![]() Very tame under the heavy and lasting pressures of trouble: "When there appears no relief from any of thy confederates, and thy own priests are at a loss, then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness, ". Thy lovers, that thou dependest upon and hast an affection for, shall go into captivity, and shall be so far from saving thee that they shall not be able to save themselves." 3. "Thou wilt cry, as those that are in great consternation use to do, to all about thee but in vain, for ( ) the wind shall eat up all thy pastors, or rulers, that should protect and lead thee, and provide for thy safety they shall be blasted, and withered, and brought to nothing, as buds and blossoms are by a bleak or freezing wind they shall be devoured suddenly, insensibly, and irresistibly, as fruits by the wind. Thou wilt cry from the passages, from the roads, where thou wilt ever and anon be in distress." Thou wilt cry from Abarim (so some read it, as a proper name), a famous mountain in the border of Moab. Very timorous upon the alarms of trouble ( ): "When thou seest all thy lovers destroyed, when thou findest thy idols unable to help thee and thy foreign alliances failing thee, thou wilt then go up to Lebanon, and cry, as one undone and giving up all for lost, cry with a bitter cry thou wilt cry, Help, help, or we are lost thou wilt lift up thy voice in fearful shrieks upon Lebanon and Bashan, two high hills, in hope to be heard thence by the advantage of the rising ground. They were called transgressors from the womb. This is so much the worse that they had it by kind: This has been thy manner from thy youth. Very haughty in a day of peace and safety ( ): " I spoke unto thee in thy prosperity, spoke by my servants the prophets, reproofs, admonitions, counsels, but thou saidst, I will not hear, I will not heed, thou obeyedst not my voice, and wast resolved that thou wouldst not, and hadst the front to tell me so." It is common for those that live at ease to live in contempt of the word of God. Jerusalem and Judah are here spoken to, or the Jewish state as a single person, and we have it here under a threefold character:- 1. Of the desolations of the kingdom, which were now hastening on apace. This prophecy seems to have been calculated for the ungracious inglorious reign of Jeconiah, or Jehoiachin, the son of Jehoiakim, who succeeded him in the government, reigned but three months, and was then carried captive to Babylon, where he lived many years. 30 Thus saith the L ORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah. 28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? 29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the L ORD. 27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return. 26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born and there shall ye die. 23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail! 24 As I live, saith the L ORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence 25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. ![]() This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. ![]() 21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity but thou saidst, I will not hear. 20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed. Jer 22:28 | MHC | STEP | The Desolation of Judah The Doom of Jeconiah. ![]()
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