Jeremiah 1:14

14 Then ADONAI said to me, "From the north calamity will boil over onto everyone living in the land,

Jeremiah 1:14 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 1:14

Then the Lord said unto me
Explaining the above vision: out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of
the land;
that is, out of Babylon, which lay north, as Jarchi says, and so the Talmud ^F20; or north east, as Kimchi and Ben Melech, to the land of Israel; from hence came Nebuchadnezzar and his army, which are meant by "the evil" that should break forth, or "be opened" ^F21 and loosed, which before were bound and hindered by the providence of God; see ( Revelation 9:14 ) and come upon all the inhabitants of the land of Israel; and who are signified by the boiling pot to the north; or, however, by the fire under it, which came from thence; for rather by the pot is meant Jerusalem; and, by the boiling of it, its destruction by the Chaldeans; see ( Ezekiel 11:3 Ezekiel 11:7 ) ( 24:3 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 T. Bab. Gittin, fol. 6. 1. and Bava Bathra, fol. 25. 2.
F21 (xtpt) "aperietur", Munster, Tigurine version, Cocceius; "pandetur", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus.

Jeremiah 1:14 In-Context

12 Then ADONAI said to me, "You have seen well, because I am watching [Hebrew: shoked] to fulfill my word."

13 A second time the word of ADONAI came to me, asking, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a caldron tilted away from the north, over a fire fanned by the wind."

14 Then ADONAI said to me, "From the north calamity will boil over onto everyone living in the land,

15 because I will summon all the families in the kingdoms of the north," says ADONAI, "and they will come and sit, each one, on his throne at the entrance to the gates of Yerushalayim, opposite its walls, all the way around, and opposite all the cities of Y'hudah.

16 I will pronounce my judgments against them for all their wickedness in abandoning me, offering incense to other gods and worshipping what their own hands made.