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**Jeremiah's Fourth Prophecy** (see Book comments for Jeremiah).
**Moreover.** [Jeremiah 2](../../../kjv/jeremiah/2) is the first chapter of the roll which was re-written after being burned ([Jeremiah 36](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36) ), while [Jeremiah 11](../../../kjv/jeremiah/11) is the first of the "many like words" ([Jeremiah 36:32](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36/32) ) added afterwards.
**word.** See note on [Jeremiah 1:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/1/1) , [Jeremiah 1:4](../../../kjv/jeremiah/1/4)
**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .

**Go and cry.** Jeremiah continued to retain his connection with Anathoth ([Jeremiah 11:21](../../../kjv/jeremiah/11/21) ; [Jeremiah 29:27](../../../kjv/jeremiah/29/27) ; [Jeremiah 32:7](../../../kjv/jeremiah/32/7) ; [Jeremiah 37:12](../../../kjv/jeremiah/37/12) ), though his mission was to Jerusalem.
**saith the LORD.** See note on [Jeremiah 1:8](../../../kjv/jeremiah/1/8) .
**I remember thee.** The expression is used *in good part* [Psalms 98:3](../../../kjv/psalms/98/3) ; [Psalms 106:45](../../../kjv/psalms/106/45) ; [Psalms 132:1](../../../kjv/psalms/132/1) .[Nehemiah 5:19](../../../kjv/nehemiah/5/19) ; [Nehemiah 13:14](../../../kjv/nehemiah/13/14) , [Nehemiah 13:22](../../../kjv/nehemiah/13/22) , [Nehemiah 13:31](../../../kjv/nehemiah/13/31) ; but *in evil part* [Psalms 79:8](../../../kjv/psalms/79/8) ; [Psalms 137:7](../../../kjv/psalms/137/7) . [Nehemiah 6:14](../../../kjv/nehemiah/6/14) ; [Nehemiah 13:29](../../../kjv/nehemiah/13/29) . Probably both senses here: the good on Jehovah's part ([Jeremiah 2:3](../../../kjv/jeremiah/2/3) .[Hosea 11:1](../../../kjv/hosea/11/1) ; [Hosea 2:19](../../../kjv/hosea/2/19) , [Hosea 2:20](../../../kjv/hosea/2/20) . [Amos 2:10](../../../kjv/amos/2/10) ); and the evil on Israel's part, for even in the wilderness Israel was unfaithful ([Amos 5:25](../../../kjv/amos/5/25) , [Amos 5:26](../../../kjv/amos/5/26) . [Acts 7:39-43](../../../kjv/acts/7/39-43) ).
**youth.** Compare [Ezekiel 16:8](../../../kjv/ezekiel/16/8) .
**when.** Compare [Jeremiah 2:6](../../../kjv/jeremiah/2/6) . Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 2:7](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/2/7) ; [Deuteronomy 8:2](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/8/2) , [Deuteronomy 8:15](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/8/15) , [Deuteronomy 8:16](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/8/16) ). Compare [Nehemiah 9:12-21](../../../kjv/nehemiah/9/12-21) .[Isaiah 63:7-14](../../../kjv/isaiah/63/7-14) .

**holiness unto the LORD.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 19:6](../../../kjv/exodus/19/6) ).
**the firstfruits, &c,** which were consecrated. Ref to Pentateuch ([Exodus 23:19](../../../kjv/exodus/23/19) . [Deuteronomy 18:4](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/18/4) ; [Deuteronomy 26:10](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/26/10) ). App-92 .
**devour** = devoured.
**offend** = be held guilty. Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 4:13](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/13) , [Leviticus 4:22](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/22) , [Leviticus 4:27](../../../kjv/leviticus/4/27) ; [Leviticus 5:2](../../../kjv/leviticus/5/2) , [Leviticus 5:3](../../../kjv/leviticus/5/3) , [Leviticus 5:4](../../../kjv/leviticus/5/4) , [Leviticus 5:5](../../../kjv/leviticus/5/5) , [Leviticus 5:17](../../../kjv/leviticus/5/17) , [Leviticus 5:19](../../../kjv/leviticus/5/19) ; [Leviticus 6:4](../../../kjv/leviticus/6/4) .[Numbers 5:6](../../../kjv/numbers/5/6) , [Numbers 5:7](../../../kjv/numbers/5/7) ). App-92 .
**evil** = calamity. Hebrew. *ra'a',* App-44 . See note on [Isaiah 45:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/45/7) .

**house of Jacob.** Occurs only here, and [Jeremiah 5:20](../../../kjv/jeremiah/5/20) , where it is "in the house of Jacob". The only other passage is [Amos 3:13](../../../kjv/amos/3/13) .
**the house of Israel.** The *Massorah* ( App-30 ), records that this expression occurs twenty times in Jeremiah (here; [Jeremiah 2:26](../../../kjv/jeremiah/2/26) ; [Jeremiah 3:18](../../../kjv/jeremiah/3/18) , [Jeremiah 3:20](../../../kjv/jeremiah/3/20) ; [Jeremiah 5:11](../../../kjv/jeremiah/5/11) , [Jeremiah 5:15](../../../kjv/jeremiah/5/15) ; [Jeremiah 9:26](../../../kjv/jeremiah/9/26) ; [Jeremiah 10:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/10/1) ; [Jeremiah 11:10](../../../kjv/jeremiah/11/10) , [Jeremiah 11:17](../../../kjv/jeremiah/11/17) ; [Jeremiah 13:11](../../../kjv/jeremiah/13/11) ; [Jeremiah 18:6](../../../kjv/jeremiah/18/6) , [Jeremiah 18:6](../../../kjv/jeremiah/18/6) ; [Jeremiah 23:8](../../../kjv/jeremiah/23/8) ; [Jeremiah 31:27](../../../kjv/jeremiah/31/27) , [Jeremiah 31:31](../../../kjv/jeremiah/31/31) , [Jeremiah 31:33](../../../kjv/jeremiah/31/33) ; [Jeremiah 33:14](../../../kjv/jeremiah/33/14) , [Jeremiah 33:17](../../../kjv/jeremiah/33/17) ; [Jeremiah 48:13](../../../kjv/jeremiah/48/13) ).

**What iniquity.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 32:4](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/4) ). App-92 .
**iniquity.** Hebrew. *'aval.* App-44 .
**fathers.** Not merely recently, but of old ([Jeremiah 2:7](../../../kjv/jeremiah/2/7) . [Judges 2:10](../../../kjv/judges/2/10) , &c).
**vanity** = the vanity. Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Ad-junct), for vain things: i.e. idols. Compare [Jeremiah 10:3-10](../../../kjv/jeremiah/10/3-10) , [Jeremiah 10:15](../../../kjv/jeremiah/10/15) ; [Jeremiah 14:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/14/22) ; [Jeremiah 16:19](../../../kjv/jeremiah/16/19) , [Jeremiah 16:20](../../../kjv/jeremiah/16/20) . [Deuteronomy 32:21](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/21) . Act 14:15 . [1 Corinthians 8:4](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/8/4) .
**become vain?** Compare [2 Kings 17:15](../../../kjv/2-kings/17/15) . Idolaters always become like the gods they worship. Compare [Psalms 115:8](../../../kjv/psalms/115/8) ; [Psalms 135:18](../../../kjv/psalms/135/18) .

**brought us up.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Numbers 13:27](../../../kjv/numbers/13/27) ; [Numbers 14:7](../../../kjv/numbers/14/7) , [Numbers 14:8](../../../kjv/numbers/14/8) . [Deuteronomy 6:10](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/6/10) , [Deuteronomy 6:11](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/6/11) , [Deuteronomy 6:18](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/6/18) ).
**led us.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 8:14-16](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/8/14-16) ; [Deuteronomy 32:10](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/10) ).
**shadow of death** = deep darkness.

**a plentiful country** = a country of garden land. Hebrew the land of a Carmel. Compare [Isaiah 33:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/33/9) ; [Isaiah 35:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/35/2) .

**they that handle the law.** The law therefore well known, and the priests known as the custodians of it. Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 10:11](../../../kjv/leviticus/10/11) .[Deuteronomy 17:11](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/17/11) ; [Deuteronomy 33:10](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/33/10) ).
**pastors** = shepherds. Used of kings and other leaders of the People. Compare [Jeremiah 17:16](../../../kjv/jeremiah/17/16) ; [Jeremiah 23:1-8](../../../kjv/jeremiah/23/1-8) .
**transgressed** = revolted. Hebrew. *pasha'* . App-44 .
**do not profit.** Figure of speech *Tapeinosis* , for emphasis = lead to ruin.

**plead** = argue, contend.
**children's children** = sons' sons.

**isles** = coastlands, or maritime countries.
**Chittim.** See note on [Numbers 24:24](../../../kjv/numbers/24/24) .
**Kedar.** In Arabia. Two names used to represent west and east outlanders.

**their glory** = His glory. This is one of the emendations of the *Sopherim* ( App-33 ), by which the Hebrew *kebodi* ("My glory") was changed to *kebodo* ("His glory"), out of a mistaken idea of reverence.

**Be astonished.** Figure of speech *Apostrophe* .
**very desolate** = dried up, or, devoid of clouds and vapours.

**fountain** = a well dug out, but having living water.
**cisterns** = a hewn cistern, holding only what it receives.
**can hold no water** = cannot hold the waters.

**servant? . . . slave?** They were treated as such by Assyria, and afterward by Egypt.
**spoiled** = become a spoil.

**Noph** = Memphis, the capital of Lower Egypt, south of Cairo. Compare [Jeremiah 41:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/41/1) .[Isaiah 19:13](../../../kjv/isaiah/19/13) .
**Tahapanes.** The Greek Daphnae, on the Pelusiac branch of the Nile. Compare [Jeremiah 43:7](../../../kjv/jeremiah/43/7) , [Jeremiah 43:11](../../../kjv/jeremiah/43/11) .

**He led thee.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 32:12](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/12) ).

**the way of Egypt.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 17:16](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/17/16) ).
**Sihor:** i.e. the Nile.
**the river:** i.e. the Euphrates.

**is not in thee** = should not have pertained to thee.

**I will not transgress.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 19:8](../../../kjv/exodus/19/8) ).
**transgress.** Hebrew. *'abar.* A Homonym. Here = serve; else where = transgress. Not the same word as in verses: Jer 8:29 .
**high hill . . . green tree.** The places where the Asherah was worshipped. App-42 .

**noble vine** = choice, or precious vine.
**strange** = foreign.

**nitre:** i.e. a mineral alkali. In Palestine a compound of soap.
**sope** = soap.
**marked** = graven.

**I have not gone.** Some codices, with four early printed editions (one in margin), Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read, "and I have not gone", &c.
**Baalim** = lords. Used here for false gods generally, including Moloch. Compare [Jeremiah 7:31](../../../kjv/jeremiah/7/31) ; [Jeremiah 19:5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/19/5) ; where Moloch is called Baal.
**traversing** = entangling.

**wind.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 .
**her pleasure** = her soul. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .

**their kings.** Showing that Judah was still in the Land, but in Jehoiakim's reign.
**their princes.** Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "and their princes", perfecting the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton* , emphasizing all classes.

**stone.** Here feminine, to agree with mother.

**where . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 32:37](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/37) , [Deuteronomy 32:38](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/38) ). App-92 .
**for, &c.** Figure of speech *Epitrope.*
**Judah.** Compare [Jeremiah 11:13](../../../kjv/jeremiah/11/13) .

**devoured your prophets.** See [1 Kings 18:4](../../../kjv/1-kings/18/4) , [1 Kings 18:13](../../../kjv/1-kings/18/13) ; 2Ki 21:16 . [2 Chronicles 24:21](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/24/21) . Compare [Matthew 23:37](../../../kjv/matthew/23/37) . [Luke 11:47](../../../kjv/luke/11/47) . [Acts 7:51](../../../kjv/acts/7/51) , [Acts 7:52](../../../kjv/acts/7/52) .

**generation.** Once a chosen generation ([Psalms 22:30](../../../kjv/psalms/22/30) ; [Psalms 24:6](../../../kjv/psalms/24/6) ; [Psalms 112:2](../../../kjv/psalms/112/2) .[Isaiah 53:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/53/8); [Isaiah 53:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/53/8) ); now a perverse generation ([Jeremiah 7:29](../../../kjv/jeremiah/7/29) . [Deuteronomy 32:5](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/5) .[Psalms 78:8](../../../kjv/psalms/78/8); [Psalms 78:8](../../../kjv/psalms/78/8) ). Compare [Matthew 3:7](../../../kjv/matthew/3/7) ; [Matthew 11:16](../../../kjv/matthew/11/16) ; [Matthew 12:34](../../../kjv/matthew/12/34) , [Matthew 12:39](../../../kjv/matthew/12/39) , [Matthew 12:41-45](../../../kjv/matthew/12/41-45) ; [Matthew 16:4](../../../kjv/matthew/16/4) ; [Matthew 17:17](../../../kjv/matthew/17/17) .
**a land of darkness:** or, Is the land the darkness of Jah?

**love.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), for the object loved. Compare [Jeremiah 2:23](../../../kjv/jeremiah/2/23) .
**ones.** Here "wicked" is Feminine = wicked women.

**blood.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of the Subject), for the guilt of bloodshedding.
**souls** . Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .
**poor** = helpless. Hebrew. *'ebyon.* See note on [Proverbs 6:11](../../../kjv/proverbs/6/11) .
**it:** i.e. the guilt (of bloodshedding) on the "poor innocents".
**these:** i.e. these [thy skirts] which evidence it. Note the Figure of speech *Ellipsis* , in this verse. Compare [Jeremiah 22:17](../../../kjv/jeremiah/22/17) .

**plead** = enter into judgment with.
**sinned.** Hebrew. *chata* . App-44 .

**as** = according as.

**thine hands upon thine head.** The Eastern custom of expressing grief. Compare [2 Samuel 13:19](../../../kjv/2-samuel/13/19) .

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