--- title: "Bullinger" description: "return. Note the Figure of speech Cycloides. App-6 . Israel. Now referring to the northern kingdom. saith the LORD = [is] Jehovah" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/jeremiah/4" --- **return.** Note the Figure of speech *Cycloides.* App-6 . **Israel.** Now referring to the northern kingdom. **saith the LORD** = [is] Jehovah's oracle. **the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . **then shalt thou not remove** = and stray not [from Jehovah]. Compare [Jeremiah 2:22-26](../../../kjv/jeremiah/2/22-26) ; [Jeremiah 3:2](../../../kjv/jeremiah/3/2) . **thou shalt swear.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 10:20](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/10/20) ). **in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness.** Figure of speech *Hendiatris* ( App-6 ) = truly, yea, justly and righteously, the three referring to the one thing, "shalt swear". **and Jerusalem.** Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and the inhabitants of Jerusalem", as in [Jeremiah 4:4](../../../kjv/jeremiah/4/4) . **Circumcise.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 10:16](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/10/16) ; [Deuteronomy 30:6](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/30/6) ). Spiritual circumcision in the O.T. is confined to these three passages. **Declare . . . publish . . . say.** Compare [Jeremiah 46:14](../../../kjv/jeremiah/46/14) ; [Jeremiah 50:2](../../../kjv/jeremiah/50/2) . **Judah.** Put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Part), for Judah and Benjamin. **Blow ye.** Hebrew text reads, "And blow ye": but Hebrew margin, and some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read without the "And". This is followed by Authorized Version and Revised Version. **Set. . . retire . . . stay.** All plural. standard. **evil** = calamity. Hebrew. *ra'a'.* App-44 . **destruction:** or, breaking up. **The lion** = A lion. Figure of speech *Hypocatastasis* , not *Simile* or *Metaphor.* Put thus for the king of Babylon. Contrast [Jeremiah 49:19](../../../kjv/jeremiah/49/19) . See note there. **Gentiles** = nations. **heart.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Subject), for courage. **king . . . princes . . . priests . . . prophets.** All had become false and corrupt since Josiah's day. **greatly deceived.** Hebrew idiom for declaring that they would be deceived: i.e. by the false prophets who prophesied peace. **soul.** Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 . **wind.** Hebrew. *ruach* . App-9 . **them** ***.*** A special various reading called *"Sevir"* ( App-34 ) reads "her". **from Dan . . . Ephraim.** The enemy would enter the Land from the north, as he afterward did. **mount** = hill country of. **My bowels.** Figure of speech *Epizeuxis* ( App-6 ), for emphasis. Note the Figure of speech *Hypotyposis, verses:* 19-31. Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Effect), for the emotions which produce and affect their movement. **bowels . . . very heart . . . heart.** Note the Figure of speech *Anabasis.* App-6 . See note below. **my very heart** = the walls of my heart. **thou hast.** Hebrew text reads "I have"; but margin and some codices, with three early printed editions, and Revised Version margin, read "thou hast", as in Authorized Version. **curtains.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), for tents, in which a large proportion of the people lived ([2 Samuel 18:17](../../../kjv/2-samuel/18/17) . [1 Kings 8:66](../../../kjv/1-kings/8/66) ). Compare [Jeremiah 10:20](../../../kjv/jeremiah/10/20) . **known** = acknowledged. **sottish** = stupid. Probably from Celtic. Breton *sot,* or *sod =* stupid. **children** = sons. **I beheld.** Note the Figure of speech *Anaphora* ( App-6 ), commencing this and the three following verses. **lo.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 . **without form, and void.** Hebrew. *tohu va-bohu.* Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 1:2](../../../kjv/genesis/1/2) ). Occurs only here. App-92 . In [Isaiah 34:11](../../../kjv/isaiah/34/11) , the two words are in another connection. Compare also [Isaiah 45:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/45/18) . **light** = lights (pl). Compare [Genesis 1:14](../../../kjv/genesis/1/14) . **at** = because of. **and by.** Some cod ices, with five early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and because of". **yet will I not make a full end.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 26:44](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/44) ). App-92 . Compare [Jeremiah 5:10](../../../kjv/jeremiah/5/10) , [Jeremiah 5:18](../../../kjv/jeremiah/5/18) . **I have purposed it, and, &c.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Numbers 23:19](../../../kjv/numbers/23/19) ). App-92 . **city.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Subject), for its inhabitants. **every** = all, as in preceding clause. **thou.** Figure of speech *Prosopopoeia* , Put for idolatrous Israel. An adulterous woman. **rentest** = enlargest (with paint). **face** = eyes. **life** = soul. 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