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Verse	Translation	Text
Jer 9:10	Strong Concordance	For the mountains [02022] will I take up [05375] a weeping [01065] and wailing [05092], and for the habitations [04999] of the wilderness [04057] a lamentation [07015], because they are burned up [03341], so that none [0376] can pass [05674] through them; neither can men hear [08085] the voice [06963] of the cattle [04735]; both the fowl [05775] of the heavens [08064] and the beast [0929] are fled [05074]; they are gone [01980].
	King James	For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Jeremiah breaks in upon Jehovah's threats of wrath with lamentation for his desolated country. mountains--once cultivated and fruitful: the hillsides were cultivated in terraces between the rocks. habitations of . . . wilderness--rather, "the pleasant herbage (literally, 'the choice parts' of any thing) of the pasture plain." The Hebrew for "wilderness" expresses not a barren desert, but an untilled plain, fit for pasture. burned up--because no one waters them, the inhabitants being all gone. none can pass through them--much less inhabit them. fowl-- (Jer 4:25).

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

Jeremiah breaks in upon Jehovah's threats of wrath with lamentation for his desolated country.

mountains--once cultivated and fruitful: the hillsides were cultivated in terraces between the rocks.

habitations of . . . wilderness--rather, "the pleasant herbage (literally, 'the choice parts' of any thing) of the pasture plain." The Hebrew for "wilderness" expresses not a barren desert, but an untilled plain, fit for pasture.

burned up--because no one waters them, the inhabitants being all gone.

none can pass through them--much less inhabit them.

fowl-- (Jer 4:25).

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length. Jer 9:10 The habitations i. e - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see Jer 6:3). So that none can ... - Or, "They are parched up, with no man to pass through them; neither do they hear the voice of cattle; from the birds of the heaven even to the beasts they "are fled, they are gone." Jer 9:11 Dragons - Rather, jackals. Jer 9:12 For what the land perisheth ... - This is the question proposed for consideration. The prophet calls upon the wise man to explain his question; that question being, Wherefore did the land perish? He follows it by the assertion of a fact: "It is parched like the wilderness with no man to pass through." Jer 9:13 The cause of the chastisement about to fall upon Jerusalem, was their desertion of the divine Law. Jer 9:14 Imagination - Or, as in the margin. Which their fathers taught them - It was not the sin of one generation that brought upon them chastisement: it was a sin, which had been handed down from father to son. Jer 9:15 I will feed them ... - Rather, I am feeding them. The present participle used here, followed by three verbs in the future, shows that the judgment has beam, of which the successive stages are given in the next clause. Wormwood - See Deu 29:18, note, and for "water of gall," Jer 8:14, note. Jer 9:16 This verse is taken from Lev 26:33. The fulfillment of what had been so long before appointed as the penalty for the violation of Yahweh's covenant is one of the most remarkable proofs that prophecy was something more than human foresight. Till I have consumed them - See Jer 4:27 note. How is this "consuming" consistent with the promise to the contrary there given? Because it is limited by the terms of Jer 9:7. Previously to Nebuchadnezzars destruction of Jerusalem God removed into safety those in whom the nation should revive. Jer 9:17 The mourning women - Hired to attend at funerals, and by their skilled wailings aid the real mourners in giving vent to their grief. Hence, they are called "cunning," literally "wise" women, wisdom being constantly used in Scripture for anything in which people are trained. Jer 9:18 Take up a wailing for us - i. e., for the nation once God's chosen people, but long spiritually dead. Jer 9:19 Forsaken - Or, left: forced to abandon the land. Because our dwellings ... - Rather, "because they have east down our dwellings." The whole verse is a description of their sufferings. See Kg2 25:1-12. Jer 9:20 The command is addressed to the women because it was more especially their part to express the general feelings of the nation. See Sa1 18:6; Sa2 1:24. The women utter now the death-wail over the perishing nation. They are to teach their daughters and neighbors the "lamentation, i. e., dirge," because the harvest of death would be so large that the number of trained women would not suffice. Jer 9:21 Death is come up ... - i. e., death steals silently like a thief upon his victims, and makes such havoc that there are no children left to go "without," nor young men to frequent the open spaces in the city. Jer 9:22 The "handful" means the little bundle of grain which the reaper gathers on his arm with three or four strokes of his sickle, and then lays down. Behind the reaper came one whose business it was to gather several of these bundles, and bind them into a sheaf. Thus, death strews the ground with corpses as thickly as these handfuls lie upon the reaped land, but the corpses lie there unheeded.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

The punishment described in general terms in the preceding three verses is now detailed at great length.

Jer 9:10

The habitations i. e - the temporary encampments of the shepherds (see Jer 6:3).

So that none can ... - Or, "They are parched up, with no man to pass through them; neither do they hear the voice of cattle; from the birds of the heaven even to the beasts they "are fled, they are gone."

Jer 9:11

Dragons - Rather, jackals.

Jer 9:12

For what the land perisheth ... - This is the question proposed for consideration. The prophet calls upon the wise man to explain his question; that question being, Wherefore did the land perish? He follows it by the assertion of a fact: "It is parched like the wilderness with no man to pass through."

Jer 9:13

The cause of the chastisement about to fall upon Jerusalem, was their desertion of the divine Law.

Jer 9:14

Imagination - Or, as in the margin.

Which their fathers taught them - It was not the sin of one generation that brought upon them chastisement: it was a sin, which had been handed down from father to son.

Jer 9:15

I will feed them ... - Rather, I am feeding them. The present participle used here, followed by three verbs in the future, shows that the judgment has beam, of which the successive stages are given in the next clause.

Wormwood - See Deu 29:18, note, and for "water of gall," Jer 8:14, note.

Jer 9:16

This verse is taken from Lev 26:33. The fulfillment of what had been so long before appointed as the penalty for the violation of Yahweh's covenant is one of the most remarkable proofs that prophecy was something more than human foresight.

Till I have consumed them - See Jer 4:27 note. How is this "consuming" consistent with the promise to the contrary there given? Because it is limited by the terms of Jer 9:7. Previously to Nebuchadnezzars destruction of Jerusalem God removed into safety those in whom the nation should revive.

Jer 9:17

The mourning women - Hired to attend at funerals, and by their skilled wailings aid the real mourners in giving vent to their grief. Hence, they are called "cunning," literally "wise" women, wisdom being constantly used in Scripture for anything in which people are trained.

Jer 9:18

Take up a wailing for us - i. e., for the nation once God's chosen people, but long spiritually dead.

Jer 9:19

Forsaken - Or, left: forced to abandon the land.

Because our dwellings ... - Rather, "because they have east down our dwellings." The whole verse is a description of their sufferings. See Kg2 25:1-12.

Jer 9:20

The command is addressed to the women because it was more especially their part to express the general feelings of the nation. See Sa1 18:6; Sa2 1:24. The women utter now the death-wail over the perishing nation. They are to teach their daughters and neighbors the "lamentation, i. e., dirge," because the harvest of death would be so large that the number of trained women would not suffice.

Jer 9:21

Death is come up ... - i. e., death steals silently like a thief upon his victims, and makes such havoc that there are no children left to go "without," nor young men to frequent the open spaces in the city.

Jer 9:22

The "handful" means the little bundle of grain which the reaper gathers on his arm with three or four strokes of his sickle, and then lays down. Behind the reaper came one whose business it was to gather several of these bundles, and bind them into a sheaf. Thus, death strews the ground with corpses as thickly as these handfuls lie upon the reaped land, but the corpses lie there unheeded.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Wailing - The prophet having taken up a lamentation for the slaughter of the people, now re - assumes it for the desolation of the whole land. The mountains shall not be able to secure them, nor the valleys to feed them.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled - The land shall be so utterly devastated, that neither beast nor bird shall be able to live in it.

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²⁵ I beheld [07200], and, lo, there was no man [0120], and all the birds [05775] of the heavens [08064] were fled [05074].

²² Speak [01696], Thus saith [05002] the LORD [03068], Even the carcases [05038] of men [0120] shall fall [05307] as dung [01828] upon the open [06440] field [07704], and as the handful [05995] after [0310] the harvestman [07114], and none shall gather [0622] them.

²¹ For death [04194] is come up [05927] into our windows [02474], and is entered [0935] into our palaces [0759], to cut off [03772] the children [05768] from without [02351], and the young men [0970] from the streets [07339].

²⁴ Ye daughters [01323] of Israel [03478], weep over [01058] Saul [07586], who clothed [03847] you in scarlet [08144], with other delights [05730], who put [05927] on ornaments [05716] of gold [02091] upon your apparel [03830].

⁶ And it came to pass as they came [0935], when David [01732] was returned [07725] from the slaughter [05221] of the Philistine [06430], that the women [0802] came out [03318] of all cities [05892] of Israel [03478], singing [07891] and dancing [04246], to meet [07125] king [04428] Saul [07586], with tabrets [08596], with joy [08057], and with instruments of musick [07991].

²⁰ Yet hear [08085] the word [01697] of the LORD [03068], O ye women [0802], and let your ear [0241] receive [03947] the word [01697] of his mouth [06310], and teach [03925] your daughters [01323] wailing [05092], and every one [0802] her neighbour [07468] lamentation [07015].

¹ And it came to pass in the ninth [08671] year [08141] of his reign [04427], in the tenth [06224] month [02320], in the tenth [06218] day of the month [02320], that Nebuchadnezzar [05019] king [04428] of Babylon [0894] came [0935], he, and all his host [02428], against Jerusalem [03389], and pitched [02583] against it; and they built [01129] forts [01785] against it round about [05439].
² And the city [05892] was besieged [0935] [04692] unto the eleventh [06249] [06240] year [08141] of king [04428] Zedekiah [06667].
³ And on the ninth [08672] day of the fourth month [02320] the famine [07458] prevailed [02388] in the city [05892], and there was no bread [03899] for the people [05971] of the land [0776].
⁴ And the city [05892] was broken up [01234], and all the men [0582] of war [04421] fled by night [03915] by the way [01870] of the gate [08179] between two walls [02346], which is by the king's [04428] garden [01588]: (now the Chaldees [03778] were against the city [05892] round about [05439]:) and the king went [03212] the way [01870] toward the plain [06160].
⁵ And the army [02428] of the Chaldees [03778] pursued [07291] after [0310] the king [04428], and overtook [05381] him in the plains [06160] of Jericho [03405]: and all his army [02428] were scattered [06327] from him.
⁶ So they took [08610] the king [04428], and brought him up [05927] to the king [04428] of Babylon [0894] to Riblah [07247]; and they gave [01696] judgment [04941] upon him.
⁷ And they slew [07819] the sons [01121] of Zedekiah [06667] before his eyes [05869], and put out [05786] the eyes [05869] of Zedekiah [06667], and bound [0631] him with fetters [05178] of brass [05178], and carried [0935] him to Babylon [0894].
⁸ And in the fifth [02549] month [02320], on the seventh [07651] day of the month [02320], which is the nineteenth [08672] [06240] [08141] year [08141] of king [04428] Nebuchadnezzar [05019] king [04428] of Babylon [0894], came [0935] Nebuzaradan [05018], captain [07227] of the guard [02876], a servant [05650] of the king [04428] of Babylon [0894], unto Jerusalem [03389]:
⁹ And he burnt [08313] the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and the king's [04428] house [01004], and all the houses [01004] of Jerusalem [03389], and every great [01419] man's house [01004] burnt [08313] he with fire [0784].
¹⁰ And all the army [02428] of the Chaldees [03778], that were with the captain [07227] of the guard [02876], brake down [05422] the walls [02346] of Jerusalem [03389] round about [05439].
¹¹ Now the rest [03499] of the people [05971] that were left [07604] in the city [05892], and the fugitives [05307] that fell away [05307] to the king [04428] of Babylon [0894], with the remnant [03499] of the multitude [01995], did Nebuzaradan [05018] the captain [07227] of the guard [02876] carry away [01540].
¹² But the captain [07227] of the guard [02876] left [07604] of the poor [01803] of the land [0776] to be vinedressers [03755] and husbandmen [03009] [01461].

¹⁹ For a voice [06963] of wailing [05092] is heard [08085] out of Zion [06726], How are we spoiled [07703] ! we are greatly [03966] confounded [0954], because we have forsaken [05800] the land [0776], because our dwellings [04908] have cast us out [07993].

¹⁸ And let them make haste [04116], and take up [05375] a wailing [05092] for us, that our eyes [05869] may run down [03381] with tears [01832], and our eyelids [06079] gush out [05140] with waters [04325].

¹⁷ Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], Consider [0995] ye, and call [07121] for the mourning women [06969], that they may come [0935]; and send [07971] for cunning [02450] women, that they may come [0935]:

⁷ Therefore thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], Behold, I will melt [06884] them, and try [0974] them; for how shall I do [06213] for [06440] the daughter [01323] of my people [05971]?

²⁷ For thus hath the LORD [03068] said [0559], The whole land [0776] shall be desolate [08077]; yet will I not make [06213] a full end [03617].

³³ And I will scatter [02219] you among the heathen [01471], and will draw out [07324] a sword [02719] after [0310] you: and your land [0776] shall be desolate [08077], and your cities [05892] waste [02723].

¹⁶ I will scatter [06327] them also among the heathen [01471], whom neither they nor their fathers [01] have known [03045]: and I will send [07971] a sword [02719] after [0310] them, till I have consumed [03615] them.

¹⁴ Why do we sit still [03427]? assemble [0622] yourselves, and let us enter [0935] into the defenced [04013] cities [05892], and let us be silent [01826] there: for the LORD [03068] our God [0430] hath put us to silence [01826], and given us water [04325] of gall [07219] to drink [08248], because we have sinned [02398] against the LORD [03068].

¹⁸ Lest there should be [03426] among you man [0376], or woman [0802], or family [04940], or tribe [07626], whose heart [03824] turneth away [06437] this day [03117] from the LORD [03068] our God [0430], to go [03212] and serve [05647] the gods [0430] of these nations [01471]; lest there should be [03426] among you a root [08328] that beareth [06509] gall [07219] and wormwood [03939];

¹⁵ Therefore thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], the God [0430] of Israel [03478]; Behold, I will feed [0398] them, even this people [05971], with wormwood [03939], and give them water [04325] of gall [07219] to drink [08248].

¹⁴ But have walked [03212] after [0310] the imagination [08307] of their own heart [03820], and after [0310] Baalim [01168], which their fathers [01] taught [03925] them:

¹³ And the LORD [03068] saith [0559], Because they have forsaken [05800] my law [08451] which I set [05414] before [06440] them, and have not obeyed [08085] my voice [06963], neither walked [01980] therein;

¹² Who is the wise [02450] man [0376], that may understand [0995] this? and who is he to whom the mouth [06310] of the LORD [03068] hath spoken [01696], that he may declare [05046] it, for what the land [0776] perisheth [06] and is burned up [03341] like a wilderness [04057], that none passeth through [05674]?

¹¹ And I will make [05414] Jerusalem [03389] heaps [01530], and a den [04583] of dragons [08577]; and I will make [05414] the cities [05892] of Judah [03063] desolate [08077], without an inhabitant [03427].

³ The shepherds [07462] with their flocks [05739] shall come [0935] unto her; they shall pitch [08628] their tents [0168] against her round about [05439]; they shall feed [07462] every one [0376] in his place [03027].

¹⁰ For the mountains [02022] will I take up [05375] a weeping [01065] and wailing [05092], and for the habitations [04999] of the wilderness [04057] a lamentation [07015], because they are burned up [03341], so that none [0376] can pass [05674] through them; neither can men hear [08085] the voice [06963] of the cattle [04735]; both the fowl [05775] of the heavens [08064] and the beast [0929] are fled [05074]; they are gone [01980].