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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 13:16 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 13:16 |
Strong Concordance |
Give [05414] glory [03519] to the LORD [03068] your God [0430], before he cause darkness [02821], and before your feet [07272] stumble [05062] upon the dark [05399] mountains [02022], and, while ye look [06960] for light [0216], he turn [07760] it into the shadow of death [06757], and make [07896] [07896] it gross darkness [06205]. |
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King James |
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Give glory, &c.--Show by repentance and obedience to God, that you revere His majesty. So Joshua exhorted Achan to "give glory to God" by confessing his crime, thereby showing he revered the All-knowing God.
stumble--image from travellers stumbling into a fatal abyss when overtaken by nightfall (Isa 5:30; Isa 59:9-10; Amo 8:9).
dark mountains--literally, "mountains of twilight" or "gloom," which cast such a gloomy shadow that the traveller stumbles against an opposing rock before he sees it (Joh 11:10; Joh 12:35).
shadow of death--the densest gloom; death shade (Psa 44:19). Light and darkness are images of prosperity and adversity. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The dark mountains - Rather, "the mountains of twilight." Judah is not walking upon the safe highway, but upon dangerous mountains: and the dusk is closing round her. While then the light still serves let her return unto her God.
And, while ye look ... - Translate, "and ye wait for light, and He turn it (the light) into the shadow of death, yea change it into clouded darkness." |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Give glory - Glorify God, by an humble confession of your sins, by submitting yourselves to God, humbling yourselves under his word, and under his mighty hand, before God brings upon you, his great and heavy judgments. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Give glory to - God - Confess your sins and turn to him, that these sore evils may be averted.
While ye look for light - While ye expect prosperity, he turned it into the shadow of death - sent you adversity of the most distressing and ruinous kind.
Stumble upon the dark mountains - Before you meet with those great obstacles, which, having no light - no proper understanding in the matter, ye shall be utterly unable to surmount. |
19 Though thou hast sore broken [01794] us in the place [04725] of dragons [08577], and covered [03680] us with the shadow of death [06757].
35 Then [3767] Jesus [2424] said [2036] unto them [846], Yet [2089] a little [3398] while [5550] is [2076] the light [5457] with [3326] you [5216]. Walk [4043] while [2193] ye have [2192] the light [5457], lest [3363] darkness [4653] come upon [2638] you [5209]: for [2532] he that walketh [4043] in [1722] darkness [4653] knoweth [1492] not [3756] whither [4226] he goeth [5217].
10 But [1161] if [1437] a man [5100] walk [4043] in [1722] the night [3571], he stumbleth [4350], because [3754] there is [2076] no [3756] light [5457] in [1722] him [846].
9 And it shall come to pass in that day [03117], saith [05002] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069], that I will cause the sun [08121] to go down [0935] at noon [06672], and I will darken [02821] the earth [0776] in the clear [0216] day [03117]:
9 Therefore is judgment [04941] far [07368] from us, neither doth justice [06666] overtake [05381] us: we wait [06960] for light [0216], but behold obscurity [02822]; for brightness [05054], but we walk [01980] in darkness [0653].
10 We grope [01659] for the wall [07023] like the blind [05787], and we grope [01659] as if we had no eyes [05869]: we stumble [03782] at noonday [06672] as in the night [05399]; we are in desolate [0820] places as dead [04191] men.
30 And in that day [03117] they shall roar [05098] against them like the roaring [05100] of the sea [03220]: and if one look [05027] unto the land [0776], behold darkness [02822] and sorrow [06862], and the light [0216] is darkened [02821] in the heavens [06183] thereof.