COMMENTARY:
: 9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembered not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself. (6040 “affliction” [oniy] means trouble, misery, poverty, frustration, suffering, or great pains.)
DEVOTION: Jeremiah is describing what he … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. (5869 “eyes” [ayin] means sight, understanding, presence, concern, look, or part of the body.)
DEVOTION: Our God is present everywhere. Our God knows all that is going on in our life. … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 5 For Israel has not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. (488 “forsaken” [’alman] means widowed, pertaining to being forsaken by a marital partner because of death, discarded or bereaved.)
DEVOTION: This … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 6 MY people has been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place. (8582 “astray” [ta’ah] means to cause someone to wander from a proper belief or course of action, … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 4 Wherefore glory you in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me? (982 “trusted” [batach] means confidence, secure, hope, feel safe, reliance, or be unsuspecting.)
DEVOTION: There is a big difference between having confidence in God and having confidence in … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 7 For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you shall also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together. (982 “trusted” [batach] means to be confident, unsuspecting, to cause to rely, to have a strong confidence or reliance upon someone or … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. (1697 “word” [dabar] means acts, chronicles, saying, utterance, or a communication that is most often spoken, but can come through other means.)
DEVOTION: God does speak to HIS people Israel throughout their … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that HE may avenge HIM of HIS adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying (5612 “book” [cepher] means letter, scroll, writing, composition contained in a scroll, … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 4 Howbeit I sent unto you all MY servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate. (8130 “hate” [sane’] means to dislike intensely, decrease in status, feel an aversion toward, unwilling to put up with, abhor, detest, loathe, or be an enemy.)… Read More