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**sin.** Hebrew. *chata'.* App-44 .
**your.** One MS. (Harley, 5720, British Museum), quotes other MSS. as reading "their" (vol, 240b). So in two early printed editions, Syriac, and Vulgate.

**children** = sons.
**groves** *= Asherim* (plural) See App-42 .
**the green trees.** Some codices, with Aram, and Syriac, read "by every green tree".
**upon.** Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, and Syriac, read "and upon".

**mountain in the field.** Figure of speech *Periphrasis* , put for Jerusalem. Compare "rock of the plain" ([Jeremiah 21:13](../../../kjv/jeremiah/21/13) ).
**I will give.** By Figure of speech *Hyperbaton* , these words come at the end of the sentence, to call attention to them.
**for sin** = in sin: i.e. as a punishment for sin.

**kindled a fire.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 32:22](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/22) ). Compare [Jeremiah 15:14](../../../kjv/jeremiah/15/14) .
**burn.** Compare [Isaiah 33:14](../../../kjv/isaiah/33/14) .
**for ever.** Hebrew. *'olam.* See App-150 .

**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**Cursed, &c.** Note the *Alternation* above.
**the man** = strong man. Hebrew. *geber.* App-14 .
**trusteth** = conndeth. Heb *batah.* App-69 .

**in.** Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read this word "in" in the text.

**hope** = confidence. Hebrew. *batah,* as in the preceding line. Not the same word as in verses: [Jeremiah 17:13](../../../kjv/jeremiah/17/13) , [Jeremiah 17:17](../../../kjv/jeremiah/17/17) .

**as a tree.** Reference to an earlier book ([Psalms 1:1-3](../../../kjv/psalms/1/1-3) ).
**river** = stream. Hebrew. *yubal* , from *yabal* , to flow.

**deceitful** = crooked. Referring to the old nature of the natural man. desperately wicked = sick unto death = it [is] sick unto death: i.e. it [is] incurable.
**who can know it?** Figure of speech *Erotesis* , for emphasis.

**I the LORD.** Quoted in [Romans 8:27](../../../kjv/romans/8/27) . [Revelation 2:23](../../../kjv/revelation/2/23) .
**heart.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), for the mind, or intellect.
**reins.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), for the thoughts, or affections.
**even to give** = giving. But some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint reads, "to give", or "that He may give", and Vulgate, "who gives".
**man.** Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 .
**ways.** Hebrew text reads "way" (singular); but some codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Hebrew text margin, read "ways" (plural)
**and.** Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read this "and" in the text.
**fruit of his doings.** Compare [Jeremiah 6:19](../../../kjv/jeremiah/6/19) ; [Jeremiah 32:19](../../../kjv/jeremiah/32/19) .

**days** = day. But some codices, with one early printed edition, read "days", as Authorized Version. Compare [Luke 12:20](../../../kjv/luke/12/20) .

**the Hope of Israel.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), for Jehovah, in Whom Israel hoped.

**Thou art my praise.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 10:21](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/10/21) ).

**Behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.*
**Where . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.*

**woeful.** Same word as "desperately wicked" (in [Jeremiah 17:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/17/9) ) = incurable.
**right.** Omit.

**Be not a terror.** Compare [Jeremiah 1:17](../../../kjv/jeremiah/1/17) .
**evil** = calamity. Hebrew. *ra'a'.* App-44 .

**double.** Compare [Jeremiah 16:18](../../../kjv/jeremiah/16/18) , and see note on [Isaiah 40:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/40/2) .

**the gate, &c.** Probably the main entrance to the Courts of the Temple. See plan, App-68 .

**yourselves** = your souls. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .
**bear no burden.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 20:8](../../../kjv/exodus/20/8) ; [Exodus 23:12](../../../kjv/exodus/23/12) ; [Exodus 31:13](../../../kjv/exodus/31/13) ). Compare [Nehemiah 13:15-19](../../../kjv/nehemiah/13/15-19) .

**as** = according as.

**obeyed** = hearkened.

**horses.** Some codices read "their horses".
**men.** Hebrew. *'Ish* .

**the plain.** Called Shephelah = Philistia, between Jerusalem and the Mediterranean Sea.
**mountains** = the central land.
**the south** = the Negeb. See notes on [Genesis 12:9](../../../kjv/genesis/12/9) ; [Genesis 13:1](../../../kjv/genesis/13/1) .[Deuteronomy 1:7](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/1/7) . [Psalms 126:4](../../../kjv/psalms/126/4) .
**bringing burnt offerings, &c.** Reference to Pentateuch [Leviticus 1:1](../../../kjv/leviticus/1/1) , [Leviticus 1:2](../../../kjv/leviticus/1/2) , &c.
**meat** = meal. Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 2:1](../../../kjv/leviticus/2/1) ). App-92 .
**incense** = frankincense.

**kindle a fire, &c.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 32:22](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/22) ), App-92 . Compare [Jeremiah 21:14](../../../kjv/jeremiah/21/14) .[Lamentations 4:11](../../../kjv/lamentations/4/11) .

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