Jeremias 10:18

18 Pois assim diz o Senhor: Eis que desta vez arrojarei como se fora com uma funda os moradores da terra, e os angustiarei, para que venham a senti-lo.

Jeremias 10:18 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 10:18

For thus saith the Lord
This is a reason enforcing the exhortation in the preceding verse, and shows that the same people that are spoken of here are addressed there. Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once;
meaning the inhabitants of the land of Judea; or otherwise the prophet would never have expressed such a concern for them as he does in the following verse. Their captivity is signified by the slinging of a stone out of a sling, and shows how sudden, swift, and certain, it would be: and that it would as easily and swiftly be done, and with equal force and rapidity, as a stone is slung out of a sling; and that it would be done by the Lord himself, whoever were the instruments: and will distress them;
or "straiten" ^F26 them, on every side; it seems to intend the siege; or bring them into great straits and difficulties, through the pestilence, famine, sword, and captivity: that they may find it;
so as he had spoken by his prophets, it coming to pass exactly as they had foretold. The Targum is,

``that they may receive the punishment of their sins;''

and so the Septuagint and Arabic versions, "that thy stroke may be found"; but the Syriac version is very different from either, "that they may seek me and find"; which is an end that is sometimes answered by afflictive dispensations.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (Mhl ytruhw) "oblidere faciana eos", some in Vatablus; "et angustabo, [vel] obsidebo eos", Schmidt; "faciam ut obsideant eos", Calvin; "arctum ipsis facium", Cocceius.

Jeremias 10:18 In-Context

16 Não é semelhante a estes aquele que é a porção de Jacó; porque ele é o que forma todas as coisas, e Israel é a tribo da sua herança. Senhor dos exércitos é o seu nome.

17 Tira do chão a tua trouxa, ó tu que habitas em lugar sitiado.

18 Pois assim diz o Senhor: Eis que desta vez arrojarei como se fora com uma funda os moradores da terra, e os angustiarei, para que venham a senti-lo.

19 Ai de mim, por causa do meu quebrantamento! a minha chaga me causa grande dor; mas eu havia dito: Certamente isto é minha enfermidade, e eu devo suporta-la.

20 A minha tenda está destruída, e todas as minhas cordas estão rompidas; os meus filhos foram-se de mim, e não existem; ninguém há mais que estire a minha tenda, e que levante as minhas cortinas.