><b>upon...earth</b>—rather, "in the land."
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<br><br><b>know not me</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',4,1);">Hsa 4:1</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_4"><b>4. supplant</b>—literally, "trip up by the heel" (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',12,3);">Hsa 12:3</a>).
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<br><br><b>walk with slanders</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',6,28);">Jer 6:28</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_5"><b>5. weary themselves</b>—<i>are at laborious pains</i> to act perversely [MAURER]. Sin is a hard bondage (<a onclick="return mV('Hab',2,13);">Hab 2:13</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_6"><b>6. Thine</b>—God addresses Jeremiah, who dwelt in the midst of deceitful men.
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<br><br><b>refuse to know me</b>—Their ignorance of God is wilful (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',9,3);">Jer 9:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',5,4,5);">5:4-5</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_7"><b>7. melt...try them</b>—by sending calamities on them.
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<br><br><b>for how shall I do</b>—"What <i>else</i> can I do for the sake of the daughter of My people?" [MAURER], (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',1,25);">Isa 1:25</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mal',3,3);">Mal 3:3</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_8"><b>8. tongue...arrow shot out</b>—rather, "a <i>murdering</i> arrow" [MAURER] (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',9,3);">Jer 9:3</a>).
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<br><br><b>speaketh peaceably...in heart...layeth ...wait</b>—layeth his ambush [HENDERSON], (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',55,21);">Psa 55:21</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_9"><b>9.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',5,9,29);">Jer 5:9, 29</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_10"><b>10.</b> Jeremiah breaks in upon Jehovah's threats of wrath with lamentation for his desolated country.
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<br><br><b>mountains</b>—once cultivated and fruitful: the hillsides were cultivated in terraces between the rocks.
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<br><br><b>habitations of...wilderness</b>—rather, "the pleasant herbage (literally, 'the choice parts' of any thing) of the pasture plain." The <i>Hebrew</i> for "wilderness" expresses not a barren desert, but an untilled plain, fit for pasture.
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<br><br><b>burned up</b>—because no one waters them, the inhabitants being all gone.
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<br><br><b>none can pass through them</b>—much less <i>inhabit</i> them.
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<br><br><b>fowl</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',4,25);">Jer 4:25</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_11"><b>11. And</b>—omit "And." Jehovah here resumes His speech from <a onclick="return mV('Jer',9,9);">Jer 9:9</a>.
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<br><br><b>heaps</b>—(see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Isa/Isa025.html#Isa25_2">Isa 25:2</a>).
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<br><br><b>dragons</b>—jackals.
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<p id="Jer9_12"><b>12.</b> Rather, "Who is a wise man? (that is, <i>Whosoever</i> has inspired wisdom, <a onclick="return mV('2Pe',3,15);">2Pe 3:15</a>); 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, <i>whosoever is prophetically inspired</i>), let him declare it to his fellow countrymen," if haply they may be roused to repentance, the only hope of safety.
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<p id="Jer9_13"><b>13.</b> Answer to the "for what the land perisheth" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',9,12);">Jer 9:12</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_14"><b>14.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,24);">Jer 7:24</a>).
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<br><br><b>Baalim</b>—plural of Baal, to express his supposed manifold powers.
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<br><br><b>fathers taught them</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Gal',1,14);">Gal 1:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Pe',1,18);">1Pe 1:18</a>). We are not to follow the errors of the fathers, but the authority of Scripture and of God [JEROME].
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<p id="Jer9_15"><b>15. feed</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',8,14);">Jer 8:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,15);">23:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',80,5);">Psa 80:5</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_16"><b>16. nor their fathers have known</b>—alluding to <a onclick="return mV('Jer',9,14);">Jer 9:14</a>, "Their fathers taught them" idolatry; therefore the children shall be scattered to a land which neither their fathers nor they have known.
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<br><br><b>send a sword after them</b>—Not even in flight shall they be safe.
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<p id="Jer9_17"><b>17. mourning women</b>—hired to heighten lamentation by plaintive cries baring the breast, beating the arms, and suffering the hair to flow dishevelled (<a onclick="return mV('2Ch',35,25);">2Ch 35:25</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Ecc',12,5);">Ecc 12:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',9,23);">Mat 9:23</a>).
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<br><br><b>cunning</b>—skilled in wailing.
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<p id="Jer9_18"><b>18.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',14,17);">Jer 14:17</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_19"><b>19.</b> The cry of "the mourning women."
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<br><br><b>spoiled</b>—laid waste.
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<br><br><b>dwellings cast us out</b>—fulfilling <a onclick="return mV('Lev',18,28);">Lev 18:28</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Lev',20,22);">20:22</a>. CALVIN translates, "<i>The enemy</i> have cast down our habitations."
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<p id="Jer9_20"><b>20. Yet</b>—rather, "Only" [HENDERSON]. This particle calls attention to what follows.
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<br><br><b>teach...daughters wailing</b>—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.
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<p id="Jer9_21"><b>21. death...windows</b>—The death-inflicting soldiery, finding the doors closed, burst in by the windows.
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<br><br><b>to cut off...children from...streets</b>—Death cannot be said to enter the <i>windows</i> to cut off the children <i>in</i> the streets, but to cut them off, so as no more to play in the streets without (<a onclick="return mV('Zec',8,5);">Zec 8:5</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_22"><b>22. saith the Lord</b>—continuing the thread of discourse from <a onclick="return mV('Jer',9,20);">Jer 9:20</a>.
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<br><br><b>dung</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',8,2);">Jer 8:2</a>).
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<br><br><b>handful...none...gather them</b>—implying that the handful has been so trodden as to be not worth even the poor <i>gleaner's</i> effort to gather it. Or the Eastern custom may be referred to: the reaper cuts the grain and is followed by another who <i>gathers it.</i> 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!
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<p id="Jer9_23"><b>23. wisdom</b>—political sagacity; as if <i>it</i> could rescue from the impending calamities.
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<br><br><b>might</b>—military prowess.
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<p id="Jer9_24"><b>24.</b> Nothing but an experimental knowledge of God will save the nation.
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<br><br><b>understandeth</b>—<i>theoretically;</i> in the intellect.
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<br><br><b>knoweth</b>—<i>practically:</i> so as to walk in My ways (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',22,16);">Jer 22:16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',22,21);">Job 22:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Cr',1,31);">1Cr 1:31</a>).
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<br><br><b>loving kindness</b>—God's mercy is put in the first and highest place, because without it we should flee from God in fear and despair.
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<br><br><b>judgment...righteousness</b>—<i>loving-kindness</i> towards the godly; <i>judgment</i> towards the ungodly; <i>righteousness</i> the most perfect fairness in all cases [GROTIUS]. <i>Faithfulness to His promises</i> to preserve the godly, as well as stern execution of judgment on the ungodly, is included in "righteousness."
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<br><br><b>in the earth</b>—contrary to the dogma of some philosophers, that God does not interfere in terrestrial concerns (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',58,11);">Psa 58:11</a>).
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<br><br><b>in these...I delight</b>—as well in doing them as in seeing them done by others (<a onclick="return mV('Mic',6,8);">Mic 6:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mic',7,18);">7:18</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_25"><b>25. with the uncircumcised</b>—rather, "all that are circumcised <i>in uncircumcision</i>" [HENDERSON]. The <i>Hebrew</i> is an <i>abstract</i> term, not a <i>concrete,</i> as <i>English Version</i> translates, and as the pious "circumcised" is. The nations specified, Egypt, Judah, etc., were <i>outwardly</i> "circumcised," but <i>in heart</i> 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 (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',4,4);">Jer 4:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',10,16);">Deu 10:16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',30,6);">30:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',2,28,29);">Rom 2:28-29</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Col',2,11);">Col 2:11</a>). However, <a onclick="return mV('Eze',31,18);">Eze 31:18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',32,19);">32:19</a>, 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 <i>English Version</i> may be fight (<a onclick="return mV('Rom',2,28,29);">Rom 2:28-29</a>).
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<p id="Jer9_26"><b>26. Egypt</b>—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.
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<br><br><b>in the utmost corners</b>—rather, "having the hair shaven (or <i>clipped</i>) in angles," that is, having the beard on the cheek narrowed or <i>cut:</i> a Canaanitish custom, forbidden to the Israelites (<a onclick="return mV('Lev',19,27);">Lev 19:27</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Lev',21,5);">21:5</a>). The Arabs are hereby referred to (compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',25,23);">Jer 25:23</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',49,32);">49:32</a>), as the words in apposition show, "that dwell in the wilderness."
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<br><br><b>uncircumcised...uncircumcised in the heart</b>—The addition of "in the heart" in <i>Israel's</i> case marks <i>its</i> greater guilt in proportion to its greater privileges, as compared with the rest.
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